The AFL and McGowan had a less convivial relationship in 2020, when the government’s hard-border policies made it harder for Gillon McLachlan, the AFL’s heavily connected Perth-based chairman (also chairman of Qantas) Richard Goyder and the 18 clubs to ply their itinerant trade. 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.″ It is free service - Future baby picture generator Fig. Ben Tennyson and his teammates kick off a maelstrom of action when an ocean cruise brings Ben in. “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.
