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I don't know how the Swans can take an anti-gambling stance when it's such a massive revenue contributor to the sport in which they participate.
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Take that McChins
My hubby is one of those who will lose his away seat. He sits in the Ponsford stand on level 2. He thinks he shouldn't have to move as Collingwood had a deal and he pays lots of money for his membership. I told him bad luck no other club can access these seats when it is their home games because Collingwood hogs them. They can sook it up all they want but bad luck and suck it up.
As much as I hate how infested the AFL is with gambling, I'm not sure what can be done about it, if anything. There's just so much money involved it can't go anywhere.
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Collingwood need to build their own stadium, just like Geelong. Then they can sell all their seats out every year to all their members.
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The value of the TV rights is directly tied to a broadcaster's ability to earn money from polluting the content with gambling ads.
Legislated government intervention is the only way I see things improving. Even if the AFL wanted to take the moral highground they can't afford it.
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It's obviously not cheap but I'm surprised clubs haven't looked at this more.
Imagine having the home ground advantage that Geelong do every season.
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Most clubs had it once upon a time…
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The Legends Stand is all the reason you need to never let Carlton build another one.
20 games then delistedimagine if we drafted him
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I had a reserved seat and watched games from that stand in ‘97 & 98.
Too many opposition supporters there.
I went back to stand behind the goals at the Heatley stand end in ‘99.
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Levi is going around again, best season todate for goals.
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Geelong didn’t pay for the upgrade, no club could afford it.
It’s been debated here a lot but I’ve never seen a real report on what it would cost to get the ground back up to a standard where we could make money.
There are several grounds in the AFL which are behind PP in size and most teams in the NRL still play games at their historical home ground.
I feel the historical ties to a ground, maintaining a legacy, home ground advantage are worth more than having 10,000 extra spectators at 2-3 games per year.
It would be good to have an actual $$$ amount to go with the discussion.
An upgrade of the legends stand $10M, Elliott stand $15M, a second level or something small behind the gardener stand $5M, it’s not a great amount.
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It’s all about the parking in Carlton … you’d be going up against resident backlash unless a parking solution is included and that would probably cost more than any stand refurb I’m guessing …
Princes Parking Lot. No one would mind if all that green space was turned to asphalt, would they?
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No parking required, plenty of other ways to get to the ground
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I get you sometimes need to scoot to a game in a car but I didn't know anyone who drove to pp back in the day........train, tram, walk, win, reverse.....
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I have a few guest permits that would pay for themselves pretty quickly
The redevelopment of Princes Park to 45,000 capacity (as originally planned in the late 90’s) was never going to get up once the AFL (Graeme Samuel, Ron Evans et al) got into bed with the government and the development of the Docklands Stadium.
The AFL diverted funds from the sale of VFL Park for a stake and future ownership of Docklands.
Princes Park redevelopment was dead in the water - government was never going to allow 2 stadiums of similar capacity.
Whilst the romance of games at Princes Park appeals to our sense of nostalgia and tradition- I think we can best content ourselves as a place for our VFL, AFLW and VFLW and preseason games.
We have over 90,000 members now, I think we should be more concerned at getting more games for ourselves at the MCG.
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