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AFL grand final may be tied to MCG but venue tradition is outdated – The Guardian
No team should be afforded the luxury of home-ground advantage in a flag decider
It is the afternoon of 24 October. The 2020 AFL grand final has just been played at the Gabba. Brisbane Lions players and staff are celebrating in the most socially distant way they can after toppling Richmond to break a premiership drought of 17 years. The season somehow found a way. All is right with the world.
Or is it? Critics and curmudgeons are pointing to the fact that Brisbane might well be a very good team, but were given an almighty leg-up by dint of home-ground advantage. How might t…
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