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From what's been explained to me, they get to vote on two board positions.
How does it benefit the club to have the AFL off the hook for supporting the giants?
The AFL get to handball financial responsibility elsewhere meanwhile the owner will seek to maximise return on investment.Only in self reliance other wise it doesn’t.
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The AFL get to handball financial responsibility elsewhere meanwhile the owner will seek to maximise return on investment.
If I were buying the giants I'd also buy the stadium and insist all games were there.
The AFL doesn't have an obligation to fixture game at the stadium, see Geelong, and it would be in their best interests where the games are. If a new Sydney stadium offered better return for the AFL then the Giants would play there.For me that would be an up as I think we need to concentrate on one grassroots frontier region, probably my Capital brothers and sisters though would completely disagree.
Stadium would provide an income to I’m guessing(especially when the Easter show gets back next year)
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The AFL doesn't have an obligation to fixture game at the stadium, see Geelong, and it would be in their best interests where the games are. If a new Sydney stadium offered better return for the AFL then the Giants would play there.
Way too much risk to throw money at for essentially just taking on the privilege of paying the bills for the AFL
Private ownership would (presumably) be willing to spend up to the cap for off field activities. I don't know if the AFL is currently doing so.How does it benefit the club to have the AFL off the hook for supporting the giants?
The Giants have contracts for three games in Canberra and seven games at the Showgrounds that would require re-negotiation/buying out of before approaching this idea.The AFL doesn't have an obligation to fixture game at the stadium, see Geelong, and it would be in their best interests where the games are. If a new Sydney stadium offered better return for the AFL then the Giants would play there.
Way too much risk to throw money at for essentially just taking on the privilege of paying the bills for the AFL
It isn't a short term plan when you're spending tens of millions of dollars.The Giants have contracts for three games in Canberra and seven games at the Showgrounds that would require re-negotiation/buying out of before approaching this idea.
It isn't a short term plan when you're spending tens of millions of dollars.
The value of the Giants to the AFL is in Sydney. With the right marketing, a single NFL side could have as many supporters as the entire book from the AFL, so that's where I'd see the club ending up.
Buy the Giants for $30,000,000 and then see out existing deals, then move the club to the USA where the market is so much bigger if AFL can get traction.
The AFL will be happy to sell the rights for far more money into the USA, another team or two will move/start up there.
Twenty years from now the landscape could look very different, which is exciting, but if it were my club taking those steps away from me but towards potential world riches (imagine the academy potential sourcing out of US highschools, you could add a Lance Franklin athlete every year) I'd be torn.
Who knows what the private parties plans are.
Buy the Giants for $30,000,000 and then see out existing deals, then move the club to the USA where the market is so much bigger if AFL can get traction.
Clubs like Sydney FC, Broncos, etc go ok...And she raises a fair point, how are people supposed to connect with a billionaire's plaything rather than a member-based club? This isn't America or Britain.
The Broncos were entering a market that was already RL territory and were offering a higher quality product, of course they did well. Sydney FC is more debatable but basically had no competition for a city where plenty of people were already into soccer. Entering a foreign territory for the game is a different kettle of fish.Clubs like Sydney FC, Broncos, etc go ok...
The connection isn't a big deal to most people that aren't in the Victorian membership-based culture. The Giants aren't member owned at the moment. But there are definitely issues with the idea.
Caro up in arms against the idea. And she raises a fair point, how are people supposed to connect with a billionaire's plaything rather than a member-based club? This isn't America or Britain.
This isn't America or Britain.
Hell, Skase was a great choice too.Or Sydney. Remember Dr. Edelsten?
The AFL has already had one near-disastrous experience in the Sydney market with private ownership. We don't want our club going anywhere near it.
We've been doing a great job building a genuine AFL club from scratch, and it's working, so please, just leave us alone.