My view is that footy has been envious of racings Warrnambool carnival.On Gather Round, I agree with the majority view that it works well in SA, but it defeats the purpose of what it supposed to achieve to have it based in one location, IMO. Just seems counter to the concept. Are they trying to promote the game in a touring festival format or just have a whole round of matches somewhere where its most logistically suitable? If we are going to have a Gather Round, makes sense to rotate it each year to every state except Vic.
They have found it in gather round. And instead of it being a promotion of footy it’s now the schoolies week for footy insiders particularly the AFL Head office types.