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SCG Masterplan confirmed for 2025 https://surryhillsnews.com.au/ageing-stands-at-sydney-cricket-ground-highlight-urgent-need-for-upgrades/

Who says that they are not a second Sydney team? And how is 300km away better than 19km even if they areonly a Western Suburbs team? Crowds are not growing in Sydney’s west. SCG crowds are growing. Fish where the fish are. How can Canberra possibly help long term?

Playing three games @ SCG would increase GWS crowds. It is such an obvious play. Somehow it is better to play games 300km from Showgrounds rather than 19km. Giants are supposed to be a second Sydney team. Like the Dockers in Perth, not all their fans are from Fremantle! It would be like the...

Hobart gets less rain than any capital city other than Adelaide and half that of Sydney.

Of course you can. Once GWS and GC have been around for another 20 years, all clubs will have equal chance of Father-Son success. Until then, scrap the Lions and Swans academies.

Given they averaged 13k in 2017, three seasons in a row over 15k would show some growth. But they have only ever had five non Swans in season games over 15k, so can anyone really see that happening? Overall AFL crowds have grown by 10% since then and the Giants have made no progress at all. I...

You will be disappointed.

BBL finals crowds are nearly always smaller than regular season crowds. The AFL is opposite. Showgrounds is very basic but if the don’t start getting improved crowds even once the train/tram arrives in 2032, they should pack it in.

They certainly won’t be moving to Cairns. Five times the void.

Cairns population is about a quarter of the GC, it is more pro-NRL than the GC, and the humidity makes it unsuitable for regular games. Plus no stadium suitable for regular games. No chance.

This redevelopment has no funding whatsoever and is close to zero chance of happening.

You can play footy in the rain. The only ground that needs a roof is SCG for cricket.

It doesn’t. But the AFL were determined to make it as hard as possible for Tasmania, so they asked for a roof. Because the roof at Marvel makes it so popular.

His agility has been diminishing for more than one season. Even is 2023 he kicked a good amount of goals, his pressure was way down.

Chol stays until/if Dear can before a relief ruck. Gunston is insurance only once Lewis is fit.

Sure, but Bruest is no longer capable for playing full games. When you are the sub so often, it skews the stats. Much easier to come on and go nuts for 30 minutes rather than play a whole game.

Richo is a much better bloke, but wasn’t anywhere near as good as Dusty. He was exciting at the start, then had that great late season on the wing, but rarely put it all together.

Hawks are stand alone first for GF wins. That is the only stat that counts.

Canberra team 20. Non Vox clubs get 12 homes games. Vic clubs get 11 home games plus a neutral game. Seven of these are played Gather around in Adelaide (it won’t work as well anywhere else - no one is driving to Perth). The other three neutral games are played in Darwin. Crowds and Port play...

This season clubs will have up to three byes. 19 teams means two byes each. What don’t you like about 19 teams?

90k Launceston and Hobart 260k.

Yep.

The white square is idiotic. If there is not enough contrast between the two colours, just make the numbers white rather than the jumper.

Not really. Sydney and Brisbane were privately owned, so the AFL profited via entry/licence fees. The AFL would also have expected WC/Adel/Freo/Port to be profitable. They also expect Tassie to be profitable. So it is really just the GC and GWS. And in those cases I reckon that they might have...

It’s been there all along. In fact the York Park upgrade is about to commence. https://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/utas-stadium/redevelopment

Not true. From https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/experience-sunshine-coast/statistics-and-maps/population-growth the number of people moving to the area continues to increase, with over half of new arrivals coming from other parts of Qld, one in three from other States, and one in five...

But it won’t have enough people to sustain an AFL team. The vast majority of residents prefer NRL. Even with 500k residents in 2040/50 it will still be a much smaller AFL market than Hobart.

There will always be more footy fans in Perth than SEQ, where the vast majority of people prefer NRL. And the Sunshine Coast is a bunch of towns and villages. If they can’t sustain an NRL team (there is no talk of that), there is no chance of an AFL team.

Population growth is overrated. For example, most of Melbourne’s growth is from Asia. There are half a million people of Chinese background in Melbourne. And nearly as many Indians, Does this really help the viability of AFL clubs?

That means absolutely nothing to 99% of us.