Does Thursday Night Football Work?

[Mancey]

Just don't play them in WA. They had one a few years ago WC v Carlton. Started at 5.40pm

Footy + peak hour equals missing half the first quarter

 

[Mancey]

It was the worst idea of all time. The trains are packed heading to the footy as it is. Throw in peakhour and its just a joke.

I'm down south so generally drive up to Mandurah and catch the train. Not sure if its changed for the freo game, but that day they didn't do any football specials (because of peak hour). so you had to change in Perth.

Had to wait for the 3rd train to leave on the Freo line to get to Subi

 

[HBF]

Love it.
And enjoy the fact that the AFL doesn't overdo it either. This 4 week block works really well.

 

[Lemma]

I prefer it on the weekend, just selfishly

If i have to choose between thursday, sunday night and monday i will take Thursday

I dont get doing it in bye weeks thougH

Because otherwise teams would get a five day break

 

[The King!]

Because otherwise teams would get a five day break

Fair point i spose

 

[Lemma]

Glad you think so. I'll tell Gillon

 

[FootyJunkie]

Next Thurs should be fun, Freo/Coll with a 6:10 starting time.

Just a big f*** you from out east. Friday Night games in Perth up until a year or so ago were 6:40pm local time. Suddenly this 6:10pm crap started with AFL thinking locals wouldn't notice. 30 minutes really does make a difference.

Either bring it back to 6:40pm or do away with Thursday/Friday night games in Perth all together.
Ideally, I'd love to see a TV double header with a Perth game at 7:10pm locally. Give Perth a prime time start for once.

 

[giggler99]

Love it.
And enjoy the fact that the AFL doesn't overdo it either.This 4 week block works really well.

Don't speak to soon, won't be long beofre the AFL flog it to the masses and we'll have Carlton playing Thurday night matches every second week.

 

[MarkT2]

I'm sure Freo and West Coast can cope without Victorian money

Not sure you got the point at all in your parochial blood rush. There's no Victorian money involved. If you don't think WA/SA sides want national live Friday Night TV then you are kidding yourself.

 

[The_Reaper]

Not sure you got the point at all in your parochial blood rush. There's no Victorian money involved. If you don't think WA/SA sides want national live Friday Night TV then you are kidding yourself.

National dollar = Victorian dollar.

Both Fremantle and West Coast are wealthy compared to other clubs and are not in a position where we need to push for thursday night football matches which possibly disadvantage the people attending our matches.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Would prefer it to happen during the full rounds rather than the split rounds, but I'm sure there's a dollar in it for the leagues and the teams. I'm not against it.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I still like my footy on a Saturday afternoon, so you can imagine what I think of Thursday nights.

 

[L e x]

As an alternative time slot opposed to Sunday or Monday night for a limited number of matches a season then yes, however, if it means, for those of us who don't have Foxtel, that there is no free- to- air coverage of the AFL either Saturday or Sunday afternoon (as is the case this weekend), then no, absolutely not. Joke.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

You sir are a fool.
The VAST majority attend weekends. You are stuck in your own preference.

Whoosh!

 

[Pie eyed]

Nuh!
Close thread.
Tell the AFL, no more.
Tell Fox GFked.
Waste of time.

 

[NYJetsfor2029]

As an alternative time slot opposed to Sunday or Monday night for a limited number of matches a season then yes, however, if it means, for those of us who don't have Foxtel, that there is no free- to- air coverage of the AFL either Saturday or Sunday afternoon (as is the case this weekend), then no, absolutely not. Joke.

It's called streaming man, it's decent enough quality these days, get yourself a $20 cable from JB and watch it on your TV.

I'm all for thursday night footy, even second week sounds good to me, 5 games on Saturday gets me schizophrenic.

 

[Zeke]

Works for me.

 

[OhhhhhCyril]

I think it's ok in small amounts like the bye weeks, but like many others I'd rather footy stick to its normal roots... Or a good old fashioned 2.10 at the G on Sat arvo.. Whatever works.

 

[King Notorious]

It actually works well. Gets people excited as the weekend is almost here, atmosphere is incredible and the footy-devoted fans (such as myself) are treated to a 4 day festival of football games.

It works many times better than it's counterpart...Monday Night Football. In theory that works, but this is not the NFL. It's good for those who stay at home but people generally don't feel the need to go to the football after a shit day at work on the first day of the week.

 

[King Elvis]

Once a year, fine.

But the beauty of Adelaide Oval is that we get to go out for dinner/lunch before/after, and then get blind and head into the City afterward.

Not as easy on the Thursday.

It's a good idea, but maybe do it in Melbourne, where you have a shit load of teams to share it across.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

It actually works well. Gets people excited as the weekend is almost here, atmosphere is incredible and the footy-devoted fans (such as myself) are treated to a 4 day festival of football games.

It works many times better than it's counterpart...Monday Night Football. In theory that works, but this is not the NFL. It's good for those who stay at home but people generally don't feel the need to go to the football after a shit day at work on the first day of the week.

I just think it makes things a bit sparse when they do it during a split round. Only one game on Sunday (kicking off at 3:20 Eastern time) seems a bit light on to me.

Wouldn't have a problem if they decided to switch the middle game on Saturday or one of the games on Sunday with a Thursday during a full round, though that would obviously create questions about recovery times etc.

 

[SydCrow]

Afl taking SA/WA fans for granted.

 

[rumply]

No, Thursday night footy doesnt work when played in the middle of 2 weekends with no FTA Sunday games being broadcast.

Just dumb by all concerned.

 

[FootyJunkie]

Monday Night Football works with the NFL because traditionally the NFL never had a mortgage on the whole weekend.
Back in the day, it was just Sunday arvo games. Monday Night football allowed for the NFL to stage a game not only on a different day, but in prime time as well.
Just like how the VFL had Saturday arvo, and expanded to Friday Night in the mid 80s. Nowadays, the AFL have Friday Night - Sunday Twilight, and apparently that's not enough to them. Not complaining at all, but a Thursday Night game is certainly convenient for the TV fan.

 

[PurpleHill]

You mean so Ch 7 can't show it at prime time. The alternative is for WA matches to not be live Friday night games in Melbourne which isn't a great alternative for the WA sides trying to sell sponsorship on a national scale.

We are talking about Thursday night games, not Friday, peak hour is very different on those two days in perth.
I dare say both WA clubs would be happy with Friday night and Saturday night games to sell their brand, they've done a very good job of this thus far