Sydney/WCE MCG Final Looms

[mcgarnacle]

all footy suppoprters who attend matches, purchase food & drinks at the ground, purchase merchandise and afl memberships, watch matches on tele...you indirectly promote this sort of behaviour from the afl. the admin do this because they know that morons such as yourselves will still contribute to the afl bank balance...this is all that matters to the bureacracy. i've had enough of it.

 

[Dave]

Why does everyone assume it's sydney that's going to be screwed out of a home final?

 

[chris p79]

Good news for West Coast fans if that's the case....

 

[Mead]

The scenario is that assuming West Coast and Sydney both win next week (and given the upsets over the last month or so, thats a heck of an assumption), unless the Eagles beat Melbourne by 37 points more than Sydney beat Richmond, it will be a Sydney home final.

The sad/disturbing thing is that given the Sydney game is first, West Coast might find themselves in a situation where the Dees v Eagles game is an entirely dead rubber, and it may actually be in our best interests to lose it. Thats mind boggling given its a rd 22 game between two potential finallists-

Say we have a choice between
a.) Winning by 37 points more than Sydney does = West Coast v Sydney played at the MCG
b.) Winning by less than that = West Coast v Sydney at the MCG.
c.) Losing narrowly = West Coast v Melbourne at the MCG.

Frankly, given how Melbourne and Sydney are travelling if I was confident of Essendon losing I'm not sure I wouldn't prefer choice C- If Worsfold was a cynical so and so he'd give them a good contest, rest the stars and send in some fringe players to try and injure Melbourne's marquee players for the following week. Given that we have been ********ed twice by this rule already, I don't think I could stomach the sick feeling of watching our team earn a home final and have it taken off us again.

What would resolve the whole situation nicely is if the Kangaroos could beat Brisbane- that would likely catapult St Kilda to 2nd, give them a home final and resolve the entire deadlock. With that game starting around 2 hours after the Eagles/Dees game, look for the intensity of the game at subi to dramatically change around 3 quarter time if they get word that the Roos look like rolling Brisbane...

Unbelievably Farcical situation. The only possible upshot is that if Sydney lose a home final, the AFL will have kittens and work a lot harder to resolve it in future.

 

[Roonaldo!]

Crowd for Sydney Vs WCE: 1,000

 

[MRobbo]

Crowd for Sydney Vs WCE: 1,000

I think that is very harsh, the crowd for that game would be 30-35 thousand.

 

[fabulousphil]

Comical situation if it happens, the draw is not equal and now the playing of finals at clubs who deserve them is also tainted. The AFL should break/renegotiate the contract .............. what really can the MCC do. Football has built the ground not cricket.

 

[JLC]

Get out there is an inequity in football. Who would have thought.

Considering teams dont play each other twice, home games can be bought, not all salary caps are even this is hardly surprising and i think it is not the most important of the issues the AFL has.

jlc

 

[dr nick]

I think that is very harsh, the crowd for that game would be 30-35 thousand.

30-35k is bad... less pressure applied to the AFL and MCC as opposed to a 1k crowd.

 

[MRobbo]

30-35k is bad... less pressure applied to the AFL and MCC as opposed to a 1k crowd.

I am AFL member and no matter who is playing I will be going to all MCG Finals anyway.

 

[Roonaldo!]

I think that is very harsh, the crowd for that game would be 30-35 thousand.

Remember this is in Melbourne with 2 interstate teams.
If you lived in Wa would you make he effort to travel all the way to Melbourne for this?
and also do you think 15,000 others would? Would all the Sydney fans go down?

 

[sedders]

there are 1000 victorian based eagle memebers. I would expect at least 5000 eagle supporters, probably a few more sydney supporters plus the afl members and mcc scum that get in for free, so I'd expect around 15,000 at least, but probably not more than 25,000. What attendance is required for the game to be a profit?

 

[dr nick]

I am AFL member and no matter who is playing I will be going to all MCG Finals anyway.

sadly i might be amongst them (if i get a friday + monday off). The prospect of a finals match outweighs smiting the AFL.

 

[gundy]

Crowd for Sydney Vs WCE: 1,000

So ALL of the North Melbourne members are going to go and no one else will turn up

 

[llosis]

Finally, West Coast get a little payback for getting screwed over twice in the past.
Really, who could care less about Sydney crying over this. WC has been the most effected by the agreement in the past, and it will be sweet irony going to the G in two weeks to see West Coast get their first finals' win there in 4 years.

Grow a brain.

You're right we have been screwed by the AFL with this rule twice before but there is little to gain from seeing another team get bitten by it as well. Are we better off playing Sydney at the MCG than the SCG? Yes, probably but only marginally, but that is nothing to get excited about. And meanwhile the game suffers for what? A completely stuffed up agreement the AFL is none too concerned getting out of.

There is nothing for the eagles to gain out of this mess so maybe you should look at the bigger picture before speaking out? Cheers.

 

[robbieando]

There will be over 40,000 at the game, Swans fans living in Melbourne will come out in force and when you add in AFL and MCC members who get in free and football loving members of the general public, the crowd won't be as bad as some people expect.

 

[jim boy]

As a Syd member, MCC member and a Melbournian, I'd love to see the bloods at the G for a game in September. We have not won at the G in the finals since 1945.

Ahhh.. finals were at Princes Park in 1945. Swans haven't won a final at the G since the last Saturday in September, 1936.