Let me preface this by saying I have no idea how the "money trail" works between the AFL and the clubs.
But The Age is carrying a story today about the Hawks threatening to pull out of the equalisation arrangements. The Hawks President talked about a figure of $650k that the Hawks were due to tip in (BTW, I support the Hawks rationale for making this threat).
Anyway, it seems to me that in the scheme of things, $650k is not very much and Hawks being one of the richer clubs I am guessing no club is tipping in much more than that. So if you roughly say 9 clubs are tipping in $650k each that is just $6m.
It makes me think why do they bother? What actually happens to the hundreds of millions of dollars that come in from media rights? Why don't the AFL just balance the ledger between the clubs out of their own consolidated revenue? Or is that too simple and there is no money left over to allow them to do that?
But The Age is carrying a story today about the Hawks threatening to pull out of the equalisation arrangements. The Hawks President talked about a figure of $650k that the Hawks were due to tip in (BTW, I support the Hawks rationale for making this threat).
Anyway, it seems to me that in the scheme of things, $650k is not very much and Hawks being one of the richer clubs I am guessing no club is tipping in much more than that. So if you roughly say 9 clubs are tipping in $650k each that is just $6m.
It makes me think why do they bother? What actually happens to the hundreds of millions of dollars that come in from media rights? Why don't the AFL just balance the ledger between the clubs out of their own consolidated revenue? Or is that too simple and there is no money left over to allow them to do that?