Fixture Full 2024 AFL fixture released. News and leaks.

[Blackhawk42]

Hawthorn played one home game at Marvel against a Marvel tennant in 2023.

And 6 Sunday home games vs 5 on other days.

It's more fun to exaggerate though!

In all seriousness, we played some fun, attacking footy last year. A marquee Saturday night slot against a Collingwood or Brisbane at the MCG would be nice, considering how well we've matched up against them historically. Plus the Ginnivan and Mitchell factor, as well as Dacios vs Maginness for the Pies clash.

 

[Macka_321]

Sounds like Port will open up the Gather Round against Collingwood…..

And the Crows will close out the Gather Round against Richmond.

Where did you hear this?

 

[Underarm]

Glad it's not the Dogs or Blues, Shafted playing genuine away games in a neutral round. Looks like the AFL will rotate the away teams v Port v Crows in fairness though ...

I expect they will rotate through the Big Vic sides mostly. It helps solo games out and people already think those clubs get a good fixture anyway, so it limits the complaining.

 

[Underarm]

its a totally vic-centric thing - cant have round 1 not with any games in victoria
hopefully they land on a split round and have the other 5 games the week after, thats the best we will get out of this now

That Vic centric thinking it what bankrolls your entire club.

 

[Billy ray]

That Vic centric thinking it what bankrolls your entire club.

awesome champ

 

[Grasshopper17]

Don't know if you were shafted, all you did was play one of your allocated interstate trips in gather round. It's not like you went back to Adelaide during the season to play Port there again is it.

This is certainly not correct. Carlton and the Bulldogs both had 12 fair dinkum away games compared to everyone else's 11 away games with 1 neutral game.

However, short of scheduling a Gather Round in every single state, it's hard to know how to make it fairer, and playing a Showdown in Gather Round won't solve that problem either.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Glad it's not the Dogs or Blues, Shafted playing genuine away games in a neutral round. Looks like the AFL will rotate the away teams v Port v Crows in fairness though ...

Carlton fans had more access to Gather Rd than Brisbane fans had access at the Grand Final

Maybe they should move the GF to Perth or Sydney where they don't have to worry about AFL/MCC members reserves and actually have more seats for fans.

 

[mikey127]

Pretty sure we will see a Gold Coast hone QClash in round 2 (3rd game for both clubs. With Lions being in Perth round 1 would be stiff to give us 2 interstate trips in a row and we are home in round 3 which means Gold Coast away and doubt we're home in round 2 as it would mean of our first 4 at home and 1 of 4 for the Suns.

 

[Seattle Mariners]

I wonder if Melbourne will play West Coast at the MCG for the first time since 2014?

 

[MarcMaverick]

March 7? Way too early for football to be starting. Still cricket season..

IIRC 2000 started early March.

 

[eth-dog]

I wonder if Melbourne will play West Coast at the MCG for the first time since 2014?

I wonder if Melbourne and Essendon play each other twice for the first time since 2005

 

[eth-dog]

IIRC 2000 started early March.

Due to the Olympics

 

[MarcMaverick]

Due to the Olympics

Yep. Still if they wanted more footy they could have done it the right way and actually give us more rounds.

You know whats weird, Melbourne and Hawthorn have never played in UTAS.

Even weirder is that we haven't play the Swans at Accor .

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

I wonder if Melbourne will play West Coast at the MCG for the first time since 2014?

That is one matchup where the venue is not going to make a lick of difference to the result

 

[mikey127]

IIRC 2000 started early March.

Wednesday Match 8th

 

[Seattle Mariners]

That is one matchup where the venue is not going to make a lick of difference to the result

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not begging to play West Coast at the MCG in desperate need of a win.

Just commenting on the quirky nature of not playing you guys at the G for 9 years.

 

[Billy ray]

Since our inception we have played brisbane 25 times and richmond 13

I bet over the next 6 years the afl will schedule 2 games per year between the sides due to our new coach

Full list of match ups

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not begging to play West Coast at the MCG in desperate need of a win.

Just commenting on the quirky nature of not playing you guys at the G for 9 years.

Us not playing Brisbane at home since Optus opened (2018) is another one, though it sounds like that will be happening early in 2024.

 

[jdBombers3598]

March 7? Way too early for football to be starting. Still cricket season..

This round zero rubbish, gather round and pre finals bye are all sneaky ways of making the season as long as possible. March 21 would be the best starting date but there's zero common sense at AFL house

 

[Cubs2Lions]

Us not playing Brisbane at home since Optus opened (2018) is another one, though it sounds like that will be happening early in 2024.

The AFL would be massive trolls, if they get the Lions to play Fremantle instead for our only WA trip.

 

[dave10]

This round zero rubbish, gather round and pre finals bye are all sneaky ways of making the season as long as possible. March 21 would be the best starting date but there's zero common sense at AFL house

Devils advocate. I’m guessing there will possibly be one less week of official practice matches. Last year I think there was a non designated informal game, then the official practice game. I reckon the official practice game coukd go. The first week in March has historically been at least a practice match / scratch match weekend with fans and media quite engaged and involved. I just think this weekend is being made top shelf official. So in effect, it is, but it isn’t really an extension of the AFL ‘season’.

 

[Obzerva]

I wonder if Melbourne will play West Coast at the MCG for the first time since 2014?

It’s these sort of quirks in the fixture that just annoy people.
Surely the AFL can iron out these pretty easily, they just choose to ignore it

 

[PT Bar None]

I reckon the Easter Monday "blockbuster" is a big reason Hawthorn end up with a swag of early season Sunday games. Especially recent years when we've not been contenders.

Fixture hasn't really been "fair" for years. Probably never will be again. I wonder if I'll live long enough for The Q Clash to be money. Or get a decent name. Showdown XLIV or whatever getting a roman numeral always irked me slightly given they always try to shoe-horn in 2 a year. Plus a pre season game when we had a pre season comp. Always seemed a little silly, but would've worked if only 1 a year.

They really should keep an eye on these dead spots of match ups and locations to try and rectify a few per year. They won't though, because $ and TV ratings. X not playing Y at Y's home ground for 10+ years is a bit shite

 

[Marmozet]

I expect the AFL to announce Round 1 tomorrow night, so it can be in the papers on Cup Day.

 

[mikey127]

I expect the AFL to announce Round 1 tomorrow night, so it can be in the papers on Cup Day.

That would be a big change. The AFL have always been pretty respectful of cup week and never made big announcements during it.