Who really cares about Gold Coast footy, anyway? Definitely not all those people who live in south east Qld.
If the AwFuL were truly serious about needing to cut costs because the gravy train has derailed, a good start would be to merge GC and GWS, then relocate North Melbourne and Hawthorn into a single Tassie based club, reducing the competition back to a manageable 16 teams, playing 15 home and away games (weekends only) plus a simplified finals arrangement.
I’ll take the certain knowledge that this will NOT happen as incontrovertible proof that the spoiled brats at AwFuL House have no intention of ever running a fair and truly sporting competition.