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...Reckon we might get them twice next year.

We'd get 50,000-55,000 along, not sure it'd be big enough for them. 

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Win the flag and maybe we'd get 60,000...

 

They will want it against Collingwood, like they requested for this year. Suspect it will be Essendon/Richmond so they are only outnumbered 3:1 at the G rather than 4:1 against the Pies 

I just count my lucky stars that the MCG is our home ground. 

I was fortunate enough to go to a Western Bulldogs breakfast event on Wed at Marvel and even getting into that place at 7am with minimal traffic is an impossible task. 


Did anyone else read the thread title and thought it was in reference to the GWS game in Alice being transferred to the MCG like it was mooted weeks ago?

7 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Did anyone else read the thread title and thought it was in reference to the GWS game in Alice being transferred to the MCG like it was mooted weeks ago?

Yes me and I got hopeful, Alice Springs the only game i'm missing this year coz of the costs involved in getting there.

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I doubt any St Kilda game at the G would be against us. Certainly not if they want to get 70k turning up. They should concentrate more in trying to fill Marvel for their current home games before trying to shoehorn their way into our ground. 

 
29 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

Yes me and I got hopeful, Alice Springs the only game i'm missing this year coz of the costs involved in getting there.

More expensive than Perth?  (WCE in round 4) 

Fair effort to attend 23 games.

 

21 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

More expensive than Perth?  (WCE in round 4) 

Fair effort to attend 23 games.

 

Ye flights are well over 2K to the Alice and it just doesnt work with my job because id have to fly home on the Monday.


St Kilda's home ground is Docklands and that's where they should play. Same as Essendon and Carlton (both who are looking to play extra home games at the G in coming years).

When these clubs play extra home games at the G someone has to play home games at Docklands to make up the shortfall - it's why we still play a game in the NT because this game would be at Docklands if it were in Vic.

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Did anyone else read the thread title and thought it was in reference to the GWS game in Alice being transferred to the MCG like it was mooted weeks ago?

Yes, yes I did. 

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Sorry to everyone re the thread title!😬

We've done bloody well to get two of these feature games given our size. Hawthorn and Geelong only have one. North have half a one on Good Friday. Dogs and saints don't have any. Pies, dees and blues have 2. Richmond and bombers have 3.


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57 minutes ago, Demonland said:

What was the image?

It was there, DL!

Shun article on Saints wanting a 'blockbuster' home game at 'G (from) next year. Had a 'looking for suitors' feel to it.

1 minute ago, Kozzie4PM said:

We've done bloody well to get two of these feature games given our size. 

Why, when we regularly get 80,000+ to these games?

We deserve those games as much as anyone. A Demons versus Saints blockbuster could be a thing if Saint Kilda continue to play good football.

 

The Saints warrant a "blockbuster" fixture but who is their natural opponent?

Maybe Collingwood - GFs against.

Rivalry round, probably the best I can come up with is:

Saints v Pies

North v Essendon 

Demons v Dogs

Blues v Tigers*

Cats v Hawks*

*Two of them are blockbuster fixtures already.

I'd be keen to see other combos ...

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58 minutes ago, Demonland said:

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Personally getting sick of non MCG tenant clubs trying to cash in with home games at the MCG.

Why doesn't the afl just go full commie and pool all gate receipts for all games? It would suit the current style of leadership at AFL house. Seems fair

1 hour ago, illbarto said:

Why doesn't the afl just go full commie and pool all gate receipts for all games? It would suit the current style of leadership at AFL house. Seems fair

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, hey?

 
1 hour ago, illbarto said:

Why doesn't the afl just go full commie and pool all gate receipts for all games? It would suit the current style of leadership at AFL house. Seems fair

Actually not a bad idea (and yes I despise the concept of communism).  

Why should one club take all the profit just because of the way that the AFL decide to arrange the FIXture?  For example when we play Collingwood, Essendon, Richmond at OUR ground, the MCG and it is arbitrarily designated as our away game we get nothing? And vice versa?  Or teams like Geelong in their taxpayer funded ground get the lot when our fans can’t even get in?  The spectacle is provided by both teams, why not the takings?  

13 hours ago, illbarto said:

Why doesn't the afl just go full commie and pool all gate receipts for all games? It would suit the current style of leadership at AFL house. Seems fair

I'm pretty sure this is how things worked in the early days of the comp. Yes the pool was far smaller but the concept was the same. You'd have the likes of Collingwood, West Coast and Adelaide crying could about that now though.


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