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My argument is that the biggest factor of HGA is the impact a one sided crowd has on the referees.
Richmond v Giants PF, the crowd was 90% Richmond...when they are all yelling ‘ball’ as one it has an influence on umpires.
At the GF the crowd is going off tap for BOTH teams.
Any umpire bias and advantage from that is lost.
Richmond v Giants PF, the crowd was 90% Richmond...when they are all yelling ‘ball’ as one it has an influence on umpires.
At the GF the crowd is going off tap for BOTH teams.
Any umpire bias and advantage from that is lost.
But if it is agreed that the biggest factor is noise on umpires, this doesn't mean that other smaller factors have no impact. Combining those smaller factors may be significant. How to measure all these variables and come up with the truth is impossible.
So for me it comes down to the pub test. If you had to choose whether to play a game in home your home state or interstate which one would you choose. You cannot choose both or say it doesn't matter, you must make a choice.
Home advantage is only one aspect of this decision.
Other factors may include finance, crowd capacity, fairness for non victorian supporters, impacts on growth markets etc.
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