2012 draw thread [merged]

[WilliamPowell]

Our round 1 game is live on Ch7

Mighty lucky with that IMHO

[one-eyed]

Does anyone know where the TV schedule is?

It looks like we have 11 FTA games - 1 Thursday Night, 2 Friday Nights, 4 Saturday Nights, 4 Sunday Arvos leading into the news.

[Loui Tufga]

Our round 1 game is live on Ch7

Mighty lucky with that IMHO

We actually have 12 games on FTA this season as apposed to 6 last year! Punters would have to be happy with that??

[WilliamPowell]

Does anyone know where the TV schedule is?

It looks like we have 11 FTA games - 1 Thursday Night, 2 Friday Nights, 4 Saturday Nights, 4 Sunday Arvos leading into the news.

AFL Site

Trying to find the link

[Loui Tufga]

Does anyone know where the TV schedule is?

It looks like we have 11 FTA games - 1 Thursday Night, 2 Friday Nights, 4 Saturday Nights, 4 Sunday Arvos leading into the news.

I found it here......
http://www.afl.com.au/fixtures/tabid/10586/default.aspx

[one-eyed]

Analysis of RFC’s 2012 fixture
richmondfc.com.au
By Tony Greenberg
9:30 AM Fri 28 Oct, 2011

We’ve dissected Richmond’s 2012 fixture to provide you with the most comprehensive examination imaginable of what’s in store for the Tigers next season.

MCG

• 13 games all-up at the ‘G’  (12 in ’11)
• 9 home games  (8 in ’11)
• 4 away games  (4 in ’11)
• 5 day games  (3 in ’11)
• 2 twilight games  (2 in ’11)
• 5 night games  (7 in ’11)
• 1 Thursday night game  (1 in ’11)
• 1 Friday night game  (2 in ’11)
• 3 Saturday afternoon games  (2 in ’11)
• 2 Saturday twilight games (1 in ’11)
• 3 Saturday night games  (4 in ’11)
• 2 Sunday afternoon games  (1 in ’11)
• 0 Sunday twilight games  (1 in ’11)
• Note that the final home-and-away fixture for 2012, against Port Adelaide at the MCG is a floating one, with date and time to be confirmed late in the season.

Etihad Stadium

• 2 games all-up at Etihad Stadium  (4 in ’11)
• 1 home game  (1 in ’11)
• 1 away game  (3 in ’11)
• 1 day game (2 in ’11)
• 0 twilight games (2 in ’11)
• 1 night game (0 in ’11)
• 1 Friday night game  (0 in ’11)
• 1 Sunday afternoon game  (2 in ’11)

 Interstate

• 6 games all-up interstate  (6 in ’11)
• 1 Saturday afternoon game at Skoda Stadium, Sydney (v GWS)
• 1 Saturday afternoon game at AAMI Stadium, Adelaide (v Adelaide Crows)
• 1 Saturday afternoon game at Patersons Stadium, Perth (v Fremantle)
• 1 Saturday twilight game at Cazalys Stadium, Cairns (v Gold Coast)
• 1 Saturday night game at the Gabba, Brisbane (v Brisbane Lions)
• 1 Sunday afternoon game at AAMI Stadium, Adelaide (v Port Adelaide)

Day by day

• 1 Thursday night game  (1 in ’11)
• 2 Friday night games  (2 in ’11)
• 6 Saturday afternoon games  (3 in ’11)
• 3 Saturday twilight game (1 in ’11)
• 4 Saturday night games  (6 in ’11)
• 5 Sunday afternoon games  (6 in ’11)
• 0 Sunday twilight games  (2 in ’11)
• 1 Thursday game all-up  (1 in ’11)
• 2 Friday games all-up  (2 in ’11)
• 13 Saturday games all-up  (10 in ’11)
• 5 Sunday games all-up  (8 in ’11)
• 11 day games all-up (9 in ’11)
• 3 twilight games all-up (3 in ’11)
• 7 night games all-up (9 in ’11)

Them’s the breaks

• 1 nine-day break  (1 in ’11)
• 4 eight-day breaks  (4 in ’11)
• 9 seven-day breaks  (9 in ’11)
• 5 six-day breaks  (4 in ’11)
• 1 14-day break  (1 in ’11)

Network coverage

• 9 Foxtel games (10 in ‘11)
• 12 Channel Seven games (6 in ‘11)

Other fixture facts

• Play twice:  Carlton, Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Essendon, Fremantle.
• Play once:  Collingwood, Geelong, West Coast, Sydney, Hawthorn, St Kilda, Greater Western Sydney, Adelaide, Gold Coast, North Melbourne, Brisbane, Western Bulldogs.
• Play only two of the 2011 finalists twice in 2012 - Carlton and Essendon.
• Played all four of the ’11 top four teams just once in ’12 - Geelong, Collingwood, Hawthorn and West Coast.
• Interstate trips to:  Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Sydney, Perth.
• Trip to Geelong (Round 4).
• Three MCG games in-a-row to start the season.
• Six of the first nine games at the MCG.
• Have a bye between the Round 12 match against GWS in Sydney and the Round 14 match against Adelaide at AAMI Stadium.
• Finish the season with a match at the MCG for the first time since 2008.

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/125607/default.aspx

[Sabretooth]

My dummy draw V the real Richmond 2012 draw.
Except for the no 2nd game against Geelong, Collingwood & Hawthorn, not too far from the mark.

R1 Carlton H - Check
R2 Geelong A SS - R4
R3 Collingwood H - A R2
R4 West Coast A - H R5
R5 Hawthorn H - R9
R6 Essendon A - R8
R7 Sydney A - Check thou at H
R8 Port Adelaide H Darwin - R6 A
R9 Adelaide A - R14
R10 Gold Coast H Cairns - R16
R11 Brisbane A - R19
R12 Geelong H - No 2nd game
R13 Collingwood A - No 2nd game
R14 Hawthorn A - No 2nd game
R15 StKilda H Dome - R10
R16 Bulldogs H Dome - R20 MCG
R17 Melbourne A - R3 H & R15 A
R18 Carlton H - Check thou A
R19 Fremantle A - R11 H & R21 A
R20 North Melb H - R17
R21 Essendon H - R22
R22 West Coast H - No 2nd game
R23 Gold Coast A - No 2nd game
R24 GWS A - R12

[one-eyed]

Does anyone know where the TV schedule is?

It looks like we have 11 FTA games - 1 Thursday Night, 2 Friday Nights, 4 Saturday Nights, 4 Sunday Arvos leading into the news.

I found it here......
http://www.afl.com.au/fixtures/tabid/10586/default.aspx

Cheers Tas and WP 

[Coach]

Our round 1 game is live on Ch7

Mighty lucky with that IMHO

We actually have 12 games on FTA this season as apposed to 6 last year! Punters would have to be happy with that??

We had more than 6 games on FTA last season you donut eater

[Loui Tufga]

Our round 1 game is live on Ch7

Mighty lucky with that IMHO

We actually have 12 games on FTA this season as apposed to 6 last year! Punters would have to be happy with that??

We had more than 6 games on FTA last season you donut eater

Yes, I may have miss interpreted what they were saying We only had 6 games on Channel 7 last season! we may have had others on 10

[TigerLand]

Happy with our fixture happy with who we play twice.

[mightytiges]

Talk about a draw of halves. There's a chance we could be 0-5 or even 0-6 if we lose to Port at Footy Park  . If we get to round 9 and are 4-5 we will have done very well with the draw easier from then onwards. I can see now why RFCO said it isn't a horror draw. Just a horror first month.

Pros:
* Only one home game at Etihad (thankfully not against a Etihad tenant) and 9 at the 'G  .
* The season from round 10 onwards opens up for us so it's case of hanging in there until then.
* Only play Geel, Coll, Haw once and avoid a trip to Perth to play the Eagles.
* A major upset against the Pies could be a great birthday present 

Cons:
* Hello first five or six rounds  . Season defining then and then.
* 6 weeks in the middle of the season we disappear from home and from FTA TV
* Two 6 days breaks after travelling interstate 
* Playing Geelong at Kardinia Park again 

[mightytiges]

Sabartooth, you should send the bill for your fixture services to AFL House  .

[FNM]

Connolly's rating:

http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/collingwood-faces-tough-2012-draw-20111028-1mmuo.html


Collingwood faces tough 2012 draw Scott Spits
October 28, 2011 - 10:15AM
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Dale Thomas soars for Collingwood during the 2011 AFL season.

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Collingwood faces one of the toughest assignments in next year’s AFL fixture, playing two matches against the four other clubs that made up the league’s top five in 2011.

As the league expands to an 18-team competition with the inclusion of the Greater Western Sydney Giants, clubs will play only five other teams twice during their 22 games of the home-and-away competition.

Along with facing five trips interstate – including a clash against West Coast at Patersons Stadium in the penultimate round – the Magpies also clash with Essendon twice.

GWS’s debut season will see the expansion club play at 12 different venues next year, including home games at ANZ Stadium, Canberra’s Manuka Oval, the new Skoda Stadium at Homebush Bay and a one-off game at Blacktown against the West Coast Eagles.

Remarkably, the Giants will also feature in the first home-and-away game at Hobart’s Blundstone Arena (Bellerive Oval), taking on North Melbourne in round two. That means GWS will feature in the three venues to host AFL matches for the first time next season: Hobart, Skoda Stadium and the boutique 10,000-capacity venue at Blacktown.

Five clubs – North Melbourne, Melbourne, Gold Coast Suns, Adelaide and the Sydney Swans – will have the bonus of playing the expansion club on two occasions in 2012.

The Kangaroos appear to be one of the big winners after the AFL’s fixture release as they are one of only two clubs – along with Adelaide – to play both the Giants and the Suns twice next season.

North Melbourne, which finished ninth and thus avoided too many games against finals teams, also plays two games against the Western Bulldogs, fourth-placed West Coast and finalist Essendon.

In contrast, Richmond and the Bulldogs clash with GWS and Gold Coast only one time.

The Sydney Swans are the only finalist to clash with the Giants twice due to the AFL requirement that two derbies are played in NSW, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia each season.

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[cub]

Looks pretty good after a quick 2 minute look - 6 Saturday arvos 4 at the G getting there.