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Football Australia posts $8.5m loss.

tsf said:
Football need to learn to stand on its own two feet. Like the AFL

Who use their two feet to stand there and received billions in handouts.
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The ACT government has a 9 nine year deal with the GWS Giants to play 3 games per season over in Canberra. I have read the deal is $28.5 million. This is, GWS are being paid in excess of $1 million per game by the government. Their game last night drew 9,000 fans. That is over $100 government funding per attendee. Talk about a handout! And that is before we even bring in the Blacktown drama and the fact the new stadium built for them at Homebush.

If football received that sort of a benefit on a per attendee basis, the Newcastle Jets would have received ~$8m this season and be self funded without the need for a wealthy owner to cover losses. For the women's world cup, which actually drew in significant tourism dollars, that would equate to over $200 million. Imagine where the A-League, where the National Second Division and just where junior football facilities would be at had these sorts of benefits been received.
 
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Song said:
The ACT government has a 9 nine year deal with the GWS Giants to play 3 games per season over in Canberra. I have read the deal is $28.5 million. This is, GWS are being paid in excess of $1 million per game by the government. Their game last night drew 9,000 fans. That is over $100 government funding per attendee. Talk about a handout! And that is before we even bring in the Bankstown drama and the fact the new stadium built for them at Homebush.

If football received that sort of a benefit on a per attendee basis, the Newcastle Jets would have received ~$8m this season and be self funded without the need for a wealthy owner to cover losses. For the women's world cup, which actually drew in significant tourism dollars, that would equate to over $200 million. Imagine where the A-League, where the National Second Division and just where junior football facilities would be at had these sorts of benefits been received.
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I’ve got a post somewhere outlining this actually for the ACT Government in comparison to their similar funding deals with local teams - will have to track it down
 
NicCarBel said:
I’ve got a post somewhere outlining this actually for the ACT Government in comparison to their similar funding deals with local teams - will have to track it down
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Canberra Racing 6.8m
GWS Giants 2.8m
Canberra Raiders 2.6m
ACT Brumbies 1.78m
Canberra Capitals 1.6m
Canberra United 1.6m
 
SportsIndustryAU said:
Canberra Racing 6.8m
GWS Giants 2.8m
Canberra Raiders 2.6m
ACT Brumbies 1.78m
Canberra Capitals 1.6m
Canberra United 1.6m
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Didn’t get into capitals or racing, but this was the breakdown (as of the ACT election)

  • MANUKA OVAL SPORTS - (INCLUDING PROPOSED CANBERRA BBL SIDE)
  • $390,000 p/c
    • AFL - $2.85m per year for 5 pieces of content = $570,000 p/c
    • BBL - $3m per year for, let's be generous and assume all women's games at Manuka Oval as well, 10 pieces of content = $300,000 p/c
  • GIO STADIUM SPORTS - (INCLUDING PROPOSED A-LEAGUE MENS SIDE)
  • $118,980 p/c
    • A-League - $1.45m per year for 23 pieces of content = $63,043 p/c
    • NRL - $2.6m per year for 16 pieces of content = $162,500 p/c
    • Super Rugby - $1.78m per year 10 pieces of content = $178,000 p/c
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  • MANUKA OVAL SPORTS - AS CURRENT
  • $570,000 p/c
    • AFL - $2.85m per year for 5 pieces of content = $570,000 p/c
    • BBL - unknown for 2 pieces of content per year
  • GIO STADIUM SPORTS - AS CURRENT
  • $125,135 p/c
    • A-League - $250,000 per year for 11 pieces of content = $27,727 p/c
    • NRL - $2.6m per year for 16 pieces of content = $162,500 p/c
    • Super Rugby - $1.78m per year 10 pieces of content = $178,000 p/c
 
SpiritOf06 said:
It’s borderline corruption from Barr, clearly his personal preference, not what the community want or need.
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I think that you will find that all state & territory governments do the same irrespective of political affiliation or philosophy. Remember the ancient Roman maxim: "Give the people bread and circuses".
 
If football is ever to have significant status in this country, it will have to build from the grassroots up. State governments are highly parochial, and AFL and NRL, and to an extent, rugby, because of the old school connections, are embedded in the political structures in the states they dominate. The federal government is more open minded, because of the global connections football facilitates - but the states, forget it.

It is unfortunate that we have such a mediocre Roos team because that is our point of leverage federally.
 
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SpiritOf06 said:
It’s borderline corruption from Barr, clearly his personal preference, not what the community want or need.
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To put it politely, he’s a prick of a person. Not just this, but the way he’s managed things around the death of little Rozalia Spadafora doubles things down.

Back to him and football, did you notice he specifically turned comments off on his “omg I went to the Matilda’s in Canberra. I did that, how great am I” post?
 
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Frankly Speaking said:
If football is ever to have significant status in this country, it will have to build from the grassroots up. State governments are highly parochial, and AFL and NRL, and to an extent, rugby, because of the old school connections, are embedded in the political structures in the states they dominate. The federal government is more open minded, because of the global connections football facilitates - but the states, forget it.

It is unfortunate that we have such a mediocre Roos team because that is our point of leverage federally.
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Hence my unwavering belief that the game in this country needs to forget about appealing to ‘mainstream Australia’ once and for all, for one; the other is we have to get serious about improving our footballing currency by producing better players and coaches, because waiting on foreign investment is largely a waste of time.

As for the Fed gov’t being more open-minded re. ⚽️ than its State counterparts, us hosting the WWC and the Tillies’ clout being coattailed in the interests of other codes leads me to disagree vehemently w/that assessment. Bottom line: institutional Australia w/regards to its treatment of ⚽️, can go eat a d1ck👎🏼
 
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BA81 said:
Hence my unwavering belief that the game in this country needs to forget about appealing to ‘mainstream Australia’ once and for all, for one; the other is we have to get serious about improving our footballing currency by producing better players and coaches, because waiting on foreign investment is largely a waste of time.
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What ive been arguing all along, its been the biggest myth pipe dream, waste of time, zero benefit, work to everyone elses advantage - crap ever!

Lets finally embrace that we are not (nor want to be) a ficticious so called "indiginous" code, embrace our outsider status, unite from ground up, and grow from there!
 
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BA81
Well said fellas as quite a few of us keep saying similar for a long time.
The game starts from the bottom !
We also need to weed out these kind of the idiots what’s doing at capital football and in Qld.
Without 1 system and All comply and follow we won’t get anywhere.
The FA need to get the balls deal with the backlash and pull the bulls by the horns !
Incl APL - I’m you staunch hopeful followers 2 football entities one having independent owners do NOT care about the game you me but themselves and will always fight against reforms.
 
SportsIndustryAU said:
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2024 Governing Body Reports - AFL dominates revenue, NRL dominates Profit - SportsIndustryAU

The Big 4 remain revenue wise - AFL, NRL, Tennis, Cricket, while the NRL and AFL also dominate the profits.
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Why does AFL receive so much funding when they have so much profit? It's like ignoring the poor but funding the rich. And how is it acceptable for AFL to make (be donated) so much profit when a not-for-profit?
 
HappyGuus said:
Why does AFL receive so much funding when they have so much profit? It's like ignoring the poor but funding the rich. And how is it acceptable for AFL to make (be donated) so much profit when a not-for-profit?
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Question: Is that funding considered part of their revenue/profit and loss figures in that link?
 
HappyGuus said:
Why does AFL receive so much funding when they have so much profit? It's like ignoring the poor but funding the rich. And how is it acceptable for AFL to make (be donated) so much profit when a not-for-profit?
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HappyGuus said:
Why does AFL receive so much funding when they have so much profit? It's like ignoring the poor but funding the rich. And how is it acceptable for AFL to make (be donated) so much profit when a not-for-profit?
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Something something stuffing pork in a barrel :P
 
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