Should Interstate Clubs Sell Home Games To Play At The MCG?

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By nature Victorian teams playing more interstate sides means more interstate sides will be playing in Melbourne which means they will play more at the MCG.
But that is only true if you accept my first scenario..

Perhaps a challenge.. It is not as easy as it seems to construct a draw to meet the following criteria, so that all clubs have the same results:
1) 22 game season.
2) Max of 11 home games.
3) Can only play another team a maximum of twice. Once Home, once away/
4) The MCG can only do 2 games per week (wear & tear problems) (maybe 3 occasionally)
Only play Friday night to Sunday (except Public Hol's, where an extra day can be played).

Go and construct a season's draw, and see how hard it is. Do Freo second-last, and WC last. See how you go. I would actually be very interested to see the results, ans your solution.
 
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Centrals would be better. They have won heaps of premierships recently (5 in a row??) (after 50 years of nothing!!)

Want to go easy on the locals though....but at least Centrals guernsey already looks like an away strip
 

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Want to go easy on the locals though....but at least Centrals guernsey already looks like an away strip
Yep, i know where the Centrals locals are..
Is GMH still making cars by the way???

?? They have the RW&B Western Bulldogs strip, don't they? Have they changed?
 
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Wouldn't mind a training session or 2 on the G for sides that get less than say 4 games on it a year.

Surely the grass would survive a few light training sessions each week from the 22 players + 1 or 2 emergencies that travel. Which would only involve a bit of circle work and kicking at goal, hardly chewing the surface up.
Really hope we ban clubs from training on the new Perth stadium surface unless they allow us to train on theirs.
 
Yep, i know where the Centrals locals are..
Is GMH still making cars by the way???

?? They have the RW&B Western Bulldogs strip, don't they? Have they changed?

Yep new EH rolling off the line now.

Centrals strip is almost Crows design in Western Bulldogs colour scheme. I prefer the old white one with the vertical blue and red slash on the left. They used to lose a lot when they had that jumper.
 
Wouldn't mind a training session or 2 on the G for sides that get less than say 4 games on it a year.

Surely the grass would survive a few light training sessions each week from the 22 players + 1 or 2 emergencies that travel. Which would only involve a bit of circle work and kicking at goal, hardly chewing the surface up.
Really hope we ban clubs from training on the new Perth stadium surface unless they allow us to train on theirs.

Should let the interstate teams on to the grounds for kick to kick after Victorian teams game has finished.
 

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Yep new EH rolling off the line now.

Centrals strip is almost Crows design in Western Bulldogs colour scheme. I prefer the old white one with the vertical blue and red slash on the left. They used to lose a lot when they had that jumper.
Yep, i remember the GT stripe jumper. But white is not very becoming. Even umpires ditched white!!
 
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The more logical question is should the afl be tied to one ground which poses an unfair advantage to victorian clubs
The MCG and Etihad get the most games each year. Every club should on average play more away games at each of those two grounds than any other away venue. The MCG and Etihad are the closest things we have to neutral venues.
 
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Yep new EH rolling off the line now.

Centrals strip is almost Crows design in Western Bulldogs colour scheme. I prefer the old white one with the vertical blue and red slash on the left. They used to lose a lot when they had that jumper.

That wasn't Central's original jumper. Before the white with the GT stripe, they wore a jumper in the style of the current Power top, and before that, their original jumper was actually the Western Bulldogs jumper. Everyone thought the red, white & blue colours came about because a lot of the population in Elizabeth were from England, but the truth is, in their first season Footscray were the Patron of Central District and donated the jumpers. There's a bit of useless trivia for you :)
 
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But that is only true if you accept my first scenario..

Perhaps a challenge.. It is not as easy as it seems to construct a draw to meet the following criteria, so that all clubs have the same results:
1) 22 game season.
2) Max of 11 home games.
3) Can only play another team a maximum of twice. Once Home, once away/
4) The MCG can only do 2 games per week (wear & tear problems) (maybe 3 occasionally)
Only play Friday night to Sunday (except Public Hol's, where an extra day can be played).

Go and construct a season's draw, and see how hard it is. Do Freo second-last, and WC last. See how you go. I would actually be very interested to see the results, ans your solution.

Give me a week. I've got s**t on this weekend and I actually haven't done these problems since 2013.
 

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You can thank me later....


Jeez. I heard that TV puts on 10 kilos, and white puts on 10 kilos, but combine them both, and you put on 30 kilos. i wouldn't have believed it until i saw this!!:p

But seriously, he looks like he was a pretty skillful player..

Back on the thread topic.. He should have played more games on the MCG !!!! Pity Centrals didn't sell some home games..:D
 
Jeez. I heard that TV puts on 10 kilos, and white puts on 10 kilos, but combine them both, and you put on 30 kilos. i wouldn't have believed it until i saw this!!:p

But seriously, he looks like he was a pretty skillful player..

Back on the thread topic.. He should have played more games on the MCG !!!! Pity Centrals didn't sell some home games..:D

He was a gun. Super silky skills.

Bring back the Escort Cup...mid week SANFL vWAFL v VFL under lights
 

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He was a gun. Super silky skills.

Bring back the Escort Cup...mid week SANFL vWAFL v VFL under lights
So, white was no good for him. I rekon black and white vertical stripes would have pleased him !!

Escort cup.. LOL. They would have to play in the carpark, because smoking and tobacco advertising is not allowed at any ground any more.

Oh, and in those days, the players would light a dart and have a shot of whiskey at quarter time. Kids were allowed on the ground at quarter and 3/4 time to hear the coaches address. And learn some language... Bring back those days, i say!!!
 
How are the Eagles free loading mate?


They're not freeloading per se, but they're also not carrying the same economic costs as the Vic clubs towards the expenses of the AFL, a matter that is particularly relevant when you look at the stadium returns.

Vic clubs bought Docklands for the AFL and at the MCG we both lose a qtr of the best seats to 'AFL members' (getting only token revenue in return) and a significant part of the revenue from the ground goes to the AFL (e.g the multi Million dollar bonuses the AFL collects each year for large crowds).

Collectively, tens of millions in revenue that 'should' go to the clubs goes to the AFL....a significant burden that only gets levied on Vic clubs.


I admit 'freeloading' is a bit strong, but Kwality deliberately misleading people by repeating an argument he surely knows to be full of crap annoys me.
 
Well factually, the new grounds in Adelaide and Perth are bigger than the latest new ground built in Melbourne being Etihad.

The reality is AO should be a 65,000 capacity but it was hard enough getting the approved development over the line. But that's for another conversation.

Did you build it to be the no2 stadium?

If not, then it doesn't really compare to Docklands, does it.
 
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