Said he's put between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 of his own cash into the club since returning in December 2014.
Footscray will never not be a welfare club in multiple capacities. And they're never really made to feel guilt for that.
We were sucked dry by the parasitic SANFL - and continue to be - and we're perennially seen as a club of bludging rogues. Yeah.
Yeah, since we joined the AFL really only North of the struggling Vic clubs (Hawks at the start of our AFL time, North, Melbourne, Bulldogs) have copped any pressure. Melbourne it's been 'but VFL HISTORY man!!!'. Bulldogs just seemed to have slipped under the radar of any pressure to seek other markets etc. as Hawks (Tassie got their return to financial stability going), Melbourne (at least trying with games in NT). Bulldogs a couple of half-arsed efforts earlier to sell games in ACT/NSW that went nowhere and then let off when they went nowhere.
Another reason why I'm not gushing for their flag. Getting as much financial support as us over the years, without the justifications and pulling shittier crowds then and now, despite more weeks then not having another Vic side to prop up the crowd figures. Get stuffed glorifying them now.