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Yeah $45 million is ridiculous. Didn't North Melbourne have something like $31 million and still declare a "profit"?
That you put profit in inverted commas answers your question. Surely the idea would be for a new club to make a real profit, without the need for the ""s.
As for 45Million....Probably not far off for a club that would get no assistance.
If Tassie can't support a team, Melbourne definitely can't support 10.
You can't have it both ways. You can't continue to give bigger handouts to teams in Melb than what Tassie would need.
Townsville, population 190k is home to the NQ Cowboys for 20 years & average 16k home crowds. Newcastle supports the Knights with a population of 300k average 15k a game & they are coming last.
Surely Tasmania can support an AFL team with it's populationof 500k. Even averaging 15k in the early years would be a pass mark. Bulldogs only average 23k at home & they have a roof & pay Etihad's huge rent. How are they profitable?
Townsville, population 190k is home to the NQ Cowboys for 20 years & average 16k home crowds. Newcastle supports the Knights with a population of 300k average 15k a game & they are coming last.
Surely Tasmania can support an AFL team with it's populationof 500k. Even averaging 15k in the early years would be a pass mark. Bulldogs only average 23k at home & they have a roof & pay Etihad's huge rent. How are they profitable?
Why put a team in tasmania when you can get all the money from that captive audiance with your current sides?The thing is, a 15k crown in the NRL is also comparable to a 27k crowd in AFL.
Tasmania could easily account for a team, the AFL know it too, just sad.
Nothing but excuses.
They constantly prop up other teams.
Why put a team in the GC, when people don't even go to the titans games? Ffs.
Why put a team in tasmania when you can get all the money from that captive audiance with your current sides?
Richmond didn't even make $45 million last year.
a) We probably will next year (and we're talking about the future after all)
b) Richmond isn't a 'rich' club, indeed, from memory we're in the lower half for revenue. Why would you bring in a new club that would be near the bottom (without substantial scope for improvement...While a Tas team would be getting relatively worse over time).
Long time to wait for a lame answer Telsor.
It's more to call out what an absolute bullshit arbitrary number this $45 million stated by Gilligan actually is. I mean if Richmond with their hundred years of building this league, 70,000 members and highest home crowds of any side in the comp aren't making $45 million, it really can't be the bench mark can it?
As a hypothetical, if they were starting up an 18 team national competition completely from scratch surely there would be a Tasmanian team?
There are many many of your fellow supporters claiming that Richmond are challenging Collingwood as the "biggest" club in the AFL. The "Big 4" crap your supporter base constantly bring up, more than any other in this fabled group, yet the mighty, massive Richmond, in the mightiest of mightiest Australian Rules stronghold, the "Sporting Capital" of the Milky Way, can't make $45 million, how can that be the baseline number? How? It's absolute bullshit.
Townsville, population 190k is home to the NQ Cowboys for 20 years & average 16k home crowds. Newcastle supports the Knights with a population of 300k average 15k a game & they are coming last.
Surely Tasmania can support an AFL team with it's populationof 500k. Even averaging 15k in the early years would be a pass mark. Bulldogs only average 23k at home & they have a roof & pay Etihad's huge rent. How are they profitable?
Greater Newcastle has a population larger than Tassie
Greater Newcastle has a population larger than Tassie
http://blog.id.com.au/2014/populati...st-australian-cities-and-towns-by-population/
This web page has Newcastle at just under 426k.
My point was Newcastle supported an NSWRL (ARL, NRL) club since 1988. At the time, if it's population was say 280k (willing to be corrected) but because it was a rugby league devoted town, it's average crowds were around 20k as it was the only show in town. Now Newcastle has an A League team in town, another an hour down the road (Central Coast Mariners), the Knights are averaging 15k crowds whilst on the bottom of the league. When they get better, so will the crowds. Tassie would be in a similar situation.
Question. Why is a rugby league team cheaper to run than AFL?
Plonking a team in a potential growth area like South East Queensland does not always work. A League Gold Coast. A number of Gold Coast rugby league teams. Bears on the Coast & the SQ Crushers have proven potential is a twin edged sword.
A proven market like Tassie should have been first.
The thing is, a 15k crown in the NRL is also comparable to a 27k crowd in AFL.
Tasmania could easily account for a team, the AFL know it too, just sad.
Nothing but excuses.
They constantly prop up other teams.
Why put a team in the GC, when people don't even go to the titans games? Ffs.