R19 - Sunday twilight v Suns at Metricon
11-point (as in, by 11 behinds) fall over the line type win coming up
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Kinda like the last round vs Collingwood in 2000?
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Except no repeat of the week before that please!
Iāll cop that game in the overall scheme of thingsā¦
Need an Undertaker Wrestlemania type streak!
Happy EFC have 22 games - The rest is irrelevant.
Fixed
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Is the country game really a blockbuster/ marquee game?
No. Iād like to see us play GWS around the Easter each year if it works eg as an opener for the Ag show in Sydney.
With the AFL refusing to make the fixture even by playing 17 matches each year, why donāt they just make the top 6 teams from the year before play each twice the following year. And so on for teams 7-12 and 13-18. Would remove all questions of fairness and youād know who you were playing twice the next season as soon as the current season was over.
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You work for the AFL donāt you ?
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17 games wouldnāt be fair. Weād never play Sydney in Melbourne. Oh wait, no diff.
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the draw is deliberately lopsided, both for commercial and overt balance reasons.
It was technically easy to make a relatively fair draw back when there 16 teams (via two divisions) but much less so now.
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There is already a deliberate bunching of teams by sixes. Itās not complete, because derbies etc are more important.
Weād only play Collingwood, for example, once in 2019 if you were strict on that
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They should be strict on that.
Yep. I agree.
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If you wanted to keep strictly to the group of 6 you finished in, you just play every team once and the other 5 teams in your group of 6 twice.
It will never happen though as you would rarely get the 4 derbies being played twice a year
Whatās more important, the integrity of the competition, or money?
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oh, wait.
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Meh the best teams make the 8ā¦regardless of the draw.
Although I reckon the bye pre finals waters down the top 4 advantage.
IM BORED. START THE FECKIN SEASON ALREADY!!!
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nuffs gonna nuff