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Is Geelong home games at Etihad the biggest league-endorsed rort of recent times?
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are you willing to play your home games vs geelong at kardinia park? if not then shut the hell up.
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Kevin Sheedy coins country game. Dons not willing to take it to the country.
Have to play in the big smoke
I wouldn't even play away games there. And we don't.
exactly
Oh their 'home city', which makes it the same as their home ground. I suppose it's a bit like a 'home state' final, ie, it's in your home state.
no its not. how many home ground games you get last year? 15 or so plus of which 5 or so would be pure home games and 10 would be neutral games plus you have another 2-3 neutral games at etihad. We had 8 home and no neutral games.
geelong 8 home, 0 neutral and 14 away
richmond 5 home, 12 neutral and 5 away. plus or take 1
yep seems totally fair
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Kevin Sheedy coins country game. Dons not willing to take it to the country.
Have to play in the big smoke
That's an Essendon home game, again.
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Starting the year with 3 away games in a row is a bit of a slap in the face. It's not until round 4 that Gary gets a true homecoming at Kardinia Park.
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We wish. only 11 games for Richmond at the MCG last year.no its not. how many home ground games you get last year? 15 or so plus of which 5 or so would be pure home games and 10 would be neutral games plus you have another 2-3 neutral games at etihad. We had 8 home and no neutral games.
geelong 8 home, 0 neutral and 14 away
richmond 5 home, 12 neutral and 5 away. plus or take 1
yep seems totally fair
how many at etihad?
3 is a good year. wasnt it 10 last year.
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Irrelevant. Its as much Richmond's home ground as it is Geelongs.
what a ridiculous comment. did they not teach you math at school. 5km is a lot lot smaller then 60
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You asked how many games at our home ground. Not how many at grounds near our training oval.
Etihad will never be a home ground for Richmond, just a ground that we are forced to play home games at, just like all the other Victorian sides have had to.
stop with the deflective rubbish responses that you use to try to convince yourself its the same. you have been told why it isnt the same and you have not even tried to refute it. Just ignore and deflect.
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Agreed.no its not. how many home ground games you get last year? 15 or so plus of which 5 or so would be pure home games and 10 would be neutral games plus you have another 2-3 neutral games at etihad. We had 8 home and no neutral games.
geelong 8 home, 0 neutral and 14 away
richmond 5 home, 12 neutral and 5 away. plus or take 1
yep seems totally fair
Geelong should give up 3 home games to even it up.
I dunno about that, having the ground made to 'Geelong's specs' would be up there.
What garbage. Geelong pack the G when they play there (wghich they ask to do) and they get good crowds to Docklans - much the same as any Vic club. It's not 1945. Cars are pretty quick and comfortable and the road is pretty good. Clubs don;t take a bus with a toilet break at Laverton any more. It's a one hour trip to the G/Docklands and a half hour trip for most people not in Geelong. NOONE wants to play at Docklands.
In any case all clubs have locational advantages and disadvantages. Geelong supporters complain about playing home games an hour away but not about playing interstate clubs at the G on GF day. It's all a big whiny beat up.
yeah 80,000 crowds in which 55,000 are opposition supporters. Im sorry but until you have followed a team in our position you have no right to comment on it. We are always outnumbered in melbourne games. Go watch sundays game. The chants of ball only come from melbourne supporters as geelong fans arent numerous enough. Melbourne. A club we have far more supporters then and yet we are the clear minority.
You can say its only an hour driving but practical speaking going from door to ground it always takes closer to 2 hours to get there and longer on friday night games. Thats 4 hours travelling for a 3 hour game of football. For night games it means not getting home to well after midnight which rules out most families and older supporters. Keen supporters will go but the majority of more fair weather supporters wont.
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They don't ask to play at the G, how many times does it have to be typed?
Lol. Back when the AFL obviously liked losing money I remember going to a H&A game against West Coast at Waverley.
I liked the ground (try flooding/congesting there!) but that was a pretty stupid fixturing decision.
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Well last weekend was a Melbourne home game so their home members get free entry. Of course they should outnumber you.
And I agree with you on Geelong night games. I live and work equally as far east of the city as Geelong is south and the amount of Thursday and Friday night games Richmond get is rough.
The QF on a friday night was absolutely the wrong call. It should have been the Saturday afternoon.
However Easter Monday crowds havent fluctuated depending on the home team. As I said yesterday if it was such a bad timeslot for you then Brian Cook should come out and explicitly say so.
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