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They will just find another few reasons to bitch
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Wonder which game in Geelong we'll use to celebrate 100 years with Ford by our side.
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Combined with the harder double ups it makes a big difference.
2 games between 8th and 14th last season, 2 games between 8th and 13th the season before.
The margins are small.
If we also add a worse injury run we can quite easily fall back to where we finished in 2023 under the same circumstances.
They already started, they're whinging we get Richmond Away in the last round...
Yeah finally get GC back at Home which is a huge win for us.
Same with getting Lions back down at Kardinia where historically they suck.
Lions haven't played down at Kardinia since 2022, it's been us every year traveling to the Gabba and then us playing them at the G in Finals except the Covid Season.
It’s not even an advantage the soft kills at the end.
Even Fagan said about us this year heading into a prelim that we had not been truly tested for over a month.
Eagles 100 up at HT, bye, port (massive win) another bye.
That’s not ideal.
I don't care for it at all. I despise it when we play as it means my weekend has no footy, and I didn't watch a single game when we didn't feature last season. Get rid of it, it sucks!
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I don't think our double ups are to bad. There is normally one club from top 8 that drops off due to bad run with injuries and there is normally one club leaps from bottom of table. So depends if those clubs are part of our double up. Hard to see Richmond, Essendon jumping up. St Kilda may. Brisbane's hunger could drop off and I think Daniher's retirement will really hurt them.
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Exactly, in 2024 we benefited from Saints and Crows falling off in our double ups (still lost to Saints away and Crows games were both close) but also copped the Hawks twice who should have been bottom 4 and instead were playing in a Semi Final.
We get Tigers twice which is nice and Lions/Port/Giants which is hard but any of them could drop off dramatically and all of a sudden now a tough matchup is an easy one.
We could be the "easy" matchup for one of our double ups if we drop.
It's always easy to say in hindsight after the fact.
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Our record on the road is pretty good though (apart from Darwin and GC which are not part of our 6) and we only go to the West once.
2025 double ups : Bris, Port, GWS, Stk, Ess, Richmond.
Real mixed bag there. Port, StK, Ess could rise, fall, or stay in mediocrity. Rich will be poor and you expect GWS and Bris to be strong.
Either way, it’s such an even competition, the fixture won’t be determinative for us. We’ll either be good enough to contend, or not. A similar injury run as this year would help.
Real mixed bag there. Port, StK, Ess could rise, fall, or stay in mediocrity. Rich will be poor and you expect GWS and Bris to be strong.
Either way, it’s such an even competition, the fixture won’t be determinative for us. We’ll either be good enough to contend, or not. A similar injury run as this year would help.
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1.82 million tv viewers disagree
I think it's here to stay
I don’t feel like the AFL completely mugged us blind with this fixture, so I am reasonably relieved. We got three of the strong interstate sides, home and away, so that is fair.
Swans we only got away and Freo only at home. So again fair.
No Gold Coast away is a bonus.
Swans we only got away and Freo only at home. So again fair.
No Gold Coast away is a bonus.
and the other 24.82 million of the population agree
In all seriousness though it's like anything, everyone will have a different opinion. Mine is that I totally despise it. I know it's here to stay which is disappointing to me but it is what it is. I'm still old school and would rather rock up to a Saturday 2.10pm game and be able to enjoy it with my two young sons than watch a Thursday night game when the kids are too cooked to watch it and miss out because they're in bed.
Then the AFL wonder why kids are gravitating towards other sports.
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The amount of sooking that we get Rich twice is so ****ing good.
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I'm with you partially.and the other 24.82 million of the population agree
In all seriousness though it's like anything, everyone will have a different opinion. Mine is that I totally despise it. I know it's here to stay which is disappointing to me but it is what it is. I'm still old school and would rather rock up to a Saturday 2.10pm game and be able to enjoy it with my two young sons than watch a Thursday night game when the kids are too cooked to watch it and miss out because they're in bed.
Then the AFL wonder why kids are gravitating towards other sports.
I actually forget that footy is even on, on Thursdays. I guess I'll get used to it.
But in my case, I disagree that kids are choosing other sports because of TV.
Because my son has never liked watching footy. He just wants to play it.
I pretty much begged him to watch the 22' GF with me. He lasted a quarter.
I've seen first hand that it does have an impact. In my situation, my eldest was very keen on footy and was always desperate to watch it and kick the footy outside etc. He got upset whenever a night game was on because knew he wouldn't be able to watch a whole game (none of the game if it is a Thursday night school night). The first killer was the night grand final in 2020, he just couldn't stay awake. He has ended up playing basketball and it is by far his favourite sport now purely because he has developed a what's the point attitude towards footy and all the scheduling in horrible timeslots for kids. Put a footy and a basketball in his hands and it isn't even a contest which one will win out.
It's a shame because the AFL have forgotten that kids are the future of the sport. It used to be cricket in the summer and footy in the winter. That was it. Now it's basketball all year round, soccer etc taking a lot of kids away from footy. TV and scheduling definitely does play a role in that. If you can't watch much of a sport you will lose interest very quickly. I lost all interest in the EPL once it moved from Foxtel to Optus or wherever it's gone because I can't watch the games anymore and I can't afford to sign up to more subscription services.
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Cant really win with this opinion. Sometimes premiers dont need to close games, sometimes they do. It's a hindsight thing.
In 2022, we had alot of easy wins up to the first final.
