EMERGENCY PODCAST: 2025 AFL Fixture Review

[@therealHarleyReid]

Scoey you should fill in for Barrass. Great depth.

[@BackChat]

Big comeback in 2025?

[@therealHarleyReid]

@@BackChat Yeh, we need some fresh faces in there. And more Key backs.

[@emlyndavies3594]

Why not have it so that every team plays each other once over the first 18 rounds. Then release the remaining fixture featuring double up matches at round 15 or so based on the ladder at that point in time. It could still be based on the current system inclusive of derbies/showdowns, bottom, middle and top thirds of the ladder. There will always be teams that jump up or down the ladder substansially year to year and this would go a long way to alleviating the fairness of the fixture at least in regards to the double ups.

[@derekbos4404]

$$$$$$$$$$$$

[@cameron7868]

I like it. What about a two week bye for all teams after 18 rounds to get the fixture done and released with no byes mid season or pre finals. Could also move the midseason draft and the opening of the AFLW season to then too

[@Flynno77]

Makes to much sense

[@JeffBurn-b1i]

Opening round in Queensland and NSW, Dreamtime at the MCG, gather round in mainly Adelaide, Anzac at the MCG and North Melbourne's deal for multiple annual fixtures in Tasmania. Notice one state that always gets deliberately overlooked?

[@JeffBurn-b1i]

Brisbane Premiers, GWS placed 4th on the ladder, Fremantle a flag favourite in betting markets, Carlton who managed to disappoint finishing 8th all in the first 6 rounds and West Coast 18th & 16th consecutive seasons. The AFL is like the guy who pushes the person in the wheelchair over to make the train before the doors close.

[@StuTheDon17]

37:11 Exactly! They gave Warner his farewell tour that he didn't deserve, and then played favourites by promoting Smith up the order. Bancroft was one of the best 2 opening batsmen in Australia at that time. He should have come into the team then! The fact that someone who admittedly doesn't follow cricket much can see that was a massive error proves how fucked the Australian set up is. There's a purple circle, and Bancroft is not in it.

[@wayneperry7413]

I could be wrong, but Pretty sure the Dusty Fox Footy discussions are about doing some sort of documentary/interview type program, not commentating or special comments

[@thequartersfooty]

Now that they've put the main season together, they need to sort out pre season. Instead of boring practice matches with nothing on the line, either do something with it, resurrect a trophy to play for or scrap the thing all together. Do what the NRL are doing with their Pre Season Challenge.

[@leightonwalling56]

Survey entered. Just coz you asked nicely

[@BackChat]

Good luck to you!

[@steveforbes3632]

Sceeter just can’t hide his hate of the Hawks, mentions buyer beware and undersells them all the time.

[@BackChat]

lol

[@AFLTime23]

I have to watch my sainters play at 9:35 in the morning pretty unpleasant way to start the season.

[@derekbos4404]

In fairness you can probably tune out by 10am 😮

[@AFLTime23]

@ Ok buddy

[@derekbos4404]

@@AFLTime23 yep. Show us yer flag ☺️

[@AFLTime23]

@@derekbos4404 1966 🫢

[@peekabooicancu]

I'm so done with the sunday afternoon games for Freo. Worst time slot. Also the 6pm Thursday night games with no additional public transport so you can only get to half a game after work

[@uToobeD]

Someone pass on to Skeeter that he no longer looks like Biden, but General Patton, the famous WWII general (I think the cap is part of it)

[@BackChat]

WOW

[@harryS6037]

The Eagles have 11 different start times from there first 14 games. Why can't the AFL be even a little bit consistent.

[@andrewkerr5296]

Tough opening Month for Freo

[@BackChat]

Oh boy

[@sotiriosnovatsis4529]

It’s not hard to fix the fixture issue. Every team can easily play each other twice. We just need to extend the season. Ice hockey players in North America play over 80 games a season (not including playoffs). Yes, the games are shorter than footy matches, but they are playing four times as many games. If you include playoffs, then NHL players are playing five times as many games as footy players. And ice hockey players are getting just as banged up as anyone in the AFL. If they can manage it, then so should footballers. If the extra running is a factor, then just extend the squad size. Even soccer players in Europe often play two or three games a week. There’s no excuse for AFL teams not playing each other twice.

[@ralphgomeze8873]

Let’s be honest ! The fixtures are a mess. It is never going to be fair unless you either play each other twice or you have 2 co deferences. And no Victorian club wants it changed because they never have to travel much.

[@OldSheriff]

Skeeter would have been the Skipper for sure. Schoie has all the hallmarks of Thurston Howell the third. Dan could alternate between the professor and Gilligan

[@BackChat]

😂😂😂

[@aidenhodgkinson3518]

Eagles play kangas 2 times?

[@sotiriosnovatsis4529]

The Eagles shouldn’t have to pay to get extra home games considering our travel factor, but good on the club for taking the initiative to buy them, ourselves. But why be so bloody stupid to play it in BUNBURY?? The whole point of getting an extra home game for our club is to reduce the travel for the team and give us more of a home crowd advantage. Playing the match in Bunbury means that the players still have to sit on a bus for 3 hours. This travel distance means that most of the Eagles season ticket holders won’t attend. And even if we were willing to attend, Bunbury doesn’t have a stadium anywhere near big enough to house us. You can reward your regional fans by giving them pre-season games, not fixtures matches. The Eagles are a Perth-based team, so play your games in Perth. Bunbury has 80,000; Perth had 2,000,000. Who should be the priority? We’ve paid all this money to replace one travel factor with another and replace a small away crowd with a small home crowd. Really smart, Eagles. 👎🏼👎🏼

[@jogon9649]

Eagles has an absolute horror draw, and no changes in home and away game fixtures. Admin is a joke and stuck in its ancient ways.

[@justindl4459]

Doesn't even know hindely St bahahahahaha

[@newway9857]

Giving teams a bye in round 0 is stupid 😒

[@auzzierobbie78]

still stuck in vfl if it wasn’t for the eagles joining and paying stupid amount to join the vfl would have gone bankrupt and be nothing Easy fix no opening round forget the stupid buys each team plays each other once and then workout the teams to play who depending on position of ladder Or like schoie mention once before play in hubs 4 week blocks lol😂

[@derekbos4404]

Lab is cooked. He will be dropped aftet the third Test. Goodnight nurse.

[@matthewstephen6869]

Love the pod but seriously guys can you stop calling everything an Emergency Podcast? This is not an emergency it's been in the AFL's diary literally all year lol

[@BackChat]

Its not in our regular season is all

[@frazer.01]

Ask Skeeta why he started the youtube channel @ProfSteveKeen