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Melbourne memberships used to be a strong focus, there's nothing to sell anymore.


Someone like Eddie McGuire would be screaming about it, but because people were used to him doing it I don't think it reflected poorly on the coaches/players and so on.


If we complained, it would be Adelaide are sooks. Actually, maybe Collingwood did get the criticism, they just didn't care? Not sure.


The way to sook about it, if that's what you'd call it haha would be to have someone like McGuire just send a clear message via the media "we don't like going there, our supporters don't like going there, so they'll be staying at home this weekend and 45,000 people are missing out on this game because it's not in Melbourne"


I say this because these games are surely paid for from tourism budgets and the like. So you've got Ballarat council or whoever paying big dollars for an AFL game and you've also got the club saying "our supporters don't want to go to Ballarat, stay home and enjoy the game in front of the fire".


I don't think I'd do the above, I don't really like the whinging I guess, like we have a lot of supporters in Darwin and to be saying we don't want to be there wouldn't be great, but it is what it is and behind the scenes we should be trying to fix this and some pressure in public wouldn't be bad either.


"We'll play in one of them but it's time some other clubs did some heavy lifting" or something.


Or use our position a club the AFL wants to send to Darwin to our advantage, like yeah we'll actually go there once a year to play the Gold Coast, but it has to be the week before our bye and we're going to share some of that $$$$ or get us some sponsors up there.


What really annoys me is any mention of us having to win more games to get better time slots and locations or whatever, sure clubs should be rewarded for performing, but we perform top 4 and we'll maybe get 2 Fridays (probably one is a stupid double header or something the AFL comes up with), a Thursday and some Foxtel Saturday Nights. Carlton just looks like making the 8 and they'll get half a dozen Friday nights in a row.


At the end of the day you ultimately do have to go where they tell us but it does seem some clubs make some noise and their problems go away.


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