Remember the AFL's 'best fit policy'.
That policy was a key component in the league's ability to justify closing a 75,000 capacity stadium at Waverley and replace it with a 53,000 capacity stadium at Docklands to a sceptical public back in 1999.
The policy, which accompanied the opening of what is now known as Telstra Dome in 2000, stated that any matches that were likely to draw in excess of 53,000 could be moved to the 100,000 capacity MCG.
However, now some eight years later AFL fans must be wondering just what happened to that policy.
First we had the sight of 53,459 fans - a new ground record - squeezing into the Dome for last Friday night's Hawthorn-Carlton clash when the MCG was sitting vacant.
So overcrowded was the stadium that hundreds of fans were standing in the aisles in a packed top deck - while seats remained empty in the corporate areas of the ground on level two - and some 600 seats in the bottom level in the Carlton social club area on level one were double-booked, leading to anger and confusion among fans.
But this is nothing compared to the thousands of football fans that are going to miss out on watching their teams play in the next two rounds.
First there is the farce of two MCG tenant clubs in Collingwood and Hawthorn being forced to play at Telstra Dome on the Sunday of round 13 at the same time as two Telstra Dome tenant clubs - the much-lesser supported pair of the Kangaroos and the Bulldogs - are playing at the MCG.
And then in the following round Essendon will host Geelong in a Friday night blockbuster at Telstra Dome, again while the MCG sits vacant.
The AFL is refusing to move either game despite the fact that under their so-called 'best fit policy', both games belong at the MCG.
The league's official reason for not moving the Collingwood-Hawthorn game is that all teams must play one twilight game on a Sunday for the season and that match is the Pies' sole twilight game for the season.
And apparently it can't be played as a twilight fixture at the MCG because, heavens above, it might rain.
The same theory no doubt applies for the following week's Essendon-Geelong game because the AFL has consistently stated it prefers to play its Friday night matches under the closed roof at Docklands as opposed to in the open air at the MCG.
That sounds fine in theory but conveniently overlooks the fact that in footy-mad Melbourne, fans will go and support their team in any conditions - particularly when they are winning as is the case with Collingwood, Hawthorn, Essendon and Geelong right now.
Remember the Pies and the Hawks once drew 92,935 fans to a game at Waverley in 1981 while the Bombers and the Cats have drawn above the Dome's official capacity of 53,500 in eight of their past 10 meetings at the MCG and in 1989 - in a year in which like this season the Cats are challenging for the flag - they drew a massive 87,653 fans to the MCG.
And further undermining the AFL's claims that fans won't attend big matches in inclement weather, that Essendon-Geelong game of 1989 was played in some of the worst conditions ever seen at the MCG yet attracted the largest home