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Pies punished, Hawks gifted in latest fixture release – The Age
In this toughest concentration of games, undoubtedly the team with the most punishing fixture is the league’s biggest team.
The Magpies famously travel less than everyone else in an ordinary season, so there will be little sympathy and more than a little schadenfreude for them being the ones to hit the road in this period.
The point is only made about the relative travel impact because when games are played on successive four- and five-day breaks and there is travel for each of those games, it bites away a little more at the break and recovery between matches.
Geelong, who enjoy the luxury of home-ground advantage …
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