Deja - I apologise for cutting your grass by launching this thread. I look forward to you properly launching this thread with your preview of the games in due course. But every week I'm impatient for this thread to begin and feel it needs to kick off a bit sooner and this week I can't wait. I tend to start looking ahead to the coming weekend's games as soon as the last round is finished.
So, I'm going to limit my focus to trying to guess at the fixture for this round, and then only on timing - I wouldn't have a clue about venues.
My thinking is that it might be something like
Friday night: Demons v Cats
Saturday arvo:
Swans v Suns
West Coast v Lions
GWS v Carlton
Saturday night:
Bulldogs v Port
Essendon v Pies
Sunday
Saints v Freo
Adelaide v North
Richmond v Hawks
My logic is that the top of the table clash deserves top billing on Friday night. And the finalists and finals contenders will get preferenced to play Saturday instead of Sunday.
The tricky bit is that I think they will want to avoid the Swans and Giants games overlapping and so maybe Giants-Carlton will swap places with the Pies and the Bombers. I'd like to see the 1 v 2 and 3 v 4 games as well as the Swans match but I'm afraid that they won't schedule three games on FTA TV all on Saturday and we'll miss out on the 3 v 4 match (in Sydney) if Swans and Giants both play on Saturday. So hopefully they can push the Giants to play on Sunday (which will give us an extra day's preparation if we're going to play the following weekend, as seems likely).
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