While it's tempting to agree, the problem with that model is that the clubs lose incentive to do anything to encourage their own supporters to attend as the clubs' only get one eighteenth of the revenue of any extra attendees. Or, to put it another way, some clubs would become freeloaders living off the more strongly supported clubs.

Wrong.. What it does is give all the clubs the same amount of money to invest in football thus helping to further even out the competition. This brings back the supporters of poorer performing small clubs.

Wrong.. What it does is give all the clubs the same amount of money to invest in football thus helping to further even out the competition. This brings back the supporters of poorer performing small clubs.

I think you'll find the story is much more complicated than that due to matters such as stadium size and non-cash paying attendees. Have a look at this article by Ross Booth, who was not only a caller of VFL games on the ABC but also an economist. (In particular, read the second last para on page 10 for a simple explanation of the complexities).

I'll stick with my opinion. Feel free to stick with yours.

Yawn...Coll vs Geelong this Friday night, I however will be watching Victory/City game interspersed with some NRL and some Adam and Eve action. However if they were to schedule a WB vs ??? or a Pt A vs ??? I would be watching.

PS If it was a Dees game I would be at the MCG.

Don't you just love the excitement and build-up ahead of tomorrow night's Carlton vs someone game. The whole city is on edge!

Don't you just love the excitement and build-up ahead of tomorrow night's Carlton vs someone game. The whole city is on edge!

Next week too!

Carlton's horrendous demise is good for a lot of reasons, but one of them should be that Seven and the AFL recognise the danger of putting all their Friday night eggs in one basket.

I keep reading on this site that when we start performing as a team we wil get a more favourable fixture. Well its got to be BS.

Carlton finished 13th with 7 wins and has 6 Friday night games this year including the opening round of the season....

Rd 1 (Thurs night) lost to Rich 78 to 105

Rd 2 Lost to WC 62 to 131

Rd 5 Lost to Coll 45 to 120

Rd 8 play Geel

Rd 9 play Syd

Rd 17 play Hawthorn.

Chances are they will lose all 6 by big margins. Great for the showpiece of the game.

We know the fixture is a contrived piece of cr%P but how the hell do the AFL think this was a good idea. I hope the ratings fall to zero on these nights.

We get 1 game (which we won), the dogs get none. Another stupid AFL stuff up.

I think the inference is that we'll have larger attendances and ratings when we start winning more. Our supporters will come out of the wood work. I remember a game in (I think it was) 2004, where Ashley Sampi took that hanger. So against West Coast at the MCG, if my memory serves me correctly, we had an attendance of 36,000. That's up there with Hawthorn and almost Collingwood. We have the 'supporters' out there and they will start coming in droves again when we start playing finals. Particularly, as we've been down for so long. It's not proper equalisation, in fact it's [censored], but the broadcasters are running a business and so the fixture will be scheduled around the biggest audiences. We start to win more, we'll get a better fixture.

Yep, schedule us against Collingwood, Essendon or Hawthorn, big crowd and get done by 40 points.

Defeats the whole purpose of not seeing one sided Friday night games.

Until we're good enough we wont get them, we cant play Richmond every week.

Edit. forgot duhhhh

this is a big part of what causes the power clubs, & the weak poorer clubs the big timeslots are critical to future & long term success. the AFL have to equalise the time slots.... not doing this in the past has caused the big gap between the haves & the have-nots.

because the damage is already done over the past, doesn't mean the AFL should not try to rectify their mistakes of the past. or the same results will occur forever.

I think the Dogs are the hardest done by. Would much rather see them on Fridays than Mick's depress fest. Even if they finish last they'll still have 3-4 next year I bet.

People want close games. A contest.

Schedule teams from bottom 6 middle 6 and top 6 from previous years to play eachother on friday nights. Share it between the groups. Done.

I've lost interest...