No Oppo Supporters Geelong MCG tears

[Sterge]

Show us the best cat melts over our final not being at Skilled

 

[biaseddustyfan]

should be at punt rd oval

 

[jarrod_island_doggies]

It might seem like there's only one option worth entertaining, but really there should be two venues in the running. Revs or Tramp, Dusty's choice, time to give the man what he wants.

 

[_Wang_]

Unlucky Geeflog

 

[Gosha]

Hahahahahahaha Geelong. Silly thinking a final agains Richmond should be played at their dump.

 

[TigerTime88]

Beat the Cats and send them out in straight sets putting us through to a prelim and also enhancing our first round draft pick prospects.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Ling was crying all day

 

[SunshineBoy]

Go west Coast?

 

[Sterge]

Started already

Geelong would be the only team not to get to play at home during the finals
Why should we be disadvantaged?
How are we rewarded!
If we play Richmond it will be very interesting!!
It is the only game in the world where this happens
The AFL will not give us what we deserve

We should but we won't i have no faith in the AFL to make correct unbiased decisions.

Richmond, Essendon, Collingwood, Melbourne, (MCG based teams) etc etc all have a privileged status when it comes to finals. They have a chance of a home game even if they finish below the team they are playing against- it's remarkably unfair and it is staggering that the AFL allows it. But it's all about money, isn't it?

Richmond especially. The AFL has been barracking for them all year, and there is no way they will miss out on a home game even if they finish 3rd. it's that corrupt. The joke is that when GWS, GC, Brisbane, etc get a home final the AFL is over the moon about it and makes sure they play at home- even though they wouldn't host as big a crowd as Geelong would at KP. So is it really just about tickets but also about engineering a "fair" exposure-based competition or something? Just horrible. That's why I will never again blow my dosh on an AFL membership.

The crowd means nothing to either side.

It would be in Richmond's interests to play at Kardinia Park so they can learn to crawl out of their safe space.

After 50 years you'd reckon they were big enough to no longer need the unearned home ground advantage every finals series.

Pathetic that the AFL wouldn't give us a home game when we spent millions of dollars on a new stadium and finished 2nd. Supporters want to see their team win by playing at their home ground. Most of us would rather our team win than be able to fit into the stadium to see them live.

It's bulls#it and unfair, and typical of the AFL.

But in a pragmatic and focused sense, which the club have switched to RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW, it's a distraction for the club to be fighting a battle they won't win.

The team's focus is that we need to play on the MCG if we make the GF.

As such, the more practice we have on that ground the better.

And remember, we've been repeatedly on the end of unfavorable decisions from the AFL this year. This club is under siege, and have come out breathing fire.

The only team in the comp that earns the right to a 'home final' yet plays it at their opponents home venue.

HumanMeatball and The Dice Man

Before posting here please note: You losing today gives us a KP final, and you winning today gives us a KP final. So before coming here knowing you won't be carded, just ensure you don't choke ala Melbourne yesterday, or Richmond in every finals series I can remember, before you come posting here and telling us where to play our finals matches.

In almost every other sporting league in the world with systems that involve home ground advantage, that line of reasoning would be considered so self-evidently anathema to the integrity and fairness of the competition that it wouldn't even be brought up as a point of discussion. And for good reason.

It's bizarre that this is even a debate. In many ways it's not even an interesting conversation, because ethically speaking there's not any nuances or shades of gray to it, or anything even worth going in depth about. There's not much to say, really: it's blatantly unfair, and that's all there is to it. A team that has earned the right to play a final at their home ground is entitled to that privilege regardless of expected crowd size at the venue. Bang. Done. Argument over. I genuinely can't think of an issue more cut and dried than this.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Bunch of *silly people

 

[biaseddustyfan]

pretty sure the afl rules even state you just get a home state final not home ground final

 

[sante]

Does it actually matter? The G is the place to be in finals

 

[SunshineBoy]

Bunch of ****silly people

Is the gellong west ground still open with the bike track?

 

[tigers47]

They can get f*****

 

[Michaels]

Show us the best cat melts over our final not being at Skilled

This has to be a segment this week

 

[Sterge]

This has to be a segment this week

Better ask the guy who sets the agenda

 

[balmainforever]

If you can't win a final at the MCG, you can't win a Grand Final.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Cats fans reading this....

You have no idea just how few *s i give about this game NOT being played at a vfa oval

 

[Sterge]

8:30 tonight the fixture is getting announced

 

[Gosha]

Can't decide which thread is funnier. Geelong fans and their home final thread or the West Coast Adelaide gameday thread on the Melbourne board.

 

[Michaels]

Better ask the guy who sets the agenda

He is a flog

 

[Goldust]

Blah blah!
Like Geelong have never won a final or grand final at the MCG.

 

[Cevap_Roll]

Bunch of ****silly people

Are they are aware if its at Geelong 3/4 of them would miss out on tickets.

Its free for all finals tickets. They get no preference even though its their home final. They would be battling against 75k Richmond members to get a seat.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Ling was crying all day

Catch his reflection in the mirror?

 

[Bazzar]

Essendon and Carlton would play a final at Etihad, and the Cat's wouldn't be having a hissy fit if they were going to play the Hawks at the G