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From a scheduling perspective, you're right there's no need for a third stadium. We're not at capacity fixturing wise. Having a third stadium however would allow 3 games per day in Melbourne, which could help share Friday nights around the country (a noble guesture the AFL would be unlikely to...

Helps that he did an apprenticeship on MMM doing the B slots like 4.40pm. Was able to develop outside the limelight and not get thrown into the deep end from day 0.

Why is there 3 games on Saturday night? We have the pre-finals bye now, so no need to push the top 8 teams early into the fixture. AFL will want to spread it out as much as possible. Very likely that if Fremantle v Port decides a top 4 or 8 spot, it will go 6pm Sunday like they did with Carlton...

I'm watching the game on 7 right now.

He must be on some legacy contract...

The 23k came from the Carter report. They forecast ROI against crowd capacity and graphed it. The graph peaked at 23k capacity, before levelling out at max ROI until about 28k before ROI drops off. They really should have taken the maximum crowd and ROI, not the max ROI and min cost.

Is it fair to make north/eagles/richmond show up every week and get smashed by 50pts? A second division allows for more competitive games overall. If each division started with 10 teams and expanded to 12 eventually, having 3-4 teams relegated or promoted each year should aim to minimise...

Mate you can keep searching for conspiracies or take the simplest explanation which is always the most likely. My family has six season tickets in the brownlow stand. We couldnt make the game and we didn’t sell the seat back to the club. As ive said before and elsewhere, the AFL needs to put...

Conferences are unfair. I agree. Divisions are fair. Good teams play good teams. Developing teams play developing teams. This year the top 12 are all competitive. Imagine if they only had to play each other every week.

A lot of modern highrise / warehouse construction in Europe uses timber now.

7000 people who bought a ticket didn't show up. Simple as that. Don't overthink it. The issue is league wide. Pies v Dons sold out, and they got 80,000.

AFL needs to move away from reserved seats and look into a new model that uses bays/areas as the guide. The problem with "sellouts" is twofold. Firstly, those with GA tickets don't show up because they think they can't (if they bought a GA ticket, there is a spot allocated to them). Secondly...

Great idea. Even if he just recorded intros to each mini that got played on a monday night after 360

No need to. They already know it, just refuse to do it

I've said it before but god I hope they use 2025 to relaunch the channel like they did back in 2012. 5pm to 7pm should be Fox Footy Live, Monday to Friday. Give me an ESPN style podcast/panel show that just talks footy. Like the midweek tackle, just throw in some journos and some footy...

Melbourne needs a third stadium of ~35k capacity built in either E-gate or gosch's paddock. Then the 9 Melbourne clubs need to get over having a home ground, and instead let each game be scheduled in the right sized venue. Pies v Blues? MCG Hawks v North? Docklands Tigers v GWS? Boutique...

Except Docklands is still in the city and two extra stops on the train (from both richmond and jolimont), at least olympic park/sydney showgrounds is a solid 30min on the train out west.

I suspect the new deal will see some deck chairs shuffling, especially considering It's for 7 years, and fox has more slots to fill. In an ideal world, Ch9 would let Lloyd/Kane do TV commentary on Fox and still do the panel shows on 9 (SFS, FC). Ah well...

Most weeks he's in Melb Sat-Mon, given he does a game for SEN saturday night.

It was a sellout, every seat had an "owner". The ticketing companies can't force people to show up. It's a massive issue that the AFL needs to deal with, last night was a sellout with only 89k. Part of the problem is people buying tickets so far in advance. Plans change. Shit happens. The...

Advertising is driven by the tv, but yes the catering contract would take a hit.

Its the price the club pays for having such a high season ticket holder allocation. Same happens at the G where dreamtime (for example) sells out but only 80k show up. If the seat is sold, club still gets the cash so financially no worse off. Bad look on the tv and is a league wide issue the...

It's not unfair. If your club choses to sell games to another venue and it drags your home average down, then that's the price you pay.

If you haven't watched it, how could you know it's boring as batshit?

Almost. The 2005 scoreboard was the NIB one at the GA terrace end of the ground. It was removed when the brownlow stand opened. The river end screen was installed when the past players stand opened in 2013 and they re-did the gap where the old shell timeclock was

The troll finally let loose. Good. Own up to it

Its not Port Melbournes responsibility to put up grown men for AFL listed players to develop against. They want to play for VFL flags. The two types of clubs have different objectives and it ruins the gamr

This. 100%. There’s enough standalone teams to jumpstart a new era of VFL As for the AFL reserves, they can share the plane with the seniors and play before. Increase the list size to 55ish to cover two games worth plus injury. Reserves to focus on development of youth

God we’re a lucky club. Posters in here more concerned over whether Hawkins is a team of the century player (like wade and gablett) and no shits given about the opposition this week (and they’re good too). Tbf I dont rate Melbourne either

I agree, but they want people to stay on the linear channel and watch every game. In an ideal world, 504 would take the games back to back to back, with 503 being used for the pre/post game that overlaps with live play (and Kayo being able to stay on the one game from pregame to post game)...