Colin Carter
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331 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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Everybody's conscious of the fact that if you don't play each other twice, there's a massive inconsistency in the fixture and it's even made worse I think by the rivalry rounds because the rivalry rounds have generally given a gimme.
to one of the teams in the state.
like for example last year when Fremantle played West Coast twice.
So there's there's a a softening up of that.
But I think what's also not recognized is how unusual our competition is in r refusing to acknowledge home ground advantage.
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All the all the studies show that home ground advantage is real.
You have tremendous debates about why.
Um, but even I champion data ransom information for me and every year for the last twenty five years the home teams have won more than the away teams.
And that's true in overseas studies as well.
I mean, you can go onto the internet and you find studies from Harvard and MIT and prestigious institutions trying to analyse why.
But none of them dispute the fact it exists.
But we have been and so no competition that I s can find around the world compromises that.
Like the English Premier League, everybody plays each other twice and you play the other team at their home stadium, regardless of the capacity of that stadium.
Now for some reason along the way we have decided to place attendances.
as being more important than home ground advantage.
But it's inconceivable that Everton, for example, playing a home game against Liverpool
would see their game move to the Liverpool Stadium because it'll take another twenty thousand people.
We do that all the time.
In the old days, I don't think there was ever a Collingwood versus Melbourne home game of Victoria Park that was moved to the M C G to
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