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AFL clubs to hold out in $50m faceoff with MCC | The AustralianTHE Melbourne Cricket Club last night threatened to withdraw its $50 million offer to help its Victorian tenant clubs over the next 10 years after they again flatly rejected the deal. |
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Extra $90,000 per game not enough to seal stadium deal - News - realfooty.com.auhttp://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/extra-90000-per-game-not-enough-to-seal-stadium-deal/2009/03/24/1237656931763.html
THE AFL has already rejected an offer from the MCC that would have seen Melbourne receive an extra $900,000 and Richmond an additional $720,000 per season in 2009. |
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Demons back in the fold - AFL - Fox SportsThe Melbourne Cricket Club and Melbourne Football Club will renew historical links on Wednesday, but it's as much about symbolism as substance. |
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Melbourne FC and Melbourne CC together again - Official AFL Website of the MelbourneAt an announcement made at the MCG today, the Melbourne Football Club (MFC) once again became a Sporting Section of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC). |
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Melbourne Cricket Club - Melbourne Football Club and Melbourne Cricket Club together once moreAt an announcement made at the MCG today, the Melbourne Football Club (MFC) once again became a Sporting Section of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC). |
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Demons and MCC enter into 'historic' agreement - AFL.com.auTHE MELBOURNE football club has entered into an agreement to become a 'sporting section' of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC). |
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Demons renew arrangement with MCC - RFNews - realfooty.com.auhttp://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/demons-renew-arrangement-with-mcc/2009/04/01/1238261628639.html
After a break of 29 years, the Melbourne Football Club has again become an official sporting section of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC). |
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Demons resume ties with MCC - RFNews - realfooty.com.auhttp://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/demons-resume-ties-with-mcc/2009/04/01/1238261648993.html
THE struggling Melbourne Football Club has again become a sporting section of the Melbourne Cricket Club. The "again" matters. One hundred and twenty years ago, it is recorded succinctly on the football club's website: "Melbourne, in financial trouble and bottom of the ladder, is absorbed into MCC." |
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Debt crunches back MCC offer - RFNews - realfooty.com.auhttp://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/debt-crunches-back-mcc-offer/2009/04/01/1238261648999.html
THE MCG's $320 million debt gives it less scope for greater generosity towards AFL clubs that play at the venue, Melbourne Cricket Club chief executive Stephen Gough says. |
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Clubs hit stalemate in MCG talks | The AustralianTHE impasse between the Melbourne stadiums and the AFL has intensified with the MCG Trust flatly rejecting a counter offer by the clubs for a better financial deal at the MCG. |
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AFL's uneven playing arena - RFNews - realfooty.com.auhttp://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/afls-uneven-playing-arena/2009/05/06/1241289239381.html
The gap between the most lucrative stadium return (West Coast) and least lucrative return (Melbourne, $5.9 million) was $11.1 million last year, 5.7 per cent bigger than it was in the 2007 season. |
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Rift between MCC and clubs grows wider - RFNews - realfooty.com.auhttp://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/rift-between-mcc-and-clubs-grows-wider/2009/05/16/1242335935827.html
THE MCC is accusing the AFL and its clubs of making "outrageous" demands; the clubs are saying the MCC is feeling "guilty" and is attempting to justify its offer. |
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Everything old is new again as game moves back home - RFNews - realfooty.com.auhttp://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/everything-old-is-new-again-as-game-moves-back-home/2009/05/16/1242335935836.html
LOOKING back, most of us barely raised a whimper four years ago when the Blues said farewell to Princes Park. Convinced by the AFL's mantra of ground rationalisation — prematurely as it turns out — blinkered by anything at Carlton that still had John Elliott's fingerprints on it and believing a deal with the MCG — this columnist's firm preference — or Docklands would come to the aid of the financially struggling club, we bought the argument that the stadium in Royal Parade was finished. |
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Melbourne clubs may reap $1m extra from stadiums - RFNews - realfooty.com.auhttp://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/melbourne-clubs-may-reap-1m-extra-from-stadiums/2009/06/23/1245522834042.html
MELBOURNE'S nine clubs would receive upwards of an extra million dollars each a year under the latest proposed deal from the MCG and Etihad Stadium. |
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Darwin to host Melbourne Demons at Marrara Oval | Herald SunTHE AFL has pencilled in Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs for "home" games in Darwin next season. |