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Crows thumped the Tigers at Adelaide Oval in 2017, but as the lower ranked team they got to play the grand final on their favoured home deck.
It is almost embarassing how Adelaide fans keep referring to a game in April as if it has any relevance to performance in September.
From all evidence we have the mentally weak Adelaide team would have capitulated anywhere they played.
So are you seriously trying to say sides don't win more games home than away?
Not all "homes" are created equal.
Collingwood have a better W/L away from the G than at the G in the last decade.
I'd say that people who smoke are more likely to die from smoking related diseases.
Optus only allocated 12k to each competing team in 2021.
Is there any other Victorian team that gets the opportunity to spend hours and hours each week training on their home ground? I know the MCG co-tenants don't. Imagine if the Pies could play their home matches on Gosch's Paddock or the Tigers at Punt Road? Then we'd see a real home advantage for them. The Crows trained at Football Park during it's tenure as a matchday venue.
Almost word-for-word what I was about to reply until I saw your post. It's such a naive at best, wilfully ignorant at worst, reading of 2017 when posters bring up that season and claim that the early phase is indicative of the whole season.
If you actually ever bothered to have a look yourself, you’d find that Victorian clubs make up 55% of the comp and have occupied 58% of spots in the top 8 over the course of the decade preceding Covid. So wtf are you on about?
Given that 25% of those non-Vic clubs were literally in their infancy during that decade, even to the point of including on their playing lists rugby players brought in solely for their northern state marketing value, you might want to re-visit those statistics.
Given that Melbourne were actively trying to lose games and Essendon were forced to field a Vfl side through that period as punishment for doping, I don’t think I need to revisit anything.
So Victorian corporates & cricket members are more important than fairness
MCG tenants have a higher win rate... outside of the Pies but they have the collywobbles.
I never said this, but nice deflection to combine 2 different issues.
MCG tenants have a better win rate in GFs away from the G than at the G.
No they don't overall.
Learn to read. I said MCG tenants have a better win rate in GFs away from the G than at the G
Are you shitting me??
MCG tenant Collingwood doesnt.
The crux of the issue is that you talk "improvements" but all your ideas mean less club members will get tickets.
I stopped reading there.
You continue to compare generalisations about home ground advantage with Grand Finals played between Victorian and non Victorian teams at the MCG.
22 completed seasons since introduction of Colonial in 2000 which is when ground rationalisation in Melbourne really started being felt.
The example that is closest in this case is round 23 2019 Rich vs Bris at the MCG with the next game Bris vs Rich at the Gabba two weeks later with similar teams and form line.
