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Is it just me or do others think the program is hard to follow?

Next week we have our 3rd and final bye.
WWTFC has 8 straight games to the end of the minor round.
Some clubs though have to have 2 byes during this time as at the moment they've only had the one bye (Centrals and Port)

or doesn't it matter?

Col D

cd, sturt have a bye in rd 18 as well. this is our 2nd bye.

i dont like the fact that we have a bye 4 weeks after we just had one.

Does seem a little odd that by round 15 we have all our byes over. Sturt has 2 byes as Jimmy points out within a month and some clubs by round 15 have only had one bye.

I wouldnt want to try do work out the program but would think byes would be spread out a little more - but dont know if it really matters anyway

Col D
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im not sure how they do it but a few years back the byes were spread out now they are close together in some aspects?? why is it done this way now? why change it? anyone with knowledge know why?

I do agree with CD.Just like the Eagles played south twice before playing North for the first time this year.Mind you I enjoyed the two wins

At least it gets the byes over with earlier in season.

We played Norwood yesterday.
We play Port and Sturt in our next two games and then guess who we play again?
That's right Norwood!!
WTF?

Wedgie wrote:We played Norwood yesterday.
We play Port and Sturt in our next two games and then guess who we play again?
That's right Norwood!!
WTF?

I rekon most sides would be pretty happy to play the redlegs twice in a month @ the moment !!!

cd wrote:Does seem a little odd that by round 15 we have all our byes over. Sturt has 2 byes as Jimmy points out within a month and some clubs by round 15 have only had one bye.

I wouldnt want to try do work out the program but would think byes would be spread out a little more - but dont know if it really matters anyway

Col D
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The exact thing happened in 1999 - byes in Rounds 3, 9 and 15.

It's not a new thing to play a team a few rounds from each other. North and Norwood played in Round 18 1974, then again in Round 21. In the same rounds, West and Torrens played each other and so did Glenelg and Sturt. In Rounds 18 and 20 1978, Woodville and Torrens played each other.

cd wrote:Personal Post Only

Is it just me or do others think the program is hard to follow?

Next week we have our 3rd and final bye.
WWTFC has 8 straight games to the end of the minor round.
Some clubs though have to have 2 byes during this time as at the moment they've only had the one bye (Centrals and Port)

or doesn't it matter?

Col D

Chin up Col - Centrals had the final 8 in succession in 2000 (there might even be another one since!) - positive was being match hardened and ready for finals when we met Port and the Iggles in the QF and 2SF of 2000 - our reward was the bye on PF weekend, much needed after 10 in a row.

Flipside is what you guys might also experience - we lost Scott Lee in the West game in Round 22, and he never quite got the hammy back in shape before the GF. Slade replaced him, rest is history...

Bring in a tenth team or has been suggested this week in the media- cull Port, problem solved, no more byes. With 8 teams we could have a 21 round season were everyone plays each other 3 times, one each at home/away and one neutral game at Adelaide.

it seemed like only yesterday North/Port, Glenelg/Norwood, Centrals/West played yet they all play again next week!!

Makes it interesting in race for the five as Port only have 7 games to play while rest have 8.

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Col D

The SANFL draw this year is crazy - I could put together a much more even, fair draw in a couple hours. It isn't hard at all if you have some basic maths/stats/programming knowledge.

I'm thinking about officially approaching the SANFL to offer to do next year's draw for them...

The SANFL Draw is stupid what it should be is everyone plays each other twice home and away including byes. 18 rounds is enough no more or less.

I agree strawb......

A genius

We have only played Port once an d that was on mothers day we don't play Port until the last round

The only way to make it follow any sort of pattern is to have an even number of teams in the comp, or change the number of rounds to 18 or 27.

I think the reason that the draw is done like this is to suit clubs requests to play at venues or certain clubs in certain rounds. It's only a guess, because that's the only thing that can actually have some sense into why it is programmed that way.

And 18 matches for a team in a season is too short.

spell_check wrote:I think the reason that the draw is done like this is to suit clubs requests to play at venues or certain clubs in certain rounds. It's only a guess, because that's the only thing that can actually have some sense into why it is programmed that way.

And 18 matches for a team in a season is too short.

I agree, except its only 16 matches and 2 byes.

You would need a decent preseason cup, but I for one dont bother going to those.

Worse things have happened, we could have the AFL do the draw for us......