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AFL Side Collingwood President Demands Compensation For Sparse MCG Crowd

Australian Football League side Collingwood President Eddie McGuire has "demanded his club be compensated for hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue" as a result of Saturday's "disastrous" Melbourne Cricket Ground crowd, according to Matt Windley of the HERALD SUN. Just 40,936 showed up to the clash between "traditional rivals Collingwood and Carlton -- the fourth lowest in games between these two sides at the MCG" and the lowest since '21. McGuire acknowledged that the 7:10pm game had been "pegged as an experiment ahead of the next round of television rights negotiations, but said he was sick and tired of his club being used as the AFL's test bunnies." McGuire added that despite the "poor weather, he would have expected a crowd of at least 65,000 if the game were played during the afternoon" (HERALD SUN, 6/29).

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