![]() The demand for tickets and expensive corporate hospitality is such that the league – handed a “clean stadium” for the game, with no rent charged and no MCC or AFL members – will make close what they would for a 100,000-capacity MCG finale. “We haven’t paid a cent.”īut the AFL won’t go hungry in the “Hermit Kingdom.″ “We have not paid for the hosting rights,” said Dr Tony Buti, the Minister for Sport in the McGowan (Labor) government. Unlike the Queensland government, which paid upwards of $10 million for the 2020 grand final and rescued the AFL from Victoria’s demoralising second wave, the McGowan government has not outlaid a single dollar, as yet, to purchase what locals say is the biggest sporting event in WA history – probably eclipsing the America’s Cup of 1987.
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