{"id":27792,"date":"2018-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/caroline-wilson-drops-a-showdown-bombshell-on-fiveaa\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:00:00","slug":"caroline-wilson-drops-a-showdown-bombshell-on-fiveaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/caroline-wilson-drops-a-showdown-bombshell-on-fiveaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Wilson Drops A Showdown Bombshell On FIVEAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one local AFL<strong> Showdown<\/strong> in 2019 will be given top billing in the Friday night blockbuster timeslot, reports <strong>Caroline Wilson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe Showdown is probably one of the few fixtures every year, one of the few blockbusters that doesn\u2019t let you down regardless of where the two teams are on the ladder,\u201d Caro has told FIVEAA.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of people in Melbourne who cannot understand why the AFL and Channel 7 don\u2019t get behind it.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWell, I\u2019m told that next year at least one of the two Showdowns will be a Friday night game.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThis is something that I think has the full blessing of Channel 7. They\u2019re really keen to do it. They want to promote it properly though because it\u2019s going to be nationally televised of course. I\u2019m told it will be during one of the longer rounds where the round starts on a Thursday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cSo you\u2019ll have a Thursday night game kick off where they will promote the bejesus out of the Showdown and then the Showdown will be on Friday night. I think that is fantastic news\u2026 it\u2019s going to be fantastic for the rest of us who get to see it in prime time.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThat\u2019s the plan at the moment and I\u2019m fairly sure it\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CARO: The Showdown is a blockbuster game which never lets you down. 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