ScottSaunders wrote:
and im still yet to hear of a reasonable arguament as to why it couldnt have been used by all clubs for the lower drawing crowds. and in light of recent discussions and considerations or admissions if you will, by the AFL, it just proves my point at the times.
You have heard plenty of arguments why it couldn't be used for low drawing crowd, but fail to listen to them.
1. The goal of the AFL is to allow access to as many poeple to watch the sport as possible.
2. Even a poor crowd at Docklands is greater than 20,000 which is about the amount of car park space at PP
3. If North Melbourne was to play Freo at PP, I doubt they would get 15,000 people there, at Docklands that same game will get 20,000+
4. There are not enough low drawing crowds to justify a third stadium in Mebourne
5. If there is only going to be 2 stadiums, then PP is never going to be one of them.
6. All stadiums must be able to play night games
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i have always opposed the move to TD. i said it then, and i say it now, we should have played all victorian based clubs at MCG, and perhaps Brisbane, WC, Adelaide etc.. to be played at PP. Im still yet to here an argument as to why we couldnt do that, other than the AFL tells us where to go and when ... and i said it then and i say it now, thats rubbish. Not a year was passed after our move, and Collingwood, the shining lights, got the exact deal we wanted.
So based on that we should have been playing the brisbane game at PP
Considering that we had 42,000+ attend that game in round 2, do we play it over 2 days so that everyone that wanted to watch the game were given the oppertunity to do so?
As for Collingwood, unfortunatly as painful as it is to say, but they deserve the right to play all their home games at MCG. The fact of the matter is because they had easy access to a larger stadium over a longer period of time meant that more of their supporters attended their games. Poor access to PP meant that only our supporters went to watch us play and it's a bit rich for us to ask to have the MCG as our sole home ground when our attendances is half of Collingwood and Essendon* attendances.
Some people think that our club is on a par with Collingwood and Essendon* as being the big 3, but reality is that we have for a long time been a closed club that failed to be inclusive of all supporters (some of the social club members on this site still feel that way) and alot of the arguments of the viability of PP is still centered of this way of thinking. Thankfully the move away from PP has opened the club to allow more supporters to become members and grow the club to a point somewhere in the future we might be able to claim being equal to Collingwood & Essendon*, but we still have a way to go. If we grow the club to that size, then no-one will be complaining about the deal with Docklands as we will regularly have big enough attendances to make profit at the gate, but really make it big in membership sales.
Some can see the bigger picture, others are to busy looking back to see it. Finally the board at Carlton now can.
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This is not the only option there are plenty. If you know business so well then you will know there is never one option so move on. 