AFL Round 0.5 2025

[Booney]

Thursday night

Brisbane won't play Geelong in Brisbane

Friday night

Sydney v Hawthorn SCG

Saturday twilight

GC v Essendon GC

Sunday arvo

GWS v Collingwood Sydney Olympic Park

[Brodlach]

How many goal advantage is a 130km wind from a cyclone worth?

[Eagles2014]

The AFL need to make decision now as game won’t go ahead in Brisbane. Just play the game in Round 3 when they both have a Bye. Easy change. Or if they want to play this weekend then move the game to Geelong and the Round 15 game goes to Brisbane.

The harder one is the Gold Coast game as going to be just as bad weather on Saturday up there

[Trader]

So it's a winter sport, meant to be played outside.

I get we already stop play for lightning, so reasonable to consider moving the game, but once you move this one, where is the line drawn.
Do you move a game if 80km/hr winds are forecast?
What about 50?

I think they will move it.

Hopefully that's enough to kill off this 'opening round' for future seasons.

[mighty_tiger_79]

So it's a winter sport, meant to be played outside.

I get we already stop play for lightning, so reasonable to consider moving the game, but once you move this one, where is the line drawn.
Do you move a game if 80km/hr winds are forecast?
What about 50?

I think they will move it.

Hopefully that's enough to kill off this 'opening round' for future seasons.

The "I never want to make a decision" AFL are just hoping the QLD government make the decision for them in this case.

On the other point, yes it's a winter sport and some of the more memorable experiences at the footy are sitting in the hail

[RB]

The "I never want to make a decision" AFL are just hoping the QLD government make the decision for them in this case.

I think they're hoping the cyclone will turn around completely so they don't have to cede a Thursday night to the NRL when the Broncos are playing.

[Brodlach]

Agree, they don’t want to concede the TV ratings

[Jim05]

So it's a winter sport, meant to be played outside.

I get we already stop play for lightning, so reasonable to consider moving the game, but once you move this one, where is the line drawn.
Do you move a game if 80km/hr winds are forecast?
What about 50?

I think they will move it.

Hopefully that's enough to kill off this 'opening round' for future seasons.

The "I never want to make a decision" AFL are just hoping the QLD government make the decision for them in this case.

On the other point, yes it's a winter sport and some of the more memorable experiences at the footy are sitting in the hail

It’s not just about the actual game though TBH.
Qantas and Virgin already blocking flights and moving passengers on to services next week and within the next 24hrs or so they will start pulling flights completely out in preparation for airports to close. I would think all airports in the region would shut for some time which makes logistics impossible.
Alfred has picked up some pace so I think it’s a bit rich to try and play footy when people are worried about losing their homes, flooding etc and police wand emergency workers will already have a hard time with powerlines, trees etc being felled. Just call it off or reschedule it now

[Booney]

The AFL love being on the front and back page and they'll milk this up to Category 2 then pull the pin.

[mighty_tiger_79]

So it's a winter sport, meant to be played outside.

I get we already stop play for lightning, so reasonable to consider moving the game, but once you move this one, where is the line drawn.
Do you move a game if 80km/hr winds are forecast?
What about 50?

I think they will move it.

Hopefully that's enough to kill off this 'opening round' for future seasons.

The "I never want to make a decision" AFL are just hoping the QLD government make the decision for them in this case.

On the other point, yes it's a winter sport and some of the more memorable experiences at the footy are sitting in the hail

It’s not just about the actual game though TBH.
Qantas and Virgin already blocking flights and moving passengers on to services next week and within the next 24hrs or so they will start pulling flights completely out in preparation for airports to close. I would think all airports in the region would shut for some time which makes logistics impossible.
Alfred has picked up some pace so I think it’s a bit rich to try and play footy when people are worried about losing their homes, flooding etc and police wand emergency workers will already have a hard time with powerlines, trees etc being felled. Just call it off or reschedule it now

Agree.
I just don't see the AFL willingly getting on front foot and calling it off.
They're waiting for someone else to make that decision for them

[Booney]

Waiting for the airlines to cancel the flights before they do. $$.

[The Bedge]

I think it’s a bit rich to try and play footy when people are worried about losing their homes, flooding etc and police wand emergency workers will already have a hard time with powerlines, trees etc being felled. Just call it off or reschedule it now

I concur

[dedja]

Whoever wins the toss will definitely kick with the breeze.

[Jim05]

Waiting for the airlines to cancel the flights before they do. $$.

Airlines have already blocked flights and are rescheduling passengers to services next week or offering travel credits.
Airports have started moving aircraft to safer airports and are in watch period already. Within the next 24hrs they will move to warning period and can then announce when/if the airport will close.
They are expecting 3 days minimum without power in SEQ

[Jim05]

Both games in QLD officially postponed

[whufc]

Both games in QLD officially postponed

The most important question.......what is going to happen with supercoach/dream team.

[MW]

I thought supercoach/dreamteam was not starting until rd1?

[whufc]

I thought supercoach/dreamteam was not starting until rd1?

They aren't...

Many 'punters' were leaving out Brisbane/Collingwood players because of their early bye. If they don't have the bye anymore then their players become very appealing.

The big issues hey.

Good decision by the AFL to make the call.... already started to see the 'back in our day they didn't cancel games' posts trickle into my social feeds.

[Brodlach]

Both Queensland games officially postponed

[locky801]

Geez get Gil back