You mean like Melbourne back in the day, leading to a ban on teams selling their games to opposition home grounds right until it stopped being convenient?
This is how I felt last week, because Freo might actually be good.
Gold Coast clearly is topping out as "decent but flaky" which is giving me enough hope to be dashed yet again.
From what I gather - Melbourne home game, Melbourne initiative in conjunction with their ex-coach, and yep, this being on a set day against a big opponent with a guaranteed big crowd means most eyes on it for fundraising.
Don't listen to the media on that front. Every player that stays at a club does so on "slightly unders". Other clubs always have to pay premiums to pull players out of their existing club (in general - there are exceptions where players just want to get the hell out of there) and on these big...