cats_09
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- Jun 21, 2011
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I'm on my phone so can't find the quote but in sure Cook said in an interview years ago that they need at least 80k at the MCG to make the same amount as a game at KP brings the club. And that would've been when the stadium was at 20k capacity.
I know the quote you're talking about - pretty sure it was raised when we had a "home" game against Richmond at the MCG on a s**t Melbourne winter weekend and we only got like 35k in attendance
There was multiple figures discussed, but rough numbers for the MCG were
- 60k to break even
- 70k+ for a decent profit
- 80k to match a KP sell out
MCG games really don't help us financially in comparison to home games at home