{"id":45456,"date":"2025-08-05T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45456\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:57:10","slug":"power-moves-at-melbourne-cricket-club-as-members-complain-exclusive-club-is-losing-standards-ahead-of-agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45456\/","title":{"rendered":"Power moves at Melbourne Cricket Club as members complain exclusive club is losing standards ahead of AGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with exclusive clubs is the word holds different meanings for different members. It\u2019s a reality the Melbourne Cricket Club is facing.<\/p>\n<p>For those on the outskirts of cricket and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/health-love-jeff-browne-mulls-the-afl-s-top-job-20250701-p5mboh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL circles<\/a>, the MCC is the MCG\u2019s members-only club. It occupies an enviable stand overlooking the hallowed turf, conveniently right in line with the centre bounce for footy in winter and the wicket for cricket in summer. Members pay nearly $900 annually for the privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The problem with exclusive clubs is the word holds different meanings for different members. It\u2019s a reality the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-45456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}