Grand Final Day Dimensions - Clubs Should Choose

[aCunningPlan]

...I have stolen a cunning plan.

After a bit of discussion on another board I feel an idea has popped up that could really work.

The highest ranked side on the ladder in the Grand Final should earn the right to match the ground dimensions as close to their home ground as possible (within the current confines of the MCG) or keep them as they are.

The MCG will host the Grand Final now and into the future, that wont change. However, if Adelaide were to finish top of the ladder and play Collingwood in the Grand Final in ten years time for example, I feel they should be able to dictate the lines be painted in the dimensions of Adelaide Oval. It would be a small advantage the highest ranked team would earn I feel to even the otherwise unfair, but unavoidable, advantage MCG sides have.

It doesn't take much to move the posts and paint new lines.

Below is the MCG in green with the dimensions of other grounds in white.

 

[footyfan1978]

Awesome Baldrick.
More please.

 

[CD__]

Surely you're taking the piss?!

 

[00Stinger]

Wow I have seen some stupid ideas on this site over the years, but this may just be the dumbest of them all

 

[im_a_lazy_sod]

I actually don't mind this tbh.

Doubt it would get enforced much if it went through, however.

 

[compact72]

Please Gil, no more byes. Can't take this anymore

 

[Bomberboyokay]

It is an interesting idea.

 

[Corkintheocean]

Seems like a legitimate/fair work around to offset an archaic tradition (that is unlikely to change in the near future).

You know you're on the right path with a decent idea when a couple of numpties come in and immediately slate it.

 

[SuperSub17]

Subiaco is 15m longer than the MCG so I'm curious as to how that would work.

 

[Underdog]

I actually quite like the idea. The situation is flawed so this goes someway to fixing it without the AFL forgoing tickets for their precious corporates.

 

[Underdog]

Subiaco is 15m longer than the MCG so I'm curious as to how that would work.

You could, you know, read his post where he addresses this...

 

[Furn2]

Subiaco is 15m
longer than the MCG so I'm curious as to how that would work.

Put the goal posts in row F.

 

[Sausages]

I endorse the Lions having control over the fourth dimension.

 

[SuperSub17]

You could, you know, read his post where he addresses this...

Yes I'm aware of that, but you can't move the posts any further back than what they are so you can't even get close to the added length.

 

[Franc de Borges]

Interesting.

 

[Underdog]

Yes I'm aware of that, but you can't move the posts any further back than what they are so you can't even get close to the added length.

Sure, but you can adjust the width...

 

[aCunningPlan]

Subiaco is 15m longer than the MCG so I'm curious as to how that would work.

Wouldn't really matter in two years time with the new Perth Stadium's dimensions being 165mx130m.

 

[Adz2332]

interesting idea! i actually dont mind it... takes away some of the advantage vic sides have... especially seeing teams like Port play on the MCG one every year!

 

[Randomizor]

I like this, surely the AFL could have removable seating or something for the narrower setups. More money for them, fairer for all.

 

[Mad_Hatter]

Highest ranked club should also be able to choose the crowd figures, so as a Cats fan I want 28k capacity and 27k of those being Cat members, please and thankyou.

 

[aCunningPlan]

Highest ranked club should also be able to choose the crowd figures, so as a Cats fan I want 28k capacity and 27k of those being Cat members, please and thankyou.

Might as well have the game at Kardinia Park then...

 

[Boomerfan99]

Or the afl could be like most other sports and standardize oval dimensions.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Its actually not a bad idea. Better than I normally expect from Baldrick.

The one question i have is how much it could affect game day. At York Park when they had the lines in a long way on the wings for a few games some years back, the ball went out of bounds on the full a lot. I wonder how much players were fooled by the look of having a lot of space out wide. That is not something we would want to encourage in the year's showcase game.

 

[aCunningPlan]

Its actually not a bad idea. Better than I normally expect from Baldrick.

The one question i have is how much it could affect game day. At York Park when they had the lines in a long way on the wings for a few games some years back, the ball went out of bounds on the full a lot. I wonder how much players were fooled by the look of having a lot of space out wide. That is not something we would want to encourage in the year's showcase game.

That's a fair point actually. Would something like painting any part of the ground beyond the normal five metres of the boundary line blue help?

 

[Falchoon]

watching Geelong would be like watching the soccer at the MCG