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What about fair to the 50,000 people that'd miss out if it was at Adelaide Oval?
"The home of football"
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I wouldn't mind seeing it rotated among the venues with a large enough capacity. It needs to be sorted out before the season starts though.
If that means two Vic sides play the GF at an 80k Perth venue, so be it. (Yes, I know the new stadium isn't going to have that capacity, its a hypothetical that won;t happen for 30-odd years anyway). It would be no different to getting a Western Derby GF now and playing it in Melbourne.
If that means two Vic sides play the GF at an 80k Perth venue, so be it. (Yes, I know the new stadium isn't going to have that capacity, its a hypothetical that won;t happen for 30-odd years anyway). It would be no different to getting a Western Derby GF now and playing it in Melbourne.
Any contract can be repudiated/broken, just depends on the costs that would be incurred in doing so.
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Be interested to see what kind of crowd a West Coast v Port Adelaide GF gets at ANZ Stadium.
It'll probably change then anyway, assuming that the stadium in Perth will have been built, and another large capacity stadium potentially being built.
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Mate, it's been that way for ever. Stop sulking and get on with it.
I for one really don't give a **** where it is played, it's a day for barbecues and mates.
I for one really don't give a **** where it is played, it's a day for barbecues and mates.
Would probably fill it. People will travel for a GF.
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Buy out the contract. If they want to get rid of COLA to make it a fair competition, then I don't see why this isn't another logical step in the process of equalisation.
That is like using raw free kick numbers to determine who got the rub of the green umpiring. Just because the interstate side won, it doesn't mean the Victorian side wasn't favoured.
That shouldn't come into it.
None of those examples you used are the comparable. Wembley is a neutral ground, the Champs-Elysses stage is an irrelevant stage in the TDF, all tennis courts are the same dimensions and Augusta isn't the 'home ground' of any golfer.
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Yes, I do, because of Sydneys inability to provide a worthwhile alternative.
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How is ANZ not a worthwhile alternative? Because it doesn't have "atmosphere"? So what. Fairness > Atmosphere.
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2025 Grand Final at the Gabba, we have Fremantle v GWS, in front of 24 000 people 
But it's fair because it's not at a home ground of either side
But it's fair because it's not at a home ground of either side
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No, because it's shit.
Not if one side refuses to budge as i have already said.
I don't think you understand the concept of what Repudiation of a contract is.
“an unwillingness or an inability to render substantial performance of the contract” or “an intention no longer to be bound by the contract or to fulfil it only in a manner substantially inconsistent with the party’s obligations”.
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The MCG on Grand Final day is just as neutral. Corporates force that.
The Super Bowl is the most comparable example. The crowd is never one way or the other.
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Where have the AFL said they want to make it a fair comp?
And what do you think it would cost to actually buy out the contract (Which is very different from "breaking it")
The MCG have absolutely no interest in changing the contract for obvious reasons.
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2025 Grand Final at the Gabba, we have Fremantle v GWS, in front of 24 000 people
But it's fair because it's not at a home ground of either side
What? I'm suggesting the team who finishes higher out of the Grand Finalists gets the home ground advantage. So that game would be at the new Western Australian stadium or at ANZ. And it would sell out. Because it's a grand final.
Build another great footy stadium that can hold over 80k and then we can talk.
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Neither which apply to the contract we are discussing...
Maybe i should have clarified apart from a few isolated cases that would not apply to this contract
So as long as one side of the contract is fulfilling their contractual obligations there is no way to break that contract if they refuse to budge.
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The MCG has unique dimensions that Victorian sides are far more used to than interstate sides. Not to mention different winds, and all of the other idiosyncrasies that are attached to each ground.
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But integrity of the competition, etc. I actually don't give a shit, it's just funny that the hysterics and talk about advantages in the competition for a very large number of people don't extend to some topics, or if they do, are covered by excuses that aren't accepted otherwise.
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Why should atmosphere be prioritised over fairness?
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