OI TBR, leave out facts and logic.Exactly. In the mad rush to find an AFL bias against us, people seem to ignore all facts and logic.
The clubs all lodge an extensive wish list of fixture preferences each year and those lists are almost entirely focussed on making money, not what is best from a football point of view. We would have home games against teams like Port, Gold Coast, GWS at the absolute bottom of the pile. You can make more money playing them interstate. When you host an interstate team you want it to be Brisbane or Sydney who have the Melbourne supporter bases or even Adelaide who tend to draw ok over here.
Conversely teams like Port and Gold Coast would have playing us at home on the top of their list because we would be their biggest gate for the year.
So when the AFL produces those lopsided allocations of home and away matches, it is actually because they are giving both clubs exactly what they have requested.
Its like transparency, fairness and honesty, there’s no place for that where the afl is involved.