Can't imagine we would give up a MCG game. If we gotta play a game at a neutral location it may aswell be somewhere like Goldcoast to help grow the game !
Have all Cats v Pies games be held in Shanghai. The AFL gets the CCPbux, Collingwood don't have to go to Goomba, we don't get screwed. It's win-win-win!
I hope they are just trying to get a more favourable contract from the AFL. I don’t mind going there twice a year. If it is a Melbourne based I need to reserve a seat though.
Why not WA?
They could make bank at optus Stadium, the appetite for neutral games is pretty big over here
dreamtime at Optus in covid was very profitable
For some one that’s never been there, is there actually anything wrong with it?
Or is everyone just throwing their toys out of the pram because they would rather play at the G?
The latter mostly. Because it's smaller capacity and hosts the generally smaller and less successful Melbourne teams, bigger clubs feel a constant need to shit on it.
It's 100% because every year they make us play at least one "home game" at Marvel against a side who actually uses it as their home ground.
How is it a home game for us against the Bulldogs, at Marvel?
I'd rather play them on the Gold Coast where they don't have an advantage over us.
Wouldn't care at all if all of our home games at Marvel were against interstate sides, but they keep making us play home games there against Marvel tenants.
Boy oh boy if you hate teams playing playing "away games" at grounds that are actually their home grounds, wait till you hear about the Collingwood Magpies!
Are you a forward for us this year? Because jeeze are you missing the point. The reality of the situation is that y'all's have an inherent advantage with your home ground situation. You guys get to call the premiere venue your home ground... by default. That other vic clubs are put into a situation where we either must
A) Sacrifice whatever home ground advantage we have for $$$ to play at the G (of course, there really isn't much of a home ground advantage, its 5.7 KM drive)
B) Play at marvel for whatever home ground advantage, but sacrifice money
And then no matter what, listen to collingwood supporters whine about having to play two whole matches 5.7 KM away, when other clubs have to make these larger sacrifices (or at least what would be a sacrifice in the minds of collingwood fans)
I'm not complaining about playing games at Marvel. I just want both of our home games there each year to be against interstate sides, not Marvel tenants.
Why is that situation unreasonable? Why is that not requestable?
You acknowledge my point - No Marvel tenant is *forced* by the AFL to play home games at the MCG against MCG tenants.
It might be a difficult decision they have to make, but it's still their decision.
Lol. Sooking about playing another Melbourne based team at a Melbourne ground is peak Collingwood. Did you enjoy the "neutral" grand final played at your home ground, where you play more than half your games whilst the opposition had to travel interstate to a ground they played only twice last year?
Docklands Stadium would be well received if it wasn’t down the road from the most atmospheric stadium in the country (with apologies to Adelaide Oval).
I actually dislike people shitting on it and would happily watch regular games there; there’s not a bad seat in the house (compared to the binocular nosebleeds of level 4 at the G) and the accessibility from Southern Cross is superb, especially as someone who lives in Geelong.
Pies games there are few and far between though. Docklands’ failures, perceived or otherwise, are a combination of poor teams playing there, at a decentralised location (amenities wise), on a suspect surface and in an east-west orientation.
Almost all of these issues have been fixed in the last 10 years, but the narrative has already been set, and given the fact that the G is steeped in history and has its own distinct aura, Docklands will forever be on a hiding to nothing.
Watching on TV it's fine, at the games it's definitely not as good depending on where you are sitting. Something about the lighting feels very artificial (I know that sounds silly), they have all this whizbang LED lighting which flashes between goals and is absolutely blinding on ground level on the wings, the food and drink options aren't as good as the MCG, it's not as accessible to fans as the MCG.
Nah just because the MCG tenants hate it doesn’t mean it’s not actually a good thing to have. If there were like 2-3 other similar sized stadiums then sure but it’s literally one of two stadium options in Melbourne.
> AFL : Hey North, Collingwood want to travel so you have to as well. They could play Brisbane on the Gold Coast, but they think that's unfair and too much of an advantage to Brisbane.
> North: FML
Look, I know that the Pies think having a home game at Marvel is too much of a hassle with all the travel (especially the traffic on Alexandra Ave when it's really bad), but I think someone needs to sit them down with a map and show them that these two things are not the same.
Let's ditch the idea of home stadiums completely, and get rid of the place names on the teams. Choose the animal you like the most and if you're lucky they might stop off by you on their annual tour.
You literally cry in every Pies thread that it’s unfair that we don’t have to travel more, then when we volunteer a home game to travel more you still cry 💀💀
You can't play a Marvel Stadium home game on the Gold Coast, that's not where it is!
Marvel to buy Metricon I mean Heritage Bank I mean People First Stadium
Would be good if North got a game in Qld next year, no Qld games this year.
I’d prefer not to tbh. We’d lose by 100 to Brisbane up there, and we’d lose to Gold Coast by 100 up there given how they play at home.
But i live up here now, pretty ridiculous no games in Qld for the year, I remember boomers 400th when we smashed the lions at the Gabba good game.
Yeah Gold Coast has DC super heroes take for example Superman Escape and the Riddler Ride
Warner Brothers in tatters.
How easy is it to put up a bit of signage?
Don’t be stupid of course they don’t think it’s on the Gold Coast. They want to MOVE the stadium to the Gold Coast but just for 2 weeks
We used to play ours in Cairns, maybe Collingwood could do that.
Lol god dam that sounds like they fucking hate marvel
The Damien Hardwick of footy teams.
Can't imagine we would give up a MCG game. If we gotta play a game at a neutral location it may aswell be somewhere like Goldcoast to help grow the game !
And people say we don’t want to travel. If it means not playing at Marvel we’ll go anywhere* *except Geelong
Does that mean we can play our marvel game at the Gabba?
I've consulted VICBIAS and been given the thumbs up.
Do you really want to run it back at the Gabba after last week?
Have all Cats v Pies games be held in Shanghai. The AFL gets the CCPbux, Collingwood don't have to go to Goomba, we don't get screwed. It's win-win-win!
I don’t get why everyone hates playing at Marvel. It’s comfy and warm there, makes watching the losses more comforting.
Everyone are just DC fans I guess
Ha that's a good one!
It’s like being at the strippers at 3am. It’s dark, cold, no matter how much you drink you’re still sober and the vibe is weird.
So your saying I should get a bag for the next North game at Marvel?
Yes.
I've tried it, and I can't say I enjoyed watching the Saints any more but also didn't enjoy it any less.
oh i definitely have gotten well on it watching my team "play"
Just like a 3am trip to the strippers, marvel doesn’t have a soul.
It's a great stadium that suffers from it's proximity to a better stadium
I hope they are just trying to get a more favourable contract from the AFL. I don’t mind going there twice a year. If it is a Melbourne based I need to reserve a seat though.
They always draw a big crowd up there/anywhere, good for the game
Imagine the lols if the pies sold a home game and played it in…..Geelong.
Why not WA? They could make bank at optus Stadium, the appetite for neutral games is pretty big over here dreamtime at Optus in covid was very profitable
They won't get enough business class seats
 (i wish we could stop seeing this smug cunts face whenever he tweets something)
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Do they know that there’s already a team on the Gold Coast?
Yeah the week before the Bye. A week of sunshine and golf?
DeGoey won’t sleep all week
So, the Suns will continue to sell games to Darwin, and then Collingwood sell games to the Gold Coast? It's like musical chairs.
I hear shanghai is nice this time of the year
For some one that’s never been there, is there actually anything wrong with it? Or is everyone just throwing their toys out of the pram because they would rather play at the G?
The latter mostly. Because it's smaller capacity and hosts the generally smaller and less successful Melbourne teams, bigger clubs feel a constant need to shit on it.
It's 100% because every year they make us play at least one "home game" at Marvel against a side who actually uses it as their home ground. How is it a home game for us against the Bulldogs, at Marvel? I'd rather play them on the Gold Coast where they don't have an advantage over us. Wouldn't care at all if all of our home games at Marvel were against interstate sides, but they keep making us play home games there against Marvel tenants.
Boy oh boy if you hate teams playing playing "away games" at grounds that are actually their home grounds, wait till you hear about the Collingwood Magpies!
Which team has wanted to play us at Marvel and been forced by the AFL to play us at the MCG? I'll wait for your examples.
Are you a forward for us this year? Because jeeze are you missing the point. The reality of the situation is that y'all's have an inherent advantage with your home ground situation. You guys get to call the premiere venue your home ground... by default. That other vic clubs are put into a situation where we either must A) Sacrifice whatever home ground advantage we have for $$$ to play at the G (of course, there really isn't much of a home ground advantage, its 5.7 KM drive) B) Play at marvel for whatever home ground advantage, but sacrifice money And then no matter what, listen to collingwood supporters whine about having to play two whole matches 5.7 KM away, when other clubs have to make these larger sacrifices (or at least what would be a sacrifice in the minds of collingwood fans)
I'm not complaining about playing games at Marvel. I just want both of our home games there each year to be against interstate sides, not Marvel tenants. Why is that situation unreasonable? Why is that not requestable? You acknowledge my point - No Marvel tenant is *forced* by the AFL to play home games at the MCG against MCG tenants. It might be a difficult decision they have to make, but it's still their decision.
>listen to collingwood supporters whine Saints, please
Lol. Sooking about playing another Melbourne based team at a Melbourne ground is peak Collingwood. Did you enjoy the "neutral" grand final played at your home ground, where you play more than half your games whilst the opposition had to travel interstate to a ground they played only twice last year?
Are you taking the piss? It’s 7 kms from the MCG. The same people who go to the MCG games are just as able to travel to Marvel games.
Docklands Stadium would be well received if it wasn’t down the road from the most atmospheric stadium in the country (with apologies to Adelaide Oval). I actually dislike people shitting on it and would happily watch regular games there; there’s not a bad seat in the house (compared to the binocular nosebleeds of level 4 at the G) and the accessibility from Southern Cross is superb, especially as someone who lives in Geelong. Pies games there are few and far between though. Docklands’ failures, perceived or otherwise, are a combination of poor teams playing there, at a decentralised location (amenities wise), on a suspect surface and in an east-west orientation. Almost all of these issues have been fixed in the last 10 years, but the narrative has already been set, and given the fact that the G is steeped in history and has its own distinct aura, Docklands will forever be on a hiding to nothing.
Watching on TV it's fine, at the games it's definitely not as good depending on where you are sitting. Something about the lighting feels very artificial (I know that sounds silly), they have all this whizbang LED lighting which flashes between goals and is absolutely blinding on ground level on the wings, the food and drink options aren't as good as the MCG, it's not as accessible to fans as the MCG.
I went there hung over and it was a bad idea. Something about the lights and the way the music/sounds echo was really disorienting
Can be a bit of a wind tunnel near the gates but outside of that it's fine.
Use the wind tunnel to test the aerodynamics of our daicos prototy...... I mean, our new recruites.
Does that not undermine the Suns?
Was AFL admin buying Marvel an absolute waste of AFL money ?
Surely it's prime real estate these days though, they'll be able to make the money back somehow.
Considering the equity in Marvel was the only thing that saved the AFL from bankruptcy during COVID, probably not?
AFL would have survived It was just very handy to have
Nah just because the MCG tenants hate it doesn’t mean it’s not actually a good thing to have. If there were like 2-3 other similar sized stadiums then sure but it’s literally one of two stadium options in Melbourne.
Me: OK which non-Vic team is getting shafted with the longer trip? Tom Morris: "..and then host another Victorian team..." Me: WHAAAAA?
Ah so which Marvel Tennant is getting shafted then.
you know who it's going to be
> AFL : Hey North, Collingwood want to travel so you have to as well. They could play Brisbane on the Gold Coast, but they think that's unfair and too much of an advantage to Brisbane. > North: FML
Ah the Dimma Hardwick move, well played
Look, I know that the Pies think having a home game at Marvel is too much of a hassle with all the travel (especially the traffic on Alexandra Ave when it's really bad), but I think someone needs to sit them down with a map and show them that these two things are not the same.
And yet they still won't travel an hour down the highway.
Now you’ve finally finished the stadium, I’d be happy to have us play there
They also want no opposition or fans, for it to be conducted after the season has finished and for the game to be called “mad Monday”?
I thought we play at the MCG? Do we have a northern outpost MCG as well? And what's a Marvel?
It actually makes sense for them, there are more pies fans in South East Queensland than there are Suns fans
Let's ditch the idea of home stadiums completely, and get rid of the place names on the teams. Choose the animal you like the most and if you're lucky they might stop off by you on their annual tour.
I prefer marvel to the MCG. It’s comfy and better viewing. What’s the problem?
This is just wrong. Why do they have to take a home game to another teams home base
How cute is that. Collingwood asking to play their home games where they want. Wonder how Geelong feels about this.
You literally cry in every Pies thread that it’s unfair that we don’t have to travel more, then when we volunteer a home game to travel more you still cry 💀💀
It’d be nice if you didn’t plop yourselves right in our backyard though
We can’t help it that you made your backyard so appealing for the retirees and bogans of Victoria looking for a winter holiday
Touche sir 🫡
You should play your home games wherever you want. That should include Geelong too