[Brades]

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.

If Essendon however were to play WCE/Freo/whatever in a Final at the MCG, but the interstate team finished top, then the MCG is a definite home ground advantage to Essendon, or cant you work that out in your tiny brain already?