Why is there another oval in the suburbs being used at all? They should have put Melbourne playing in the Barossa or Claire, wine country plus football for their supporter base was an obvious sell.
The scheduling has other obvious shortfalls beyond that. They've sensibly put a game before the Port game at AO to try and entice Port fans to get in early for the double header, so it's not a Footy Park empty benches flashback, but then have Adelaide as a stand alone game. It should be Richmond v Sydney or Collingwood v St. Kilda (as reasonably supported clubs in SA) to open Thursday night, then a low ranking game like Freo v GC the Friday afternoon at AO, before Adelaide the night game there.
