Looking forward to 2024

[stevoswan]

Pretty brutal draw for a team that came 8th

According to this article: Fixture breakdown: Double-ups, byes, degree of difficulty, more

it's the 3rd toughest fixture.....mmmm. Following the toughest 2023 fixture after being runners up.....mmmm.

We don't get any favours do we?

[Thunder Shaker]

According to this article: Fixture breakdown: Double-ups, byes, degree of difficulty, more

it's the 3rd toughest fixture.....mmmm. Following the toughest 2023 fixture after being runners up.....mmmm.

We don't get any favours do we?

If you want to be the best, first you have to beat the best.

The AFL is giving us plenty of opportunities to do that.

If we're good enough, we will beat anyone, anywhere.

And if not? We will get better draft picks in 2024 due to the hard fixture.

[Mark26]

I like that we play at the MCG a few times early on. The more time we play there, the better.

[707]

Sydney plays Adelaide twice in a season for the first time since 2005.

Omen :-)

[Maltopia]

Draw looks relatively similar to last year.

We play these teams twice:

Premiers (Pies instead of Geelong)
Fremantle (again)
Essendon (usually these guys and/or St Kilda)
GWS (derby)
Bulldogs
Adelaide

Five other home games: Geelong, our bogey team the Suns. Melbourne, Carlton, North Melbourne

Six other away games vs Port, Brisbane, St Kilda, West Coast (in Adelaide Hills), Richmond, Hawks (but not in Tasmania)

[KTigers]

Sydney plays Adelaide twice in a season for the first time since 2005.

Well, it's decided then, Sydney Are Premiers !

No need to play this season at all.

[KTigers]

A bit of angst here in Melbourne about Round 1, 2024 featuring 4 games only and - shock, horror - none of those games are in Melbourne! .

And just as they were finally getting over not having the GF at the MCG for a couple years. Back down into the
hell of injustice and personal trauma they go....

[Maltopia]

A bit of angst here in Melbourne about Round 1, 2024 featuring 4 games only and - shock, horror - none of those games are in Melbourne!

A lot of people still don't seem to know what the A in AFL stands for.

Technically, Round 1 has plenty of games in Melbourne.

The four games in NSW and QLD to start things off are part of a new “Opening Round” before Round 1.

[KSAS]

5 games in Melbourne by my count (3 at MCG and 2 at Marvel). Like that split, even though we used to get a minimum of 6 Vic games, but it usually included playing down at the Cattery.

[KSAS]

Correction we do play 6 games in Melbourne (i can' count!!!). Split evenly between MCG & Marvel.

[KSAS]

Angus Sheldrick is a smokey at $51 to win the Rising Star next year.

Ranking the main contenders for the 2024 Rising Star award

[dejavoodoo44]

The AFL site has an article, on what they think the fans of each club would most want for the upcoming season. In it, they speculate that our biggest wish is for Sam Reid to remain fit and get back to the role he played in 2022.

All I want for Christmas is... every club's 2024 wishlist - All I want for Christmas is... every club's 2024 wishlist

I'm not sure if that's right? If they're talking about the tall forward/back up ruck role, I thought McLean performed that role very well last season, so I hope he continues to develop that this season. And while we're talking tall forwards, perhaps my major wish for the season, is for McDonald to go from heir apparent to genuine star. Amartey staying injury free and stepping up would also be nice. So, while I recognise that Reid has played some excellent games when fit, I'm currently thinking that he should probably play a bit of VFL, to make sure his body right, and only come into the side, if one of the younger key forwards lose form or get injured.

At the other end of the ground, I have another strong wish or two. That is, for Tom McCartin to stay injury free and for one of our other key defenders to step up, so a Ted Richards and Heath Grundy defensive partnership can develop.

[wolftone57]

This is crap as far as I'm concerned. Reid, while a good player, has been missing for so long everyone is calling Laura Ashley. He is 32 on the 27th December. I think it pretty irrelevant to the future whether he comes back or not.

All I want for Christmas is... every club's 2024 wishlist

[707]

A fit Reid is genuinely a very good player.

Barring a bad run of injuries, the VFL side should be very strong, this assists player development, as well as maybe winning more which is always nice :-)

[liz]

A fit Reid is genuinely a very good player.

Barring a bad run of injuries, the VFL side should be very strong, this assists player development, as well as maybe winning more which is always nice :-)

He is, and could be important to us making a challenge this year.

But I can think of a dozen or so items closer to the top of my new year wish list - like Campbell absorbing the self-belief from his mate Errol, McDonald's star shining brightly now that it is no longer in the Franklin shadow, Grundy recapturing AA form, McCartin taking over the mantle of "best key defender in Sydney" from Taylor down the road etc etc.