Gil McLachlan Tells Why The Grand Final Could Never Be Played At Adelaide Oval

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.

“If 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,” McLachlan told SEN on Friday.

“So 50,000 less people can go and you don’t get the home team playing their Grand Final.

“We have gone for a model where we maximise the crowd.

“The MCG has been the home of the Grand Final for so long and that’s what we have committed to.

“This is such a big event, one of the biggest events in the world, you need to be planning a year or two out.

“Once you do that, you can’t have the Grand Final going to the top ranked team because you need to know where you’re playing the Grand Final from a long way out.

“We are committed to the MCG, it’s 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’s the home of our Grand Final.”