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The AFL grand final could be in Perth, Brisbane or Adelaide, and the decision may decide the premiership – ABC News
It’s increasingly likely the AFL grand final will be leaving Melbourne this year, and its final destination could be a deciding factor in this year’s premiership race, writes Richard Hinds.
The complaints of non-Victorian AFL clubs about the MCG’s iron-clad contractual grip on the grand final are both understandable and, at least in a competitive sense, also largely unjustified.
There is an obvious case that when the V in VFL was replaced by a supposedly all-encompassing A, the grand final should have been rotated between competing cities.
Yet 18 times a non-Victorian team has played against a Victorian team in the grand final and the scoreboard stands Victoria 9, Not Victoria 9 …
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