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i think the issue is more that of being a smaller club (essendon and carlton arent small clubs but have completely imploded off field multiple times in the last 10 years).Don’t disagree but it’s not like the dees have been run well either. Even Collingwood was run so badly they had to fire sale to be salary cap compliant.
Think the article covers the issue well - less home ground advantage at Marvel, and the small marvel clubs are almost always the ones who have to play the cats at SportsRorts Stadium.
removing marvel / mcg tenants and having each melbourne club get a split at each ground would probably be 'fairest'. unfortunately commercial arrangements beat out equity considerations 99% of the time in the AFL - see the marvel tenants being forced to host home finals at the mcg against mcg tenants.