Another purely money generating decision. The Pies cracked the wobblies years a go that we wouldn't share the gate for our traditionally season opener against them. They were the dominant AFL club at the stage and Eddie was demanded what he liked from the AFL. Every club was meant to bow to the greatness that was Collingwood and beg for the honour to play them.
Now we are becoming a powerhouse club again and closing in on them with off field success (still a little way off with memberships but we have the supporter base to do it unlike the other pretender clubs ie Hawks). They see how big a crowd we pull against the Dons and Blues and now are keen to come and share in the spoils too.
I think we should tell them where to go.
We can draw huge crowds without them and it would be a great message to show the competition that we don't need Collingwood to be profitable at the gate. Stuff em
but we will...just like our Cairns decision.....it's all about the money
