What exactly is a 'home game' when it comes to this AFL fixture?

If you consider it a game in Melbourne, then the fixture and membership entry rights can be worked to maintain the current number of Melbourne games and play a 'home game' at the GC and anywhere else. Hawthorn do it.

Or even better....Honey, I've packed my bags, I'm off to the Gold Coast for the weekend!

Reminds me of that old joke:

Honey, I've won the lottery, pack your bags.
What should I pack for - warm or cold?
I don't care, just @#$%&! off!

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YES PLEASE... id love to have 3 games up here....we play up here once this year...round 21....

So im all for this idea...when we played at Carrara last year...we had more Carlton fans there than North did...gotta love that...

Plus ...we got to meet Diesel , Braddles , Matty Lappin , Jordan Russell and Gibbsy....we actually lost that game...but geeze it was good to meet the boys...especially the first two...

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We are Carlton....F##K the rest!

The more I think of this today .... the more pissed off I get.

This is the bit which really pissed me off:

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Can someone please tell me again how we benefited by the move to TD?

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

To get a MCG only contract the club would have had to take the AFL to court.

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Quoted for Truth!!!!

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They will know that they've been playing against the famous old dark blues

What a bloody disgrace!

I thought we were past this rubbish when Smorgon left.

We are a Melbourne club, end of story. Clubs that sell their home games are pathetic.

Clubs that sell home games: StK, Melb, Kang, Footscray (Common denominator - SHIT FOOTBALL CLUBS)

Clubs that don't sell home games: Coll, Ess, WC, Man Utd, Liverpool, Real Madrid.


In which of the above 2 groups does Carlton belong? THE LATTER.

This is a disgrace and Siegfried is right: If the admin can;t find a better way to make money or extricate themselves from the TD contract - they're not doing their job. This is a cop out!


ALL CARLTON HOME GAMES IN MELBOURNE FOREVER!!!!

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They will know that they've been playing against the famous old dark blues

I was referring to the greater spread of home games at the G versus Hellstra Dome.

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

We got about $300k to pay out contracts at PP for moving to TD. We wouldn't have got that if we had more games at the MCG.

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completely agree

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Can't see the problem with this as a one-off move. It would be financially beneficial, it would get us away from Telstra Dome and (according to Synbad) members will receive compensation in their away game allocation.



This is not 'Thin edge of the wedge stuff'.

$2.5 mil lump sum at the signing of the agreement...



...then sweet f-all at the gate for every game up until 2010.


Which makes it all seem like a short term fix to our money issues back then.

The AFL will want to look after us, otherwise we'll GTFO of TD.

I'm not a financial wizard but I think we would have made that up by now at the G instead of the hell.

3 games on the Gold Coast next year?



DO IT

Same ol people willing to sell our sole!
I thought we where passed all of this ... think I'll go for a lye down.

TBB wrote



How quickly we forget about the prdicament we were in just 3 years ago; prior to Pratt.

We were broke!

There were rumours aplenty regarding folding, forced to move to the GC, further cutbacks in spending, not able to afford the minimum salary cap of 92.5%... Remember? We were balied out by the AFL to a tune of $1.5M.

Sure we got dudded by the AFL when they decided to favour the Dome development rather than sticking to their original plan of backing Princes Park as Melbourne's No, 2 AFL fixture, after the G. I guess that's part of the reason we got in this mess in the first place. Nevertheless we were in a big mess.

We got offered incentives to move our home to the Dome. No one held a gun to our head, but then again we were looking down the barrel, and we took whatever the offer was to get our hands on the upfront $2.5M to help reduce a debt we couldn't service.

What shits me is that Collo couldn't or wouldn't give us a deal at least equal to the ongoing Bombers deal; that's what shits me. As for crying now about the unattractive dividends we receive today from pulling a crowd at the Dome, that's pointless; it's done and we're stuck with it.

So any dealing to make more money from our games rather than break even or thereabouts at the Dome (as well as give them the shits back) makes good sense...well at least until the contract with the Dome ends.

I like the idea of watching Carlton in QLD. I make the effort to attend. The last game against the Roos was a great event and as mentioned by TrueQldBlue, the Carlton support was fantastic as it has always been for the Blues on the GC. I look forward to Round 21 too.

The weather's good, I have clients there and heaps of friends to catch up with and party. If I can go to 2 Carlton games in QLD each year, then I'm happy with that.

Would also like some focus/ attention of having the Blues play in Sydney; we're starved of Carlton games. This is a ridiculous situation. There should be at least 1 game in Sydney every year; no ifs or buts.

Having said that, post 2010, I still maintain that Carlton is the home of Melbourne is the home of Carlton. The bulk of its supporter/ membership base reside there and they should be treated with the respect they deserve; give them the maximum number of home games!

I have no problem travelling to Melbourne to watch the Blues, except that I can't attend every game. I enjoy going to Melbourne; it's a fantastic city...and it's my 'real' home.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

THERE BE YE COAST GOLD... ARRR!

I don't think its about selling our souls.

The club trying to make a point that we are getting and have been stitched up and at a desperate time admin made another poor decision that will hurt us for some tie to come

If we could earn 1.2 million playing 3 games on the gold coast compared to a return of 200k for 3 dome games why wouldn't you.

+ far greater exposure to sell to perspective sponsors

It would only be for 2 or 3 years and thats a return of 3.6 million compared to 600k