Again I hate the Cats and have not listened to what their supporters have to say on this matter.
Regardless of who attends and how many fans get locked out, fact is, the advantage went from the team who finished higher on the ladder to the lower placed team. No other sport in the world does this. If it happened in a US sports league there would have been rioting in the streets.
You may as well extend your argument and say that all finals involving Freo and a Vic team should be played in Melb because it will get more people to the game, regardless if Freo are the higher placed team.
If Kardinia is good enough for H&A it is good enough for Finals. We've all been brainwashed into believing that the game must be played at the larger ground for the good of the supporters when all the AFL care about is the money it rakes in.
Your logic is pretty skewed here, methinks.
Firstly, the only reason that Geelong finished so high on the ladder is that they have the easiest fixtures in the league,
every bloody year.
To compound this advantage by allowing the team to also play their finals at the ground is a crazy notion.
Geelong get to play their finals at the MCG, where they play often enough during the year for it to be familiar. To extend that argument to making Freo play in Victoria for a home final is a very long bow.
You have clearly been brainwashed into thinking that Kardinya Park is good enough for H&A. It's not, not for a high drawing team anyway. Collingwood never play at KP, because it is in Geelong's interests to play them at the MCG.
You are blaming the AFL for the greed of Geelong. They are a marginal seat, so the government paid for the ground's upgrade. Geelong wanted a special advantage, so they kept the ground long and narrow. Geelong are happy to play at the G when it suits, and then whine like jet aircraft when it doesn't. Their players spend more time playing for free kicks than anyone else (at least since Mr Flappy retired), because they are so entitled that they think the world owes them special favours.
And why do you think it would be okay to play a final at a substandard suburban ground? Because Freo had to once? That was a travesty. But even then there were three other finals games in Melbourne. This week there was one game. You think it's just about the money? If the AFL barred 50,000 Richmond supporters and 10,000 Geelong supporters from watching a final, no one would have been congratulating the AFL.