Round 1 2025 Fixture Predictions and what is your club's fixture wish list for the season?

[growly]

Guy who tipped me the round 1 fixture for this year and was basically right bar 2 games has sent me this saying this is being considered for round 1. No info on opening round

Thu - Rich v carl
Fri - Wb v Coll
Sat - Geel v Syd
Sat t - Ade v gold coast
Sat night - Haw v ess
- Bris v Freo
Sun - Gws v Port
- melb v Nth
- Wc v St kilda

 

[magpiemaniac44]

Here's a stab in the dark at what it could look like

OPENING ROUND
THU: BL V GEEL - G
FRI: SYD V COL - SCG
SAT A: GC V MELB - MS
SAT N: GWS V CARL - GS
SUN: ESS V HAW - MCG

ROUND 1
THU: CARL V RICH - MCG
FRI: COL V WB - MCG
SAT A: GEEL V ESS - GMHBA
SAT T: GWS V FRE - GS
SAT N: ADEL V SYD - AO
SAT N: HAW V BL - MCG
SUN: NM V PORT - MRVL
SUN: MELB V STK - MCG
SUN T: WCE V GC - OS

 

[MightyFightings]

Some Hawthorn fixture quirks would love to see actioned for 2025.

• Haven't played Brisbane at the Gabba since 2019
• Haven't played Port Adelaide at the MCG since 2014 Preliminary Final (not since 2011 in a Home & Away fixture).
• Haven't played Carlton twice in a season since 2015

 

[JPetro83]

Some Hawthorn fixture quirks would love to see actioned for 2025.

• Haven't played Brisbane at the Gabba since 2019
• Haven't played Port Adelaide at the MCG since 2014 Preliminary Final (not since 2011 in a Home & Away fixture).
• Haven't played Carlton twice in a season since 2015

I would love to see a Friday night clash in Melbourne Hawks v Port early on in the season and for the two teams to beat the hell out of each other

 

[ML4Hodgy]

Guy who tipped me the round 1 fixture for this year and was basically right bar 2 games has sent me this saying this is being considered for round 1. No info on opening round

Thu - Rich v carl
Fri - Wb v Coll
Sat - Geel v Syd
Sat t - Ade v gold coast
Sat night - Haw v ess
- Bris v Freo
Sun - Gws v Port
- melb v Nth
- Wc v St kilda

Not sure how many prime time Tigers games there will be this year after finishing last and the recent trade period.

 

[Mat Mann]

Some Hawthorn fixture quirks would love to see actioned for 2025.

• Haven't played Brisbane at the Gabba since 2019
• Haven't played Port Adelaide at the MCG since 2014 Preliminary Final (not since 2011 in a Home & Away fixture).
• Haven't played Carlton twice in a season since 2015

very similar, we rarely play Port in Melbourne
haven't played Pies twice in a season in over a decade

but hey someone has to make up for interstate sides playing each other twice every year or guaranteeing the Pies play Ess and Carlton twice every year

 

[BigVic]

Play Port at Adelaide Oval on a Friday night

 

[blueiris]

Adelaide vs Port Adelaide in the showdown on a Thursday night

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I don’t know how the AFL can knowingly have Richmond v Carlton as the Round 1 opener on the Thursday night.

We all know it’s a more than fair chance to be a horribly one sided game where Richmond get belted due to how many senior players they’ve lost.

 

[Walshawk]

OR
Thurs Lions v Hawks
Fri Swans v Bombers
Sat GC v Cats
Sun GWS v Blues

R1
Thurs Blues v Rich (Blues get a four day rest as a handicap)
Fri Hawks v Bombers
Sat GWS v Lions
Sat Dogs v Saints
Sat Pies v Swans
Sat Port v Freo
Sun GC v Crows
Sun Dees v Cats
Sun WC v Nth

 

[JPetro83]

Play Port at Adelaide Oval on a Friday night

I heard a whisper it will be Port vs Collingwood to open up Gather round

 

[JPetro83]

OR
Thurs Lions v Hawks
Fri Swans v Bombers
Sat GC v Cats
Sun GWS v Blues

R1
Thurs Blues v Rich (Blues get a four day rest as a handicap)
Fri Hawks v Bombers
Sat GWS v Lions
Sat Dogs v Saints
Sat Pies v Swans
Sat Port v Freo
Sun GC v Crows
Sun Dees v Cats
Sun WC v Nth

I wish the AFL would scrap the boring ass Carlton/Richmond Round 1 opener. especially now with the Tigers rebuilding. we could be looking at a 119 point winning margin to Carlton

 

[El Doederino]

Wish list - home game on Sunday night 9th March which is day before Adelaide Cup holiday

 

[Walshawk]

I heard a whisper it will be Port vs Collingwood to open up Gather round

No chance. Port will sell out anyway. Pies are needed to anchor an stand alone all Vic clash at AO.

 

[Walshawk]

I wish the AFL would scrap the boring ass Carlton/Richmond Round 1 opener. especially now with the Tigers rebuilding. we could be looking at a 119 point winning margin to Carlton

It’s less of a big deal now that it is not the season opener. The AFL will need to change the season structure in 2028 when Tas comes in.

 

[TylerDurden]

R1 Haw v Ess is locked for a Fri night at the G.

 

[Obzerva]

Some Hawthorn fixture quirks would love to see actioned for 2025.

• Haven't played Brisbane at the Gabba since 2019
• Haven't played Port Adelaide at the MCG since 2014 Preliminary Final (not since 2011 in a Home & Away fixture).
• Haven't played Carlton twice in a season since 2015

Wish the AFL would just iron out quirks like this, even if it takes a year or two.
Other exmaples, Collingwood having a game in Geelong, both Adelaide teams having a year off from Ballarat, there's plenty of these sorts that can be addressed.

 

[CarnTheScray]

Just a ****ing home game please. Haven't started with one since 2020.

 

[Marauders5]

Why?

Due to 100 years of the Bulldogs in the AFL

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

No chance. Port will sell out anyway. Pies are needed to anchor an stand alone all Vic clash at AO.

Why waste an all-Vic game? Against Freo or WC they could fill Adelaide Oval, and then get 70k+ back in Melbourne with that Vic game.
I would much prefer that the AFL didn't do the fixture based on money more than absolutely necessary, but they do (and its the only reason this horrible round even exists).

 

[Walshawk]

Why waste an all-Vic game? Against Freo or WC they could fill Adelaide Oval, and then get 70k+ back in Melbourne with that Vic game.
I would much prefer that the AFL didn't do the fixture based on money more than absolutely necessary, but they do (and its the only reason this horrible round even exists).

It is not wasted. GR is an extra game. The big Vic clubs never all play each other twice,

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

It is not wasted. GR is an extra game. The big Vic clubs never all play each other twice,

Its an extra game, but not necessarily "the" extra game.
If they only play WC once next year, for example, and do it in gather round then that would have had to have been played at some point anyway; and leaves the "extra" potentially as against a Vic club in Melbourne.

 

[Billy ray]

Its an extra game, but not necessarily "the" extra game.
If they only play WC once next year, for example, and do it in gather round then that would have had to have been played at some point anyway; and leaves the "extra" potentially as against a Vic club in Melbourne.

Shouldnt all gather round games be NOT the only matchup all season?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Shouldnt all gather round games be NOT the only matchup all season?

Should? When did AFL fixturing follow anything that "should" happen?

In some ways, having the only game on neutral territory makes more sense than giving one side the only home advantage of the match-up.
Gather Round is total bullshit that should not exist to begin with, but again, "should" doesn't seem to ever matter with fixturing.

 

[Walshawk]

Should? When did AFL fixturing follow anything that "should" happen?

In some ways, having the only game on neutral territory makes more sense than giving one side the only home advantage of the match-up.
Gather Round is total bullshit that should not exist to begin with, but again, "should" doesn't seem to ever matter with fixturing.

Have you been to Gather Round?