Fixture Fixture 2025 discussion

[jwikked]

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

Both teams play on the same surface, makes no difference overall

 

[jwikked]

20 teams
19 games
9 home
9 away
1 Gather Round

You wanna sell a home game to Cairns/Tassie/WA/Ballarat? Go for it. Means one less game at home.

Gather Round is all neutral games and rotates each year to balance out. The Friday night game of Gather Round is the Showdown/Derby/Q Clash/Syd Derby (whoever the host city is) to keep those teams from having an extra home game during the year.

Can still play it over 23-24 rounds to give teams a break in the middle of the year. I'd also change it so that teams coming off the bye play each other, rather than the weird situation we keep having with teams playing off 6 day breaks vs others who had a bye.

Plenty can be done when the league expands but they wont.

It'll still be the big Vic clubs dominating FTA coverage, a token trip to GC/Tas, and the smaller Vic Clubs putting up with whatever scraps are left over.

Less games isn't something I can get behind. Don't care if the fixture is unfair with double ups. A longer Home And Away season is better than a short one.

Ultimately, no team has missed finals because of their draw. If they're good enough to play finals, they're good enough to win those games.

 

[psychosaints]

When you’ve got even Robbo saying we’ve got a sh!t fixture, you know we’ve got a sh!t fixture. The AFL sh!t me.

 

[Rogue Warrior]

Less games isn't something I can get behind. Don't care if the fixture is unfair with double ups. A longer Home And Away season is better than a short one.


Ultimately, no team has missed finals because of their draw. If they're good enough to play finals, they're good enough to win those games.

If you’re good enough to make the top top 4, then I’d agree the draw shouldn’t impact your ability to make the finals but between 5-8 the margins are much smaller. Plenty of teams have made finals due to an easy fixture, drawing 2 of the bottom 3 teams twice. Carlton wouldn’t have made the finals last year had they not been gifted double up’s against WCE and NM.

And by some phenomenal stroke of chance they’ll get the same again in 2025

 

[Sainttony]

Pardon my ignorance, Sainttony, where does one find the TV ratings for both the AFL and AFLW?

I'd love to make a case for a more favourable draw based on our ratings, if possible. It is a circular argument to some extent.

More favourable scheduling would mean better ratings and better attendance, which would mean more favourable scheduling, etc.

It will be a sisyphean task to achieve this newfound status, but RTB's first term showed we could pull big crowds, consistently, especially against the other big clubs.

We are indeed, as little Scottie once famously stated, "A juggernaut", just waiting to happen.

I do have it on good authority that the AFL deflects attention away from the issue of ratings for the AFLW, as they are disastrous, as are the general attendance numbers. Our women rate amongst the top 4 for ratings, which is interesting if true. Can anyone confirm this?

Ratings program by program are on tvtonight.com.au

 

[L_W_P]

Less games isn't something I can get behind. Don't care if the fixture is unfair with double ups. A longer Home And Away season is better than a short one.

Ultimately, no team has missed finals because of their draw. If they're good enough to play finals, they're good enough to win those games.

No team has missed finals because of their draw... Interesting idea. So you believe the top 8 teams are all deserving of their place?

Do you think teams have MADE finals because of their draw? Or even finished in a higher position eg Top 4, because of an easier fixture?

For all the banging on about "equalization" the AFL talk about, there sure are a shitload of inequalities in how the structure the game...