No more home games at Etihad Stadium please Eddie, NO MORE

mattys123 · Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Location: Narre Warren, VIC

It's time to make a stand here, it's not our home ground yet every year we play 2-3 home games there.

I accept we have to play games there, I'd be ok with playing 4 away games there, but no home games.

I use the example of the West Coast Eagles, Freo Dockers, Adelaide Crows, Port Power, Liverpool, Man U, New York Yankees, do they play home games at a foreign ground? NO.

Time to make a stand, not basing this just on performances there either, our fans have spoken with their feet, 28k there today, that's a shit crowd for us.

NO MORE HOME GAMES AT ETIHAD.

collie dog · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 7:32 pm

I agree. The fans are boycotting the stadium anyway. What did we have today 20,000? Laughing

Never thought we would see the day when they draw larger weekly crowds in Adelaide than we do in Melbourne. Something is really rotten in the state of Victorian footy at the moment. Fans are voting with their wallets.

doriswilgus · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Location: the great southern land

28,000^.Still a very poor crowd for us.You'd swear the supporters knew the sort of tripe the players were going to throw up today.

Stupied · Joined: 14 Mar 2013

I don't have a problem playing at Etihad, but if we are forced to have home games there, then WE SHOULDN'T BE PLAYING A TEAM WHOS GODDAMN HOME GROUND IT IS!

WTF is the point of classing it as a home game for us if we have no goddamn home ground advantage?? Why don't we have a home game at Subiaco while we're at it? What a $�$%^%%$ joke!

Doc63 · Joined: 06 May 2004 Location: Newport

Isn't Etihad St Kilda's home ground too?

mattys123 · Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Location: Narre Warren, VIC

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

If we have to have 2 home games there then I should be able to buy a 9 game membership. It's a crap stadium.

Piesnchess · piesnchess Joined: 09 Jun 2008

TODAY was another very, very good reason, why I loathe, utterly loathe, the eitihad shithole with an absolute passion.

collie dog · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 9:34 pm

MattyD · Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Location: Kew

I think there were very few bulldogs supporters at that game also. Seemed like less than 10,000 to me but I could be wrong.
20,000 Collingwood supporters is a generous figure. We did make some noise in the last though.
28,000 for our home game is really bad. That's more like a 1980s crowd at the Western Oval.

We do seem to to always struggle at Etihad, although our win/loss record isn't all that bad there.

But supporters are speaking with their feet. If that game was at the MCG, there would been over 50K. That's a big difference.

Tannin · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 9:36 pm

I've never been there. And from everything I have ever heard about the place, I ain't missed nuffin. Bring back Waverley. At least it was a football ground and it was a lot closer to most people too. And you could buy a pie for 80c.

collie dog · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 9:38 pm