Jackson says it well....

[Rob]

From the Australian, 19/3:

'The clubs will just spend it by putting on more coaches, hiring a nutritionist, adding a lane to their swimming pool. The same clubs who are poor today will be poor tomorrow. We gave all the clubs $500,000 three years ago and we have a club (the Kangaroos) really struggling at the present time. So clubs spend what they have got.'
Jackson said this was the main reason the commission was loath to make big lump sum payments to clubs from the extra revenue generated by the TV broadcast deal. 'Why provide a lot more there just to escalate the amount of spending?' he said.

In short, this means that giving clubs one-off cash injections from the TV rights money will contribute f#ck all towards the survival of struggling Victorian clubs, because they will merely spend it and end up in exactly the same position a couple of years down the track.

Says it all really.

 

[Pessimistic]

There speaks a born centraliser.

Lets not mention that colonial stadium is an unloved unprofitable monolith to their pig headedness. God only knows how pathetic it would be if they hadn't done deals with essendon to take their hoards there.

 

[elt]

Yeah much smarter to use the money to escalate player payments. There something that is sustainable

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[CJH]

I actually agree with Jackson on this one!

I also agree with the way they forced clubs to use the $5000,000 'Last Rights' payment as a Capital Grant rather then revenue a few years back.

Treating this money as revenue will only serve to fuel inflation which is unsustainable and would ultimately lead to the demise of clubs.



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