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Post: # 1571058Post seano1 »

Not sure if this has come up before..........did we (the club) choose or ask for all these late Sunday games....if we did ...wtf were they thinking....if AFL did wtf were they thinking .As has been pointed out Metro wants to do all their work programs on Sunday so there goes a lot of fans there......and like a lot of people they hate sunday night cause they know they have to get their mind set for Monday.
Anyway I believe it hasn`t help us in the cash department......let Collingwood have Sunday late afro / night


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Post: # 1571062Post Goose is king »

Im sick of them. Waiting all weekend for the saints game. This is 6 in a row now


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Post: # 1571064Post 8856brother »

Didn't have many when we were flying. Pretty simple to fix.


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Post: # 1571069Post Jacks Back »

seano1 wrote:..let Collingwood have Sunday late afro / night
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Post: # 1571080Post jimmy_slats »

there great i can sit on the couch all day sunday and crack a beer as soon as the game starts its my idea of a good sunday !


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Post: # 1571084Post Trev from the Bush »

I am at Etihad. Stop grizzling and get here and support your club!


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Post: # 1571122Post matrix »

maybe id rather sit at home in the warmth with a lamb roast in the oven
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Post: # 1571129Post gringo »

Trev from the Bush wrote:I am at Etihad. Stop grizzling and get here and support your club!
Would love to have come but the kid had footy that finished at 3.30.


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Post: # 1571268Post Junction Oval »

This scheduling shows AFL contempt for the supporters. Nothing more than that needs to be said. :evil:


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Post: # 1571270Post The Fireman »

Could they please schedule a game where we win ?


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Post: # 1571271Post saintspremiers »

gringo wrote:
Trev from the Bush wrote:I am at Etihad. Stop grizzling and get here and support your club!
Would love to have come but the kid had footy that finished at 3.30.
The game started at 4.40

You could've gone straight to Etihad from the game.

I worked today and finished at 4.15 and got there (just) for the first bounce. What a wasted effort that was:lol:


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Post: # 1571321Post SinCitySainter »

I hate them and judging by the crowds so too do the majority of supporters.
I should have stayed home in front of the fire and watched the game on telly.
Instead I spent $26 to park in the ground, drove an hour there and an hour and a half to get home, so I could be completely peeved by the performance.
The problem is public transport on a Sunday night is somewhat sparse so you really have to drive if I want to get home early enough to get up the next morning for work.
Friday and Saturday night games are fine because I can sleep in.
I am even happy with Sunday afternoon games but it is these twilight ones that give me the sh***.
I will seriously consider my membership if we get as many again next year.


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Post: # 1571328Post samuraisaint »

seano1 wrote:Not sure if this has come up before..........did we (the club) choose or ask for all these late Sunday games....if we did ...wtf were they thinking....if AFL did wtf were they thinking .As has been pointed out Metro wants to do all their work programs on Sunday so there goes a lot of fans there......and like a lot of people they hate sunday night cause they know they have to get their mind set for Monday.
Anyway I believe it hasn`t help us in the cash department......let Collingwood have Sunday late afro / night
Metro also do some on Saturday's too. Both of the Western Bulldogs games were very difficult to get to because of the trains not operating on our major lines and the usual hassles with the replacement buses!


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Post: # 1571351Post Teflon »

This time slot is a fargon joke - NO club likes them and the crowds vote with their feet but still AFL flogs persist
why not play more Sat twightlight instead and that can run into a sat eve match at G or elsewhere?
Just poor planning /timing.


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Post: # 1571489Post realdeal »

I never usually leave a game early regardless of score but I did last night.. Bloody stupid time for a game, esp during the cold of winter and work the next day... I wasn't the only one either


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Post: # 1571504Post ozrulestrace »

realdeal wrote:I never usually leave a game early regardless of score but I did last night.. Bloody stupid time for a game, esp during the cold of winter and work the next day... I wasn't the only one either

I also left at three quarter time, the score plus the freezing cold just got too much.

And the noticeable aspect of the crowd? No kids, a couple of little tackers on the train on the way home, but the kids have school the next day, and that is the concern, the kids aren't coming to the games.

Compare that to the days of the VFL days, every Saturday at 2pm, the shops had closed for the day, not much else happened in Melbourne in those days but the majority of us on this forum started their barracking days going to every home game and eventually moving to away games across Melbourne.

To the up and coming generation of supporters, I feel sorry they miss the continuity of their barracking for the Saints.


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Post: # 1571522Post kosifantutti »

I left 20 minutes into the last quarter. That takes our score after I have left games this year to 9.3 to 0.3. I might leave the next game at 1/4 time.


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Post: # 1571524Post plugger66 »

kosifantutti wrote:I left 20 minutes into the last quarter. That takes our score after I have left games this year to 9.3 to 0.3. I might leave the next game at 1/4 time.

Is there is chance you wont go at all please.


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Post: # 1571536Post kosifantutti »

I was going to say it doesn't work like that but I missed the Essendon game.


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