Fixture 2020

ukeled · October 23, 2019, 5:04am

Bet you we play Sydney first game

The_New_Coleman · October 23, 2019, 5:08am

BRING THEM ON!

* We’ll probably lose by a point

theDJR · October 23, 2019, 5:54am

Zaharakis should have kicked it more than a metre over the line so the umpire wouldn’t have been forced to call “play on”.

FTWinderlich · October 23, 2019, 5:58am

Bet Richmond and Collingwood get easy draws again.

StealthBomber · October 23, 2019, 8:07am

Richmond 11 straight games in Melbourne

Michael_Long_Legend · October 23, 2019, 8:15am

Our 2019 fixture was an absolute dog’s breakfast and about as bad as it gets.

My wishes are:

Only one trip to Perth
No Thursday night games
No absurd 9 or 10 day breaks, or 4 or 5 day breaks before playing interstate
Round one game against Hawthorn or Melbourne
At least four Saturday afternoon games (4:35 doesn’t count) with two or more of those at the MCG

pazza · October 23, 2019, 9:37am

Round 1 will be the 20th anniversary celebration of Docklands and us v Port Adelaide.

My hope is that we:

Have MCG matches versus - Carlton (2), Collingwood (2), Richmond (2), Hawthorn (2), Geelong (1) and Melbourne (1)
No matches in Sydney but 2 in QLD and SA
Freo only in Perth

Gwilty · October 23, 2019, 10:35am

Round 1 Eagles in Perth
Round 2 Tigers at the MCG

That should kill off any lid offers

All_Things_Essendon · October 23, 2019, 11:03am

Good pick up that. Wonder if that’s one of Essendon’s requests to celebrate 20 years at Colonial/Telstra/Etihad/Marvel stadium where M Long kicked the first ever goal in front of 43,012 as they smashed Port by a whopping 94 points on their way to the most dominant ever season by a club? Surprised if that isn’t their first game of 2020.

samwoods · October 23, 2019, 11:04am

I wouldn’t worry too much. There may not be many left after the JLT should we put in another poor preseason showing.

Michael_Long_Legend · October 23, 2019, 11:17am

If we make a request based on significant matches in 2000, I’ll be ■■■■■■ off if we waste it on the first game at that crap stadium.

Michael_Long_Legend · October 23, 2019, 11:19am

I’d prefer us celebrating beating Richmond by 100 points on the day GST came in.

redbull · October 23, 2019, 11:28am

So if we played them the day before we would have only won by 90.91 points?

Michael_Long_Legend · October 23, 2019, 11:30am

Correct

soundman · October 23, 2019, 1:14pm

Read on bigfooty that c7 has announced “dynamic scheduling” for the last 4 rounds of the 2020 h&a season. Basically if a game scheduled for primetime turns out to be a dead rubber with an expected low viewer count, they’ll swap it with another bigger game in the round. All to do with advertising, no consideration to what is or isn’t fair to the competition.

theDJR · October 23, 2019, 8:44pm

Arseholes. Will they still announce it a month or so ahead?

samwoods · October 23, 2019, 8:48pm

I don’t understand how the VFL are supposed to co-ordinate with a fixture that isn’t fixed?

…

oh… wait… arseholes.

WindsockBoy · October 23, 2019, 8:49pm

Yes.
I’ll long remember the televised games of Round 22 last year, with Melbourne vs Sydney on Friday, followed by Norf vs The Tarps on Saturday.
Riveting, edge of the seat stuff.

up_up · October 23, 2019, 8:54pm

What about the supporters who actually plan ahead to attend matches?

Mr_Sunbury_1 · October 23, 2019, 8:56pm

There will come a time where the second half of the fixture will be a “floating” fixture where the FTA networks will pick the eyes out of the matches and leave the scraps for Foxtel. I used the word networks for a reason, I don’t think it’ll be simply a C7 & Foxtel partnership that’s holds the next TV rights, I think there will be at least two FTA TV rights holders after the next deal is done.