Mark Schwarzer

So no, I wouldn't, I wouldn't like to see any further intervention on that front.

Those responsibilities are designated and clear.

There were plenty of other possibilities without someone in the bunker needing to step forth and have a say there.

Dawn, suitably harsh.

I would have thought you would have educated the SMSer why the fixture is constructed like it is, Jared, instead of acting like you have no idea.

Ordinary work, considering your main audience are AFL fans.

Don, I don't hold the secrets to the way the AFL fixture is done.

It's as mystifying to you on many fronts as it is to me.

Some of the decisions that are made, there's clearly a better way for it to be done.

I think there's a degree of just feed it into the computer and it spits out.

There are some economic imperatives around some of the ways the games are fixtured and how many times and the where.

But the way that it drops is as mysterious to me as it is to most of you.

So suitably chastised, but not in control of that one, Don.

Not in control.

Kevin's in Cranbourne.

Hello, dear Kevin.

Because being a Brisbane supporter living in Melbourne, and I want to take my sons interstate to watch them play, but you can't because you can't book flights, you can't book accommodation, and then as soon as the fixture is released, the price of the flights triple almost because they know that everyone wants to go there on a particular day, whereas if you can pre-book them earlier in the year...

you get them at cheaper prices.

So the AFL need to take that into account and set the fixture at the beginning of the year and then let everybody book their flights accordingly.

Yes, they used to do that, Kevin, but it led to some pretty terrible fixturing in the back end of the season once fortunes of teams had been revealed.