AFL 2024

[Corona Man]

Before the season started : ( From Nov 2023 )

AFL 2024 fixture difficulty (from easiest to hardest)

1. Gold Coast Suns

2. North Melbourne

3. West Coast Eagles

4. St Kilda

5. Geelong

6. Richmond

7. Fremantle

8. Essendon

9. Melbourne

10. Western Bulldogs

11. Carlton

12. GWS Giants

13. Adelaide Crows

14. Hawthorn

15. Collingwood

16. Sydney Swans

17. Port Adelaide

18. Brisbane Lions

How is this calculated exactly? And by whom?

[Booney]

Based on where sides finished in 2023 and how often you play them in 2024.

For instance Port had Adelaide (10th in 2023), Richmond (13th), St Kilda (6th) , Melbourne (4th), Fremantle (14th), Carlton (5th) twice.

A hard draw given 3 of the double ups were top 6 sides.

[tigerpie]

I read somewhere Collingwood played 12 top 8 sides won 6 lost 6.
Someone else, maybe Adelaide, played 9 top 8's and went 3-6 they were next.

[Wedgie]

I read somewhere Collingwood played 12 top 8 sides won 6 lost 6.
Someone else, maybe Adelaide, played 9 top 8's and went 3-6 they were next.

Geelong were 5-5, harder to play top 8 sides when you're in the top 8 too.

[tigerpie]

I read somewhere Collingwood played 12 top 8 sides won 6 lost 6.
Someone else, maybe Adelaide, played 9 top 8's and went 3-6 they were next.

Geelong were 5-5, harder to play top 8 sides when you're in the top 8 too.

I had to get my head around 12 top 8 teams. It hurt for a while.

[mighty_tiger_79]

The draw rating is flawed

[Wedgie]

The draw rating is flawed

Correct, meeting Hawthorn in the first 5 weeks, Sydney a month ago or Carlton recently would hold a heap of less weight than meeting them at other times, same goes for most teams played. Takes a lot of luck too.

[Corona Man]

The draw rating is flawed

Correct, meeting Hawthorn in the first 5 weeks, Sydney a month ago or Carlton recently would hold a heap of less weight than meeting them at other times, same goes for most teams played. Takes a lot of luck too.

Playing Essendon in July & August is a guaranteed win…

[wenchbarwer]

The draw rating is flawed

Correct, meeting Hawthorn in the first 5 weeks, Sydney a month ago or Carlton recently would hold a heap of less weight than meeting them at other times, same goes for most teams played. Takes a lot of luck too.

Playing Essendon in July & August is a guaranteed win…

Such a shame you played them in round one then!

[Corona Man]

Tell me about it!! I was at the game. Love to play them at the end of a season. Dead set rabble.

[Booney]

Butters Most Courageous 2 years running

Ollie Dempsey Rising Star

Houston All Australian 2 years running

[The Dark Knight]

AFL Players Association MVP is Bontempelli
Coaches Association Player of the year is Nick Daicos

All Australian defence-
Blakey Weitering Ryan
Zorko McGovern Houston

[The Dark Knight]

All Australian Mids
Gulden Bontempelli N. Daicos
Gawn Cripps Serong

Forwards
Warner Cameron Heeney
Waterman Hogan Moore

7 AA's for Gawn, 6 for Bontempelli and 5 for McGovern.

Interchange
Whitfield Neale Treloar Butters

[Mr Beefy]

Butters Most Courageous 2 years running

Ollie Dempsey Rising Star

Houston All Australian 2 years running

Seems wrong given Reid was easily the best nominee

[Brodlach]

Suspended so made him ineligible

[Armchair expert]

Butters Most Courageous 2 years running

Ollie Dempsey Rising Star

Houston All Australian 2 years running

Seems wrong given Reid was easily the best nominee

Sam Darcy will give defenders nightmares for the next decade

[tigerpie]

Geez Burgess is a bit of club hopper isn't he?
Spends a couple of years at a club then moves to another.
Crows would be livid if this actually goes ahead.
But maybe he just puts a program in place that can be run by someone else and then he moves on.

[Brodlach]

I don’t know the answer to this but has the Crows fitness been far superior since he has been here?

[Booney]

When you're one of the elite minds in your field you don't club hop, you get poached. He's sought after by many organizations.

[Booney]

I don’t know the answer to this but has the Crows fitness been far superior since he has been here?

It's hard to quantify because fitness alone doesn't take you to the top as you need the talent as well. I think he took the AFL world by storm in 2013 with Port and how we played and again in 2021 with Melbourne he had them humming ( see talent above ).