4 hours ago, Chris said:

It isnt so much about when you play, it is about who you have home games against. The small Melbourne clubs generally only get home games against each other and interstate sides while the big ckubs get home games against each other far more. This makes it far easier for them to make money. Add to that the high profile TV slots and lufe all of a sudden gets a lot easier. 

I say split the gate on every game 50/50 and things instantly get a lot fairer

I haven't had a chance to check but do you know how the Bulldogs draw looks this year? That would be a telling point, I thought the idea was after 17 rounds the ladder breaks into three groups of six, you play the other five teams in your group and that makes 22 games. 

2 hours ago, jnrmac said:

6 Friday night games and 2 Saturday night games smashes the "you have to perform to get good TV slots" theory. On 2014's form they deserved nothing.

They have been made to understand this year, hopefully it remains a precedent in years to come.

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

We use the word 'traditional' pretty loosely these days, don't we? I guess if we keep saying it long enough people will start to believe it.

Well it's becoming tradition unfortunately. 

2 hours ago, rjay said:

 

Carlton fans will realise how bad they actually are and the Tiges will again get an inflated opinion of where they sit.

For the rest of us we will get a false start to the season...

Your not suggesting Richmond would ever get ahead of themselves RJay?....anyone but them.

Imagine Tigers finished 5th and we snuck into 8th....Id be grabbing Hardtack and whoever else is from Sydney and flying down to watch Richmond bow out again in the first round.

3 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Still doesn't help if you play GWS at the G and then in Sydney. Half of both of those games is very little. That theory works with EFC, Hawks, Carlton, Coll, Geel, Rich.

And when you play WCE that fill the ground with 90% members, the revenue available to be split diminishes considerably.

It would need to be revenue based on bums on seats regardless of membership status. 

In terms of the GWS argument that all comesdown to who you play twice