{"id":12140,"date":"2018-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/gil-mclachlan-tells-why-the-grand-final-could-never-be-played-at-adelaide-oval\/"},"modified":"2018-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"gil-mclachlan-tells-why-the-grand-final-could-never-be-played-at-adelaide-oval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/gil-mclachlan-tells-why-the-grand-final-could-never-be-played-at-adelaide-oval\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil McLachlan Tells Why The Grand Final Could Never Be Played At Adelaide Oval"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Following a deal to keep the AFL Grand Final at the MCG for the next 40 years, CEO Gillon McLachlan has explained why the game could never be held anywhere else, including Adelaide Oval.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"370\" width=\"620\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mcg-mclachlan.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cIf you take Adelaide, the challenge of that is you might have the two Brisbane teams playing each other in Adelaide and you have got a restricted capacity of 50,000,\u201d McLachlan told SEN on Friday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cSo 50,000 less people can go and you don\u2019t get the home team playing their Grand Final.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe have gone for a model where we maximise the crowd.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe MCG has been the home of the Grand Final for so long and that\u2019s what we have committed to.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThis is such a big event, one of the biggest events in the world, you need to be planning a year or two out.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cOnce you do that, you can\u2019t have the Grand Final going to the top ranked team because you need to know where you\u2019re playing the Grand Final from a long way out.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe are committed to the MCG, it\u2019s been here for 100 years, it holds 100,000 people and we get the most amount of people coming to it and you feel it\u2019s the home of our Grand Final.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has explained why the league has kept the Grand Final at the MCG | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TGvrTMrjaU\">https:\/\/t.co\/TGvrTMrjaU<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T1fWDmUIqY\">pic.twitter.com\/T1fWDmUIqY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SEN 1116 (@SENNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SENNews\/status\/984589486129537024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a deal to keep the AFL Grand Final at the MCG for the next 40 years, CEO Gillon McLachlan has explained why the game could never be held anywhere else, including Adelaide Oval. \u201cIf you take Adelaide, the challenge of that is you might have the two Brisbane teams playing each other in Adelaide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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