When will AFL realise that Geelong fans hate Friday night games.

[Herne Hill Hammer]

7-8 genuine home games every year without having to get on a plane every second week like the interstaters.

If any club has less to whinge about the draw it's Geelong.

7 home games. The non-Victorian sides do have to travel almost every second week but to counter that, they have 11 genuine home games a season and generally the return cross town clash, so they get to play on their own ground 12 rounds of the season.

As for your last sentence, surely you're having a laugh.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

The AFL should not care or be concerned with any clubs wants and not wants. The sooner the AFL run the comp with an iron fist, stop asking clubs about fixtures and their preferences the better.
We went over 100 years without the league ever asking a club about their prefered fixture. What ever was dished up was it and we got on with things and played. The sooner we return to that the better.

Ok, so we'll go back to playing 9 games simultaneously on a Saturday afternoon.

 

[Inferno]

Complaining about a Friday night game?

Geelong are spoilt by the AFL and you want to refuse Friday night footy because 'you don't like it'?

Don't know how you've managed to get "you don't like it" from "Friday night matches for Geelong based fans are a major logistical problem and result in few fans showing up"

Leave work early or get a job in the city - problem solved. Logistics are your problem, not the AFL's

You're taking the piss yeah? Would've thought it would be in the AFL's interest to make games as accessible as possible for fans. Fact is the peak hour trip to/from Melbourne-Geelong is difficult on a weekday when the footy isn't on let alone when it is.

And "get a job in the city"? You realise Geelong is a different city to Melbourne yeah? Not to mention not everyone can base their employment around their AFL's fixturing and that an overwhelming majority of people don't work in the city anyway (let alone Melbourne's CBD from Geelong residents)

 

[Bayer_]

Leave work early or get a job in the city - problem solved. Logistics are your problem, not the AFL's

Especially given this was Hawthorn's QF - they benefited from being from being from the same state as the home team, a bit rich for them to also ask for the game to be fixtures around their fans' commuting habits as well.

 

[aCunningPlan]

I don't think people quite understand the complaint here. It's Geelong's home final, and while it makes perfect sense to have the match at the MCG there should be some thought given to the designated home team's fans who live an hour away.

I agree with how difficult it is to get to Melbourne, the Ballarat cats supporter bus couldnt leave until 5 due to a school run Meredith way and thanks to the heavy traffic we didn't get to the ground until quarter time. These are people who go week in, week out...many cheer squad members, they have no problem travelling an hour or two every week to watch their team but come on it doesn't take much to schedule the match to people can actually make it in time.

 

[thurmanmunson]

Don't know how you've managed to get "you don't like it" from "Friday night matches for Geelong based fans are a major logistical problem and result in few fans showing up"



You're taking the piss yeah? Would've thought it would be in the AFL's interest to make games as accessible as possible for fans. Fact is the peak hour trip to/from Melbourne-Geelong is difficult on a weekday when the footy isn't on let alone when it is.

And "get a job in the city"? You realise Geelong is a different city to Melbourne yeah? Not to mention not everyone can base their employment around their AFL's fixturing and that an overwhelming majority of people don't work in the city anyway (let alone Melbourne's CBD from Geelong residents)

Point taken. Maybe Geelong should just play in Geelong then and never play a Friday night again in the 'big smoke'.

Not to mention that that AFL can't base their fixturing around everyone's employment schedules.

 

[half_back_flank]

7 home games. The non-Victorian sides do have to travel almost every second week but to counter that, they have 11 genuine home games a season and generally the return cross town clash, so they get to play on their own ground 12 rounds of the season.

As for your last sentence, surely you're having a laugh.

You get 7 genuine home games, 11 games that's where you only travel an hour down the road and 4 - 5 genuine away games where you travel interstate. It's the best draw in football, there is no arguing that.

I'm not complaining though, it's a necessity to keep Geelong as a predominately Geelong as it should always be. Just don't whinge about the draw, Geelong do more than alright.

 

[sportsmaniac89]

**** sake, get the violins out.

Here's a radical idea, give up your Friday night games then if Geelong fans don't like it.

Also it's a small price to pay given that opposition supporters are routinely locked out of that shit stadium down there so deal with it.

 

[Hawker81]

Not sure if the game has to be at the MCG due to contracts, but a geelong - north Friday night game is better suited to Etihad. Easier to get to from Geelong, North's home ground and the match won't be getting a big crowd anyway.

 

[Greater Gattsby]

Don't know how you've managed to get "you don't like it" from "Friday night matches for Geelong based fans are a major logistical problem and result in few fans showing up"

Here's the thread title.

When will AFL realise that Geelong fans hate Friday night games

Here's the dictionary definition of hate:

verb (used with object), hated, hating.
1.
to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extremeaversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest:
to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
2.
to be unwilling; dislike:
I hate to do it.
verb (used without object), hated, hating.
3.
to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion orhostility.
noun
4.
intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
5.
the object of extreme aversion or hostility.

Don't get me wrong, but is hate not the key word and descriptive in this thread title? Considering Geelong fans "hate" or 'intensely dislike' Friday night games, perhaps one could say that Geelong fans 'don't like' Friday night games? Geelong fans aren't the only fans that have to travel more than 30 minutes to a game. It's commonly known that all North supporters don't only live in North Melbourne, same with Port Adelaide supporters in Adelaide, St Kilda supporters in St Kilda.

Maybe fees fans are showing up because they realise the wheels are falling off the bandwagon?

 

[Inferno]

Point taken. Maybe Geelong should just play in Geelong then and never play a Friday night again in the 'big smoke'.

Not to mention that that AFL can't base their fixturing around everyone's employment schedules.

Never suggested that, so no need to exaggerate.

Again you're missing the point completely. It's in the AFL's interest to schedule games in slots that are accessible to fans. It's the same reason why Sunday night games failed so badly.

Geelong is unique in the competition in that it has a massively dispersed fan base with a majority of it's fan base being a long distance from central Melbourne. The AFL through their fixturing totally fails to recognise this. It would be one thing to have a handful of Friday night games but the AFL need to get out of the habit of thinking that Geelong is a Melbourne team where an overwhelming majority of it's supporters are from Melbourne like with the rest of the Vic teams because it simply isn't the case. Same reason why Fri (or even worse, Thurs at 7.10pm) games in Geelong are a crap idea.

 

[ExTasDeeMan]

Heriter Lumumba doesn't like this.

 

[Inferno]

**** sake, get the violins out.

Here's a radical idea, give up your Friday night games then if Geelong fans don't like it.

Also it's a small price to pay given that opposition supporters are routinely locked out of that shit stadium down there so deal with it.

The club would probably be happy to give up a few. Doesn't mean the AFL will listen.

And if you think that a) opposition supporters are routinely locked out and b) it's a shit stadium then you clearly have no clue what you're talking about anyway.

Here's the thread title.


Here's the dictionary definition of hate:



Don't get me wrong, but is hate not the key word and descriptive in this thread title? Considering Geelong fans "hate" or 'intensely dislike' Friday night games, perhaps one could say that Geelong fans 'don't like' Friday night games? Geelong fans aren't the only fans that have to travel more than 30 minutes to a game. It's commonly known that all North supporters don't only live in North Melbourne, same with Port Adelaide supporters in Adelaide, St Kilda supporters in St Kilda.

Maybe fees fans are showing up because they realise the wheels are falling off the bandwagon?

Fair enough on the thread title, guess that one went over my head.

The difference is though is that Geelong fans proportionately live much further away from central Melbourne than fans of Melbourne based teams. No other Vic club has even close to a majority of it's fans living outside of Melbourne.

Add in the fact that the only transport routes for people in Geelong is a freeway and railway that are clogged and unreliable at the best of times in peak hour, let alone with the addition of people trying to get to the footy, and it makes it very difficult for a much larger number of Cats fans to make it on a week night in comparison to other clubs.

 

[aCunningPlan]

I'm not sure there are many sell outs at Geelong actually, all the good seats are sold yeah but there are usually a few still for sale on the day, people just don't bother.

 

[Jewbacca]

If you keep losing them it won't be an issue soon enough.

 

[GreatBradScott]

Dear OP, nobody cares

 

[Stratton_Gun]

When will supporters realise the AFL doesn't give two hoots

The Sydney prelim is on Friday and the Hawks is on Saturday. Therefore it seems logical that the team that play Sydney should be on the Friday and the team that plays the Hawks should be playing on the Saturday

 

[FootyJunkie]

According to the AFL, Geelong is a Melbourne side.

 

[aCunningPlan]

When will supporters realise the AFL doesn't give two hoots

The Sydney prelim is on Friday and the Hawks is on Saturday. Therefore it seems logical that the team that play Sydney should be on the Friday and the team that plays the Hawks should be playing on the Saturday

That is the case though.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I'd be quite happy if Geelong didn't play night games full stop, I think they're inferior under the lights compared to day games.

 

[kickazz]

I like Friday night games.

 

[Hawker55]

I'm not sure there are many sell outs at Geelong actually, all the good seats are sold yeah but there are usually a few still for sale on the day, people just don't bother.

No, it was Hawthorns' home final. Geelong already had a benefit in not travelling - what more do you want?

 

[Freoforever86]

When will supporters realise the AFL doesn't give two hoots

The Sydney prelim is on Friday and the Hawks is on Saturday. Therefore it seems logical that the team that play Sydney should be on the Friday and the team that plays the Hawks should be playing on the Saturday

This is exactly why it's a Friday night game.

Ps. Diddums for poor Geelong getting the prime timeslot.

 

[caitsith01]

Geelong fan here. I love Friday night games, because it means the Cats are on TV and I can actually see them play.

Oh wait, this thread was only for Geelong fans who live in Geelong and have kids and have to feed the dog at 7pm and have to get up for work at 5am on Saturday and can't drive to Melbourne for some reason?

 

[aCunningPlan]

No, it was Hawthorns' home final. Geelong already had a benefit in not travelling - what more do you want?

I was talking about sell outs at Geelong during the season, Im well aware the Melbourne Cricket Ground is not in Geelong.