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Essendon Fixture Announcement Video

Round 1 vs Fremantle, Marvel Stadium Saturday March 21, 1:45pm Prince’s Purple Rain for the Purple Haze

Round 2 vs Sydney, SCG Friday March 27, 7:50pm Coffee for Sydney (thought Coffee was a Melbourne thing?)

Round 3 vs Carlton, MCG Thursday April 2, 7:25pm Carlton Hovercraft for the Blue baggers

Round 4 vs GWS, Marvel Stadium Saturday April 11, 7:25pm The BIG BIG Sound

Round 5 vs Adelaide, Adelaide Oval Thursday April 16, 7:10pm The iconic (and somewhat laughable) 2017 finals stare down

Round 6 vs Collingwood, MCG Saturday April 25, 4:20pm Nice touch with the poppies and Anzac appeal link not keen on the time slot

Round 7 vs Melbourne, MCG Sunday May 3, 3:20pm Snow goggles for ski season

Round 8 vs Geelong, MCG Saturday May 9, 4:35pm Country game comin’ at ya

Round 9 vs North Melbourne, Marvel Stadium Saturday May 16, 1:45pm Shinbonners! This one got me good

Round 10 vs Richmond, MCG Saturday May 23, 7:25pm Dream Time at the ‘G les go!

Round 11 vs Gold Coast, Marvel Stadium Sunday May 31, 1:10pm Sand and sunscreen, not that we’ll need it at that time of year ;)

Round 12 - BYE Week Worst week of the season

Round 13 vs West Coast, Optus Stadium Thursday June 11, 6:10pm Wet toast for West Coast this got me SENT

Round 14 vs St Kilda, Marvel Stadium Saturday June 20, 1:45pm Couple-a Jacks and a sneaky cat stealing one

Round 15 vs Western Bulldogs, Marvel Stadium Friday June 26, 7:50pm Dog dribble on a tennis ball, nothing worse

Round 16 vs Hawthorn, Marvel Stadium Thursday July 2, 7:20pm Pinchy pinchy

Round 17 vs GWS, Giants Stadium Saturday July 11, 4:35pm A visit to the west of the town to face the BIG BIG Sound

Round 18 vs North Melbourne, MCG Sunday July 19, 1:10pm Turn up the brightness lads, c’mon!

Round 19 vs Adelaide, Marvel Stadium Saturday July 25, 7:25pm A nod to the Tex x Arthur meme perhaps?

Round 20 vs Collingwood, MCG Saturday August 1, 1:45pm Woosha’s secret weapon against the pies

Round 21 vs Port Adelaide, Adelaide Oval Sunday August 9, 4:10pm This was too good to not turn it into a gif. Lets turn the power OFF

Round 22 vs Sydney, Marvel Stadium Saturday August 15, 7:25pm Cheeky little nod to this shocking decision

Round 23 vs Brisbane, Gabba TBC Things will be heating up. From the single greatest fixture announcement ever.

2020 Fixture Breakdown

Home Games 7 at Marvel  4 at the ‘G. I like this in terms of my personal travel to and from games but a bit worrying for finals should we make them we fckn better and have to play at the ‘G. North at the ‘G does not tickle my fancy at all tbh and Carlton at the ‘G on a Thursday night sounds awful, I’m tired already just thinking about trying to get home.

Away Games in Melbourne 2 at Marvel 3 at the ‘G

This is better. An almost even split sounds good to me. Hate that I have to get tickets to ANZAC Day but that’s the way the news goes. Also a little miffed that the country game isn’t our home game next year, I know I have to be almost alone in saying it but I really do like that it’s an annual game. There’s just something about hearing Waltzing Matilda before a game that really boosts my patriotism.

Interstate Games

1 at the SCG 2 at Adelaide Oval 1 at Optus Stadium 1 at Giants Stadium 1 at the Gabba

Can never seem to escape the SCG, I’ve always hated playing there think this is a personal attack on me by Gill but it is what it is and we’ll see how we go. I don’t mind playing twice in Adelaide. The annual Thursday night match in Perth is another one we can’t seem to ever escape, a bit sick of it at this point. Giants Stadium still gives me PTSD too and playing Round 23 away sucks. Interstate games are never going to be good when you can’t travel but that’s life.

Timeslots

4 Thursday nights 2 Friday nights 4 Saturday afternoons 3 Saturday twilights 4 Saturday nights 3 Sunday afternoons 1 Sunday twilight

There are NINE Thursday night games next season and they gave us FOUR of them! Thursday night football is good to watch when other teams are playing but when we’re playing it sucks, I feel like I don’t have anything left to really look forward to for the rest of the weekend. Very happy with our Sundays, I have to be alone in saying this but I love Sunday games the most, I get to watch every other match during the weekend and then end it by watching my own team, pure bliss tbh.

Teams We Play Twice

GWS, Collingwood, Adelaide, North Melbourne, Sydney

This is nice. I have a soft spot for GWS so playing them twice makes me happy. Collingwood and Sydney seem to be the norm recently in terms of a second match so no surprises there. Don’t mind playing Adelaide again and North should be good.

Overall seems like an alright draw, however we won’t really know until the season starts. Super keen for 2020, I miss footy so much already, I just need it to start as soon as possible. Go Dons!

HOIST IT *Not my gifs