So what are you trying to say? Surely the AFL are not corrupt?

So how many interstate trips?

Would've been more advantageous to play all the top teams twice.

Mmmm... The huge games are ok if we get a 'healthy' crowd?...
I wouldn't run my business that way.

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

Good to see someone gets it. AFL are chipping away at their own product.... PLUS they should be sh!the scared that teams with THAT many supposed members AND recent success can only muster a 'healthy' crowd....

It ain't gonnna get better ;)

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

For those complaining that we have a skewed fixture next year, that's the fault of the club hierarchy and the AFL's dependence on "traditional blockbusters". For years, we demanded 2 matches against Collingwood, Richmond, Essendon* regardless of the position of the clubs on the ladder.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

When does the draw actually get released?

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Tomorrow

Don't get what the problem is?
'Disappointing' 70k crowds still seem to me to be better than 'healthy' 60k ones

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

The hurdle clubs have to get over to actually make any coin from matches is a far greater problem than any fixturing, especially the inequality of stadium deals, and the way some teams play at some stadiums almost exclusively.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

No, for premiership points as well.
Two trips.

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I just want my old club back ... (edit) maybe I have!

Crikey!

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Agree KK...
My point was that lots of hype happening which will just undermine things in the long run. The modern blockbuster clubs aren't a solid base on which to build the game's future... Hawks included.

Bizarre fixture and priorities based on what looks good on the butcher's paper at AFL HQ rather than reality

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

With you there. They'd be better off scrapping so-called blockbuster matches, and starting the fixturing from scratch to allow all teams an even run, which would then allow big matches to develop on their own rather than be forced which is what's been happening.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Yep, one trip to Launie a year is more than enough ...

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I just want my old club back ... (edit) maybe I have!

"Blockbusters" are to the AFL as speed cameras are to state governments.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Very effective safety measures

Catch only the stupid.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Exactly, and where is the AFL support/concern for Carlton's plight that mirrors the level of interest they have in North Melbourne, Port and Brisbane for example.

Thankfully the team that won 4 games and is over 6 million in debt is there to help the AFL with their "equalisation" plans, but in return Carlton get nothing. Used as a guinea pig, rolling around and round in their cage. Carlton is weak, but we are sold the pup "it is all of their own making due to poor recruitment".

All I hope for is Carlton playing twice the bottom four teams (to mirror that weakness). Playing twice against Tasmania's Hawthorn in 2015? yeah, right. Good scheduling that one.

Playing the Swans twice?

Yeah, surely they are joking.

If Carlton is the worst team in the competition = why on earth is Carlton scheduled to play Sydney twice? Sydney has played every recent finals series and been in two recent grand finals. This mirrors the pathetic scheduling of last year.

Should have been Collingwood or Melbourne, Essendon*, Brisbane, St Kilda and Gold Coast.

Ridiculous scheduling. Yet again.