AFL Games involving Carlton, Essendon*, Collingwood and an in form Richmond - can draw minimum crowds of at least 35,000+.
This fact alone shows how screwed up and flawed the AFL's stupidity in destroying and selling off Waverley -55,000 unencumbered seats (not including the AFL Members Reserve) - no booking fees, just walk up and enjoy - for Dockland Stadium that effectively locks people out.
Dockland Stadium - capacity of 55,000 - but very very very few walk up general admission seats - the place is designed to screw the last cent out supporters and clubs (except for Essendon*).
Here we are debating the return of games to Princes Park with a capacity of 25,000 (at best) - we have 40,000 members now.
The AFL should be eternally damned for what they did in destroying Waverley which was built on the contributions of the 12 clubs back in the 60s and 70s.
Now they realize too late what they have done - marginalized clubs into taking deals at Dockland which are slowly bleeding them dry.
Graeme Samuel has a lot to answer for in driving this train of events - he has no problem in having the average football supporter gouged in paying exhorbitant reserved seat prices at Docklands, paying $5 for a bottle of water that costs the caterer about 50 cents. Yet chased a man to his grave to add a few cents to the price of a cardboard carton. All so his investment fund mates could access the $80million cash from the sale of Waverley and build the ultimate peoples rip off at Docklands. 
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Feasibililty study between $50,000 and $100,000 into PP as an AFL ground. 
