Define “fair”. The Vic based teams already travel less than other clubs. The WA and SA teams;probably) will land up playing “neutral” games against each other in Queensland, where neither has to travel from their existing base, and both are playing on grounds they are not especially familiar with. No team is going to have fans present to gee them up (and maybe influence umpiring calls), at least for the first half of the season. Personally I doubt we’ll have crowds back any time this year, but if we do, those SA and WA teams could get an extra benefit from a run of games in their parochial home stated, with crowds. All depends on what you think the bigger contributors to home game advantage are. The fact that some clubs may nominally get nine home games and others eight is probably one of the least distorting features of this year’s competition.
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