Why 4.40?

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Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461271Post jonesy »

It's the only game on sunday,yet they have to put it into the dud 4.40pm timeslot?


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461273Post kosifantutti »

It's so you don't have to watch The Voice.


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461274Post jonesy »

kosifantutti wrote:It's so you don't have to watch The Voice.
How did I overlook that


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461287Post Stephen Theodore »

Must be a clause in the contract with channel 7 regarding lead in games to the 6:00 news.


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461289Post jonesy »

Stephen Theodore wrote:Must be a clause in the contract with channel 7 regarding lead in games to the 6:00 news.
Thats the 3pm timeslot though which I can understand. We are on the 4.40 fox footy time slot


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461304Post stevie »

Game live on FTA up here as we get all the Suns and Lions games even if they are foxtel games. Sweet


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461316Post Rosco »

its because they don't have any idea.


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461318Post saintspremiers »

Maybe part of Foxtel signing up is 4.40 games every Sunday. It's all about telly remember


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461343Post Sainternist »

The old tradition of the Saturday 2pm match is long gone now.

It's all about weird times to suit the television networks. Not to mention, fans have become too soft to attend so they subscribe to Fox Footy instead.

But could the AFL please GET RID of Monday Night Football. Worst copycat idea EVER.
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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461355Post Enrico_Misso »

After last weeks time slot this seems like bliss.


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Post: # 1461360Post bigbadxav »

Answer: TV ratings.
Bring back the 2:10 time slot at Waverley Park!
We should makes some money at the game for once ;)
Ps, 4:40 is probably the worst time for a footy match, especially on as Sunday.
I prefer to be home personally watching games from a by gone era.


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Post: # 1461364Post bigbadxav »

Sainternist wrote:The old tradition of the Saturday 2pm match is long gone now.

It's all about weird times to suits the television networks. Not to mention, fans have become too soft to attend so they subscribe to Fox Footy instead.

But could the AFL please GET RID of Monday Night Football. Worst copycat idea EVER.
Couldn't 't agree more Sainternist!

Whatever happen our game...:(
Hopefully with the new CEO at afl, we might get some normality back.
Aka, food prices, time slots etc etc


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461365Post Rosco »

Who watches tv from 440 to 7 on a Sunday?


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461379Post Spinner »

Hate those Friday night games.... Interrupts with my social life.


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461390Post Sainternist »

bigbadxav wrote:
Sainternist wrote:The old tradition of the Saturday 2pm match is long gone now.

It's all about weird times to suits the television networks. Not to mention, fans have become too soft to attend so they subscribe to Fox Footy instead.

But could the AFL please GET RID of Monday Night Football. Worst copycat idea EVER.
Couldn't 't agree more Sainternist!

Whatever happen our game...:(
Hopefully with the new CEO at afl, we might get some normality back.
Aka, food prices, time slots etc etc
Alas, the CEO won't change a hell of a lot in this respect. The television networks are dictating terms as far as match times go.

But if they manage to scrap Monday night games and Thursday games, it'll be at least some improvement.


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461402Post saintspremiers »

Spinner wrote:Hate those Friday night games.... Interrupts with my social life.
Have kids.


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461538Post Wayne42 »

That's Sunday afternoon and Sunday night shot if you go to the game, plus the hassle of getting to and from the game but only 3 hours out of your day if you watch Foxtel.

Decisions, decisions.


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461614Post Spinner »

Wayne42 wrote:That's Sunday afternoon and Sunday night shot if you go to the game, plus the hassle of getting to and from the game but only 3 hours out of your day if you watch Foxtel.

Decisions, decisions.

Is this game at 440 go for longer than other rounds?

Or is it the same?


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Post: # 1461619Post bigbadxav »

Tss tsss, it goes longer of course, as we need to have my dinner at 6:00pm. And the game go straight through that time slot...How inconvenient of the AFL


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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461656Post stevie »

Spinner wrote:
Wayne42 wrote:That's Sunday afternoon and Sunday night shot if you go to the game, plus the hassle of getting to and from the game but only 3 hours out of your day if you watch Foxtel.

Decisions, decisions.

Is this game at 440 go for longer than other rounds?

Or is it the same?

Depends if the umps hear the siren at the end of each qtr

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Re: Why 4.40?

Post: # 1461739Post saintspremiers »

stevie wrote:
Spinner wrote:
Wayne42 wrote:That's Sunday afternoon and Sunday night shot if you go to the game, plus the hassle of getting to and from the game but only 3 hours out of your day if you watch Foxtel.

Decisions, decisions.

Is this game at 440 go for longer than other rounds?

Or is it the same?

Depends if the umps hear the siren at the end of each qtr

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As part of the eco-Etihad trial to cut greenhouse gas omissions when the forecast crowd is less than 20K the 50 decibel siren is used to save power costs.


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