Anywhere at Optus shits on most parts of the MCG. Sitting at the punt road end on the southern side during a sunny afternoon is a really poor experience. The only part I liked was bailing under the stand and sitting down inside where it was cool while scoffing a footy hotdog.People talk about the MCG like it’s some sort of substantively different experience. If you ignore the overt historical references painted on the walls as you enter, and the statues etc, it’s no different to anywhere else.
Maybe for MCC members there’s some sort of unique character inflected on gameday, but otherwise apart from being a mammoth stadium that is easy to get tickets to, there’s none of this bullshit intangibility about the place that Melbourne natives pretend there is
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