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Melbourne to ditch Alice Springs game from next year?

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2 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Time for some other schmuck of a team to carry the candle for Gil's Dills

Sun's and Giants can have it

The irony being we'll probably still be scheduled there as the away team anyway :wacko:

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    2 hours ago, beelzebub said:

    Time for some other schmuck of a team to carry the candle for Gil's Dills

    Sun's and Giants can have it

    Port can have it, they play us up there every season except it's our home game, at least let us play different opposition, Port make inroads in the region at our expense, we have no advantage, i'm sick and tired of this arrangement, want it to end.

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    We have to sell our home games to survive, what a depressing situation to be in. Look at the millions the AFL throw into expansion clubs. yet we have no choice but to sell home games to stay afloat.The AFL even have the audacity to fixture us against StKilda at their home ground and call it our home game, would Collingwood tolerate this ?, i doubt it.

    Pity our club is run by the AFL, the NT deal helps us financially but not in any other meaningful way. Hopefully one day our club can have the balls and money to be able to demand all our home games at the MCG, as Caro said, send Hawthorn to Ethiad instead of Melbourne, it's our home ground, all the others are guests.

    The AFL is a joke  

    rant over :mad:

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    5 minutes ago, DavidNeitz9 said:

    We have to sell our home games to survive, what a depressing situation to be in. Look at the millions the AFL throw into expansion clubs. yet we have no choice but to sell home games to stay afloat.The AFL even have the audacity to fixture us against StKilda at their home ground and call it our home game, would Collingwood tolerate this ?, i doubt it.

    Pity our club is run by the AFL, the NT deal helps us financially but not in any other meaningful way. Hopefully one day our club can have the balls and money to be able to demand all our home games at the MCG, as Caro said, send Hawthorn to Ethiad instead of Melbourne, it's our home ground, all the others are guests.

    The AFL is a joke  

    rant over :mad:

    Rd 18 Collingwood vs North Melbourne At Etihad

    Doesnt make it any less crap though! Victorian teams all have to deal with this home game at another ground crap. Except 3: Hawthorn, North and Bulldogs. The first 2 I would assume due to their 3 games in tassie. Bulldogs because.... well idk there is no excuse, "luck of the draw"

    • Richmond, Collingwood and Melbourne all play a home game at Etihad. 
    • Essendon and St Kilda both play play home games at the MCG. 
    • Carlton 6 at the 'G and 5 at Etihad bacause apparently they have no home.
    • Geelong dont really count, they are all over the place depending on crowd sizes.
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    5 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

    Rd 18 Collingwood vs North Melbourne At Etihad

    Doesnt make it any less crap though! Victorian teams all have to deal with this home game at another ground crap. Except 3: Hawthorn, North and Bulldogs. The first 2 I would assume due to their 3 games in tassie. Bulldogs because.... well idk there is no excuse, "luck of the draw"

    • Richmond, Collingwood and Melbourne all play a home game at Etihad. 
    • Essendon and St Kilda both play play home games at the MCG. 
    • Carlton 6 at the 'G and 5 at Etihad bacause apparently they have no home.
    • Geelong dont really count, they are all over the place depending on crowd sizes.

    Thanks for the info AW, i didn't realise Collingwood played a home game at Ethiad. The AFL fixturing would have to be the worst i have seen from any A Grade comp world wide, nothing to do with fairness, it's all about the dollars

    Edited by DavidNeitz9

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    8 hours ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

    Rd 18 Collingwood vs North Melbourne At Etihad

    Doesnt make it any less crap though! Victorian teams all have to deal with this home game at another ground crap. Except 3: Hawthorn, North and Bulldogs. The first 2 I would assume due to their 3 games in tassie. Bulldogs because.... well idk there is no excuse, "luck of the draw"

    • Richmond, Collingwood and Melbourne all play a home game at Etihad. 
    • Essendon and St Kilda both play play home games at the MCG. 
    • Carlton 6 at the 'G and 5 at Etihad bacause apparently they have no home.
    • Geelong dont really count, they are all over the place depending on crowd sizes.

    Bulldogs sell a home game to Cairns, have done for a few years.

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    Do we really need to sell these games any more ? or is there some other agent acting here ?

    I wonder.

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    22 hours ago, DavidNeitz9 said:

    The AFL even have the audacity to fixture us against StKilda at their home ground and call it our home game, would Collingwood tolerate this ?, i doubt it.

    Round 18, Coll v North, Coll home game at Docklands.


    EDIT: Sorry already mentioned above

    Edited by Dr. Gonzo

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    SEN reporting that Port and MFC were quite happy to keep the Alice game.

    Apparently the NT Minister is going to take that game away and just leave the Darwin game.  They will give MFC b/w $1.0m and $1.3m to put back into the community. 

    Apparently Alice not too happy.  Apparently will get political!

    While I prefer we don't sell any games to anywhere, we need to remember that NT will be our designated Multicultural Academy so we will need to invest in that area one way or another.  That is going to cost money so this is one way of funding it.

    It also means one less game in NT (hopefully back to the MCG)!

    Edited by Lucifer's Hero

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    37 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    SEN reporting that Port and MFC were quite happy to keep the Alice game.

    Apparently the NT Minister is going to take that game away and just leave the Darwin game.  They will give MFC b/w $1.0m and $1.3m to put back into the community. 

    Apparently Alice not too happy.  Apparently will get political!

    While I prefer we don't sell any games to anywhere, we need to remember that NT will be our designated Multicultural Academy so we will need to invest in that area one way or another.  That is going to cost money so this is one way of funding it.

    It also means one less game in NT (hopefully back to the MCG)!

    Hopefully the club will push for a pre-season game in Alice Springs from next year.

    Not the same for the locals i know, but at least they'll still get a game each year.

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    38 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    SEN reporting that Port and MFC were quite happy to keep the Alice game.

    Apparently the NT Minister is going to take that game away and just leave the Darwin game.  They will give MFC b/w $1.0m and $1.3m to put back into the community. 

    Apparently Alice not too happy.  Apparently will get political!

    While I prefer we don't sell any games to anywhere, we need to remember that NT will be our designated Multicultural Academy so we will need to invest in that area one way or another.  That is going to cost money so this is one way of funding it.

    It also means one less game in NT (hopefully back to the MCG)!

    Good.

    I'm quite frankly sick of hosting Port in front of 2,000 locals and automatically giving them a cheap 4 points.

    1 NT game is plenty and play the other at the G where we might have a better chance of enhancing our core business-  obtaining the 4 points.

    PJ can use his brilliant expertise in rectifying the opportunity cost (money forgone for the Alice game).

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    On 29 May 2016 at 10:33 PM, Petraccattack said:

    We are being punished because we dont have as many members as the big clubs.

    The AFL should subsidize the smaller clubs so they dont have to sell home games.  How the hell can we ever have a fair end even competition otherwise.

    P. Are you naïve enough to think that the AFL have any interest in running a fair and even competition?

    Next you will be saying that the MRP behave with integrity and impartiality!!

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    12 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    P. Are you naïve enough to think that the AFL have any interest in running a fair and even competition?

    Next you will be saying that the MRP behave with integrity and impartiality!!

    Of course they do. A Hawk will get a week for elbowing an opponent, a lower side will get two. That's f''''king fair! 

    Edited by dieter

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    Can I put this succinctly. 

    Who gives a flying f%#k

    Get rid of the NT for REAL games

    Play pretend ones if you like.

    Last time I looked we were the MFC

    Not NTFC

     

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    49 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    Can I put this succinctly. 

    Who gives a flying f%#k

    Get rid of the NT for REAL games

    Play pretend ones if you like.

    Last time I looked we were the MFC

    Not NTFC

     

    Last time I looked we were struggling to stay on the right sight of the legal bb. 

    WE NEED THE MONEY!

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    43 minutes ago, old dee said:

    Last time I looked we were struggling to stay on the right sight of the legal bb. 

    WE NEED THE MONEY!

    Not nearly so much OD

    We need to play even cleverer than we have.

    I still have a gut feel this is an AFL agenda 

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    11 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    Not nearly so much OD

    We need to play even cleverer than we have.

    I still have a gut feel this is an AFL agenda 

    We have been given the dregs at the bottom of the glass

    yes the deal gives us some cash, but it will always keep us down below the ladder

    out of mind...

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    Not that many years ago it was a game we sold to Brisbane. Now it is Alice Springs and even worse Darwin.

    Sure... there will be many that say "we should win anywhere" but this is a game of "inches" where every little bit counts.

    Time the club gave us the "donate this" and we will not play there figures or is it if we do not play there the AFL money disappears.

    Time for some true equalization perhaps !!

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    8 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    We have been given the dregs at the bottom of the glass

    yes the deal gives us some cash, but it will always keep us down below the ladder

    out of mind...

    I actually think it's VB about the AFL wanting / needing a presence up there . Not really sure why but probably part of the megalomaniacal machine's ideologies. 

    We're the schmucks. It was the AFL's way or the highway I reckon.

    So ...MFC.... it's  like this....

    Time  to whack that on its head.

    By all means  run camps even NAb. ( Though weather may not work.) but  for 4 points...nah !!

    Edited by beelzebub

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