This would be the worst decision this incompetent board has ever made, if true. Managing to pizz off the majority of your loyal members and seriously harming your team's chances of winning a premiership at the same time would take some doing.

Why Darwin? We’ve made plenty of inroads in making Alice Springs our “home away from home”, and it’s much less draining. Not happy at all with this run home, if this is a club choice then it could well scuttle our season. 

Only thing that could making it work a LITTLE BIT better is if somehow our GC game gets shifted to the G or Etihad. 

Geeze lots of people carrying on about nothing here.   Playing in nice warm weather, away with the boys, the club makes some cash, there is a crowd and we smash Adelaide by 90 pts. We also haven’t travelled much this year 

Edited July 28, 20214 yr by Demons11

Lets wait to hear it from someone with a bit more authority!

Alice Springs would be preferable. Weather much more friendly and shorter travel.

I hope this is Frog sheeeit

7 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

Alice Springs would be preferable. Weather much more friendly and shorter travel.

My guess is the purse wouldn’t be as attractive in the Alice with limited/zero tourists. Alice springs’ entire population is 30,000.

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This will completely throw away any chance of Dees fans getting to see them play live in Melbourne before the start of finals. I know crowds are going to be a slow burn anyway but hardly a fan friendly decision. I totally get the reasons behind it, the club has taken a tough hit on our bank accounts but it still isn’t a great look for a club that’s pushing for premiership contention. 

If I absolutely had to schedule a Darwin game in, I would much rather we play the Suns in Darwin, fly from there to Perth to quarantine for WCE and then have Crows, Cats in Victoria without the need to travel before finals. 

Just now, Pates said:

This will completely throw away any chance of Dees fans getting to see them play live in Melbourne before the start of finals. I know crowds are going to be a slow burn anyway but hardly a fan friendly decision. I totally get the reasons behind it, the club has taken a tough hit on our bank accounts but it still isn’t a great look for a club that’s pushing for premiership contention. 

My thoughts exactly fiscal gain over footy gains is not what it should be about. If the pionty end really stuffs us up re grounds  venues and if the team does not perform as expected watch out for an avalanche of questions  resentment and anger.

30 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

Geeze lots of people carrying on about nothing here.   Playing in nice warm weather, away with the boys, the club makes some cash, there is a crowd and we smash Adelaide by 90 pts. We also haven’t travelled much this year 

There should also be a crowd in Melbourne during that weekend.

1 minute ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

There should also be a crowd in Melbourne during that weekend.

I don't want it in Darwin but it would be 16k-20k in Melbourne for a loss vs 8k in Darwin for an 800k windfall.

25 minutes ago, The Jackson 6 said:

My guess is the purse wouldn’t be as attractive in the Alice with limited/zero tourists. Alice springs’ entire population is 30,000.

I have no idea if McGuire is correct, but given he works with Fox and the broadcasters need to be consulted about the scheduling of all games, I can see how he might have been leaked this information.

If this game is going ahead, I assume it's Darwin instead of the Alice because that's what our sponsor, the NT Government wants. Whether it should be in the NT at all is a separate question.

I'm not sure why there's so much anguish. Surely Adelaide is less incentivised than us to try hard wherever the game is being played.   

6 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

If this game is going ahead, I assume it's Darwin instead of the Alice because that's what our sponsor, the NT Government wants. Whether it should be in the NT at all is a separate question.

Yep

NT government not prepared to pay for GCS v MFC on 3 days notice and this is the possible compromise.

Not happy is an understatement if it comes to fruition.

Soooo....

GC Perth is 5hrs

Perth Darwin flight time is 3h47min.

Darwin Mel is 4.5hrs

Total flying time is 13hrs15min or so, not including prevailing headwinds or tailwinds.

The GC-Perth-Mel time would have been 9,5hrs so an extra 3h47min.

Plus downside of hubs, plus upside of hubs, warmer weather, psychological +/- being with each other...

 

Might just be me but I see a 3h47min extra flying as not a huge imposition...the hub might be a different story. That's away for 3 weeks? Might be hard to Tmac/Lever etc, but in the grand scheme of things it ought not be a major drama.

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2 hours ago, ANG13 said:

If where going to play in the NT why would it not be in Alice Springs?

 

My guess is that McGuire heard the game might be in the NT and automatically went with Darwin, not realising the work we've put in around Alice Springs and that our NGA zone is linked to Alice Springs, while Gold Coast now have Darwin in their zone. 

I'm near certain that if we are playing a home game in the NT it'll be in Alice Springs.

4 interstate games in a row

Who fixtures this. Will Richmond move as well?

that is just absurd 

imagine if Eddie had to announce The Filth had that fixture…

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

There should also be a crowd in Melbourne during that weekend.

That’s a maybe at this stage.  Our record at the G with no crowds is a draw out of 5 games 

6 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

That’s a maybe at this stage.  Our record at the G with no crowds is a draw out of 5 games 

True on both counts but if the next 2 weeks remains stable in VIC, there will most likely be crowds at the G in round 22.

Top 2 all year and we are still a laughing stock

Do everything in your power to win a flag when a once in 50 years opportunity comes along.  Win and the money will come. if true, this is a disgraceful decision

I will be furious if the club decides to play this game in NT especially if crowds are allowed to the game (even if capped at 20k). An absolute slap in the face to the members who have been stuck watching games on TV for the last 2 years.

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I'm not sure why there's so much anguish. Surely Adelaide is less incentivised than us to try hard wherever the game is being played.   

yeah that logic has worked well against the crows, pies, hawks this year

Is Eddie Maguire trolling us? 

This is not an ideal lead in to finals if true, the supporters definitely have PTSD from what happened in Darwin last season...