You know what when I was growing up all teams played on Anzac Day and the day was not as celebrated as it is now, besides obviously ex servicemen and their families. The first Anzac Day game brought the day to thousands of more people so I don’t see it as “commercialism” but commemorating the day. Just like Collingwood and Essendon built Anzac Day and made it their own Richmond and Melbourne are doing the same with Anzac eve. Tremendous stuff.Well, hell, why not Anzac eve eve. And Anzac eve eve eve. It’s just more honouring the Anzacs, right?
It’s Anzac Day, a day chosen for the landing of the Anzacs, not the night before, when a bunch of kids were probably shitting their pants at what they were about to be made to do. It’s just hijacking and commercialising of the day, part of the culture war that veterans have been a part of for most of this century.