Round 23 fixture
Friday, August 29
Collingwood v Hawthorn MCG 7.50pm
Saturday, August 30
Carlton v Essendon MCG 1.45pm
Fremantle v Port Adelaide Patersons Stadium 1.10pm
Sydney Swans v Richmond ANZ Stadium 4.40pm
Geelong Cats v Brisbane Lions Simonds Stadium 7.40pm
North Melbourne v Melbourne Etihad Stadium 7.40pm
Sunday, August 31
Gold Coast Suns v West Coast Eagles Metricon Stadium 1.10pm
Adelaide Crows v St Kilda Adelaide Oval 3.20pm
Western Bulldogs v GWS Etihad Stadium 4.40pm
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Is anybody else as surprised as I am that the two biggest clubs in Melbourne obviously got their way again. Friday night MCG means longer break before finals.....Hmmmm any equalization issues in fixturing??
Surely our game should have been swapped with the Carlton v Essendon game, and that game played on saturday evening, with the Cats game in the Saturday twilight. That would have given the group of teams that will make up the top 4 teamsOriginally Posted by joemoore12
From that, I think its relatively clear that, if we finish Top 2, our qualifying final will be the second one during the weekend (Saturday night?), with the Melbourne based game (assuming Port don't finish Top 2) the friday night game.
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I was hoping for the Friday night but twilight Saturday isn't too bad
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That was never really on the cards because we play our round 22 game on mid Sunday afternoon. That would give us a 5 day turnaround, which the AFL generally tries to avoid (other than where ANZAC day forces such a schedule).
Thats a great result for us. Home game for a start, against a minnow secondly, and on a saturday arvo finally.
As long as we finish top 2, we should be able to stay at home until the (victorian favoured) grand final at the MCG.
Lets hope Hawthorn finish lower than 2nd, so need to win interstate to get to their victorian favoured grand final venue.
4.40 is a good time for this Homebush match - makes traveling there and back pretty reasonable. Also it's at a good time to get out there early and have a bit of a wander round and lunch prior to the game.
I think it's fine in terms of recovery times for the players as well....
Collingwood should be playing Sunday with all the other also rans.......
No they shouldn't, after such a fine season they deserve to start their summer holiday nice and early
I'd be a bit annoyed if I were Adelaide, they have as good a chance as Essendon of playing finals yet they're round 23 game is Sunday afternoon.
I thought the same thing about the Crows. AFL could do better.No they shouldn't, after such a fine season they deserve to start their summer holiday nice and early
I'd be a bit annoyed if I were Adelaide, they have as good a chance as Essendon of playing finals yet they're round 23 game is Sunday afternoon.
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Since we have to play round 23 at that awful ground I am glad for the 4.40 time slot, certainly better than Sat night.
It's a decent draw. Despite what we think of those two clubs, it's quite legitimate that they should get a Friday evening. We're at home so there's no travel afterwards. Freo and Port are both in the finals so they have every right to play an early game. The AFL probably don't want 3 games in Victoria happening at virtually the same time so that's why Carlton and Essendon got the early game.
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