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The 2012 AFL Draw will be released today.
Early reports suggest the Crows will be the big winners. Have heard they will play GC and GWS twice. I thought the AFL said they wouldnt allow any side to play these two teams twice

edit: link to draw http://www.afl.com.au/Fixtures/tabid/10586/Default.aspx

Jim05 wrote:The 2012 AFL Draw will be released today.
Early reports suggest the Crows will be the big winners. Have heard they will play GC and GWS twice. I thought the AFL said they wouldnt allow any side to play these two teams twice

It isn't possible to not have a team play them twice.

Makes no sense, why are the Crows apparently playing both of the new entrants twice, Port is playing neither twice. At least thats the speculation.

Mr Beefy wrote:

Jim05 wrote:The 2012 AFL Draw will be released today.
Early reports suggest the Crows will be the big winners. Have heard they will play GC and GWS twice. I thought the AFL said they wouldnt allow any side to play these two teams twice

It isn't possible to not have a team play them twice.

I remember the AFL stated that if you play GWS twice you would only play GC once and vice versa.

great draw for the crows

Interesting article talking about each teams draw.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/ ... fault.aspx

Here is the full draw.

http://www.afl.com.au/portals/0/afl_doc ... cument.pdf

the crows draw

1 Saturday, March 31 Gold Coast SUNS Metricon Stadium Away 3:40pm
2 Saturday, April 7 Western Bulldogs AAMI Stadium Home 7:10pm
3 Sunday, April 15 Hawthorn MCG Away 3:15pm
4 Saturday, April 21 GWS GIANTS AAMI Stadium Home 4:10pm
5 Sunday, April 29 Port Adelaide AAMI Stadium Home 4:10pm
6 Saturday, May 5 Sydney Swans SCG Away 7:40pm
7 Saturday, May 12 Geelong Cats AAMI Stadium Home 1:15pm
8 Sunday, May 20 Carlton Etihad Stadium Away 3:15pm
9 Saturday, May 26 Collingwood AAMI Stadium Home 7:10pm
10 Saturday, June 2 Fremantle Patersons Stadium Away 2:40pm
11 Bye
12 Friday, June 15 St. Kilda AAMI Stadium Home 8:10pm
13 Sunday, June 24 North Melbourne Etihad Stadium Away 4:40pm
14 Saturday, June 30 Richmond AAMI Stadium Home 1:40pm
15 Saturday, July 7 Port Adelaide AAMI Stadium Away 7:10pm
16 Sunday, July 15 GWS GIANTS Skoda Stadium Away 1:10pm
17 Saturday, July 21 West Coast Eagles AAMI Stadium Home 1:40pm
18 Saturday, July 28 Geelong Cats Simonds Stadium Away 1:45pm
19 Sunday, August 5 Essendon AAMI Stadium Home 4:10pm
20 Saturday, August 11 Fremantle AAMI Stadium Home 1:40pm
21 Saturday, August 18 Brisbane Lions Gabba Away 7:40pm
22 Sunday, August 26 Melbourne MCG Away 4:40pm
23 TBC Gold Coast SUNS AAMI Stadium Home TBC

What a joke, Get both GC and GWS twice.

Hawthorn, Collingwood, WCE (@ Adelaide) once.

Fremantle have done well too.

Richmond, Melbourne, Adelaide, Port Adelaide and West Coast twice.

Not as good as the Crows, but I'd take that.

The Crows should be aiming top 4 with that draw .
Get to play the 3 worst sides for a total of 6 games in effect giving them a 12 points plus % headstart on my club.
Wow!

ill back crows for top 8 finish

Wedgie wrote:The Crows should be aiming top 4 with that draw .
Get to play the 3 worst sides for a total of 6 games in effect giving them a 12 points plus % headstart on my club.
Wow!

hang on, they still have to beat those teams yet. they could do like north and lose to the bottom club three times in a season.....

And we have to wait till Round 4 to unfurl our flag despite last getting the opportunity to do it in a round 1 match in1953!

Wedgie wrote:And we have to wait till Round 4 to unfurl our flag despite last getting the opportunity to do it in a round 1 match in1953!

Its rubbish.

Imho whether it be AFL or SANFL if you win the premiership you should automatically be given the right of having your first game the next season at home to unvail the premiership flag.

Wedgie wrote:And we have to wait till Round 4 to unfurl our flag despite last getting the opportunity to do it in a round 1 match in1953!

Geelong should protest by not winning the flag this year

The Sleeping Giant wrote:

Wedgie wrote:And we have to wait till Round 4 to unfurl our flag despite last getting the opportunity to do it in a round 1 match in1953!

Geelong should protest by not winning the flag this year

We do every year otherwise we'd have 5 in a row!

Looks like a reasonable FIXture from a St K point of view. Avoid playing a finalist from last year until Round 6 (no excuse for a poor start next year) and don’t double up against any of the top 4. Have 9 “6 day breaks” though.

Two games in Adelaide which I’m happy about!

In a sign of the times, do not play a traditional Saturday arvo game until Round 20

Adelaide has a ripping draw again for the 3rd year in a row. Problem has been that we've been too shit to make the most of it though.

Backing us to make a recovery this coming season. New coach and coaching panel, new attitude, soft draw - get us back in the 8 lads!

Richmond double up against Freo, Melbourne, Calrton, Port and Essendon

We have four "6 day breaks", which is a good result. However, we have back to back 6 day breaks from rounds 20-22 and one of those is backing up from the West. If we are to make the finals (a big IF i know), we will need the 8 day break come round 23 thats for sure.