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No games at the MCG first week of the finals?
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If Geelong can guarantee 40,000 tickets for Pies members/supporters and 20,000 tickets for the AFL, then they will be allowed to play at the Cattery.
Demons will be at the MCG too.
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You haven't watched a Geelong home game all year?
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Nope
Imagine finishing top of the ladder and not getting a home final !!
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Stkilda finished above them in 2009 right?
Don't hear them sooking about the gf not being at docklands
Why should they? That doesn't happen when finals are played in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth or Sydney. Why is Geelong different. They aren't a Melbourne club.
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And here we have the annual - Tigers supporters claiming Geelong supporters are whinging about home finals.
Like clockwork.
Like clockwork.
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Would Geelong like to nominate Adelaide Oval for their home final?
Won't be anything else going on there.
Geelong can have the first 40,000 tickets and 10,000 Port supporters in prison bar jumpers and Geelong scarves will snap up the rest and support you.
Won't be anything else going on there.
Geelong can have the first 40,000 tickets and 10,000 Port supporters in prison bar jumpers and Geelong scarves will snap up the rest and support you.
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Hard to believe isn’t it. Geelong should just forfeit and tell the AFL to GAGF and see you in week 2
I know this 100% belongs in the unpopular opinions thread but the solution here is no team should have the MCG as their home ground. Yes, I know my own club has benefitted from the G being our home ground but you can lay the blame of that situation, 100% at the hands of the AFL who decided to shut down Waverley. Our board was smart enough to call the AFL's bluff and ensure we got the better deal at the G. Well played Ian Dicker.
So I'd build another ground at the Showgrounds with say a 60,000 capacity - there's already infrastructure there that gets 100,000 to the races so there would be no issue in terms of getting people in and out. All teams could rotate through the G, Marvel and the Showgrounds without fans missing out on seeing their team. Geelong could have their non MCG home games in Geelong.
Come finals time - finals are played in the home state of the higher ranked sides. It was the original thinking behind VFL Park. A neutral venue that everyone would get to play with the Grand Final being played there.
So I'd build another ground at the Showgrounds with say a 60,000 capacity - there's already infrastructure there that gets 100,000 to the races so there would be no issue in terms of getting people in and out. All teams could rotate through the G, Marvel and the Showgrounds without fans missing out on seeing their team. Geelong could have their non MCG home games in Geelong.
Come finals time - finals are played in the home state of the higher ranked sides. It was the original thinking behind VFL Park. A neutral venue that everyone would get to play with the Grand Final being played there.
Congratulations Collingwood on finishing top and getting a home final
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So you wanna discuss finals records, where would you like to begin?
With the 100 finals you hosted at the MCG from 1897 to 2012 without any complaints
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That factually incorrect. It all changed when we got a home final in 2013.
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I don’t complain, I agree, when Geelong has been good enough they have made grand finals and won grand finals, and when they haven’t they don’t…… you know what I see more of though, oppositions fans complaining about the 5% of cats fans who complain about home finals at the G
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I think you will find the AFL does actually require the home team to make a heap of tickets available.
Plus, the rule says the home team gets a game in their state, not their home ground. So the AFL is always within their rights to play games at the MCG if a Vic team gets the home ground.
Coincidentally the same year you went to s**t and started choking with that loss at KP to freo.
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We have made plenty of preliminary finals and a grand final since then. So if that’s “s**t” wow
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No games at Tax payers park for you Geelong
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Things change. Like Essendon, they use to play down Geelong.
Tim Watson vs Geelong 27 times. 11 @kp
Jobe Watson vs Geelong 10 times. 0 @kp
prison bars, grand finals, home games. it's a joke.
There's no reason why the AFL grand final can't be rotated (even years at the MCG, odd years rotated between QLD/NSW/SA/WA), except for the AFL being stubborn
There's no reason why the AFL should dictate where clubs play home games, whilst allowing others to pick and choose, and allowing some clubs to have contracts for where they play away games (looking at you Pies @ MCG)
There's no reason why Port can't wear the prison bars except for away games vs Collingwood. It's a completely different jumper.
Back when the MCG was a neutral venue that 10/12 clubs didn't play games at before ground rationalisation. Times have changed, now 14/18 clubs play home finals at their home ground. What about the other 4?
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