When I grew up all games were played on a Saturday afternoon. The scoreboards all had their codes for all the other games and it was part of the days past-time tolisten to the 'trannie" and watch the scores progress at other grounds by seeking the keys to teams via your copy of the record.

Thats all gone. Hardly a game is played on a Sat afternoon in Melbourne any more. My how this game has changed. And yet a small vestige may still exist and it will do so thi safternoon at the G. I speak of course of a Tradition game of rivals. Yes Melbourne and Richmond are rivals and it was born the day those interloping bastards took up residdency having moved "uptown" ( from across the lawn ).

We need to remind these trespassers that this is OUR ground and we reign. We need to beat them. But also we need to re-establish this particular fixture back in the mindsets of all Melburnians, i.e Football on a Saturday at the G. Heres an opportunity to make this particualr event OURS. Happy to share teh day with Richmond and hope they enter into the spirit of this , now rare, event

A good ol game of footy at the best place in town , the way it ought to be played.

What say others ?

You could be dead right that it's the last traditional clash, with GWS coming in next year the AFL will have to fit another game in somewhere and it could mean Saturdays go the way of Sunday with the early and late game.

I'm loving the idea of this game, to me there are so many levels to it: as you said the traditional rivals part playing at the MCG, the fact that it is a Saturday 2:10 match, but the point that it's arguably the two most exciting young lists in the AFL at the exactly the same point in development going toe to toe.

I pumped!

The scoreboards all had their codes for all the other games

could never work it out why they didn't just go in order a vs. b, c vs. d.... it was always k vs. n , r vs. s etc !!