Opinion 2018 Non-Crows Discussion - Part 3: Everybody Hurts by R.E.M is our new club theme song

[GROTTO]

Why, when we just rebuilt AO didn’t we make the same ******* size as the MCG?

I swear the people running the show here in Adelaide have a combined IQ of about a dozen. Morons

Its been spoken about that the ground would have extended way out which I understand but as you say it was a monumental blunder if the option was there.

I wonder if the Northern end gets a grandstand if the Width could be made larger by removing the first couple of rows on the width side.

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Green: West Coast, Melbourne*
Yellow: Sydney, GWS, Collingwood
Red: Port, Hawthorn, Richmond, North, Geelong

*much easier to support Melbourne when Lever will be injured for the finals

Melbourne fans on their own are enough to put them red.
West coast by far the best realistic option.

 

[Roovolution]

Well this is awkward....

 

[Sanders]

It was only this year that someone told me he wasn't gay. I always thought he came out.

Rance is hard core Jehova Witness, if he was all about the man love he sure wouldn’t be saying so

 

[Sanders]

Why, when we just rebuilt AO didn’t we make the same ******* size as the MCG?

I swear the people running the show here in Adelaide have a combined IQ of about a dozen. Morons

You can’t be serious

 

[StonesThrow]

Rance is hard core Jehova Witness, if he was all about the man love he sure wouldn’t be saying so

Ahh okay. The two are easily confused I guess.

 

[jenny61_99]

MCG field size = 176m x 146m

Optus Oval (Perth) = 165m x 130m

As short sighted as we were not making AO into the same dimensions, why on earth didn't they do it in Perth?

 

[jenny61_99]

This may be controversial but here goes.

If the AFL GF is going to be held at the MCG for the next several decades why dont the AFL give the highest placed team the best advantage by having the ground dimensions the same as their home ground.

So on GF day last year, the MCG would have been the same dimensions as AO.

This is far too logical for the AFL.

 

[SaltPeter]

As short sighted as we were not making AO into the same dimensions, why on earth didn't they do it in Perth?

??? No idea

 

[Geoffa32]

Why give the MCG clubs an advantage when they play at AO by makng it the same size as their home ground.

We train at West Lakes. If possible the MCG size should be replicated there during specific training sessions for those games.

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[GreyCrow]

Why give the MCG clubs an advantage when they play at AO by makng it the same size as their home ground.

We train at West Lakes. If possible the MCG size should be replicated there during specific training sessions for those games.

Didnt Blight? do this? Not so much MCG but the oval we were due to play on

 

[TheLeftFist8]

This may be controversial but here goes.

If the AFL GF is going to be held at the MCG for the next several decades why dont the AFL give the highest placed team the best advantage by having the ground dimensions the same as their home ground.

So on GF day last year, the MCG would have been the same dimensions as AO.

That would be a small concession.

As the highest ranked team I’d like to not have to leave home 2 days beforehand to play an away game against a team that doesn’t deserve home ground advantage.

Ground size, travel, staying in hotels compared to opposition in comforts of home...it all adds to an undeserved disadvantage.

It’s the VFL, why bother?

 

[Geoffa32]

Didnt Blight? do this? Not so much MCG but the oval we were due to play on

I think he did.

I like to think it is almost standard practice now.

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[GROTTO]

That would be a small concession.

As the highest ranked team I’d like to not have to leave home 2 days beforehand to play an away game against a team that doesn’t deserve home ground advantage.

Ground size, travel, staying in hotels compared to opposition in comforts of home...it all adds to an undeserved disadvantage.

It’s the VFL, why bother?

Some of the older posters may want to confirm this for me, but if I am not mistaken during our 97-98 GFs I thought I remembered hearing how the Victorians would try and disrupt the hotels where the Crows stayed at and also sabotaged the training grounds with broken glass etc.

Makes you appreciate how challenging it was for those teams to have won on GF day.

I do remember reading how the changing rooms for the Crows in the 90s in Victoria were of really poor standard too.

 

[Roovolution]

Some of the older posters may want to confirm this for me, but if I am not mistaken during our 97-98 GFs I thought I remembered hearing how the Victorians would try and disrupt the hotels where the Crows stayed at and also sabotaged the training grounds with broken glass etc.

Makes you appreciate how challenging it was for those teams to have won on GF day.

I do remember reading how the changing rooms for the Crows in the 90s in Victoria were of really poor standard too.

Yep I remember glass being sprinkled on our training Oval in Melbourne.

 

[Roovolution]

You can’t be serious

The new Oval in Perth has been built to the same dimensions as the MCG....

 

[footy4ever]

The new Oval in Perth has been built to the same dimensions as the MCG....

But no it hasn’t been built to the same dimensions.

 

[MarcusP2]

The new Oval in Perth has been built to the same dimensions as the MCG....

Not only is this not true, but the new oval didn't have an existing grandstand and various other constraints to fit in.

 

[Roovolution]

Not only is this not true, but the new oval didn't have an existing grandstand and various other constraints to fit in.

Thought that I read that it’s been built to the same dimensions.

 

[Scorpus]

Thought that I read that it’s been built to the same dimensions.

So did I. It hasn't.

 

[TheLeftFist8]

Some of the older posters may want to confirm this for me, but if I am not mistaken during our 97-98 GFs I thought I remembered hearing how the Victorians would try and disrupt the hotels where the Crows stayed at and also sabotaged the training grounds with broken glass etc.

Makes you appreciate how challenging it was for those teams to have won on GF day.

I do remember reading how the changing rooms for the Crows in the 90s in Victoria were of really poor standard too.

It's a miracle we have 1 premiership, let alone 2.

Thankfully, we were on the cutting edge re fitness, had a genius coach, our opposition weren't MCG tenants despite having Vic advantage (they were higher ranked so fair enough), the pro Vic media hadn't reached such saturation point and I don't believe umpiring was as dubious then as now.

Then you look at Port's flag gained against an interstate side full of injuries who had unfairly travelled the week before, with a squad including start up concessions and draft tampering gains.

The system is unfairly stacked when you need to be so much better than certain opposition just to break even.

 

[Mike Smyth]

Apparently May from the GC is interested into heading to Port next year. In a two team town where one club is able to entice quality players to join and the other can't even entice quality players to stay, that's a big FU to the AFC culture and to the board and administration who have managed this club over the last decade.

 

[pjcrows]

Didnt Blight? do this? Not so much MCG but the oval we were due to play on

Blight did it before we played the Cats at Kardinia Park and we won there for the first time in club history.

 

[AFC3000]

Michael Christian talking about the tribunal/reports on Fiveaa...

"we don't want to see players like Dustin Martin missing games for that do we?"

"If we fined a Lance Franklin for that"

I haven't even seen the incidents but language like that suggests we've still got one set of rules for the "stars" of the game and another set for the rest.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

Apparently May from the GC is interested into heading to Port next year. In a two team town where one club is able to entice quality players to join and the other can't even entice quality players to stay, that's a big FU to the AFC culture and to the board and administration who have managed this club over the last decade.

Not saying your wrong, but when Lynch leaves GC, the AFL will do anything to keep May at Gold Coast.