This is a good point which just dawned on me. They split the teams into groups of 6 to decide who your double up matches are against which means we will double up with other top 6 teams next season. Good for box office but also it will be tougher to get wins.
In fairness last year’s top 6 included Collingwood (missed finals), Brisbane, GWS, Carlton, Melbourne (missed finals), Port Adelaide.
Even though we finished bottom 3 we still ended up with double ups against Collingwood and GWS. How many will get next year?
Probably Geelong (Easter Monday plus massive MCG crowds), Port Adelaide and Brisbane? (the Lions have asked to host us at the GABBA)
We’ll probably get Collingwood and one of Carlton and Essendon in the middle group and one of the bottom 6 (Richmond?)
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