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Originally Posted by DonzFC  me not going to aami means nothing.....i dont go to the winter olympics yet i can still see it is snowing.
just a final bit on your home ground advantage thing....
heres just 2 teams to analyse...
Freo have 12 games at subiaco -1 which is against wc and you have 11 home ground advantage games and 10 away games.
Ess have 4 interstate away games, and 18 melbourne games, of which 14 are against sides who share the same home ground, negating your home ground advantage. Which means we have 4 home ground advantage games and 18 non advantage games by your rules.
11 home ground advantage vs 4 home ground advantage....
it dosent take a civil engineer to work out its not level.
so if you were able to use this massive piece of advantage, which most interstate sides should,(freo pending) ,that will give you a finals berth, probably top 4, giving you another home final, while the vic sides scramble for the remaining spots after having played throughout the year with less home ground advantage games, then if we don't have to play away, have to play against a side on a neutral home ground.
so then you want to tip the scales further by having the gf after you have had a massave % more home ground advantages than the vics all year?
is it such a pain to have to come to the ground that has been home of aussie rules for the past 150 years?, after all those advantages throughout the year? the mcg is built like a collessium, built for gladiators to fight out the biggest and best game of the year infront of the biggest crowd, the history alone of past gf's and past moments should make it more neutral on gf day. |
Very well said Don, could not agree more.
But the amount of an advantage freo may get in this example may be a bit more minimal than we think it is. I know the dockers have a so called "home" ground advantage because only the eagles share the same ground. But they still have to travel every 2nd week (or 4th week in 1 instance because they do play 3 in a row at subiwhen they have an away derby) so the travel factor is something they have to contend with a lot more than the bombers for example. Even though the bombers don't have a "home" ground advantage against other Melbourne based teams" they still get to play at the venue when it is not classed as a "home" game. They just have to factor in the opposition supporters more than anything. It's the kind of arguement that is very debatable. it's a two way street kind of thing.