Let's win those & see what the salty brigade come up withWe play GWS, Brisbane and Geelong in a row from R7-9, and also Collingwood and West Coast before then, so 5 probable finalists in the first 9 rounds.
Let's win those & see what the salty brigade come up withWe play GWS, Brisbane and Geelong in a row from R7-9, and also Collingwood and West Coast before then, so 5 probable finalists in the first 9 rounds.
This time last yr the double ups for this yr looked a lot tougher than they were. We won't know how tough the draw is till post H&A next yr. We'll just have to keep being better than anyone else & we'll be fine.2019 we played Carl, Coll, GWS, Melb and Port twice.
2020 we play Carl, Coll, GWS, WC and Adelaide twice.
Looks slightly harder on paper, but not much in it.
West coast away is tougher, and Carlton should improve.
My only concern is the run home, completely different to this year when we paced ourselves against the better sides, next year we will probably come home strong but we are playing a lot of teams you wouldn't expect to make the 8 in the final 6 or 7 rounds.
Overall the draw is fine, thought they would play a GF rematch a bit earlier in the season (particularly if it was in Sydney) but I guess the AFL think they've done that with the Wagga pre-season match.
And then all the home finals at the G, I can live with that.Steve hocking weaving his magic for his mate Scotty,
5 out of last 6 at the shiithole.
WC | 6.2 |
GWS | 6.8 |
Coll | 7.0 |
Geel | 7.2 |
Haw | 8.0 |
NM | 8.4 |
Rich | 8.4 |
Bris | 8.8 |
Port | 10.0 |
Ess | 10.0 |
Carl | 10.2 |
Adel | 10.4 |
Syd | 11.4 |
WB | 11.4 |
GC | 11.4 |
Stk | 11.6 |
Mel | 12.0 |
Freo | 12.2 |
14 at the MCG. 6 interstate. 5 in a row at the MCG mid-season (7 out of 8 from R6). I'm gonna be misisng at least 3 home games.
And the "Home" game we play there is not against one of the tenants of the dump. Never made sense to me why we played our home game at North or ST Kilda's home ground.Draw is fine - we can play well anywhere now. Best feature to me is only 2 games at Marvel Stadium. Plus accessible Interstate games outside of the WA one's.
The below analysis is order by degree of difficulty based on who each team is playing twice (based on 2019 home and away finishing positions)
For example, the teams that Richmond play twice in 2020, their average ladder position on 2019 was 8th (8.4).
WC 6.2GWS 6.8Coll 7.0Geel 7.2Haw 8.0NM 8.4Rich 8.4Bris 8.8Port 10.0Ess 10.0Carl 10.2Adel 10.4Syd 11.4WB 11.4GC 11.4Stk 11.6Mel 12.0Freo 12.2
Richmond draw looks pretty good in this light, particularly compared to the main contenders.
WB an easy one - teams played twice are GWS, Port, NM, Freo, Carl.
The below analysis is order by degree of difficulty based on who each team is playing twice (based on 2019 home and away finishing positions)
For example, the teams that Richmond play twice in 2020, their average ladder position on 2019 was 8th (8.4).
WC 6.2GWS 6.8Coll 7.0Geel 7.2Haw 8.0NM 8.4Rich 8.4Bris 8.8Port 10.0Ess 10.0Carl 10.2Adel 10.4Syd 11.4WB 11.4GC 11.4Stk 11.6Mel 12.0Freo 12.2
Richmond draw looks pretty good in this light, particularly compared to the main contenders.
WB an easy one - teams played twice are GWS, Port, NM, Freo, Carl.
Gee Port Adelaides new logo is ****. Who came up with that? Looks too similar to Freos also.
they'll forget all about that and whine about our "soft" finish to the season.Let's win those & see what the salty brigade come up with