{"id":27504,"date":"2018-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/a-controversial-grand-final-clause-has-been-written-into-the-mcg-deal\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:00:00","slug":"a-controversial-grand-final-clause-has-been-written-into-the-mcg-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/a-controversial-grand-final-clause-has-been-written-into-the-mcg-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Controversial Grand Final Clause Has Been Written Into The MCG Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A long-term contract to continue playing the AFL Grand Final at the MCG takes into account the possibility of a \u2018best of three\u2019 format, reports Caroline Wilson.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/The-AFL-Grand-Final-Will-Be-Played-In-Melbourne-For-The-Next-40-Years\">The deal<\/a> was only signed last week,\u201d Caro has told FIVEAA. \u201cThe reason it was only signed last week is because it was noticed the MCG and the AFL had to do something in case the best of three Grand Final ever came into the equation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something which says the AFL decider has to be played at the MCG. If we ever have best of three Grand Finals the first Grand Final is not the decider, it might be the second Grand Final or if it\u2019s one all it\u2019s a third Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is completely discounting the idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sydney Swans are determined to push this. Andrew Ireland &#8212; the outgoing Sydney chief &#8212; is determined that the AFL give this idea a run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure where its going to go but I thought it was really interesting that the Grand Final venue as it stands is very nervous about losing the right to one of the Grand Finals and that could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CARO: The Sydney Swans are determined to push for a best of 3 Grand Final. Another idea was if you were the top ranked team the MCG had to be reconfigured to be the shape of your ground.<\/p>&mdash; RoweyandBicks (@RoweyandBicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoweyandBicks\/status\/1060424049417891840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/526524603&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-term contract to continue playing the AFL Grand Final at the MCG takes into account the possibility of a \u2018best of three\u2019 format, reports Caroline Wilson. \u201cThe deal was only signed last week,\u201d Caro has told FIVEAA. \u201cThe reason it was only signed last week is because it was noticed the MCG and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1053,"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":[247,231],"tags":[246,248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-27504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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