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Play Nice Admin, Finance, Members, Ratings, Crowds, Policies - Please refer to each sports own boards
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manicmagpie
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They've scheduled netball matches on weekends? But, but, that's when some A-League games are played! It's a conspiracy, I tells you!
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The gap in non-broadcast revenue stands out big time, and that's just comparing the AFL to the NRL, adding the 18 and 16 clubs respectively makes the difference an absolute abyss.
RussellEbertHandball
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That AFL industry revenue would then include pokies if you have added up the 18 clubs total revenue. The gap between AFL and NRL clubs' revenue ( not the governing bodies) isn't as big as you'd expect if you add the NRL clubs' licencsed venues like Easts, Panthers, Bronco's leagues club, the 3 associated with Wests Tigers etc.
Go GWS!
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That's brilliant. You are peerless, Wookie.
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geech, some of you care more about the a-league than most actual fans.
i think FFA would be happy to not be in the news for the next couple of months while they fight the clubs, players and fans over power and money.
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I dont
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Id say none of us do, but giiven the nature of the aleagues rights not being finalised and how crap their ratings are, its as amusing a diversion as anything else on this forum.
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And if you take pokie revenue out of AFL club revenue you are stiill left with over a billion in club and industry revenues. If I take Pokie revenues out of NRL clubs Id be left with about half that.
kaypee
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It's a mistake for AFL club's to chase pokie money, no matter how lucrative. The AFL can not cthe game is community orientated, and then rip-off poor, lonely or addicted. Pokie venues, if they must opearate, should be ridiculed as the bizness of spivs.
Club's may as well sell smack
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Agreed
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This emerging stoush between the FFA and the clubs is just about the best sport we will witness over the next few months.
- May 3, 2007
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I assume you want the a-league to be killed off?
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Why do you conclude that it will be the death of the a-league?
The history of sports administration is littered with stoushes between competing stakeholders. Sometimes there are advances, and sometimes there is regression.
The A-League clubs, most owned very wealthy individuals. are convinced that they can progress the A-League if they control it.
No one knows whether they can or they can't, but I do know it's crazy the amount of money they have put into the A-League over the course of 12 years, while having very little control over the revenue the comp pulls in.
Anyway, whoever wins or loses, it will be a stoush worth watching from afar.
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Watching the internal struggles of other sports is a sport in itself if you are an admin geek. Its what makes the NRL off season so entertaining almost annually.
Geez they have really dropped away in the second half of the season.
I still dont see any FTA channel paying big bucks for the soccer.
RussellEbertHandball
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The model in England is the FA runs the game, ie is the custodian and controls the rules, runs the national teams, game development, The FA Cup etc, but a private company made up of the 20 clubs in the Premier League that season are the 20 shareholders of the organisation that runs the Premier League. The FA isn't a shareholder, it doesn't run the competition, but it has veto power over when a chairman or CEO is elected by the 20 clubs, and over the adoption of any new rules, to make sure its consistent with FIFA regulations.
Pretty sure the other big Euro leagues are set up this way and that's what FIFA is insisting that the FFA implement to separate itself from running/controlling the A-League.
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I think the FFA's argument would be something along the lines of "literally no other sport in Australia is run like that".
RussellEbertHandball
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Pretty sure Basketball Australia don't run the NBL, or if they do now they didn't in the 1980's and 1990's. This story when Melbourne United owner, took control of the NBL back in May 2015, suggests Basketball Australia are like the FA in England.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-28/united-co-owner-kestelman-to-take-control-of-nbl/6503308
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Basketball is probably the only exception, although the ARU doesnt run SuperRugby in Australia either, but it does run the domestic comp.
- The AFL runs the AFL (and 5 other state leagues besides)
- THe ARLC runs the NRL
- Cricket Australian runs the BBL
- Netball Australia is running the new netball comp.
Garlic muncher
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What are they up against in the first quarter of the season ?
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they(A-League) also stack the fixture early on with big marquee games.
The season is a bit dead atm. Sydney will come first so no interest there. then over half the teams makes the finals. that is never right as it makes the finals feel cheap. that is just my opinion.
The season is a bit dead atm. Sydney will come first so no interest there. then over half the teams makes the finals. that is never right as it makes the finals feel cheap. that is just my opinion.
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