Would you have a problem with it?

[Westy Boy]

Just read 'Plan Lures Vic Teams to WA' on the afl.com site, calling for financially strapped AFL clubs to play ''home'' matches at Subiaco Oval.

These were the main points:

• West Coast and Fremantle to play additional games in Perth next season if a submission to the AFL is ratified.
  
• Eagles chief executive Trevor Nisbett said the move was part of a concerted push to reduce the debilitating annual travel effect on Eagles and Dockers players.
  
• A sell-out 38,000 crowd would yield in excess of $450,000, according to Nisbett.
  
• Prospects of Victorian clubs accepting the attractive offer are heightened because of diminished home-ground advantage for the struggling WA clubs.
  
• If the plan is adopted, extra games in Perth would mean two AFL matches at Subiaco in the space of two or three days.
  
• The plan has endorsement from the WA Football Commission which controls games at Subiaco Oval and owns the Eagles and Dockers licences.
  
• Additional games would have to be played in daylight, probably Saturday afternoons.
  
• Hatt said: ''That has two benefits to us; we'd get some sort of cash return, but more importantly, it takes away a travelling week for our players.''
  

So, would you guys go? I'm pretty sceptical about supporters of ANY club paying an additional fee to their membership to attend a game, so I wanted to get some of your opinions. Some supporters may even abstain from going, just as to not give a Victorian club any money in order to "speed up their demise".

The way I see it, is that you get to see your team again, we get money (and are actively trying to get ourselves out of our precarious financial positions), and of course you have to travel one less time during the season, which also helps ya's out.

If the figures mooted were guaranteed, I wouldn't have a problem with us doing it. Would you?

 

[GoEagles]

I'd definately go and see a Bulldogs vs Eagles at Subiaco even if it was an 'away' game for us. I think you guys would get a much better gate return at an Eagles game compared to a Sydney or Brisbane match.

 

[Westy Boy]

Totally agree, Go Eagles.

We've played the Sydney 'home' match for a couple of years, and that's netted about $100-200k, but the sums that your CEO is suggesting dwarfs that. Only time will tell how us, North or oven St Kilda take to the offer.

Will also be interesting to see how our supporters would react to only having 9 matches at home, but the club would organise 'compensation' through giving members free entry to a couple of 'away' matches in Victoria.

 

[GoEagles]

Another team that was tossed up was Geelong. They have a fairly strong following over here and would most likely get an extra 8,000-10,000 if they played the Eagles here in Perth, compared to a game at Shell Stadium.

 

[mantis]

I would love the Bombers to play a few home games here, that way my membership would get used more than 2 or 3 times a year.

 

[Captain Random]

I'd be there like a shot. We already pay an additional fee (on top of membership) for one of the Derbies, so it's not that unusual