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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6

First Qualifying Final, 7:20pm at MCG

Richmond v Hawthorn

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7

First Elimination Final, 7:50pm at MCG

Melbourne v Geelong Cats

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8

Second Elimination Final, 4:20pm at SCG

Sydney Swans v GWS Giants

Second Qualifying Final, 8:10pm at Optus Stadium

West Coast Eagles v Collingwood

Haw def Rich
WCE def Pies
Melb def Geel
GWS def Syd

Rich def Melb
Coll def GWS

Haw def Coll
WCE def Rich

Hawks premiers
There you have it, probably no need to play the games just get Roughy up on the dias now!!!

Love your confidence Daisy lol.
If there's one team that could knock off Richmond it will be the Hawks I reckon. The master tactician must be working overtime at the moment on ways he could possibly dismantle the Tigers, Clarko must have some tricks up his sleeve. I'll be watching Thursday night with great interest.

Geelongs record post bye is shocking. 7 losses in a row i think. Add to that the Richmond first final last year and im not confident going into the first week vs melbourne on the back of the pre finals bye.

Bandit wrote:Geelongs record post bye is shocking. 7 losses in a row i think. Add to that the Richmond first final last year and im not confident going into the first week vs melbourne on the back of the pre finals bye.

We win.

daysofourlives wrote:Haw def Rich
WCE def Pies
Melb def Geel
GWS def Syd

Rich def Melb
Coll def GWS

Haw def Coll
WCE def Rich

Hawks premiers
There you have it, probably no need to play the games just get Roughy up on the dias now!!!

you snuck over the line versus a very depleted swans side... You won't beat richmond

Wedgie wrote:THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6

First Qualifying Final, 7:20pm at MCG

Richmond v Hawthorn

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7

First Elimination Final, 7:50pm at MCG

Melbourne v Geelong Cats

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8

Second Elimination Final, 4:20pm at SCG

Sydney Swans v GWS Giants

Second Qualifying Final, 8:10pm at Optus Stadium

West Coast Eagles v Collingwood

So Collingwood lose to WCE & they dont get back to Melbourne until Sunday where as the winner of Syd & GWS don't have to travel anywhere and get an extra days rest essentially than a Collingwood who have the double chance. Not sure why they have gone with the Thursday night game. Play the 2 qualifying finals on Fri & Sat night & the elimination finals Sat & Sun Arvo like it used to be.

bertiebeatle wrote:

Wedgie wrote:THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6

First Qualifying Final, 7:20pm at MCG

Richmond v Hawthorn

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7

First Elimination Final, 7:50pm at MCG

Melbourne v Geelong Cats

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8

Second Elimination Final, 4:20pm at SCG

Sydney Swans v GWS Giants

Second Qualifying Final, 8:10pm at Optus Stadium

West Coast Eagles v Collingwood

So Collingwood lose to WCE & they dont get back to Melbourne until Sunday where as the winner of Syd & GWS don't have to travel anywhere and get an extra days rest essentially than a Collingwood who have the double chance. Not sure why they have gone with the Thursday night game. Play the 2 qualifying finals on Fri & Sat night & the elimination finals Sat & Sun Arvo like it used to be.

TV $$$$

Almost unbelievably, this will be the first time Richmond and Hawthorn have played a Final against each other.

bertiebeatle wrote:So Collingwood lose to WCE & they dont get back to Melbourne until Sunday where as the winner of Syd & GWS don't have to travel anywhere and get an extra days rest essentially than a Collingwood who have the double chance.

Or Collingwood could just win & have the week off.

Spargo wrote:

bertiebeatle wrote:So Collingwood lose to WCE & they dont get back to Melbourne until Sunday where as the winner of Syd & GWS don't have to travel anywhere and get an extra days rest essentially than a Collingwood who have the double chance.

Or Collingwood could just win & have the week off.

You reckon the AFL wouldn't love that, as they would then be on the Rich/Hawks/Melb/Geelong side of the draw

bertiebeatle wrote:

Wedgie wrote:THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6

First Qualifying Final, 7:20pm at MCG

Richmond v Hawthorn

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7

First Elimination Final, 7:50pm at MCG

Melbourne v Geelong Cats

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8

Second Elimination Final, 4:20pm at SCG

Sydney Swans v GWS Giants

Second Qualifying Final, 8:10pm at Optus Stadium

West Coast Eagles v Collingwood

So Collingwood lose to WCE & they dont get back to Melbourne until Sunday where as the winner of Syd & GWS don't have to travel anywhere and get an extra days rest essentially than a Collingwood who have the double chance. Not sure why they have gone with the Thursday night game. Play the 2 qualifying finals on Fri & Sat night & the elimination finals Sat & Sun Arvo like it used to be.

Also, instead of having the Sydney game start at the stupid time of 4.20 (local time), have the Perth game as the 'twilight' game (i.e. 2.20 Perth time) and the Sydney game at 7.50 or whatever. Please no twilight games, they suck.

bertiebeatle wrote:So Collingwood lose to WCE & they dont get back to Melbourne until Sunday where as the winner of Syd & GWS don't have to travel anywhere and get an extra days rest essentially than a Collingwood who have the double chance. Not sure why they have gone with the Thursday night game. Play the 2 qualifying finals on Fri & Sat night & the elimination finals Sat & Sun Arvo like it used to be.

Yeah, I don't get it either, surely there's enough time over the weekend to fit in 4 big games.

You watch all the "Home & Away" nuffies write in to the TV Guide "Dear Ed's".

Jacob Townsend fractured his ankle on the weekend and Richmond have ruled him out of action until next season.

4 games in the first week.

2 games in the next.

2 games in the next.

Richmond beat someone who won two games in the first 3 weeks.

bertiebeatle wrote:So Collingwood lose to WCE & they dont get back to Melbourne until Sunday where as the winner of Syd & GWS don't have to travel anywhere and get an extra days rest essentially than a Collingwood who have the double chance. Not sure why they have gone with the Thursday night game. Play the 2 qualifying finals on Fri & Sat night & the elimination finals Sat & Sun Arvo like it used to be.

They won't play Sunday round 1 as then they only get a 6 day break heading into the Saturday night Semi Final.

The AFL were always going to play the 4 games Thursday-Saturday so every team gets a minimum 7 day break leading into week 2.

Ideally the Perth game would have been earlier in the mix, but they can't do a 4pm perth game on a weekday so it forced it to Saturday already, meaning flying home on Sunday was always on the cards for the Pies.

Pies can just win and not worry about it, which I think they will do.

Armchair expert wrote:Pies can just win and not worry about it, which I think they will do.

If Kennedy and Darling are up and about, don't think Collingwood have any defenders left to match them. An ex basketball player who has played a handful of games will be standing one of them, good luck!

They were ordinary against Dockers, and although they keep surprising me this year, I think this is easiest game of first week of finals to pick.

Eagles2014 wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:Pies can just win and not worry about it, which I think they will do.

If Kennedy and Darling are up and about, don't think Collingwood have any defenders left to match them. An ex basketball player who has played a handful of games will be standing one of them, good luck!

They were ordinary against Dockers, and although they keep surprising me this year, I think this is easiest game of first week of finals to pick.

Agree, WCE present the worst match up for us

any one else hate how there is a bye week???