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Home ground advantage in finals

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Geelong have finished 2nd & can host a final but not at their home ground! How is this fair & even more ridiculous play the Hawks at their home ground @ the mcg! So where's the advantage for the Cats???

When is the afl going to reward home ground advantage for finishing higher in the ladder???

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19 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Geelong have finished 2nd & can host a final but not at their home ground! How is this fair & even more ridiculous play the Hawks at their home ground @ the mcg! So where's the advantage for the Cats???

When is the afl going to reward home ground advantage for finishing higher in the ladder???

The Cats already have a home ground advantage, 8 wins a year at Skilled. 

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19 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Geelong have finished 2nd & can host a final but not at their home ground! How is this fair & even more ridiculous play the Hawks at their home ground @ the mcg! So where's the advantage for the Cats???

When is the afl going to reward home ground advantage for finishing higher in the ladder???

The  Cats get a huge advantage over the rest of the Vic  clubs throughout the regular season at their hole. Tough luck.

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Pfft. It's already rubbish that they get to pick and choose when they play home games at Mordor.

Play every game there and then they can whinge about not playing home games there.

Put it this way. They play Hawthorn as the home team in a fortnight. They haven't played the Hawks in Geelong since 2006. 8 straight home and away matches. Only twice there since 98.

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Geelong has the best deal out of any of the clubs. 8 games a year at Skilled against minnow/rubbish sides, tricky conditions for away sides to deal with and 95% Geelong fans, then they have another handful down the road in Melbourne where they still have a massive supporter base (normally equal or more than the home side). They're a good club with a winning culture but their stadium deal is one of the key reasons they haven't finished lower than 12th since the AFL was introduced. [censored] them.

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8 minutes ago, Sylvia Saint said:

Geelong has the best deal out of any of the clubs. 8 games a year at Skilled against minnow/rubbish sides, tricky conditions for away sides to deal with and 95% Geelong fans, then they have another handful down the road in Melbourne where they still have a massive supporter base (normally equal or more than the home side). They're a good club with a winning culture but their stadium deal is one of the key reasons they haven't finished lower than 12th since the AFL was introduced. [censored] them.

Part of me hates them for it. Another part smiles that one club has managed to find a way to cling to their VFL ground and turn it into a weapon.

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40 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Geelong have finished 2nd & can host a final but not at their home ground! How is this fair & even more ridiculous play the Hawks at their home ground @ the mcg! So where's the advantage for the Cats???

When is the afl going to reward home ground advantage for finishing higher in the ladder???

Didn't help them much last time they were given a home final.

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50 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Geelong have finished 2nd & can host a final but not at their home ground! How is this fair & even more ridiculous play the Hawks at their home ground @ the mcg! So where's the advantage for the Cats???

When is the afl going to reward home ground advantage for finishing higher in the ladder???

Look a it this way, for quite a number of those simpletons it's a chance to get out of Norlane and other associated hovels.

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Exactly, tough [censored] luck to Geelong. They get almost a guaranteed 8 wins a year with home games down there; tough bloody luck they have to play elsewhere when making the finals with such a huge advantage.

Just like Sydney and GWS with all their ridiculous concessions and advantages. No sympathy!

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1 hour ago, Soidee said:

Eagles again! I hope a depleted Bulldogs run them into the ground.  Getting sick to death of seeing Eagles, Geelong, Hawthorn and Sydney in finals. AFL is now the Premier League of Australia....same damn teams every year.

Agree last 9 of 11 flags won by Hawks, cats & swans! Yep equalisation working well .. 

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Hawthorn the only team in the top 4 to be playing at their home ground this weekend ;) It's their reward for scraping in with 2 minutes to go in round 23 and having a percentage that's 30 points lower than everyone else.

The only good thing to come of it is the first week of the finals look far more competitive without adel at the scg or gws at the mcg

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Exactly, tough [censored] luck to Geelong. They get almost a guaranteed 8 wins a year with home games down there; tough bloody luck they have to play elsewhere when making the finals with such a huge advantage.

Just like Sydney and GWS with all their ridiculous concessions and advantages. No sympathy!

Not a real competition which should be home & away! People criticise the epl  but they play each other twice & real home advantage is just that & many wins can be contributed to that. Afl has become a marketing competition all geared around tv ratings & compromises to suit the expanded teams... I don't see interstate teams giving up their right to host a home final & Geelong should not be any different!  Understand larger crowd etc but Comp should be around the integrity of the finals system & ladder position benefits not gate takings., fancy hawthorn basically now playing on their home ground... Like Melb playing Saints twice at Etihadgiving saints 2 home ground advantage.  Wouldn't happen in most leagues of Europe. 

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Geelong playing home finals was only put back on the agenda for that Freo game..which they lost. Would've been interesting to see what they did if they played GWS, but realistically it's not gonna happen v another vic team. I mean they already have an advantage other vic clubs don't during the H&A season

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