Victorian GF Heist.....'national' league joke.

[Blood Fever]

Cameron Ling was a breath of fresh (and sensible) air when he started in the media but now he's just another Channel 7 knob........we'll see how long Nick hangs in there.

Didn't know where to put this post. Maybe it needs a thread of its own. Just found out Grand Final at MCG agreement has been extended to 2057! Victorian government pouring 500 million into ground development including Etihad and MCG. Absolute travesty of a national competition and grossly unfair on interstate teams playing on oppositions' home grounds. Parochial joke(and I live in Melbourne). We have been the victim of this and last year was outrageous that Tigers played on their home ground after finishing lower than Crows. Different game in Adelaide. Laughable situation in a supposed national competition. Makes me extremely angry.

[Ludwig]

Didn't know where to put this post. Maybe it needs a thread of its own. Just found out Grand Final at MCG agreement has been extended to 2057! Victorian government pouring 500 million into ground development including Etihad and MCG. Absolute travesty of a national competition and grossly unfair on interstate teams playing on oppositions' home grounds. Parochial joke(and I live in Melbourne). We have been the victim of this and last year was outrageous that Tigers played on their home ground after finishing lower than Crows. Different game in Adelaide. Laughable situation in a supposed national competition. Makes me extremely angry.

What's laughable is that some people really think the world will still be functioning in 2057. There's a better chance of the Grand Final being played on Mars than at the MCG, unless they mean Mars Cricket Ground.

[stevoswan]

This: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-04-1...-500m-megadeal

Victoria protects it's patch........

2057?! What a ridiculous joke.

[linko]

This: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-04-1...-500m-megadeal

Victoria protects it's patch........

2057?! What a ridiculous joke.

Make it fair for everyone, one home final for each team and if required a decider at the MCG

[barry]

'great for fans' according to McGuire. What a joke.

[lwjoyner]

I am a Victorian swan and have been for over 60 years. No other ground can accommodate crowd only thing wrong is the one day a year followers that push us genuine supporters backwards and upwards.

[707]

V.......FL, what did you expect. Maximising revenue, maximising executive bonuses.

And pathetic Hardwick calls out the Crows supporter who merely says to him "you're not at the MCG now Hardwick"

If you're an interstate side, you have to be a much better side than the Victorian side you are playing the GF against purely because of the home ground advantage.

[Sandridge]

I understand the "MCG is the only ground that holds enough people" thing but the competition is severely compromised by the fact that most Victorian sides, if they make the Grand Final, have a pronounced home ground advantage if they play a non-Victorian team.

[dejavoodoo44]

Unless Gill is planning on sticking around for the next forty years, it demonstrates a certain amount of arrogance, to lock future administrations into a deal. A deal that seems not to take into account, any possible future changes in circumstances and power structures.

[KSAS]

In response, all interstate clubs should demand their VIc games be played at the MCG to at least help reduce the home GF advantage. This should be at least a given for interstate teams who played in the previous year's finals (i.e. Adelaide, GWS, Swans, Port & West Coast). In our case we would get to play 8 games at the MCG this year!

[rb4x]

In Sydney the government decided that the Olympic Stadium needed to be knocked down less than 18 years after the Olympics and remember that it was reconfigured and refurbished after the Olympics. If it had not been reconfigured it would have held 120,000. OK they backed down on that and are now going for a very expensive refurbishment. The MCG will be decrepit by the standards required for a stadium in 2057 and nobody currently would understand what those standards will be. It is not only arrogant and unfair to the non Victorian clubs to lock in a deal so far ahead but plain stupid to commit future generations to this deal. No players in the 2057 Grand Final have yet been born.

[SCGonabeautday]

Ha - here�s an idea - let�s all stop using the word interstate to describe non VIC clubs! Can you imagine the word being used in the NBA, NFL - they don�t even use it in the NRL.