Preview 2023 Fixture - hopes, dreams, dreads

[Klug]

i think it's more the bullshit Tasmania / Alice Springs / Ballarat stuff

though finally playing Melbourne in Melbourne for only 2nd time in 9 years (not counting the covid clash )

I have bad memories of playing Melbourne at the MCG.

When we were good, we had years of low standard scraps, usually late on Mothers Day with noone there.

When we were bad (2011), they annihilated us by 100pts, Danger got slingtackled and concussed, then Griffen missed the free kick goal from 1m. Good times

 

[pjcrows]

I have bad memories of playing Melbourne at the MCG.

When we were good, we had years of low standard scraps, usually late on Mothers Day with noone there.

When we were bad (2011), they annihilated us by 100pts, Danger got slingtackled and concussed, then Griffen missed the free kick goal from 1m. Good times

We got beaten by a really powerful side that day, though.

 

[radiojake]

I have bad memories of playing Melbourne at the MCG.

When we were good, we had years of low standard scraps, usually late on Mothers Day with noone there.

When we were bad (2011), they annihilated us by 100pts, Danger got slingtackled and concussed, then Griffen missed the free kick goal from 1m. Good times

Yeh I was at them too

 

[GROTTO]

That is a disgrace.

When I moved to Melbourne in the mid 2000s, we used to get 6-7 Melbourne games a year.

It's very hard to keep your kids as Crows supporters over here, especially when they only have a couple of chances to see them live!

Its disappointing many Crows posters are complaining about the draw in 2023.

Over on the Richmond board, spare a thought for Tigers supporters that are complaining they only got 13 games at the MCG in 2023.

 

[GROTTO]

I think we will be 0-5 before we play the Hawks in R6.

 

[1970crow]

We got beaten by a really powerful side that day, though.

It was them that finally cost Saint Neil his job though, from memory. Hard to hold a grudge after doing us that favour.

 

[crows dude]

Its disappointing many Crows posters are complaining about the draw in 2023.

Over on the Richmond board, spare a thought for Tigers supporters that are complaining they only got 13 games at the MCG in 2023.

Melbourne 13 at the g and Collingwood 14. What? Is the AFL actually trying to even things out a bit. Hallelujah

 

[MatthewB]

It was them that finally cost Saint Neil his job though, from memory. Hard to hold a grudge after doing us that favour.

That was the St Kilda game at Marvel, I was at that clusterheck of a game

 

[Ciao Giacomo]

Imho, the difficulty of the fixture seems fair enough. Our double ups are against the teams that finished 3rd, 4th, 11th, 12th, 16th and 17th. Going to 23 matches has reduced the difference between the perceived hardest and easiest fixtures with most teams playing double ups against two teams in the 2022 top 6, two in the middle 6 and two in the bottom 6.

The games in Darwin, Tassie and Ballarat are annoying but we would go into these matches as the underdog if they were played at the “traditional venues”. We are a good chance to win one or more of these games.

I think we should expect between 9 and 13 wins depending upon injuries to key players and luck in close matches.

 

[pjcrows]

10 wins is our ceiling IMO.

 

[Dangerousfield]

Horrible commercial fixture in terms of timeslots. Our worst ever, easily.

Did I not warn everyone multiple times in the Rankine thread that luring home Rankine from the AFL's own team the Gold Coast would be met with punishment? I told you the AFL is a sinister Vic boys club and that we would be punished with a shi* draw.

Well look at that, a horrible draw with as much travel as the AFL could serve up to us.

Their punishment may not stop at just one season either, we've had our card marked.

 

[1970crow]

That was the St Kilda game at Marvel, I was at that cluster* of a game

I thought a poor Melbourne did us by 100 points at the G and Neil was gone a couple of weeks later.

 

[MatthewB]

I thought a poor Melbourne did us by 100 points at the G and Neil was gone a couple of weeks later.

I can remember doing a tour of the G on the Monday and seeing the press conference of Neil's sacking while we were there

Adelaide Crows coach Neil Craig quits, effective immediately, to be replaced for now by Mark Bickley

Craig reveals reasons for quitting

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

 

[Peter Doherty]

Did I not warn everyone multiple times in the Rankine thread that luring home Rankine from the AFL's own team the Gold Coast would be met with punishment? I told you the AFL is a sinister Vic boys club and that we would be punished with a shi* draw.

Well look at that, a horrible draw with as much travel as the AFL could serve up to us.

Their punishment may not stop at just one season either, we've had our card marked.

Yeah, nah.

 

[GameofSloanes]

I think we will be 0-5 before we play the Hawks in R6.

I could see us winning any of them.
GWS are no good, missing 2 of their best 3 mids
Richmond probably the toughest game, but don't play AO well
Port anything can happen
Fremantle beat us by a point last year
Carlton we beat comfortably
In reality probably 2 wins but could be any number 0-5

 

[GameofSloanes]

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Port GWS and dogs screwed over

 

[CH Jazz]

10 wins is our ceiling IMO.

Tend to agree. I struggled to see past 9 wins.

7 wins in 2021, 8 in 2022 and I’m tipping 9 for 2023. We can look forward to a 13 win season and finals in 2027 at this rate.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

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[Jeffcrowe]

I thought a poor Melbourne did us by 100 points at the G and Neil was gone a couple of weeks later.

Yep couple weeks later after saints at docklands

 

[Jeffcrowe]

That was the St Kilda game at Marvel, I was at that cluster* of a game

Same

 

[1970crow]

Yep couple weeks later after saints at docklands

checked footywire, demons did us by near 100 a fair bit earlier. My recollection a way off.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

checked footywire, demons did us by near 100 a fair bit earlier. My recollection a way off.

I was at both

Not sure why

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

IIRC, the Melbourne drubbing was on Mother's Day (round 7 or thereabouts), and the Saints game was July or early August.

 

[relapse]

Yeah it was the Sanits game that was the final nail for Craig.

It was a Friday night game and Neil was sacked even before the sun came up on Saturday morning.

I've seen us get smashed before, but that game would have to be close to being the worst that I've ever seen us play.

From memory I reckon we kicked a goal early in the 2nd quarter and then didn't score again until getting a late junk time goal just before the siren in the last quarter.