By the current fixture Rd 19 and Rd 20 are still unallocated TV games, but what options are there?
On the Saturdays these are the only matches:
Rd 19 Geelong v Sandringham AFL Curtain Raiser
Rd 19 North Ballarat v Williamstown
Rd 20 Geelong v Bendigo AFL Curtain Raiser
Rd 20 North Ballarat v Springvale
Take out the curtain raisers, do we really have to be left with two North Ballarat home matches against sides who are probably going to miss out on the finals? Seems very poor fixturing over these last rounds, say Round 19 Northern Bullants v Werribee will be a pearler but it is on a Sunday. In Round 20 Sandringham v Northern Bullants looks to be the pick of that round, but it is also scheduled for the Sunday. Any chance Football Vic might shuffle the fixture around to get these games on the Saturday?
And Port will have 6 TV matches out of 18 by the end of the season so we don't want them on again! Get sick of seeing them all the time, the only people it pleases are the army of bluerinsers in nursing homes.
Don't think Thursday night would work, but night VFL footy is something that should be explored further.
Remember that ABC cover all State Football on Saturdays so that fits into their programming. To have Melbourne taking a VFL game on a Thursday night would not really suit them.
All other things considered, there are certainly a few clubs who would love to be on TV - the Bullants, Frankston, Tassie, the Scorpions to think of a few. The Bullants have been on TV once so far this year.
Certainly the draw is such that options appear to be few, but it didn't have to be this way. The VFL must have had something up their sleeves in the first place to arrange TV as they have. Either that, or North Ballarat will get some air time.
If you play at Punt Road at 8pm you would hardly see what is going on as the lights aren't good enough unless you have a plan to turn the MCG lights around about 180 degrees.
VFL was played at Waverley and on T.V. Monday nights during year 2000, but was dropped due to lack of public interest.
i thought it was dropped becuse pay tv stopped televising.
Round 19 now Northern Bullants v Werribee on the Saturday (Moved from Sunday)
Round 20 TBC
Source: http://vfl.goal.com.au/?s=fixtures
A couple of weeks back there were a number of posts with regard to the 1pm time slot for the ABC broadcast & what games would be televised in rd's 19 & 20. The 1pm on-air time had nothing to do with the Netball. It was to do with the scheduled broadcast time of the AFL match. Nominally 3.30pm (delayed) when the game is in Melbourne. The ABC's round 19 match is now Nthn Bullants v Werribee with the Rd20 match yet to be decided.
All I want the ABC to do is add those ABC TV Tasmanian matches to the ABC2 schedule so we can see matches Tasmania v Box Hill and Tasmania v Coburg at some stage. Surely with the two timeslots (wednesday and saturday) they can devote one of them to the VIC match and one to the TAS match. Or worst case put the TAS match on after the VIC one instead of having the station close.
In both circumstances there would be plenty of keen Box Hill or Coburg fans who would appreciate the chance to see their side when playing in Tassie and surely ABC2 is a decent chance for the ABC to do this.