2018 Finals Scheduling

[Marlins]

 

[Last Week]

They're still f**king morons. Just swap the Penrith and Melbourne games around.

 

[roostersrule2]

Penrith vs Warriors at ANZ is so dumb lol

 

[Timmah]

Official. Panthers @ ANZ 5:30, Roosters @ Allianz 7:45

http://bit.ly/2018FinalsGuide

 

[GongPanther]

Double header in Sydney on Saturday night confirmed.

Melb play Friday night.

Broncos on Sunday.

So Pen V Warr and Roosters V Cronulla at the Olympic Stadium on Sat?

 

[Yosemite Sam]

Thank Christ for that. The Panthers V Warriors would be perfect for the new Parra stadium in future years, but we'll have to make do with ANZ for now. With the amount of Kiwis in western Sydney you'd expect around 20K for that.

Roosters V Sharks should get 25K alone. Would be incredibly stupid to make them double headers.

 

[beave]

The people in charge of our game are f**king idiots.

Storm on the saturday makes sense, but no, they schedule them for the Friday game.

f**ktards.

 

[Jamberoo]

A double header seems desperate. Unfair on fans as good tickets become twice as hard to get. Is anyone really interested in watching two games over 4.5 hours? So you get 80k people in Moore Park Saturday night and 110k at AAMI/MCG Friday. Traffic, car parking an PT will be mayhem. AFL has been on sale for a week already no their crowds won’t be affected. Will knock 5k off the Storm crowd (e.g. we always drive in but that is not an option now), and won’t help @ SFS.
Clever. Real clever.

 

[beave]

Thank Christ for that. The Panthers V Warriors would be perfect for the new Parra stadium in future years, but we'll have to make do with ANZ for now. With the amount of Kiwis in western Sydney you'd expect around 20K for that.

Roosters V Sharks should get 25K alone. Would be incredibly stupid to make them double headers.

25k is too low for 2 sydney teams. Honestly should be aiming for 35k.

 

[beave]

A double header seems desperate. Unfair on fans as good tickets become twice as hard to get. Is anyone really interested in watching two games over 4.5 hours? So you get 80k people in Moore Park Saturday night and 110k at AAMI/MCG Friday. Traffic, car parking an PT will be mayhem. AFL has been on sale for a week already no their crowds won’t be affected. Will knock 5k off the Storm crowd (e.g. we always drive in but that is not an option now), and won’t help @ SFS.
Clever. Real clever.

DH is not happening.

 

[Timbo]

That makes me chuckle a bit... considering teams like the Cowboys and the Warriors have like double the travel per season that the Sydney clubs do per season.

I’m sure they will survive going an hour up the road.

It’s interesting discussion though...

Remembering it used to pretty much be all in Sydney from week 2 onward...

It doesn’t seem like that long ago when all this really started when the Cowboys vs Broncos game was moved up to Townsville all in that week.

I remember the Raiders vs Warriors play out an absolute epic out at the SFS too... infront over bugger all if memory serves me right...

Memory serves you wrong - Eric Watson bought 20,000 tickets and gave them away for free to Kiwi’s in Sydney. There were over 30,000 at that game.

 

[Jamberoo]

DH is not happening.

Some sense. Still, should have flipped Friday night with Saturday night.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Now its confirmed it makes more sense Penrith at ANZ but still can't work out why the Storm game isnt a Saturday when theres no AFL game there?

 

[M2D2]

A double header would have ONLY worked if it was at ANZ.
Do we really think the roosters would give away home field advantage though?

The friday and panthers game should have been switched. Oh well. Means ill be watching them all from my couch.

 

[Diesel]

Melbourne up against the AFL when the game could’ve been played 24 hours later?!! There are some dumb merkins around at the NRL

 

[azza29]

I hope you’re right, but based on past efforts from the NRL scheduling brains trust the exact opposite will happen.

Dammit. Right again.

 

[Marlins]

I don’t think the storm will be affected that much. They’ll still get a Solid crowd and it’s a better Friday night TV game.

Panthers fanswill benefit from having it at ANZ over SFS and an afternoon match. Also Warriors fans over in NZ will have a better viewing Timeslot. Plus the woman’s Rooster vs Warriors game is the curtain raiser.

So overall the Nrl could have done a lot worse.

 

[Pugzley]

Penrith vs Warriors at ANZ is so dumb lol

We didn’t go around all year rick rolling teams and pulling down their pants from behind at the last second so we can play at not our homeground. #weearned it

 

[Diesel]

Warriors playing at the same time as the All Blacks

 

[MilkShark]

So Pen V Warr and Roosters V Cronulla at the Olympic Stadium on Sat?

Yep

Hmm actually no, pennies at anz, sharks at Allianz