{"id":30407,"date":"2016-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/fixture-means-nothing-in-october\/"},"modified":"2016-10-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"fixture-means-nothing-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/fixture-means-nothing-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixture means nothing in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Michelangelo Rucci rubbishes attempts to grade the AFL fixture.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI actually agree with Andrew Fagan about what you get in the fixture in October really is not soft, tough, anything,\u201d Rooch tells the FIVEAA sports show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you see in October is very, very different to what you\u2019ll get through April all the way through to September.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/290355213&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I marvel when Champion Data and even Rohan Connolly at The Age have actually graded each fixture as tough or not tough or easy and all that sort of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know what Fremantle\u2019s going to be next year?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always remember that year when West Coast finished last and everyone thought if you get them twice the next year you\u2019re absolutely laughing\u2026 and they made a preliminary final.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/caro-belts-afl-over-free-to-air-embarrassment\"><strong>CARO WILSON BELTS AFL OVER FREE-TO-AIR EMBARRASSMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/we-did-everything-we-could-to-get-gibbs-says-fagan\"><strong>WE DID EVERYTHING WE COULD TO GET BRYCE GIBBS, SAYS CROWS BOSS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelangelo Rucci rubbishes attempts to grade the AFL fixture. \u201cI actually agree with Andrew Fagan about what you get in the fixture in October really is not soft, tough, anything,\u201d Rooch tells the FIVEAA sports show. \u201cWhat you see in October is very, very different to what you\u2019ll get through April all the way through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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