2 hours ago, bluey said:

Great idea, love travelling to Darwin and the Alice, nothing to be scared of, having a weekend away.

You must be retired with great Super

I personally would need to take time off work & can’t afford it, keep the home games at the G, teams are becoming scared of us at home

Yeah Nuh

31 minutes ago, Billy said:

You must be retired with great Super

I personally would need to take time off work & can’t afford it, keep the home games at the G, teams are becoming scared of us at home

I don’t work anymore, but yes it is a fair expense for young families.

It would be a great annual holiday though.

NO

on so many grounds that I can't be bothered repeating them.

I used to be a big supporter of the Alice game (never Darwin) but it gets us nothing but a few dollars. If we could get 60k plus to Jimma's game with a little bit of promotion we could start to make the same money.

If we must go somewhere get a State Government to pay us to play in Mildura or Albury. Mild summer sunshine and a pleasant overnight stay for a lot of supporters

BTW the Darwin opponents for GCS should be strictly rotated and include Carringbush.

Finally imagine being the NRL teams travelling to PNG (serious humidity)

Be careful what you wish for. If we gave up another game at the G either Carlton or Essendon would grab it and we’d find it tough to get it back again. Also, who’s to say the AFL wouldn’t still make us play at Docklands? Don’t Hawthorn also play a home game there and they already play four home games interstate?

3 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

Be careful what you wish for. If we gave up another game at the G either Carlton or Essendon would grab it and we’d find it tough to get it back again. Also, who’s to say the AFL wouldn’t still make us play at Docklands? Don’t Hawthorn also play a home game there and they already play four home games interstate?

That's exactly right. Hawthorn play an annual home game at Marvel despite playing 4 in Launceston.

According to Pert circa 2020, he struck an agreement with the AFL that we'd cease our home game in Darwin and move it back to the MCG to play 10 home games for the first time in years. Then somehow in 2025 our 10th MCG home game was moved to Marvel without any explanation from the club or AFL.

Can see the same thing happening down the track where one of our home games gets mysteriously moves to Marvel and we end up with just 8 MCG home games if we're all in on Darwin.

4 hours ago, rpfc said:

This would be the circumstances. Make money instead of a loss.

All non-tenants to Marvel have to play there at least once so exemption from that.

Nuffies will hate it but Dees fans don’t go to Docklands so it’s just a game they won’t go to in a different place

Spot on rfpc, I don't go to comicville. It's a TV game for me so what does it matter if its there or Darwin.

3 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I do agree with this comment. We've been lucky to not have to face GC in Darwin since they started selling games in Darwin in 2022. North and Dogs have copped them twice.

The whole timing of this is so anti-climatic and tone death if there is truth to it from the MFC perspective. Melbourne supporters are loving coming to the MCG once again. We are playing box office type footy and the atmosphere in the stands is something we haven't seen since the 2018 finals series.

Instead of our 11th game being transferred from the Docklands to Darwin, I want my CEO to do all he can to transfer that home game from Docklands to the MCG - not to Darwin.

If it's good enough for Richmond to receive 10 home games at the MCG, it's good enough for us.

Totally agree. It may not have come across properly but I don't want to go to Darwin at all. Just seems it's got too hard for the Nepos and they are looking for an out.

personally, i'd rather we sold a game to geelong than another game to the nt

North are the club going cap in hand to other states looking to sell home games for coin. Send them up there. Two games in the NT and two in WA to replace the four the will lose in Hobart. Sorted.

No thanks, GC came crashing in stealing our NGA zone with zero commitments on their part, we on the other hand try to establish talent pathways and invest in the area only for it to be ripped away.

They made their bed, they can lie in it.

7 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

North are the club going cap in hand to other states looking to sell home games for coin. Send them up there. Two games in the NT and two in WA to replace the four the will lose in Hobart. Sorted.

Why do the Suns go North?

They are a financial basket case relying upon AFL money. If they don't go North that's $2M per year more that the competition must pay to keep the team alive.

Ask yourself though how another heavily subsidised club (St Kilda) manages to avoid the selling of home games interstate.

Transparency is not an AFL thing.

Still not as bad as the Port Adelaide China rort.

We’re a small club, possibly the smallest. With the next side likely to come from the NT it’s only going to be a half a dozen years or so before they take the games. I thought we were extremely stiff losing that NGA zone but again it’ll be the NT sides zone soon enough. Take the money, swallow the poison and work hard at growing our base.

Unless it’s financially worthwhile and we’re not obligated to do it, then I think we should play all our home games at the G.

Don't see any reason to do this unless we are 1. really down the ****ter financially or 2. there are benefits from this that we cannot refuse.

Without looking at figures our home attendance this year so far would probably be better than the last 2 years I would imagine, the last time I remember us being this loud and energetic as fans is 2018.

I will defer to the Picketts on this call

Whatever they want is fine with me

6 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Tom morris reporting Gold Coast want to go to 1 game instead of 2 from next year, playing in Darwin.

While Melbourne is open to adding a Darwin match to its Alice Springs outing (under the right circumstances).

No thankyou.

[censored] no Darwin and Alice have been a disaster it does nothing for the club all it does give us two losses, and it gains us nothing, in the way of new members or any supporters people in Darwin hate the Melbourne Football Club it's the least supported

36 minutes ago, KoltTheRam said:

Don't see any reason to do this unless we are 1. really down the ****ter financially or 2. there are benefits from this that we cannot refuse.

Without looking at figures our home attendance this year so far would probably be better than the last 2 years I would imagine, the last time I remember us being this loud and energetic as fans is 2018.

Bit concerned we've had 2 reports in as many days about marquee/selling games. I get it's Guerra's job to identify financial opportunities but Darwin is a cash grab with little other benefit. Hopefully the proposed mental health game isn't the same

Edited yesterday at 05:441 day by Mickey

Alice Springs game is the limit for me and even that has its questions.

The Darwin thing has never really worked and unless it really is a bucket load of cash then I think we should steer clear.

i love darwin, great spot, gets a bad wrap, dont knock it till youve tried it

7 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

North are the club going cap in hand to other states looking to sell home games for coin. Send them up there. Two games in the NT and two in WA to replace the four the will lose in Hobart. Sorted.

or better still, relocate Kangaroos to Hobart once and for all - it would also stop the bloody byes that we will be stuck with.

Won't happen I know, but I'd be open to us playing a game in Darwin if they did all of Gather Round up there.

I think that would actually be a fair result, as all teams would carry over a similar level of fatigue. Would also be great for footy in the NT and NT tourism.

I don't think the AFL would go for it due to the lack of funding and/or lack of facilities, but just think how good it could be if the took an altruistic approach to it such as this.

Personally I'd rather both the NT games gone, sure we make some money out of it. If travelling to the NT results in a loss that might have us miss the finals by a single match, I don't think that's worth the $1 milllion.

If we had to sell off a game surely there's an opportunity somewhere in Gippsland where we could not only make money, supporters could get to without jumping on a plane and have a more realistic opportunity of growing a supporter base.

Edited 16 hours ago16 hr by boydie

Big Picture Game. I’ll personally join some of the intrepid DL visitors on crocodile safari.

Besides as l’m shipping out to even be more exotic climes. Part of the departure celebrations.

15 hours ago, Waverley said:

[censored] no Darwin and Alice have been a disaster it does nothing for the club all it does give us two losses, and it gains us nothing, in the way of new members or any supporters people in Darwin hate the Melbourne Football Club it's the least supported

Still stuck in the Waverley Park car park?

If you can produce evidential support for … “People in Darwin ‘hate’ the MFC (it’s the least supported). Please feel free to put it up here.

Demon support in Darwin and beyond is tangible. People love their footy up here.