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Obviously it's not important to me, but I don't see a particular need to play 8 home games a year at the MCG or whatever. 3-4 home games against 3-4 big Melbourne clubs and all the interstate clubs/smaller Melbourne clubs at the dome seems to work perfectly fine. The only time I see it as a problem is when we play Hawthorn at the Dome but thankfully that hasn't happened this season. Obviously some people see it as "we're a big team so our home game should be the G", but all the big teams want their home ground to be the MCG and you've got Melbourne as well who have a stronger case when any team. You can't fit them all in.
 

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Obviously it's not important to me, but I don't see a particular need to play 8 home games a year at the MCG or whatever. 3-4 home games against 3-4 big Melbourne clubs and all the interstate clubs/smaller Melbourne clubs at the dome seems to work perfectly fine. The only time I see it as a problem is when we play Hawthorn at the Dome but thankfully that hasn't happened this season. Obviously some people see it as "we're a big team so our home game should be the G", but all the big teams want their home ground to be the MCG and you've got Melbourne as well who have a stronger case when any team. You can't fit them all in.
Some believe it is hampering our membership growth, due to the fact that Etihad has half the capacity of the'G.

But I tend to agree with you, I don't mind having Etihad as a home ground. Though I believe the split should be 5-6 Etihad and 5-6 MCG home games each year.
 

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I don't know if Collingwood look good or if it's St Kilda that look deplorable. Perhaps it's the latter because Collingwood are accumulating clearances at will and without any semblance of pressure.
 
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Yeah st kilda have looked pretty awful. Somehow collingwood have managed to simultaneously do it pretty easy and get a comprehensive win while also not even looking particularly good. Strange.
 
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The club should tell the AFL we no longer want to play home games at Etihad and get them to buy out the rest of the contract.
Is that from the same think tank that brought us "what's to stop the players just turning up anyway if they're banned"?
 
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