2017 Fixture

[boncer34]

1 Saturday, March 25 Hawthorn MCG Home 7.25pm Seven
2 Saturday, April 1 Brisbane Lions The Gabba Away 6.25pm Seven
3 Sunday, April 9 Carlton MCG Away 3.20pm Seven
4 Saturday, April 15 Adelaide Crows Adelaide Oval Away 7.10pm Seven
5 Tuesday, April 25 Collingwood MCG Home 3.20pm Seven
6 Sunday, April 30 Melbourne Etihad Stadium Home 1.10pm Foxtel
7 Sunday, May 7 Fremantle Domain Stadium Away 2.40pm Foxtel
8 Saturday, May 13 Geelong Cats MCG Home 7.25pm Seven
9 Sunday, May 21 West Coast Eagles Etihad Stadium Home 1.10pm Foxtel
10 Saturday, May 27 Richmond MCG Away 7.25pm Seven
11 Saturday, June 3 GWS GIANTS Spotless Stadium Away 4.35pm Foxtel
12 Saturday, June 10 Port Adelaide Etihad Stadium Home 7.25pm Seven
13 Bye
14 Friday, June 23 Sydney Swans SCG Away 7.50pm Seven
15 Sunday, July 2 Brisbane Lions Etihad Stadium Home 1.10pm Foxtel
16 Saturday, July 8 Collingwood MCG Away 2.10pm Foxtel
17 Friday, July 14 St Kilda Etihad Stadium Away 7.50pm Seven
18 Saturday, July 22 North Melbourne Etihad Stadium Home 1.45pm Foxtel
19 Sunday, July 30 Western Bulldogs Etihad Stadium Away 1.10pm Foxtel
20 Saturday, August 5 Carlton MCG Home 2.10pm Foxtel
21 Saturday, August 12 Adelaide Crows Etihad Stadium Home 7.25pm Seven
22 Saturday, August 19 Gold Coast SUNS Metricon Stadium Away 7.25pm Foxtel
23 TBC Fremantle Etihad Stadium Home TBC TBC

Brisbane, Collingwood, Adelaide, Carlton, Fremantle twice.

2 Friday nights, 8 Saturday nights.

11 free to air

End the season with a home game against Freo.

Only on the road twice from round 12 to 23 (SYD and GCS). At GWS in round 11 though too.

Travel 6 times but only once to WA (against Freo).

Very very happy.

Thoughts?

[F111]

Travel weekends to consider...
Lions at the Gabba, rd 2 April 1
Crows at Adelaide Oval, rd 4 April 15
Dockers at Domain Stadium, rd 7 May 7
Giants at Spotless Stadium. rd 11 June 3
Sydney at the SCG, rd 14 June 23
Gold Coast at Metricon, rd 22 Aug 19

I'd prefer the Lions more mid season...warmer weather for a few days is always nice mid winter.

MCG 7 games, Donlands 9 games...would prefer more then less..

Six Sunday games , but none twilight

[BenDoolan]

Not complaining. However, this unbelievable Sydney in Sydney shit is doing my head in. I've lost count the amount of games we've played them up there compared to down here since 2000. It really does PISS ME OFF.

[BERT]

Travel weekends to consider...
Lions at the Gabba, rd 2 April 1
Crows at Adelaide Oval, rd 4 April 15
Dockers at Domain Stadium, rd 7 May 7
Giants at Spotless Stadium. rd 11 June 3
Sydney at the SCG, rd 14 June 23
Gold Coast at Metricon, rd 22 Aug 19

I'd prefer the Lions more mid season...warmer weather for a few days is always nice mid winter.

MCG 7 games, Donlands 9 games...would prefer more then less..

Six Sunday games , but none twilight

Adelaide game is Easter weekend.

[BERT]

Not complaining. However, this unbelievable Sydney in Sydney shit is doing my head in. I've lost count the amount of games we've played them up there compared to down here since 2000. It really does PISS ME OFF.

We play Freo here for the first time in many years. I reckon McPhee was playing for them the last time the played us here.

[Crazyman]

Not complaining. However, this unbelievable Sydney in Sydney shit is doing my head in. I've lost count the amount of games we've played them up there compared to down here since 2000. It really does PISS ME OFF.

Still, at least us Sydney ppl can get to see at least 2 games...

[boncer34]

Not complaining. However, this unbelievable Sydney in Sydney shit is doing my head in. I've lost count the amount of games we've played them up there compared to down here since 2000. It really does PISS ME OFF.

One of the perks of being us unfortunately
We draw crowds.

[BenDoolan]

Not complaining. However, this unbelievable Sydney in Sydney shit is doing my head in. I've lost count the amount of games we've played them up there compared to down here since 2000. It really does PISS ME OFF.

One of the perks of being us unfortunately
We draw crowds.

If that's the AFL explanation, I'd like to present them this;

Crowds Essendon v Sydney

2005: Venue Syd 31K, Venue Mel 41K

2006: Venue Mel 45K, Venue Syd 25

2007: Venue Syd 26K

2008: Venue Syd 38K

2009: Venue Syd 31K

2010: Venue Syd 29K

2011: Venue Syd 28K, Venue Mel: 38K

2012: Venue Mel 42K

2013: Venue Syd 29K

2014: Venue Mel 42K, Venue Syd 36K

2015: Venue Syd 23K

2016: Venue Syd 29K

They've never cracked the 40K mark up there. We cracked it 4 of the 5 times we've played them in Melbourne (in the sample above)

[boncer34]

Not complaining. However, this unbelievable Sydney in Sydney shit is doing my head in. I've lost count the amount of games we've played them up there compared to down here since 2000. It really does PISS ME OFF.

One of the perks of being us unfortunately
We draw crowds.

If that's the AFL explanation, I'd like to present them this;

Crowds Essendon v Sydney

2005: Venue Syd 31K, Venue Mel 41K

2006: Venue Mel 45K, Venue Syd 25

2007: Venue Syd 26K

2008: Venue Syd 38K

2009: Venue Syd 31K

2010: Venue Syd 29K

2011: Venue Syd 28K, Venue Mel: 38K

2012: Venue Mel 42K

2013: Venue Syd 29K

2014: Venue Mel 42K, Venue Syd 36K

2015: Venue Syd 23K

2016: Venue Syd 29K

They've never cracked the 40K mark up there. We cracked it 4 of the 5 times we've played them in Melbourne (in the sample above)

What's our crowds in Melbourne got to do with the point I made?

We get sent there because we'll draw more then if they send the smaller clubs.

[BenDoolan]

Not complaining. However, this unbelievable Sydney in Sydney shit is doing my head in. I've lost count the amount of games we've played them up there compared to down here since 2000. It really does PISS ME OFF.

One of the perks of being us unfortunately
We draw crowds.

If that's the AFL explanation, I'd like to present them this;

Crowds Essendon v Sydney

2005: Venue Syd 31K, Venue Mel 41K

2006: Venue Mel 45K, Venue Syd 25

2007: Venue Syd 26K

2008: Venue Syd 38K

2009: Venue Syd 31K

2010: Venue Syd 29K

2011: Venue Syd 28K, Venue Mel: 38K

2012: Venue Mel 42K

2013: Venue Syd 29K

2014: Venue Mel 42K, Venue Syd 36K

2015: Venue Syd 23K

2016: Venue Syd 29K

They've never cracked the 40K mark up there. We cracked it 4 of the 5 times we've played them in Melbourne (in the sample above)

What's our crowds in Melbourne got to do with the point I made?

We get sent there because we'll draw more then if they send the smaller clubs.

Well der Fred.

I wonder what the schedule for other 'high crowd pulling' club bs are like over the same journey.

Plus, I just quickly checked 10 years ago (2006) crowd numbers for other "smaller clubs" up in Sydney that season. Melbourne, St. Kilda, North Melbourne and Geelong all pulled bigger crowds up in Sydney than us. Not going to bother checking other seasons as we have been pretty crap for over a decade...

[boncer34]

Not complaining. However, this unbelievable Sydney in Sydney shit is doing my head in. I've lost count the amount of games we've played them up there compared to down here since 2000. It really does PISS ME OFF.

One of the perks of being us unfortunately
We draw crowds.

If that's the AFL explanation, I'd like to present them this;

Crowds Essendon v Sydney

2005: Venue Syd 31K, Venue Mel 41K

2006: Venue Mel 45K, Venue Syd 25

2007: Venue Syd 26K

2008: Venue Syd 38K

2009: Venue Syd 31K

2010: Venue Syd 29K

2011: Venue Syd 28K, Venue Mel: 38K

2012: Venue Mel 42K

2013: Venue Syd 29K

2014: Venue Mel 42K, Venue Syd 36K

2015: Venue Syd 23K

2016: Venue Syd 29K

They've never cracked the 40K mark up there. We cracked it 4 of the 5 times we've played them in Melbourne (in the sample above)

What's our crowds in Melbourne got to do with the point I made?

We get sent there because we'll draw more then if they send the smaller clubs.

Well der Fred.

I wonder what the schedule for other 'high crowd pulling' club bs are like over the same journey.

Plus, I just quickly checked 10 years ago (2006) crowd numbers for other "smaller clubs" up in Sydney that season. Melbourne, St. Kilda, North Melbourne and Geelong all pulled bigger crowds up in Sydney than us. Not going to bother checking other seasons as we have been pretty crap for over a decade...

Benny I still have no idea what our crowds in Melbourne have to do with my point

[Windy_Hill]

I think his point is simply if the AFL was only interested in cold numbers then there would be no argument that more Syd v Ess games would be played in Melb

In my opinion, its probably a case os Sydney actually requesting home games against Ess, Car, Col to deal with sponsor and fan perception that they are one of the "big teams"

Irony of course is that Ess, Col and Car largely stink and have done so for some time

[BenDoolan]

Benny I still have no idea what our crowds in Melbourne have to do with my point

The point is, Essendon v Sydney draws a bigger crowd in Melbourne than it does in Sydney. So if they're concerned about crowd numbers, play it here more often than there :-"

And your other point - we draw bigger crowds for them in Sydney than other "smaller clubs" seems a bit false.

[boncer34]

Benny I still have no idea what our crowds in Melbourne have to do with my point

The point is, Essendon v Sydney draws a bigger crowd in Melbourne than it does in Sydney. So if they're concerned about crowd numbers, play it here more often than there :-"

And your other point - we draw bigger crowds for them in Sydney than other "smaller clubs" seems a bit false.

Its not about crowd numbers in Melbourne though we'll get a big turnout no matter who plays.

Its about crowd numbers in Sydney. That was my point.

And in the last 20 years we're their 3rd highest draw card in Sydney behind only Collingwood and West Coast so mah mate. Its not false.

[BenDoolan]

Benny I still have no idea what our crowds in Melbourne have to do with my point

The point is, Essendon v Sydney draws a bigger crowd in Melbourne than it does in Sydney. So if they're concerned about crowd numbers, play it here more often than there :-"

And your other point - we draw bigger crowds for them in Sydney than other "smaller clubs" seems a bit false.

Its not about crowd numbers in Melbourne though we'll get a big turnout no matter who plays.

Its about crowd numbers in Sydney. That was my point.

And in the last 20 years we're their 3rd highest draw card in Sydney behind only Collingwood and West Coast so mah mate. Its not false.

Ok, I'LOL check myself.

I already know that over the last 10 times we've played in Sydney, we've averaged a crowd of 29.4K.

I'll check the others...

[boncer34]

http://afltables.com/afl/crowds/swans.html#0a

8th table down says since 97 .

We go North more then others because we boost crowd figures in the non traditional markets.

[BenDoolan]

http://afltables.com/afl/crowds/swans.html#0a

8th table down says since 97 .

We go North more then others because we boost crowd figures in the non traditional markets.

The sample is too big. You need to break it down by decade. I'll wear that we drew more crowds up in Sydney because we were great in the 90's to early 2000's. It would stand to reason why we'd play more games up there in that period. But the last decade has been scheizenhausen, and so have our crowds up in Sydney compared to others.

I just checked Geelong's last 10 years up there and they've averaged a crowd of 32.8K compared to our 29.4K. So that's another club to add to Collingwood and West Coast above us. I'll keep checking...

[grassy1]

Prick Koch,got his way with the China Fixture.

Ended up being Gold Coast selling one of their Home Games to Power.

It's what happens,when the Ablett Drawcard doesn't drag 'Em through the gates,the way they hoped.

Ablett must been thinking lately," Why the f*** did I even bother?!"

[boncer34]

http://afltables.com/afl/crowds/swans.html#0a

8th table down says since 97 .

We go North more then others because we boost crowd figures in the non traditional markets.

The sample is too big. You need to break it down by decade. I'll wear that we drew more crowds up in Sydney because we were great in the 90's to early 2000's. It would stand to reason why we'd play more games up there in that period. But the last decade has been scheizenhausen, and so have our crowds up in Sydney compared to others.

I just checked Geelong's last 10 years up there and they've averaged a crowd of 32.8K compared to our 29.4K. So that's another club to add to Collingwood and West Coast above us. I'll keep checking...

Benny that sample isn't to big as it demonstrates what happens when teams are flying AND when they're down.

Last 10 years Geelong have had huge bandwagon fans and they only get 3k more? :Lol: You've just cherry picked their most successful period and they've barely beaten us.

Mate you do realize you're making the argument we aren't one of the biggest clubs in Australia here?

[Crazyman]

Prick Koch,got his way with the China Fixture.

Ended up being Gold Coast selling one of their Home Games to Power.

It's what happens,when the Ablett Drawcard doesn't drag 'Em through the gates,the way they hoped.

Ablett must been thinking lately," Why the f*** did I even bother?!"

Like O'Meara & Prestia, he has barely set foot on the field and when he has, it has shown how match unready he was coming back from his injuries...
Can't pull a crowd when you don't play and your team is going shit because you have so many injuries...
That said I still think the Giants recruited more wisely...