I'm just asking this question as i don't know why we went to play our games in Telstra and not all our home games at the MCG was it a money thing?

I thought the MCG would be so much a advantage to the club who plays there and we play well there even when we were in the bottom 8 but Telstra we always struggle there.

Some people say the ground is hard?

Ask Collo...

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Does anyone know for how long we are locked into the Dome deal?

The place was packed when we played the Hawks.
Is the Good Friday games to be at the Dome or the MCG?
Our membership is set to nudge 40k in 2008. Especially with the Kreuser and Judd factor.
We should try, no, demand more games at the "G"

We should still play teams like West Coast, Freo, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Port - the interstate teams, where a crowd of 30,000 is almost the most you can hope for - at Princes Park...
Even when we're flying we can't get neutrals to those fixtures.

We should play Hawthorn, Essendon*, Richmond, Collingwood at the 'G.

Melbourne, The Dogs, The Roos, St. Kilda and Geelong at the Dome.

But that'll never happen. So, play the interstaters at the Dome and add Melbourne and Geelong to the list of teams to play at the 'G.

It's a tangled web.

When the Collins-led board did the deal (with Collo out of the room of course) the word was that we wanted to play a majority of our games at the MCG, but the AFL was insistent that we play the majority of our games at the Telstra Dome (the stadium the AFL has a financial interest in).

At the time we were flat broke, led by the bloke who runs Telstra Dome, and in absolutely no position to push our case for more MCG games.

So the Telstra Dome it is, and I'm pretty sure it's a 10 year deal.

Personally, I think Collingwood has the best stadium deal in the AFL for both their fans, their sponsors and their bottom line. While I'm glad I wasn't born a collingwood supporter, I do envy them their 16 (or thereabouts) games at the G.

Ask ScottSaunders. It's all his fault!

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Very close JohnM, the above added with the fact the AFL blackmailed us by refusing to help payout our contracted partners at PP (a couple of million from memory) unless we went to the Dome pretty much confirmed the decision.

We were broke, we had to be good boys and girls to get our pocket money from the Puppa Spew. In essence at the end of the day we didn't have a choice.

I'm of the understanding the deal at the dome finishes in 2010 (i think it has a couple of years option as part of the contract but not too sure who has the option, us or the dome ) so hopefully when that time comes both stadium will be falling over themselves to get us to sign a long term deal. And then we can give the right royal 1 finger salute to the biggest prick in AFL football.

Can we get bought out of the contract with the Dome and move to the MCG from next year? (Next year will be the fourth year out of ten in the deal).