This week there are MCG games hosted by Richmond, Melbourne and Collingwood on Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively. Presumably, they are part of the allotment of home games for those clubs.
Next week there are MCG games on Saturday and Sunday, which interestingly enough includes Geelong hosting Richmond.
I think it makes sense we play in regional Vic in circumstances where the MCG (and Docklands) are likely already scheduled near capacity as allotted home games for Vic clubs and/or we are playing an out of town team.
Even with those other games, they could have manipulated the schedule to fit us in (they have recently been running Thursday night and even Monday night games). I also don’t think they are maximising attendances by taking them to regional locations. By and large the AFL is just getting a few thousand people (Swans fans) travelling from Melbourne to these grounds. It’s not like these grounds are full of neutral supporters.
Which is one of the reasons they should have been trying to maximise crowd numbers in every relocated game. There were no games in Melbourne last year, and the Swans Victorian members are not an insignificant number. It would have been nice had they attempted to cater for a market that had already missed out on games.
[Edit: Although, as mentioned previously (perhaps in a different thread), I thought this week’s game should have been played in Canberra.]
Last edited by Matty10; 14th July 2021 at 09:05 PM.
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