JohnM wrote:
If it's a Telstra Dome game that we're losing, this is a very good move.
This year, we got about 40,000 people there and made something like $25,000. Pathetic.
One game for a guaranteed $400,000 is a good deal. It looks after our supporter base up there, puts extra coin into the club, and sticks it up those miserly SOB's who run TD.
Either way, we'll be shifting a game against an interstate team you'd think - makes no sense to move a all-Vic game... that considered it would have to be a TD game we're moving.
Do TD get compensation out of this though? Loss of gate receipts and food and stuff?! Man that would piss me off...
Brettie wrote:
So we're still so desperate for cash that we have to sell a home game for a handful of interstate supporters in order to appease the AFL after the Kangaroos shat in their faces?
Hope there's a membership option for 10 homes games only in my 2009 membership package.....
Think of it this way.
One game at the GC = almost one year of Judd's salary. I think that's 'a bit of alright'
AIRCAV wrote:
watch out BM but I totally agree. Its a stupid decision.
Playing 'at home' is the only advantage we still have and now we sell that for $???
Mate we lost our home ground advantage (which in the latter years wasn't much of an advantage after all) the day we packed up and left PP... No matter where the ground is - all footy grounds are oval and have four sticks down each end...
bluedog wrote:
How much does it cost to fly two teams and support staff this far? Sounds as though the AFL have too much money. Even if it does mean they will somehow make money from the game.
Selling home games = our world being in a fairly ordinary state.
And I don't mean Queensland.
Couldn't we just wear the M&M jumpers again to get the extra cash. No worse than the insipid white things.
I think it's more about the AFL priming the location for a football team in a couple of years time - and DON'T YOU DARE mention the M&M jumpers ever again!

No bloody Navy Blue on those jumpers... it's Unaustralian if your ask me... or something.