News Tigers Will Not Need T Migrate

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RICHMOND chief executive Brendon Gale says he wants to build the Tigers into such a financial powerhouse they never have to sell games interstate again.
The Tigers have auctioned two of their 11 home games this year, playing Port Adelaide in Darwin and the Gold Coast at Carrara.
It turns two extremely winnable games against interstate opponents into line-ball contests, but Gale said the club had no choice.
He said yesterday with Richmond not on a strong financial footing, hard decisions have to be made.
"Ideally, we want to keep all our home games, but the business case was too important to ignore at this stage," he said.

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Lets hope this is the case. I don't mind the game being sold off at the moment because as Benny says it was a decision that had to be made because of our financial situation. Given the FTF is going to wipe off the debt I would expect to see all our home games being played in Melbourne from 2013, given we have deals in place to play the next 2 years in Darwin and Cairns.

 

[gaelictiogar]

All our home games should be in Melbourne. I accept a temporary measure in difficult times but frankly selling games interstate is demeaning for a great club. OK if necessary but demeaning.

The fact is a competitive richmond can rival anyone. We do need to aim high and playing in Melbourne preferably at least 9 at the G is absolute minimum for one of the top draws in the game

 

[RFC_Official]

You would never know it (thanks to some creative journalism) but those quotes were ripped out of our chat we had on the site last Friday.

 

[smasha]

You would never know it (thanks to some creative journalism) but those quotes were ripped out of our chat we had on the site last Friday.

Herald Sun LOL.

 

[peejay]

And even they got it wrong !! carrara ??? FFS.

 

[richoatthedisco]

You would never know it (thanks to some creative journalism) but those quotes were ripped out of our chat we had on the site last Friday.

I picked it as soon as I recognised the quote. I like the caption for the photo. Apparently the ME Bank Centre is a 'stand'.