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Banter Geelong V Richmond - GO!
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Didn’t Richmond get 11 straight games at the G leading into finals a few years back? Nah you’re right, forget it, I just don’t care.
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Didn’t Richmond get 11 straight games at the G leading into finals a few years back? Nah you’re right, forget it, I just don’t care.
They aren’t our home ground advantage games if we are against other MCG tenants. Educated yourself. Geelong don’t have that problem because they don’t share GMHBA with anybody else and have an essentially rectangular ground. Dan Hannebery himself said he’d never ever want to play or watch a game there. It’s that awful.
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Well, the median house price is more expensive in Geelong, for starters. So to buy property it’s more expensive. See, there’s this thing called the beach, that tends to impact on house prices. You can Google ‘median Geelong house price’ and do the same for Melbourne if you want.
Infrastructure and public transport is traditionally less accessible in regional and provincial areas and fuel is more expensive, as are essential items. Getting those items to country areas costs more, and as such the price of them is raised.
Or you could just educate yourself, in addition to stop being an excuse making pathetic piece of trash. Either way is fine.
The lifestyle doesn’t kick goals, and the 6 million people living in Melbourne is PROBABLY, just probably, proof that the lifestyle thing is not that big a factor.
Do you make this many excuses about everything else that you fail at?
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11 straight games on your home deck leading into the finals isn’t an advantage?
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Against other MCG tenants no it isn’t.
But we got the 2020 flag all in Queensland so it doesn’t matter anyway. That’s what Dynasty teams do, anywhere anytime. You wouldn’t get it.
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So the other tenants are Collingwood, Hawthorn & Melbourne right, and of them in that run of MCG games in 2019 you only played Melbourne who finished 12th and Collingwood who finished 4th. And you’re truly trying to convince me that you were at a disadvantage even when considering the other 6 finals clubs were not MCG tenants?
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So the other tenants are Collingwood, Hawthorn & Melbourne right, and of them in that run of MCG games in 2019 you only played Melbourne who finished 12th and Collingwood who finished 4th. And you’re truly trying to convince me that you were at a disadvantage even when considering the other 6 finals clubs were not MCG tenants?
Our first final was in Brisbane so idk what your point is. From the mid season bye in 2019 we were unbeaten everywhere we were just that good.
Yep we had one of those. But not a single top 5 draft pick in 28 years. How many top 5 draft picks have you had in that time? 5? 10?
More expensive than what?
This is what you get in Richmond for $4m....
This is what you get in Geelong for $3m....
This will set you back $2.3m in Richmond....
You get this for $1.4m in Geelong i a "blue chip waterfront location"...
You are kidding yourself thinking Geelong is more expensive than the inner city suburbs of Melbourne, where most of the football clubs are.
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Oh so you have to live in inner city Melbourne to play football there.
Ok. No wonder your players gave up trying to be competitive so easily if they give up trying to live near their place of work unless they can piss on it from their front door.
Brave lads.
#dicksOutForTigerWallets
We can compare beach side properties in the area with beach side properties a similar distance from Geelong if you like. Any equivalent property within striking distance of one of the inner city Melbourne clubs is going to be higher price than a similar property within similar striking distance of Geelong. I mean, what is the actual basis of your claim? Show us what you think an AFL footballer is living in around Melbourne that is cheaper than an equivalent property around Geelong....
Just a stupid claim by you, as usual arguing for the sake of it.
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No, it was in response to the generic claim from your little brother - which doubtless he read on a sugar packet at a Richmond get together rather than investigated himself - trying to excuse away any Geelong success, bizarrely, due to ‘lower cost of living’ in Geelong.
Because that kicks goals and all….
All in all it would be a lot cheaper and easier to live and commute around Geelong for a footballer in any of the following that might appeal:
- on a farm
- near the beach
- in a fairly nice urban area
Against that, there woul be a lot more going on in and around Melbourne. I am not sure how big a factor it is for attracting players, but it would play a part in players' thinking, for sure.
I am from the school of thought that Geelong does have certain advantages that make it easier for them to win an extra home and away game or two per season. And this would of course explain perfectly their stronger home and away record v their weaker finals record if they were getting a win or two more than other teams performing around the same level.
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The most expensive street in Melbourne is the one right next to the MCG (I forgot the name but it’s the side where you go in gate 3) with $10m+ houses. Idk wtf PB is on about.
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No it wouldn’t.
That’s like saying ‘I’ve looked at a door opening so I can explain all the physics and mechanics of hinges and their design and properties.’
What an utter joke
We’ve lost quite a few finals because in large part we’ve been beaten by sides expected to beat us. Here and there we’ve dropped them to teams not expected to as well.
That will happen to teams in the finals for the better part of two decades.
Your inability as a grown adult to accept the relative success of a sporting team, like a child who can’t accept that its bed time, won’t change that.
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Yes and I’m sure your whole team lives in a row of houses right there.
Geelong players all live in one bedroom units in satellite villages outside of Geelong and walk to training so have next to no expenses. They live on a subsistence diet, and when the ball goes into their forward line, the local gas companies don’t charge them anything and the ball kicks itself through the goal.
That’s why you finished 2-21. Because of those factors.
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Spoon status lads? Has it arriveth?
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Not yet lady Macbeth
No it wouldn’t.
That’s like saying ‘I’ve looked at a door opening so I can explain all the physics and mechanics of hinges and their design and properties.’
What an utter joke
We’ve lost quite a few finals because in large part we’ve been beaten by sides expected to beat us. Here and there we’ve dropped them to teams not expected to as well.
That will happen to teams in the finals for the better part of two decades.
Your inability as a grown adult to accept the relative success of a sporting team, like a child who can’t accept that its bed time, won’t change that.
Your analogies, jesus.
I will try to commit some of them to memory in case I ever have a conversation to kill one day.
