Some people are forgetting that the $1.5M is ON TOP of the $4-5M uplift that we generated with a grossly under priced membership and with a hell of a lot of one off "relocate to AO costs" that will hopefully be removed from now on!!!
I will take the $6-7M total uplift in stadium revenue compared with bloody AAMI all day everyday!
IMO, the biggest opportunity we now have is the home finals clause... If we can snare a couple of finals per year for the next few seasons at AO (added to the premiership prize money of course) then we should turn some very tidy profits!!!
Sure.
But the sore point for people is that the SANFL,
- Still gets the vast majority of catering/pourage revenue
- Still gets whatever it receives as a share of Adelaide Oval functions
- Still gets the millions Port and the Crows are paying it for the AFL licences
- Still gets the licence fees Port and the Crows are paying to play seconds teams in the SANFL
- Has seen a massive TV ratings/attendance/interest uplift from Port and the Crows playing in the SANFL
- Still getting millions from the sell-off of the wider Football Park precinct.
- Still making money from various streams at AAMI Stadium, such as naming rights, the forthcoming NAB Challenge Showdown, the Bon Jovi and One Direction concerts and monster trucks(!)
- Still has its other SANFL-related revenues, such as last year's exceedingly well-attended Grand Final despite many Port fans missing it due to their commute back from Melbourne
- Probably extracted extra development revenue out of the AFL as 'compensation' for giving Port and the Crows a better deal
And yet the campaigners insist on crying poor and blaming us for everything from Nickelback albums to scurvy. Awful.