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Eagles to play Easter Friday night under lights at Optus.
PERFECT !!!!!
Dockers to play a lot of Sunday arvo games at Optus next year apparently.
PERFECT !!!!! It will allow me an opportunity to do some weeding. :D
PERFECT !!!!!
Dockers to play a lot of Sunday arvo games at Optus next year apparently.
PERFECT !!!!! It will allow me an opportunity to do some weeding. :D
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Port Adelaide v GWS, Adelaide Oval, 5:40
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Ummm, coz 80,000 plus will be at the G to watch Pies v Cats.
Shoulda built a bigger park.
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So let me get this straight.
I am reading in the paper that the Dockers are going to the "Gold Coast" to team bond and focus on the game plan so that everyone is on the same page come season time ? W.T.F
Gold Coast and focus ??? There is an oxymoron if ever I have heard one.
I believe Harley and Brandon are the social coordinators on the trip.
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What an embarrassment to the AFL the Collingwood team is. they are given an opportunity to replay the Grand Final on the same ground early next year and already the suggestion is that the MCG will only be about 80% full...where as if this game was played at Optus there will be a guaranteed 100% stadium full
Only have to travel outside of Melb
3 times
What a Joke
Sure they will fill the MCG
But unbelievably biased draw
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Collingwood play 5 games interstate in 2019.
R5 v Brisbane, 'Gabba
R10 v Sydney, SCG
R17 v West Coast, Perth Stadium
R18 v GWS, Showgrounds
R22 v Adelaide, Adelaide Oval
Play 10 games interstate
Double The Pies what the Pies have to do
It stinks
I hate it to Brady, always have. Team that wins the grand final gets rewarded with 10 games out of the state and the team that loses is penalized with 4 trips out of the state!!... Is that REALLY fair???
There's only eight non-Victorian teams, so unless you want them to play all eight of them away every season, plus also play at least two of the three Victorian teams that currently play games interstate, Hawthorn (at York Park), North Melbourne (at Bellerive Oval) and/or Melbourne (at Marrara Oval and Traeger Park), they or any of the other 6 Victorian teams (not including HAW, NM or MEL), will never play ten games interstate a year, every year, like WCE, FRE, ADE, BL, GC, GWS, PA or SYD do.
I haven't counted how many interstate games the other six Victorian teams play (not including Hawthorn, North Melbourne and Melbourne), but it's probably not that much different to the number Collingwood would play.
A quick glance shows Richmond playing 5 games interstate, just like Collingwood do in 2019.
RICHMOND'S INTERSTATE GAMES
R3 v GWS, Showgrounds
R4 v Port Adelaide, Adelaide Oval
R8 v Fremantle, Perth Stadium
R13 v Adelaide, Adelaide Oval
R16 v Gold Coast, Carrara
VICTORIA (99)
MCG 45, Docklands 43, Kardinia Park (GEE) 9 and Eureka Stadium (WB) 2.
INTERSTATE (98)
Adelaide Oval (ADE, PA) 22, Perth Stadium (FRE, WCE) 22, 'Gabba (BL) 11, SCG (SYD) 11, Carrara (GC) 10, Showgrounds (GWS) 8, Bellerive Oval (NM) 4, York Park (HAW) 4, Manuka Oval (GWS) 3, Marrara Oval (MEL) 1, Riverway Stadium (GC) 1 and Traeger Park (MEL) 1.
OVERSEAS (1)
Jiangwan Stadium (STK) 1.
Games played in home state and interstate in 2019.
ADE - 12 at Adelaide Oval, 10 interstate
BL - 12 in Queensland, 10 interstate
CAR - 16 in Victoria, 6 interstate
COL - 17 in Melbourne, 5 interstate
ESS - 16 in Melbourne, 6 interstate
FRE - 12 at Perth Stadium, 10 interstate
GC - 12 in Queensland, 10 interstate
GEE - 16 in Victoria, 6 interstate
GWS - 12 in NSW/ACT, 10 interstate
HAW - 13 in Melbourne, 9 interstate
MEL - 15 in Victoria, 7 interstate
NM - 13 in Victoria, 9 interstate
PA - 12 at Adelaide Oval, 9 interstate, 1 in China
RIC - 17 in Melbourne, 5 interstate
STK - 15 in Victoria, 6 interstate, 1 in China
SYD - 12 in Sydney, 10 interstate
WB - 17 in Victoria, 5 interstate
WCE - 12 at Perth Stadium, 10 interstate
Throw in the fact that there are more Victorian clubs (10) than non-Victorian clubs (8), just on those numbers alone, the non-Victorian clubs will always have to play more games interstate than Victorian clubs and the Victorian clubs that pull-in the biggest crowds will always get more opportunities to play at the biggest venue (i.e. MCG). You have to remember, there's only four Victorian venues now in use by the AFL; MCG, Docklands, Kardinia Park (Geelong) and Eureka Stadium (Ballarat) and generally Docklands isn't big enough for clubs with big supporter bases like Collingwood and Richmond.
About the only way you could even try to equalise the number of times every club travelled interstate, was if the Victorian teams sold off one "home" game each season to the interstate teams and/or when two Victorian teams play each other, say once per club per season, they did so at an interstate "neutral" venue. That way, in theory at least, every AFL club would then travel interstate a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 9 times during the "home and away" season.
Obviously though, that's never going to happen, for a variety of reasons, both financially and viability, and personally I don't think that should happen either.
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OMG we would have to build another Optus Stadium just to house the cups !!! :)>-
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