North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos senior coach Darren Crocker is "disappointed" plenty of fans from both teams will be locked out of Saturday afternoon's sudden-death clash with Richmond.
The semi-final between the Tigers and Kangaroos is scheduled for 1.40pm AEDT at the Swinburne Centre which has a minimal capacity.
"All I'm disappointed about is that the game obviously got sold out in 13 minutes and there's going to be a lot of, not only our fans, but Tigers supporters as well who will be pretty disappointed about not being able to come and support their team," Crocker stated.
"If we're looking to grow a product like the AFLW, this is a time to potentially open it up and play at a bigger venue or a bigger capacity-crowd venue.
"It would make sense to move it (the game), but from a player's perspective and a coaching perspective, we're happy to play anywhere, anytime.
"It's disappointing that this topic is overriding what should be a couple of fantastic finals games.
"We understand that Richmond finished higher than us on the ladder and they have the right to make the call.
"But I would have thought that the AFL would be asking Richmond why they're so adamant on playing the game at Punt Road where they can only get 2,800 people in ... their (Richmond's) own fans are going to get turned away from the game, as well as North Melbourne fans."
It was only nine days ago when North Melbourne drew with Richmond in home and away season action, and Crocker recognised what he and his side need to do better in order to leave the Swinburne Centre with another finals win.
"We thought that Richmond caught us on our heels a little bit in that Round 10 game, so we've got to make sure that we're up and about early and not give them the ascendancy early in the game," Crocker said.
"From quarter-time on we reset and got the game looking a lot more the way we like it to look.
"We started to win the territory battle, we started to win the contest a lot more and give ourselves opportunities to score.
"We've got to make sure that we're up for it nice and early, which you'd expect the players to be because with it being a final, there's no excuses for not getting yourself up."
The Round 10 bout at Arden Street Oval saw Jas Garner tagged heavily by Richmond's Meg Macdonald, and freeing the superstar midfielder up on Saturday is something Crocker has acknowledged as a key factor.
"As a team, we learned a lot from that game. We can be better at protecting Jas and giving her more opportunities to get into the game," Crocker mentioned.
"She would have learned a lot about herself getting such close attention in that game and potentially what she can do (while being tagged).
"You like to see the better players be able to showcase their talent and, hopefully, we can allow and help Jas do that on the weekend."
