2020 Fixture

[one-eyed]

Full Round 7 fixture revealed

By SEN
25 June 2020

SEN Chief Sports Reporter Sam Edmund has exclusively revealed the full Round 7 fixture.

Thursday July 16

Hawthorn v Essendon at Marvel Stadium (7:40pm AEST))

Friday July 17

Geelong v Collingwood at Optus Stadium (8:10pm AEST)

Saturday July 18

Sydney v Brisbane at SCG (1:45pm AEST)
Melbourne v Western Bulldogs at the MCG (4:35pm AEST)
Gold Coast v Carlton at Metricon Stadium (7:40pm AEST)
North Melbourne v Adelaide at Marvel Stadium (7:40pm AEST)

Sunday July 19

St Kilda v Port Adelaide at Marvel Stadium (1:05pm AEST)
Richmond v GWS Giants at MCG (3:35pm AEST)
Fremantle v West Coast at Optus Stadium (8:35pm AEST)

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/06/25/full-round-7-fixture-revealed/

[cub]

Is just  forget I’m over it
Not complaining, it’s just a joke
And just to pee a few lefties in here off.
If Richmond are going to flog poo through the superstore
FFS can you keep the women’s stuff totally seperate 
Yeah yeah bla bla no one gives a crap but a small minority

[mightytiges]

Just two of the first six rounds at home. So, including round 7, six of our final 11 H/A matches will need to be home games and we won't be travelling to Perth. Waits for Kane Cornes to sulk again about our cushy run home  .

Is just  forget I’m over it
Not complaining, it’s just a joke
And just to pee a few lefties in here off.
If Richmond are going to flog poo through the superstore
FFS can you keep the women’s stuff totally seperate 
Yeah yeah bla bla no one gives a crap but a small minority

We know you're no fan of it cub and that's your prerogative but there is a reason why the AFLW won't have to make any cuts.

The AFL Women’s competition is watched by 2.78 million Australians and is the only form of AFL competition to increase its TV viewership compared to a year ago.

https://www.bandt.com.au/study-the-afl-still-trumps-the-nrl-for-tv-eyeballs-but-more-men-than-women-now-watching-womens-footy/

[Francois Jackson]

just two of the first six rounds at home. So, including round 7, six of our final 11 H/A matches will need to be home games and we won't be travelling to Perth. Waits for Kane Cornes to sulk again about our cushy run home 

Correct me if im wrong but who says we need to play x amount of games at the G. Arent all ground rights thrown out the window?

also why cant we cant play freo over there?

[WilliamPowell]

Correct me if im wrong but who says we need to play x amount of games at the G. Arent all ground rights thrown out the window?

also why cant we cant play freo over there?

We're not yet going to Perth because we are going to Brissie next week

And yep about the grounds... that's why the Pies & geelong are playing "a home game" over there - not sure which team it has been designated as the home team

[one-eyed]

Ch 7 tonight mentioned that clubs may have to double up playing some other clubs twice while not playing others at all to complete the season.

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Victorian clubs are looking increasingly likely to be sent to hubs.

AFL fixture boss Travis Auld told Sportsday it meant it was “certainly a probability” that Victorian clubs would now be spending more time on the road.

https://www.3aw.com.au/hubs-certainly-a-probability-for-victorian-clubs-now-afl-concedes/

[Andyy]

Ch 7 tonight mentioned that clubs may have to double up playing some other clubs twice while not playing others at all to complete the season.

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Victorian clubs are looking increasingly likely to be sent to hubs.

AFL fixture boss Travis Auld told Sportsday it meant it was “certainly a probability” that Victorian clubs would now be spending more time on the road.

https://www.3aw.com.au/hubs-certainly-a-probability-for-victorian-clubs-now-afl-concedes/

Not a season of proper integrity is it then?

Just a BS season...

[Francois Jackson]

hahaha please make that happen.

Would be an absolute crack up, though not all that surprising.

[Diocletian]

Season will eventually be cancelled - until then, just play the kids, nothing to lose but draft position...

[one-eyed]

Sam McClure on Footy Classified reckons the AFL is working on having hubs around the country including in Darwin and Vic clubs will be paired off to each hub. He also said the fixture from now on will be released weekly.

[one-eyed]

The AFL will redraw the fixture for rounds six and seven after the South Australian government decided to keep its border closed to Victoria.

The SA government's call has further narrowed the league's options and ensured that Victorian teams will be playing on the road in those weeks and beyond.

The AFL also indicated that Victorian teams that went on the road to meet quarantine rules would not necessarily be in "hubs", though they would likely stay in one location for at least two weeks.

A revised round six draw should be released later this week.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-fixture-to-be-redrawn-after-sa-border-decision-20200630-p557l8.html

[Rampsation]

We should have gone to darwin a couple of weeks ago. Good opportunity to win the darwin market? Get our players into a warmer environment out of melbournes winter and give the players the chance to reconnect as teammates.

[one-eyed]

The upshot is that the Victorian clubs are all set for extended stints in interstate hubs. Whie the AFL is yet to confirm where the respective clubs will head, club and industry sources indicated that the Western Bulldogs were expecting to join Geelong and Collingwood in Western Australia, Hawthorn and Essendon are tipped to head to the Gold Coast, and Melbourne is favoured to head to NSW. Manly, Coogee and Wollongong have been slated by industry sources as possible locations for the NSW hubs.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-briefing-clubs-ahead-of-victorian-exodus-20200702-p558b8.html

Based on this, we're likely heading to either SA, NSW or Darwin.

[one-eyed]

The Western Bulldogs are likely to join Geelong, Collingwood, Fremantle and West Coast in Perth. But an odd number makes no sense, so another team will need to join them.

Sydney is expected to house Gold Coast, GWS, the Swans, St Kilda and potentially North Melbourne and Melbourne. The latter two teams could spend a short time in NSW before heading north to Queensland, where they wouldn’t have to quarantine because by then they would have been outside of Victoria for 14 days.

Richmond and Carlton’s future is less clear, while Adelaide, Port Adelaide and Brisbane are no certainty to be in their home states for the initial block of games.

Hawthorn and Essendon have been tipped to head to Gold Coast, where they would need to quarantine for 14 days. If given the tick of approval like the WA government gave the AFL, the Hawks and Bombers could play against each other while quarantining.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/live-afls-fixture-mess-laid-bare-and-why-a-bye-weekend-makes-sense/news-story/002a8fc3c667f2089154ea6969ed345f

[one-eyed]

AFL clubs have been asked for feedback on the possibility of cramming extra matches into the next six weeks of fixturing.

While rounds six and seven of the 2020 AFL season will stand as fixtured, the ensuing weeks are expected to look very different as the AFL and its clubs continue to respond to the heightened uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The cramming of matches inside that timeframe would present massive challenges for all aspects of the AFL industry, particularly players, coaches and broadcasters, and feedback from all facets was sought out of Wednesday's meeting with the club bosses.

The clubs, while apprehensive about the possibilities of asking players to endure shorter breaks, have indicated initial conditional support to the potential changes.

Upon completion of the matches jammed into the next five or six weeks, consideration will be given to a period of AFL shutdown to allow clubs to re-set for the run into finals.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/462797/fixture-cram-afl-looks-at-extra-games-in-next-six-weeks