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We don't have another home ground.
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Why doesnt Geelong play finals at GMHBA Stadium?
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- Sep 3, 2019
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Why'd you shit the bed in 2010 then? And in 2019 when you finished top and shit the bed against us again? Pretty shit charm missing out on 2 certain flags
100% of our modern flags involve beating Collingwood in a final at their home ground. It doesn't mean our winning record there has to be 100%. You wouldn't expect a 6-0 record. 4-2 is already unbelievably good as it is. Similar to GWS record in GMHBA the past decade. Thankfully they can't embarrass us in finals there!
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Bit rich coming from a bloke who lives on a footy forum. Gee you must be fun at parties
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A post count! Oh you even did the blue arrow and everything. Merciless.Bit rich coming from a bloke who lives on a footy forum. Gee you must be fun at parties
"you must be fun at parties" is absolutely 35 year old virgin, living in Mum's basement talk. At least you got to feel like a big man for half a second, Lord Bontempelli.
Well the game style and personnel has shifted now to the point where we are markedly better on the MCG than KP anyway. And in a final the crowd would be more neutral than a typical KP game too.
Happy to have MCG at the moment.
Happy to have MCG at the moment.
You would understand that " Home Ground" is a very loose definition in the real world of AFL in Victoria. The Cat's are indeed the only club in Victoria with a true "home ground" compared to all other Victorian clubs. The matches fixtured at Kardinia Park during the season and finals are predicated on the likelihood that the match would not otherwise be classified as a potential blockbuster at the G.
The Cats due to their long and successful history are a large supporter based club, the AFL wants as many of them to turn up to the footy as often and as much as possible. Whilst it's not always possible to predict which matches are likely to be blockbusters the AFL even fixtures struggling clubs like Essendon and Carlton this season to play their home matches at the G against the Cat's instead of their "normal home ground (Ha Ha ! ) Marvel" so it bolsters the numbers for those clubs with the huge Cat's fans base turning up.
In other words the true Geelong fan base has outgrown KP. It's great for lower profile matches but so many people love to see the hoops at the G!
As a foot note it seems to me St Kilda, North and the Bulldogs are given the raw end of the stick. They should be given a few MCG home games.... playing all home games at Marvel will never give you a chance to get a Membership base up to 80,000 plus......OK I know North is currently nowhere near that but the Dogs and particularly the Saints with sustained success could really ramp up their membership.
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They play the G pretty well. They’d not worry playing you at the G.
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Genuinely think this has been discussed in many other threads?
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About about 70000 of them
Yeah this topic has barely been discussed over the years.
I am liking what I am seeing from you blokes this year. If you can tighten up your defence even by a fraction, look out.
edit: and I may begrudgingly state publicly that Chris Scott may in fact be the smartest coach of the lot. MAY.
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Richmond & Geelong played at GMHBA less than a month before the Qualifying final.
Geelong won by 14 points in a game where Martin mostly rested forward, Richmond played with a man down for 3/4 of the game after Caddy got injured and Geelong had one dominant quarter.
Even if the Qualifying final was at GMHBA, the Tigers then had experience playing there — as the R21 match was their first match there in 5 seasons.
Richmond led the Qualifying Final from start to finish with a dominant 51 point win.
Is the change in venue equivalent to a 10 goal turn around?
A lot of prelims were played there back in the 80s /90s
Richmond didn't just beat them. They killed them. They were winning anywhere.
Same with the prelim against Adelaide.
Its not a ground suited for finals football, its a simple as that. The GFC/AFL and Victorian government stuffed up by not making it a 100,000 seat stadium. And the playing surface is worse than Marvel/Stadium Australia combined!!!
This is why all we know you’re a nuffy. 100,000? As if.
It’s an extremely good surface.
I think you're missing the sarcasm.
No I was serious about the capacity/size of the ground. More seats = more money and everyone goes home happy
There aren't enough people in Geelong to sustain a 100k seat stadium.
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And that's why finals won't be played there. Circle of life Elton John style.
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Then its not fit for regular AFL matches. This is a professional league.
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Same reason they play big matches against Collingwood, Carlton at the MCG. Same reason why Collingwood never play there. They want the big crowds.
Until the Cats play the Magpies at Kardinia for home games the league won't be fair, but we're used to it.
Apparently their current game style is more suited to the G. It has been less of a fortress.
Until the Cats play the Magpies at Kardinia for home games the league won't be fair, but we're used to it.
Apparently their current game style is more suited to the G. It has been less of a fortress.
Finals get played at Docklands (50k), and various smaller stadiums (Gabba, Showgrounds etc). Will be very, very interesting to see if Gold Coast gets to host one, or if they have to travel to the Gabba.
For what it's worth, Waverley had heaps of seating and the main consequence of that is that for 90% of the year it felt like a soulless shithole.
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