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  • Mel
    Regular in the Side
    • Jul 2005
    • 883

    #16
    Originally posted by R&WtilIDie
    No Friday nights also minimises the chance of only having a 5 day turn around from a previous weeks Sunday game. It also gives the team bit more of a routine.

    I hope we don't get any Friday nights for that reason.
    I don't think that this would be too much of a problem. Unlike the NRL, the AFL does a reasonably good job of making the timing of games quite fair to all teams.
    Life's not a spectator sport

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    • goswannie14
      Leadership Group
      • Sep 2005
      • 11166

      #17
      I thought we didn't play Friday night games because the club requested it.
      Does God believe in Atheists?

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      • mcs
        Travelling Swannie!!
        • Jul 2007
        • 8149

        #18
        I'd like to see us play a game or two on a Saturday arvo- there are no league games ever on a saturday arvo and I think you would draw a good crowd like we do on a Sunday arvo.
        I hate trying to get to Friday night matches an absolute pain traffic is shocking all the way to Sydney and then just awful when you get into Sydney proper.
        "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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        • johnno
          On the Rookie List
          • Apr 2008
          • 1102

          #19
          Dont want to sound cocky here but from where i live (Port Melbourne) it's a 10 minute drive and 5 minute walk ( I know exactley where to park) to the MCG for all games(fri night, sat afternnon, sat night, sun afternoon), and hate to rub it in, but from where I live, it's about a 10 minute walk to the Telstra dome. Not bad me thinks.

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          • johnno
            On the Rookie List
            • Apr 2008
            • 1102

            #20
            oh, I almost forgot, it is however a 45min to 1 hour drive up the highway to Geelong.

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            • cruiser
              What the frack!
              • Jul 2004
              • 6114

              #21
              Originally posted by Big Al
              The Geelong Semi was a Friday night.
              The 2005 PF against St Kilda a week later was also on a Friday night. I'm also wondering whether the 2006 QF against the Evils was played on a Friday night. But these days its only finals.
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              • annew
                Senior Player
                • Mar 2006
                • 2164

                #22
                Originally posted by Lucky Knickers
                I hope they don't - it is bloody hard to get out of work and get to either ANZ or SCG on Friday night - Sydney traffic is horrific.

                I had to bust a gut and then some to make the final agst Geelong and the one agst Freo.

                My personal preference is for Sat night/Sun games only - it's difficult to also get to a Fri night game from Sydney if you want to travel to Melbourne or other i/state venue.
                Couldn't agree more - I would hate to have the Swans play Friday nights. Too much rush!!

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                • blinddog
                  Warming the Bench
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 349

                  #23
                  I use to love the Friday nite games at the SCG - a few beers after work, roadies along the way and after a win, a big nite till dawn - bring em back. On the flip side I am 8 years older and will probably need to be in bed by 3am
                  One vege patch at a time

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                  • Missy
                    On the Rookie List
                    • Mar 2006
                    • 445

                    #24
                    Originally posted by cruiser
                    I'm also wondering whether the 2006 QF against the Evils was played on a Friday night. But these days its only finals.
                    No it was a Sat night. I remember watching the BDAFL final then going to the pub to watch the PF afterwards.

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                    • ash3
                      On the Rookie List
                      • Jan 2008
                      • 195

                      #25
                      Originally posted by royboy42
                      I also seem to remember that we have asked to not be rostered Friday nights. I don't recall any Friday games being away from Melbourne but could be wrong, and we are a big Sunday team, both for TV and for home crowds.
                      Maybe for Sydney based supporters, can't even remember the last time we got a FTA sunday game into Melbourne, we are always the Fox game.

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                      • goswannie14
                        Leadership Group
                        • Sep 2005
                        • 11166

                        #26
                        Originally posted by ash3
                        Maybe for Sydney based supporters, can't even remember the last time we got a FTA sunday game into Melbourne, we are always the Fox game.
                        Try the last time 9 amd 10 had the rights. We often have the early game, in the last rights the early and late game were both televised.
                        Does God believe in Atheists?

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                        • Seagoon
                          rover mower
                          • Jul 2008
                          • 86

                          #27
                          Friday AFL - why no Swans?

                          I am hanging for an friday night game at the SCG, Swans v someone. Why don't the Swans ever play on fri nights? Is it some AFL PR decision or something?
                          Diabolical, triabolical, quadrabolical...

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                          • eggbeater
                            Left Right Out
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 229

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Seagoon
                            I am hanging for an friday night game at the SCG, Swans v someone. Why don't the Swans ever play on fri nights? Is it some AFL PR decision or something?
                            AFL doesnt want to go against Rugby League on friday nights?

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                            • Seagoon
                              rover mower
                              • Jul 2008
                              • 86

                              #29
                              Well, it shouldnt be too much longer before we can smash the league... If the union can do it we can too. I would have thought it would be worth testing the water again if we are looking good for the finals a few weeks out...
                              Diabolical, triabolical, quadrabolical...

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