Stadium under water

[White Winmar]

Not if it was unavailable because the AFL got in first.

Im sure they would have needed to book it a year ago. Not sure practice matches have much weight over making heaps of money.

Especially not when it involves the saints and dogs.

[saintbrat]

We cant get the ball

[kosifantutti]

Game delayed 40 mins..

When do the Saints start playing?

[ozrulestrace]

Not if it was unavailable because the AFL got in first.

Im sure they would have needed to book it a year ago. Not sure practice matches have much weight over making heaps of money.

Especially not when it involves the saints and dogs.

Geelong FC will make money, we will not. This is the sort of commercial decision we as supporters should be informed about as to what benefit is there for our club playing in a land far far away .

[plugger66]

Im sure they would have needed to book it a year ago. Not sure practice matches have much weight over making heaps of money.

Especially not when it involves the saints and dogs.

Geelong FC will make money, we will not. This is the sort of commercial decision we as supporters should be informed about as to what benefit is there for our club playing in a land far far away .

How do geelong make any money? By the way where would you have played it?

[always_a_saint]

Has actually turned out to be a great night for footy! Glad we've picked up the intensity since the first quarter. Loving seeing the young guys get a run!

[LTN16]

Much better quarter saints!!

[Enrico_Misso]

Footy is an indoor game.
Why aren't we playing at Docklands?

[Darren]

Etihad is occupied tonight.

[BigMart]

Siposs not playing?

[bergholt]

Again it begs the question as to why we have to play in this shithole, soon to be ghost town.

It's about to start pissing down in Melbourne, according to the radar, so if we were playing outdoors here it wouldn't be much better.

About to? If we played at the home ground of both competing teams we could simply close the roof. Problem solved. But it's fun being contrary, just for the sake of it, isn't it?

It is! But I wasn't.

Why would anyone want with a financial stake want this game played at Docklands? We lose money if we get less than 30k there. This game would have got less than 10k. It might not come out of our pocket but I'm pretty sure the AFL wouldn't be happy opening up a massive stadium just to lose $100k+.

[White Winmar]

This has everything to do with looking after Geelong and not us.

[plugger66]

This has everything to do with looking after Geelong and not us.

What do geelong get out of it?

[whiskers3614]

This has everything to do with looking after Geelong and not us.

What do geelong get out of it?

An early look at their possible Grand Final opponents?

[dragit]

I'm pretty sure the AFL wouldn't be happy opening up a massive stadium just to lose $100k+.

Great irony there… The AFL are happy to send clubs to play at Etihad every single week to make huge losses, but they won't do it if they have to pick up the tab.

[plugger66]

I'm pretty sure the AFL wouldn't be happy opening up a massive stadium just to lose $100k+.

Great irony there… The AFL are happy to send clubs to play at Etihad every single week to make huge losses, but they won't do it if they have to pick up the tab.

Pretty hard when there is a concert there.

[bergholt]

I'm pretty sure the AFL wouldn't be happy opening up a massive stadium just to lose $100k+.

Great irony there… The AFL are happy to send clubs to play at Etihad every single week to make huge losses, but they won't do it if they have to pick up the tab.

Fair point, but there's a huge difference between a crowd of 22k for a home and away game, and a crowd of 7k for a preseason game.

[saintbrat]

Hope Eminem had fun at Etihad

Does anyone know how far in advance he was set to play there....
?

[saintspremiers]

Not if it was unavailable because the AFL got in first.

Im sure they would have needed to book it a year ago. Not sure practice matches have much weight over making heaps of money.

cricket had a mortgage on the G until late March every year.

[dragit]

I'm pretty sure the AFL wouldn't be happy opening up a massive stadium just to lose $100k+.

Great irony there… The AFL are happy to send clubs to play at Etihad every single week to make huge losses, but they won't do it if they have to pick up the tab.

Pretty hard when there is a concert there.

I don't think Etihad was booked for the whole week though, we could have easily played Tuesday or Thursday.

The concert wasn't the problem, the stadium deal is obviously just cost prohibitive.

I wonder what the overheads are like to house only 7,000 fans... Surely ticket sales, parking & catering revenue could more than cover it?

We'll also benefit from the event/concert revenue the sooner the AFL own Etihad.

[ozrulestrace]

This has everything to do with looking after Geelong and not us.

What do geelong get out of it?

Rent money Plugger, they wouldn't have opened the gates for free.

They'll probably slug both sides extra money on the electricity bill and use of the gumboots on ground staff whilst the mopped up after the storm.

[saintbrat]

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