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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
A little bit left field, but depending on the draft fixture it could actually be mutually beneficial for two clubs like West Coast and Sydney to play both their games at the MCG. Most people would baulk at the idea and think it's stupid, but if both clubs agreed it would negate any home/away advantage from the two clashes so that is even. Doesn't work so well if only one club gives up a home fixture. Two extra games at the MCG against quality opposition is not going to hurt two teams vying for a flag.The clubs from other states that want to play more games there just have to move one of their home games there each year. Maybe two.
A little bit left field, but depending on the draft fixture it could actually be mutually beneficial for two clubs like West Coast and Sydney to play both their games at the MCG. Most people would baulk at the idea and think it's stupid, but if both clubs agreed it would negate any home/away advantage from the two clashes so that is even. Doesn't work so well if only one club gives up a home fixture. Two extra games at the MCG against quality opposition is not going to hurt two teams vying for a flag.
Hawthorn won the last two premierships having lost the minor premiership i.e. not the best team - this indicates the home ground advantage may have an impact.
Eagles Pumped em 3 weeka ago at Subi, Hawks Pumped em today at the G.
If you think it isnt a factor then i think you need to ask your guide dog for help.
Hence why every effort should be made to ensure other factors are reduced or removed (ie home ground advantage) so that it is the best team on the day, not the team that gets the best advantage or overcomes the advantageAnd lost one when they were the minor Premier, suggesting the GF is simply won by the better team on the day.
This could be the mascotBuild a 150,000 capacity stadium in Canberra. Call it Capital City Stadium and host every GF there. The annual pilgrimage to CCS will be a thing to behold.
Its a cricket ground
The issue isn't that the GF is played at the MCG, the issue is that a select few teams play there during the season as their home ground.
If the MCG is the 'spiritual home' of football then all clubs deserve to play there multiple times during the season, regardless of crowd factors.
The issue isn't that the GF is played at the MCG, the issue is that a select few teams play there during the season as their home ground.
If the MCG is the 'spiritual home' of football then all clubs deserve to play there multiple times during the season, regardless of crowd factors.
I have a proposal that will never get up but would keep everyone happy: make the GF a best of 3 series.
We also won twice in Perth in the past 2 months.
Yes but the only time you faced a full strength team you got pumped, just ask you guide dog what happened.
Hilarious, sounds like sore loser talk. Wonder what Goku would say about this?This game was over before it began. Hawthorn gifted the easiest, most unfair national premiership ever thanks to the AFL's stubbornness.
ANZ stadium or Adelaide oval would have been perfectly suitable alternatives. The "hurr durr tradition" argument is BS. The 1991 Grand Final was played at some soulless venue. If the AFL was about tradition then Fitzroy would still be around.
The decision to keep playing the Grand Final at this venue every single year is a blight on the competition
Okay. St Kilda wouldn't even exist today if not for West Coast / Adelaide
Does it matter? You will fill a 100k stadium for every grand final.Of that 100k how many are actual supporters of either team?
Too bad the stadium and ground are a pos and that's why the players dont want to play there.ANZ kicks arse if there's 80,000 there. For that reason, it would be a perfect GF venue. Just don't use it the rest of the time.
NoI would like to see all Victorian teams get equal games at MCG and Docklands, so it's a home city thing rather than home ground.
We'll have to agree to disagree. I know there have been dozens of "ANZ is a hole" threads. I don't get it. It's just a f***en stadium. Any place with 80K in it is dripping with atmos. And any place which can hold 80K is "soulless" when the crowd isn't huge.ANZ is a hole, heck people did not even wanna go there when Sydney played in the finals so I can really see a bunch of people flying over from Perth then taking the train out to Homebush.
See my post above.Too bad the stadium and ground are a pos and that's why the players dont want to play there.