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Swans handed 2013 advantage

Sportal October 16, 2012, 7:13 pm

Reigning premiers Sydney will have an advantage over their rivals next year with the AFL revealing that the Swans will get to play this year's wooden spooners Greater Western Sydney twice in 2013.

The AFL outlined some new key areas surrounding next year's fixture with the Swans already looking like the big winners before the full fixture is released later this month.

This year's top four - Sydney, Hawthorn, Collingwood and Adelaide - will only play the bottom four sides - GWS, Gold Coast, Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs - once with the exception of the Swans and Giants, who will meet twice as they are crosstown rivals.

In other new developments, the bottom 10 sides from 2012 will all be scheduled to have a maximum of two return meetings with top-eight sides.

And where possible, the eight finalists from 2012 will all be programmed to have a maximum of two return meetings against sides in the bottom 10.

There will be four Thursday matches in 2013 across Round 1, Anzac Day Round (two matches on Thursday April 25) and Round 14, along with two Monday night matches in Round 7 (Melbourne) and Round 10 (Perth) respectively.

Also, as Port Adelaide and West Coast travelled in the final round of this year's season, they will be scheduled at home in Round 23 with Adelaide and Fremantle set to play away from their respective states in the final week before the finals.

The fixture will follow the model used this year with each club playing 22 games over 23 rounds and for the period where clubs have their byes between Rounds 11-13, the AFL will again schedule three rounds of six matches with the goal of a team from each state competing in a match in each week through that period.

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Tim Sainter03:45pm Friday 19th October 2012 ESTReport Abuse
If you dont reply within 7 mins....i win this battle....again!!! condom...hurry....lol! the score will be 2 - 0 my favour!
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Tim Sainter03:39pm Friday 19th October 2012 ESTReport Abuse
CAN'T WAIT FOR A REPLY TO MY POST BELOW!!!
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Tim Sainter03:30pm Friday 19th October 2012 ESTReport Abuse
This is the perfect example of the AFL losing touch with reality in being able to create a true national football league....They will be playing games for premiership points in NZ?
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Tim Sainter03:13pm Friday 19th October 2012 ESTReport Abuse
Come on condom...You can do better than that....Your still presuming about me....where i live etc etc keep on trying....Your stupid one liner..."All power to mighty andrew and his fellow workers"....That really says it all about you....Your an AFL commission worker who does special favours for mighty andrew....You think the AFL commission are doing such a good job for the best interests for football....Then you seriously need your head read! The AFL have had decades to have a true national competition already in place and do they...NO! You are so similar to that rat Lance Armstrong it isnt funny i tell you....You would be the type of person who would sell a rats r sole to a blind man for a wedding ring...would'nt you!....lmao!
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Tim Sainter09:34pm Thursday 18th October 2012 ESTReport Abuse
@ Bill....The AFL are trying reverse psychology.....There is no difference between the two examples.
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