STRANGE AFL FINALS PROGRAMMING ?

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Re: STRANGE AFL FINALS PROGRAMMING ?

Postby JK » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:20 pm

Dutchy wrote:
Constance_Perm wrote:Why can't the "G" be used twice on the same day?


agree CP - see previous posts


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Re: STRANGE AFL FINALS PROGRAMMING ?

Postby mal » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:19 pm

scaffidi can't drive wrote:
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scaffidi can't drive wrote:Sounds like someone hasn't had their afternoon nap MAL.... little bit cranky this afternoon....

The AFL had no real choice in the matter.. would you prefer Collingwood with a membership of 45,000 to have people shut out of a final while a half full MCG had the Crows v Hawks game on... The AFL has yes as put here followed the money - but also they have accomodated the most amount of fans possible... it seems like the reasonable and sensible thing to do - as much as I'd love to be going to the G for a final this week instead of the dome....

Anyway if Hawthorn had been good enough to beat Port 3 weeks ago or Sydney last week they would have got a final at the G against Geelong this week so they only have themselves to blame with a 5 - 5 record the last 10 weeks when the pressure went on


Cranky ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Morally HW should be at the G
You blame them thier 5-5 record in the last 10 weeks
They beat CO home on the ladder thats the criteria that counts
Not how many bums they get on seats at the G thats GREED

PS CO have about a 5-5 record in the last 10 weeks as well


SO MAL - let me just clarify with you..

Hawks v Crows should be at the MCG with 55,000 people and no one turned away....
Collingwood v Sydney should be at the Dome with 53,000 and 25,000 - 30,000 people turned away??

I don't agree - it's not GREED as you put it, it's just common sense and accomodating the greater amount of people, why have a half full stadium for one game and turn people away from the other?? Makes no sense at all!!

I'll agree that in a perfect world Hawthorn would play this final at the MCG (or bring back Waverley I say - which has 75,000 seating capacity) but the greater good of the game and it's fans (all of them) is to play the game at the Dome and get the bigger drawing attendance at the MCG...

If all else fails are you are really that unhappy - email the AFL and tell them of your concerns...



Using your logic of getting bums on seats as a preferred option
THEN
If PP had a home Prelim final then we should transfer it to the MCG to get more of a crowd ?

SCD its not a matter of what the AFL had to do
Its a matter of being FAIR AND SQAURE to the HW footy club
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Re: STRANGE AFL FINALS PROGRAMMING ?

Postby Wedgie » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:22 pm

mal wrote:If PP had a home Prelim final then we should transfer it to the MCG to get more of a crowd ?


Yep definately, agreed.
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Re: STRANGE AFL FINALS PROGRAMMING ?

Postby SCD » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:14 pm

The club has no public issue with it
The players have no public issue with it...
MAL does though :roll: - just making a mountain out of a molehill... it seems like complaining for the sake of complaining...

I'm waiting for next week for you to complain when the Kangaroos have to play a "home" final against the Crows or Hawthorn at the MCG when their home ground is the Telstra Dome...

Let's have next week's final at the Telstra Dome and turn 10,000 - 15,000 people away because we need to have a fair competition... Well we don't have a fair competition.. it's 22 rounds home and away and that's not a fair competition.. Lots of things aren't fair - but at the end of thd day as I've said above the oval has 4 posts at each end and I reckon Rod put it perfectly - it's just a copout if you're not good enough to win...
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Re: STRANGE AFL FINALS PROGRAMMING ?

Postby mal » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:43 pm

SCD you can have your opinion on this matter thats your perogative

To say I complain for the sake of complaining
To say I am cranky
To say I have not had my afternoon nap
That is purely specualtive and unsubstantiated

If the AFL programmes the games to capitalise on the monetary gains
thats thier decision, its thier comp, and thats the facts

Your a smart lad SCD just see it from my perspective as well
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Re: STRANGE AFL FINALS PROGRAMMING ?

Postby daveswar » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:54 am

Mal, Equity and the AFL? When has equity ever been in the AFL's vocab. The concept doesn't exist @ AFL House. It's corporate dollars and that's all that counts. It's a shame that the game of the people is being taken further and further away from the average person on the street and being sanitised to fit it's (The AFL's) corporate goal. I just want to know when they'll bite the bullet and call the GF a Superbowl. :( :wink:
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