How many times have West Coast been to York Park in the past 5 years? How about the last decade??
And how many times have Freo been in that time period? Port? Brisbane? And how many time have Richmond, Collingwood, Hawthorn and Essendon been? This isn't just a West Coast thing.
So now you're complaining about the Eagles having to spend an extra 20 minutes on the bus to get to Blacktown Oval (instead of the Sydney Showgrounnds) in 2012 when the Giants were playing their 3rd ever game.
You really don't see anything wrong with the team that has to travel the most ... has to travel even further than they should have to?
How's this then? Jack Martin hasn't even played 100 games and has already played at 17 different venues. Alan Didak played over 200 games and only played at 6 venues. Just a feeling or facts?
Why would Hawthorn want to play high attendance games in Tasmania anyway?
Why the * should Hawthorn be able to choose who they play in Tassie compared to Melbourne? Imagine the Eagles and Dockers saying "We have 11 home games, we're only going to play the teams that finished in the top 10 plus derby rival, we'll play our away teams against the poor teams thanks."
Do you mean like 2019 when Richmond played both Adelaide and Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval? 2019 had the following either double up travel or back to back travel (this was a quick look so there may be more or there may be a mistake or two)
Carlton - Syd/GWS both away
Collingwood - WCE/GWS back to back away (via bye), Sydney away
Essendon - Syd/GWS both away, WCE/Fre both away
Geelong - Ade/Por both away
Hawthorn - Syd/GWS both in away
Melbourne - GCS/WCE back to back away
North Melbourne - Bri/GCS both away
Richmond - Ade/Por both away, GWS/Por back to back away
Western Bulldogs - WCE/Fre both away
The toughest trip is the Perth trip, surprise, surprise the only team that copped that one was a small Vic club. Has a big Vic club ever had to do it?
As the AFL run on dollars clubs that draw attendances, eyeballs and thus sponsorship historically will always be front and centre. It isn't a bias towards Victorian teams, it's a bias towards money to keep the distribution money high enough for the smaller clubs to keep the doors open.
Bias isn't just Eddie Mcguire and friends sitting in a room together smoking fat cigars and plotting, it's accepting and perpetuating such a messed up system. What you're saying is that the only way small Vic clubs can survive is if they get screwed over with fixturing and non Vic clubs have to travel more than they should. And everyone should be grateful for this.
Far out.
What is your argument here?
That it is ridiculous that vic clubs sell home gameS and end up having to travel, sleep away from home and their regular fans!? Agree again
When it comes to small Vic clubs, that is exactly my argument. Why the * is this acceptable?