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Round 20 - Collingwood vs Port Melbourne at Victoria Park

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:09 am
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MagpieBat wrote:
eddiesmith wrote:
So is the only reason we have to play at North Port Oval because there is no fence at Vic Park?


No. Well, not entirely. It's as much a matter of old VFA tradition as it is convenience for Channel 7 (so they can leave their broadcast equipment set up in the one place for two games over two days, rather than carting them backwards and forwards) that there be 2 "neutral" finals between 5v8 and 6v7 at North Port.

We played an elimination final at Victoria Park without a fence last year, largely because of a scheduling hole the VFL found itself in due to Port Melbourne finishing 2nd and claiming a home final, a right the VFL only doles out to teams that finish 1 and 2. This meant the VFL had the impossible task of playing 3 finals at North Port Oval over two days. As such, an opportunity presented itself to fixture Collingwood, as the highest ranking of the 5th to 8th teams, at Victoria Park, provided Collingwood pay for the lost gate takings.

The hope was that we could wrangle a similar arrangement this year but all the noise is that the game will be at North Port Oval, which is a shame, because we'd get a big crowd at Vic Park and it would look good on TV if Channel 7 was willing to shoulder the inconvenience of broadcasting from two different grounds in two days...


Thanks Bat! Vic Park would have been good but I suppose I can see where they are coming from. However surely CH7 would be a lot moe comfortable with 2 grounds than obviously the ABC would have been in the past?

Seems an old school thinking there
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