Yours doesntIts professional sport.
Teams should be able to cope with travelling.
Most Vic clubs seem to travel well.
Get over it
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Yours doesntIts professional sport.
Teams should be able to cope with travelling.
Most Vic clubs seem to travel well.
Get over it
Yeah - i just love forking out thousands to go to gfs
Gws might beat a vic tenant - the second year they try
Dont see a regular interstate team doing it - you have to be quite a bit better than a tenant to beat them on their home ground
Fair enough
For what its worth im sitting on the deck in suburban melbourne this morning and i can tell you its a superb day
Rip national comp
Rip national comp
The ground size is only a very tiny part of the advantage.
You only have to look at most other sports that play on a standard size field/court to see that the size isn't really an overriding factor when it comes to establishing a home (ground/field/court) advantage.
Here are the leaders of your Victorian centric competitionAnd this post sums up the entire fiasco. The AFL will always be a Victorian centric competition and not truly national.
30 yrs old in a few years or by the time construction would start.On a financial side of things, the Southern Stand is only 20 odd years old, first world problems to be replacing that? Can’t be that bad is it?
I suspect you won't be attending any more AFL matches now? Be dedicating your time to the traditional homeland in the WAFL?
The fact is that you bought in to the Victorian spawned and controlled AFL the moment you became a West Coast Eagles supporter, so whinging about the minor details is absurd.
Here are the leaders of your Victorian centric competition
CEO: Gillon McLachlan (SA)
Chairman: Richard Goyder (WA)
Board members: Paul Bassat (VIC), Kim Williams (NSW), Simone Wilkie (VIC), Jason Ball (WA), Andrew Newbold (VIC?), Gabrielle Trainor (NSW?), Robin Bishop (?).
So there are 3 victorians, 2 NSW, 2 WA (including the chairman), 1 SA (the CEO). “Vic centric” I suppose
Freos flag drought in 2057 will be 62 years hahahaYours doesnt
Yeah sureGWS couldn't even beat the Bulldogs in a home Prelim. But I guess for the sake of fairness we should let them play a home GF in front of 2 men and a dog
What’s your sample size? I can tell you from a sample size of every day since 1908, that on average 100 days a year in Melbourne are rainy. And based on a sample size of every day since 1994, Perth has had on average 80 rainy days a year.Every time ive been there its been rainy and cold.
I wear shorts year round
Perspective
But youve dodged the point havnt youFreos flag drought in 2057 will be 62 years hahaha
What most of the Vic club supporters don't grasp is the effort involved for non victorian team supporters to have to go to to get to the GF to watch their team play. They have to pay through the nose for air fares, pay an absolute premium for accommodation, spend considerable time getting to and from Victoria. The Vic team supporters wake up on GF day, go about their daily routine and then head to the MCG on a train or by car, watch the game and head home..no flights, no ridiculously priced accommodation. That is a big advantage for club members every year now till 2057
Oh there was whinging when the interstaters were winning too. Along the lines of there being too many Victorian teams, they didn't have the cash, the talent pool was too thinly spread for them all, etc. Funny how when Vic teams start winning again it's still supposedly Vic teams that are the problem and the MCG is magically an invincible fortress...Once non Vic clubs start winning flags again which is inevitable the whinging will drop off
Dont worry everyone, its all something that is never going to change because of a Vic bias and all the arguments in the world won't ever matter, so lets all just agree it is unfair and live with it.
If the interstate clubs had simply rebuilt their home grounds to the same dimensions as the MCG, any advantage would largely disappear. SA and WA clubs missed a massive opportunity by building long, skinny grounds.Disappointing, the AFL could have taken a step forward into becoming credible by starting to move the GF to the highest placed winners home stadium.
I guess the only option now is to have the tenant clubs of the MCG, except Melbourne FC, play less games there.
Ridiculous you can call it a fair competition when the major price is played at a ground where certain teams play the majority of there games there throughout the year and interstate teams who place higher have to play there.
Amateur hour lives on in the AFL.
Yeah the crowd is a big advantage too, if only the grand final crowd was made up of mostly neutrals and even amounts of competing club members
If the interstate clubs had simply rebuilt their home grounds to the same dimensions as the MCG, any advantage would largely disappear. SA and WA clubs missed a massive opportunity by building long, skinny grounds.
Here are the leaders of your Victorian centric competition
CEO: Gillon McLachlan (SA)
Chairman: Richard Goyder (WA)
Board members: Paul Bassat (VIC), Kim Williams (NSW), Simone Wilkie (VIC), Jason Ball (WA), Andrew Newbold (VIC?), Gabrielle Trainor (NSW?), Robin Bishop (?).
So there are 3 victorians, 2 NSW, 2 WA (including the chairman), 1 SA (the CEO). “Vic centric” I suppose