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I will give it my best effort supporting the Mighty MFC on saturday night.

For me as a kid if you wanted to play in the biggest sporting events it was always at the MCG first and foremost.

Being an Adelaide lad there is nothing that makes me more prouder when the club i fell in love with as a 6 year old roles in town to play.

The Iconic Adelaide Oval is the country's 2nd most historical ground   (my opinion) steeped in history its aura has been good to the Red and Blue since its redevelopment in 2014.

May it continue Saturday Night and beyond, i will be thinking of all of my fellow Dees who can't attend from all over the country and overseas.

Last night was my greatest night as a Dee, I'm hoping the lads have 3 more special games left in them and bring the Premiership Cup home to the MCG.

Long live the MFC, It's finals time.

Raise Hell.👏👌🙏🏆🇭🇹

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    4 minutes ago, The_Wrecker_45 said:

    Did anyone else get sent multiple barcodes?

    Yes got 2 barcodes.

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    I can’t believe I’ll have to watch this game at home by myself 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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    1 hour ago, Nasher said:

    Tas-SA is low risk, and there’s direct flights from Hobart to Adelaide. If we’re still in Adelaide for prelims, I might pop over for that.

    Dunno about anyone else, but I’m happy it’s at AO. We play well there, it’s only a hop, skip and a jump away in terms of travel for the players, and it’s really inconvenient for Brisbane. Hopefully we’ve got a few SA based supporters who can get along and turn it in to our new fortress.

    Don’t think there is a direct flight Nasher. I can’t find one anyways😡

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    2 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    Ah, poo. There had been previously, I just assumed there still was. Definitely takes the gloss off the idea if we had to go via Tullamarine.

    Avoid Victoria at all costs. Our airport was an exposure site a few days ago. Safer to fly to WA then to SA from there 😂

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    Yeah even then it’s not easy or cheap. Have to go a day or two before and can’t get back for a couple of days either. 

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    6 minutes ago, SA_Demon said:

    Yes got 2 barcodes.

    I got 3, my wife and son got 2.  Could be playing lucky dip at 2pm tomorrow with barcodes coming out my ears.

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    My main concern about this game is Brisbanes dangerous small forwards in Cameron, McCarthy and Bailey.

    Rivers, Bowey and Smith are a lot of youth and inexperience that could be exposed here. Do we bring in Hibberd to play a hard lockdown role?

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    17 minutes ago, Colm said:

    Yeah even then it’s not easy or cheap. Have to go a day or two before and can’t get back for a couple of days either. 

    Looks like there are direct flights, but you’d have to fly out Friday night and return Monday night. Only direct flight back on Saturday is before the game, and none on Sunday 👎

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    58 minutes ago, Win4theAges said:

    I will give it my best effort supporting the Mighty MFC on saturday night.

    For me as a kid if you wanted to play in the biggest sporting events it was always at the MCG first and foremost.

    Being an Adelaide lad there is nothing that makes me more prouder when the club i fell in love with as a 6 year old roles in town to play.

    The Iconic Adelaide Oval is the country's 2nd most historical ground   (my opinion) steeped in history its aura has been good to the Red and Blue since its redevelopment in 2014.

    May it continue Saturday Night and beyond, i will be thinking of all of my fellow Dees who can't attend from all over the country and overseas.

    Last night was my greatest night as a Dee, I'm hoping the lads have 3 more special games left in them and bring the Premiership Cup home to the MCG.

    Long live the MFC, It's finals time.

    Raise Hell.👏👌🙏🏆🇭🇹

     

    Great post and I have similar sentiments, have followed them for 30 years now.

    Did the get an email from the club? The pre sale opens at 2pm tomorrow.

    A mate of mine who works at Adelaide Oval management is confident the capacity will be increased to 20,000, it needs to be ticked off but the Govt and hopefully will be announced Tuesday morning.

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    27 minutes ago, Nascent said:

    My main concern about this game is Brisbanes dangerous small forwards in Cameron, McCarthy and Bailey.

    Rivers, Bowey and Smith are a lot of youth and inexperience that could be exposed here. Do we bring in Hibberd to play a hard lockdown role?

    When we played them in Round 12, their first half dominance came not through the smalls but the talls.

    Daniher and Hipwood were marking everything and that gave them their scoring opportunities.

    In the second half our tall defenders improved and when we started spoiling their marks, they struggled to score.

    Interestingly we may well have five changes from the side that beat them - Hunt, Hibberd, Jordon, Weideman and Melksham all played. Would be replaced, on yesterday's 22, by Bowey, Brown, Smith, Langdon and Viney.

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    Friday and Saturday nights will be capped at 15,000, while a maximum of 10,000 can attend each of the finals at University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston
     

    - Port at home doesn’t sound that scary anymore. 15k is very disappointing. Even if it got to 20k.  You could almost fill more people at the G with fully vaccinated Melbourne supporters. 

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    3 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    Friday and Saturday nights will be capped at 15,000, while a maximum of 10,000 can attend each of the finals at University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston
     

    - Port at home doesn’t sound that scary anymore. 15k is very disappointing. Even if it got to 20k.  You could almost fill more people at the G with fully vaccinated Melbourne supporters. 

    Yeah thats [censored] house. 

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    37 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    Friday and Saturday nights will be capped at 15,000, while a maximum of 10,000 can attend each of the finals at University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston
     

    - Port at home doesn’t sound that scary anymore. 15k is very disappointing. Even if it got to 20k.  You could almost fill more people at the G with fully vaccinated Melbourne supporters. 

    15,000 people is not going to deliver the AFL anything like the much hyped ‘Derby’ atmosphere they’ve been selling us for 2 weeks.

    We’ve been sold a dud here. I can buy it for the Grand Final in a place which will allow full capacity, because everyone will want to go because it’s a special occasion. 15,000 ain’t that. It’s just unnecessary travel for the team that deserves the right to play at home. The media will just roll over and put on their happy faces, but this is garbage.

    And as for Tassie, well 3,000 showed up today, so I think they are already letting the AFL know how they, justifiably, feel.

    To my friends in SA - give em hell! This is not about you. We need you more than ever. I’m just so annoyed at the way this has been reported, and sold to the football community, as being something that it’s clearly not going to be.

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    3 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

    15,000 people is not going to deliver the AFL anything like the much hyped ‘Derby’ atmosphere they’ve been selling us for 2 weeks.

    We’ve been sold a dud here. I can buy it for the Grand Final in a place which will allow full capacity, because everyone will want to go because it’s a special occasion. 15,000 ain’t that. It’s just unnecessary travel for the team that deserves the right to play at home. The media will just roll over and put on their happy faces, but this is garbage.

    And as for Tassie, well 3,000 showed up today, so I think they are already letting the AFL know how they, justifiably, feel.

    To my friends in SA - give em hell! This is not about you. We need you more than ever. I’m just so annoyed at the way this has been reported, and sold to the football community, as being something that it’s clearly not going to be.

    Yep and to think there been talk of Adelaide putting in a good case for a grand final is just rubbish. 

    I'm being very picky and stubborn here but right now we should be playing in front of a packed 90k crowd at the G. In a year where for the first time since 1964 look genuine premiership contenders home qualifying final, and yet instead we have to turn out to a pathetic crowd of just 15k? [censored] ropeable. 

    Have the grand final in Perth, end of story.

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    9 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

    We’ve been sold a dud here. I can buy it for the Grand Final in a place which will allow full capacity, because everyone will want to go because it’s a special occasion. 15,000 ain’t that. It’s just unnecessary travel for the team that deserves the right to play at home. The media will just roll over and put on their happy faces, but this is garbage.

    100% agree with this. 15k all spaced out across the stadium is going to deliver very little atmosphere. This isn’t much better than playing at the G in an empty stadium.

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    This is what 14,750k looks like at the Adelaide Derby match only 2 weeks ago. There is no guarantee we'll even reach that capacity given we are playing an interstate team. 

    Playing a qualifying final in that does not sit well with me at all.

     

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    Seriously for 10,000 people we are robbing Melbourne of the clear advantage of playing at the MCG?! What a joke. 

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