Geelong president Colin Carter has called on the AFL to honour the club’s wish for all its home games to be played at Simonds Stadium.
Speaking to SEN before the club’s win over Collingwood, Carter outlined that the club wants its home games to be played at their preference, Simonds Stadium.
“There is no competition that I know around the world which ever takes a game away from the home team to play it somewhere else,” the Geelong president told SEN's Crunch Time..
“What happened was that nine Melbourne clubs closed their grounds down and agreed to share the MCG and Etihad, and that’s where the ground-sharing, best-fit idea came from.
“While that made sense when you had a domestic competition with a bunch of clubs sharing grounds here, that’s basically untenable now that we have a national competition, because one set of rules is applying to one and not the other… that’s not sustainable.
“If we have an ambition in this, it is to make sure the medium to longer term policies of the AFL are sensible.”
Carter specifically pointed at the AFL’s fixturing of Geelong “home” games at Etihad Stadium.
“Being required to play two of our home games at Etihad is completely unreasonable,” he said.
“It’s unreasonable in competitive terms because often we’re playing it against a team who considers it their home ground, and it’s actually really unreasonable from an economic point of view because we make half a million dollars a game more at Simonds than we do at Etihad.
“Those two games a year cost us a million dollars a year which we can’t afford.”