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AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
AFL Fixture 2025
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Wondering if the cairns thing will actually happen.
Games in qld rare. But none in 2025
Games in qld rare. But none in 2025
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Won’t be happening until at least 2028 as the club is committed to continuing playing games in Launceston.
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When did Brisbane finally secede from Queensland?
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I thought the Gabba was in QLD?
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looks like the guy who gave me info didn't scroll all the way to the bottom of the fixture list lol.
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Yes I was reposting from another poster. Enjoy the gabba
Bombers have 8 MCG games, 4 home. Post Tassie, 12 games, 9 home would be great. We are a bigger club than Melbourne,
There will be designated away games with entry. Only Pies will you need to reserve a seat,Dees and Dogs won’t crack 55k.
Let’s hope not. One game in Cairns is more travel time than our four Tassie games combined. Games there (like Darwin) are slippery, sloppy and the humidity is draining. One game at the very most, ideally heading into our mid season bye. Maybe Kings Birthday weekend. Any only if we exit Tasmania completely. It is time to stand out our own feet and go head to head with the Big 4 and make it a Big 5.
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Big 4 according to divvy up is Coll wce rich haw
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Lot's of games under lights.
www.hawthornfc.com.au
Full 2025 Fixture: Hawks back in prime time
Hawthorn will feature under lights nine times in the first 15 weeks of the season, headlined by a Round 1 Friday night home blockbuster against Essendon at the MCG.
No excuses with that draw. We get 3 top 8 sides twice and 3 bottom 8 sides twice. Of those we get twice, we have a strong recent record against Collingwood Carlton Brisbane Adelaide.
Lots of high profile games as we’d want.
Challenge will be tough start again and our propensity to start slow. That’s gone on long enough and the club needs to get pre season right this time around to start the season properly.
Lots of high profile games as we’d want.
Challenge will be tough start again and our propensity to start slow. That’s gone on long enough and the club needs to get pre season right this time around to start the season properly.
I think opening round could be good for us. The early start will signal there's no time to muck around this time.
It’s certainly a tough draw as far as being good for our win loss but I’m really happy with us being exposed regularly to big games under lights.
I love day footy so much more than night footy, but, as a club/list we need more of this for our development. Might hurt us in 2025 (also might not) but one thing it will do is be brilliant for our young core to get continuous feel for those games.
The 8 week block of no games at the MCG and copping the Power return in Tassie are mind boggling though.
I love day footy so much more than night footy, but, as a club/list we need more of this for our development. Might hurt us in 2025 (also might not) but one thing it will do is be brilliant for our young core to get continuous feel for those games.
The 8 week block of no games at the MCG and copping the Power return in Tassie are mind boggling though.
Yet we are selling games like the battlers GC, GWs, North and Dogs.
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We're big 4 because we've got strong financials and membership. Both those things boosted by the fact that the club has made the choice to branch out from the Melbourne bubble and find lucrative deals interstate that also expose us to new fans that then become members.
I can't speak to whether or not the Cairns thing would be a good move for us, but it's almost certain we wouldn't be considered big 4 now if it weren't for the Tassie deal.
Disagree. Financially we are strong, partly due to the Tassie deal, and partly due to wise investing, but no one besides Hawthorn supporters would consider us Big 4. The Big 4 are the clubs that draw the big crowds. If we stopped playing in Tassie in 2013 after North started playing in Hobart which is also when our crowds there dropped by 20% - 25%, we would have had much higher crowds over the past decade and be a bigger club going forward. Once Tassie enter the comp our membership there will drop significantly. North are smart cutting the cord now.
Cairns won’t be a good thing. It is nothing like Tasmania. If is a big country town that follows NRL, with AFL support from transient tourism workers from southern states who live in places like Port Douglas. The ‘stadium’ seats around 2,000, the rest is a grass hill. Games there will be slippery and sloppy and taxing on the players, and it is the same distance flight from Melbourne as Perth. We are better than that.
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MCG crowds versus interstate clubs in recent years not including covid seasons.
2024 - Adelaide - 36,086 (Saturday midday game)
2024 - Sydney - 38,052 (Sunday twilight game)
2023 - Brisbane - 35,869 (Saturday midday game)
2023 - Fremantle - 27,951 (Saturday midday game)
2022 - Weagles - 22,598 (Sunday midday game)
2019 - GWS - 14,636 (Sunday twilight game)
2019 - Eagles - 31,895 (Saturday midday game)
2018 - Sydney - 32,784 (Friday night game)
2018 - Adelaide - 26,693 (Saturday night game - also Burgoyne's 350th)
It's really not mind boggling that the club gets drawn against interstate clubs at Marvel or UTAS.
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All these clubs lobby for multiple MCG games. There’s only 4 teams they play against. 8 non Victorian teams to 4 mcg tenants thats 2 home games each minimum
