It’s been interesting to hear the outrage that has been aired following the decision to hold the next three soccer grand finals in Sydney rather than the highest finishing teams home ground. Victorian media outlets have been full of commentary about it. Strangely very little of the Victorian sports community’s commentary has criticised the AFL’s 5,000 year commitment to the MCG for its GF.
While I’m not in favour of GF’s locations being undecided until a week before the game (as it creates too many logistical problems for travelling fans), I would love to see the GF being rotated around the country on a pro rata basis of number of clubs in each state e.g. WA gets 2 GFs every 18yrs. It’ll never happen in my lifetime but maybe one day in the distant future….
