FWIW, I don’t really think the barrier to curtain raisers is ground maintainance. It’s whenever they’ve been put on (Essendon had at least two last year), it’s pretty empty.
I don’t know if there is a significant audience anymore for spending that long at the football. I reckon for most people a single game is more than enough.
I don’t agree with it and think there should be curtain raisers.
I’m just mentioning the reasons I’ve heard and basically cost is the big one.
The MCG for instance isn’t going to want to pay hundreds of staff, security etc for an extra say 4hrs per day.
They would expect someone to foot the bill for that and I dare say the AFL has crunched their numbers and decided they are better off playing at suburban grounds.
At the SANFL we always get at least the Reserves and League and sometimes a third game of either a women’s our underage game.
Even at my local league I go and watch my nephew in under 11’s and they play U11’s, U13’s, U15’s, U18’s, Reserves, League, Womens all in the same day at the same venue for $16 and the grounds handle that just fine
Adelaide Oval and the MCG could cope with 12 games per week realistically but they don’t want anymore than 4-5 per work and use the bullshit excuse of wear and tear when in reality it’s all about the $$$$.
As I said, last weeks SANFL showdown the SANFL had to pay a fee to get the ground opened earlier.
I don’t like the reasoning but I can’t see it changing anytime soon
Given there is zero chance of most younger people having any certainty in their lives, including of their lives, I find enthusiastic, vapid consumerism to be a very reasonable response.
How many houses do you reckon they’ll be able to buy if they leave the doll on the shelf?
-3 for speed gun error, and the other -3 is “stop wasting the Court’s time” buffer. The latter is not broadly publicised, because they wanna appear tough.
Both correct. Yeah I had surgery on that finger about 7-8 years ago. Broke it playing cricket, needed 2 pins inserted to get the displaced fracture back where it should be. Looks terrible but pain free and it’s functional at least.