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5 Day Break Could Cost Us Dearly

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AFL Fixture with a 5 Day break coming back from Fremantle could cost us dearly.

Why do they (the AFL) keep doing it to us?

I know this next sentence may not be popular around here. However, it needs to be said.

Sadly think we only have ourselves to blame.

Tigers can draw a crowd of 6500 to Yea ... yet we can only get 3000 to Visy Park.

We need to take a good long hard look at ourselves as a supporter base.

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    5 day breaks have to be taken as a good learning curve for our young kids to learn how to prepare and recover

    cant understand your idea that Rich v Geelong game gets 6000 or so against our 3000, firstly the reigning premiers were playing in a provincial town so i dare say alot of the crowd would be locals secondly visy park is a dump of a venue and ran out of food at half time along with crap parking and shite entrances what more can you say.

    I know the membership tent ran out of scarfes so i doubt it was that bad of a turn out even the essendon fans didnt show up in numbers just aother practice match for me

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    Nothing wrong with a five day break in the pre-season.

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    AFL Fixture with a 5 Day break coming back from Fremantle could cost us dearly.

    Why do they (the AFL) keep doing it to us?

    I know this next sentence may not be popular around here. However, it needs to be said.

    Sadly think we only have ourselves to blame.

    Tigers can draw a crowd of 6500 to Yea ... yet we can only get 3000 to Visy Park.

    We need to take a good long hard look at ourselves as a supporter base.

    Would have had 10,000 if MFC had played Essendon at Casey Fields.

    Crowds for past NAB Challenge matches have been:

    2007 - Essendon v Hawthorn - 10,000

    2008 - MFC v North Melbourne - 6,000

    2009 - MFC v Western Bulldogs - 5,000

    The added interest from Casey residents in MFC, the normal MFC supporters (are there any normal ones?) and a strong Essendon following would undoubtedly have provided a strong crowd. The word is there's no MFC game at Casey Fields in the 2010 pre-season - absolutely ridiculous!!

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    2009 - MFC v Western Bulldogs - 5,000

    The added interest from Casey residents in MFC, the normal MFC supporters (are there any normal ones?) and a strong Essendon following would undoubtedly have provided a strong crowd. The word is there's no MFC game at Casey Fields in the 2010 pre-season - absolutely ridiculous!!

    It was raining sideways that day against the Bulldogs too.

    It will be a massive shame if there isn't a game at Casey Fields this year.

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    It will be a massive shame if there isn't a game at Casey Fields this year.

    The door has opened slightly it seems - common sense may yet carry the day and it may happen. Fingers crossed.

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    No matter who had played in Yea, the crowd would have been 10k. It's a country town, with an AFL game being played on a country ground. If it was Freo vs. Port there would have been 10k there.

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    The word is there's no MFC game at Casey Fields in the 2010 pre-season - absolutely ridiculous!!

    I can't see why we wouldn't be playing there. I assumed the Casey game was scheduled in Week 4 to increase the likelihood that we would be in the NAB Challenge.

    Any idea on what day the Casey game will be played, casey scorp?

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    I can't see why we wouldn't be playing there. I assumed the Casey game was scheduled in Week 4 to increase the likelihood that we would be in the NAB Challenge.

    Any idea on what day the Casey game will be played, casey scorp?

    Saturday 13th @ 2:00pm (same timeslot as previous years - 2pm on the day of the NAB GF)

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