Fixture Fixture 2025 discussion

[jwint43]

Scott Pendlebury

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Scott Pendlebury

Age

36

Ht

191cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

26.5

5star

K

13.2

5star

HB

13.3

5star

M

4.1

4star

T

4.9

5star

CL

4.9

5star

D

25.1

5star

K

12.3

5star

HB

12.9

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

2.3

3star

CL

3.6

4star

D

12.4

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

4.8

4star

M

5.8

5star

T

2.6

4star

has never played at the following venues - Kardinia Park, Alice Springs, Cairns, Canberra, Ballarat and Darwin.

I have to laugh at the concept of a "draw" where the same teams get the same massive marquee blockbusters regardless of on field performance, and the best the Saints or Dogs can hope for is more Friday night games.

The AFL don't even try and hide it by making Collingwood play one game in Geelong every 5 years or something. They haven't played there since 1999. For a tax free, not for profit organisation, they seem to be blatantly about one thing - $.

I'm at the point where I am close to checked out because of how blatant the AFL is rigged.

 

[jwikked]

Scott Pendlebury has never played at the following venues - Kardinia Park, Alice Springs, Cairns, Canberra, Ballarat and Darwin.

I have to laugh at the concept of a "draw" where the same teams get the same massive marquee blockbusters regardless of on field performance, and the best the Saints or Dogs can hope for is more Friday night games.

The AFL don't even try and hide it by making Collingwood play one game in Geelong every 5 years or something. They haven't played there since 1999. For a tax free, not for profit organisation, they seem to be blatantly about one thing - $.

I'm at the point where I am close to checked out because of how blatant the AFL is rigged.

Why would Collingwood play at small boutique grounds when their fans actually go to the football and all teams want to maximise that? Not one single team would want to play Collingwood at Ballarat. It makes no sense financially.

If people want St Kilda to stop playing these small venues, more people need to start going to the football. If Marvel gets sold out every week, we'll get more MCG games. Until that happens, the clubs with less fans will get the smaller stadiums.

 

[bergholt]

Because sholitloads of Blues fans go to home games in Victoria?

Yeah but same with Collingwood and Essendon and they’ve played Adelaide Oval much more.

 

[L_W_P]

Why would Collingwood play at small boutique grounds when their fans actually go to the football and all teams want to maximise that? Not one single team would want to play Collingwood at Ballarat. It makes no sense financially.

If people want St Kilda to stop playing these small venues, more people need to start going to the football. If Marvel gets sold out every week, we'll get more MCG games. Until that happens, the clubs with less fans will get the smaller stadiums.

Because the concept of a fair & equal competition still means something to some people.

When it's time for little old Luton Town to host Man City, the EPL don't sit back and say "Well we'd get more people in if we moved this game..."

City get on the bus and head out to the boutique stadium.

If the Dogs play 2 games a year in Ballarat then Collingwood should be out there once every 9-10 years. Same as every other team.

If the Cats are getting 9 games in Geelong then half the comp can play there each year.

There's no excuse outside of maximizing profit which, for a non profit organization, is a strange metric to build on...

 

[L_W_P]

That will happen because of gather round

But it's easily avoided: Just don't have any of the Gather round games as double ups.

Keep them as a true neutral game. That way there's no fixture advantages one way or the other.

 

[_Maximus_12]

Worth $50 on us to make top 4 in 2026 because the afl are going to have to give us the easiest fixture of all time with this balls up in 2025

 

[The Punter]

Because the concept of a fair & equal competition still means something to some people.

When it's time for little old Luton Town to host Man City, the EPL don't sit back and say "Well we'd get more people in if we moved this game..."

City get on the bus and head out to the boutique stadium.

If the Dogs play 2 games a year in Ballarat then Collingwood should be out there once every 9-10 years. Same as every other team.

If the Cats are getting 9 games in Geelong then half the comp can play there each year.

There's no excuse outside of maximizing profit which, for a non profit organization, is a strange metric to build on...

That's because attendance makes up a greater proportion of revenue in the AFL than the EPL. Premier League tickets are relatively cheap for most games. The money comes from TV revenue, which is why, when Luton Town got promoted, the money they spent to upgrade the stadium wasn't to fit more people in, but to improve the broadcast.

 

[Joffaboy]

Can we please f*** off this idiotic gather round absolute travesty bullshit?

So sick of having to play in a Hick town on a ground not even VFL standard.

I absolutely have nothing but contempt for Kane and Dillon.

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