The bridesmaid again :(

[jim boy]

Will this club ever take a trick ?

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-leagu...-footy-club-to-344m-giant-20110903-1jrc2.html

 

[Hoffy95]

Knew it was a troll article when I saw Collingwood and the words 'humble'.

 

[Silverado]

Just another reason it feels so good to flog them on match day, all that money and we still have the wood over them

 

[Rellik666]

Collingwood also finished first on Covell's table last year and were valued at $263million - their nearest rivals Geelong at $238million. This year the Pies have surged to a valuation of $344million - a whopping $87million ahead of the second-placed Cats.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-leagu...-344m-giant-20110903-1jrc2.html#ixzz1X1jo9smL​

Compared to us they are mammoth, what I want to know is where are they wasting there money......by the size of em, they should be far more dominant than that!
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[jim boy]

Maybe I was a bit too subtle, but by this article we are ranked the second most valuable football club in Australia, bigger than Essendon, bigger than Carlton, bigger than HAwthorn, bigger than any so-called Big 4, except Collingwood.

Great effort from Cook and Costa considering we worth about 1/1000 of that 10 years. No idea what Cook is getting paid, but he is worth every cent of it.

 

[Hoops]

''Then they said to me, 'What's your average crowd?' and I said, 'Just a tick under 80,000,'

Doesn't he mean 60,000. big difference

 

[Hoffy95]

Yeah just a flat out lie.

 

[Hoops]

Mind you 2nd place is pretty good.

The highest NRL team is the dragons who comes in at #9 and Bronco's at #10.

I wonder who take positions 3-8?

 

[CF]

Maybe I was a bit too subtle, but by this article we are ranked the second most valuable football club in Australia, bigger than Essendon, bigger than Carlton, bigger than HAwthorn, bigger than any so-called Big 4, except Collingwood.

Great effort from Cook and Costa considering we worth about 1/1000 of that 10 years. No idea what Cook is getting paid, but he is worth every cent of it.

Yes I agree. Collingwood has a traditional supporter base which is nothing new and certainly not through anything Eddie has done. But I think over the next 10 years with stadium redevelopents at Kardinia Park (not skilled anymore) Geelong will continue to grow richer and richer and it's membership base will grow with it.

 

[J Squad]

Yes I agree. Collingwood has a traditional supporter base which is nothing new and certainly not through anything Eddie has done. But I think over the next 10 years with stadium redevelopents at Kardinia Park (not skilled anymore) Geelong will continue to grow richer and richer and it's membership base will grow with it.

I totally agree. Collingwood's initial supporter base derives straight from that suburb all those years ago, which was apparently one of the roughest suburbs in Melbourne.

With the way the club has turned it's culture, we are going to see a huge boost in fans, members etc. over the next decade, it starts from the top, down.

Collingwood is forever stained with it's history, whereas Geelong have transformed into what epitomises a successful, yet humble playing group that is respected by the footballing community.

 

[RegHickeyStand]

Maybe I was a bit too subtle, but by this article we are ranked the second most valuable football club in Australia, bigger than Essendon, bigger than Carlton, bigger than HAwthorn, bigger than any so-called Big 4, except Collingwood.

Great effort from Cook and Costa considering we worth about 1/1000 of that 10 years. No idea what Cook is getting paid, but he is worth every cent of it.

Excellent!

 

[you pick one]

I've been to a few weddings where the bridemaids got more of the wild thing than the bride,big part of why I now live in QLD.

 

[Boxhead_31]

Maybe I was a bit too subtle, but by this article we are ranked the second most valuable football club in Australia, bigger than Essendon, bigger than Carlton, bigger than HAwthorn, bigger than any so-called Big 4, except Collingwood.

Great effort from Cook and Costa considering we worth about 1/1000 of that 10 years. No idea what Cook is getting paid, but he is worth every cent of it.

Especially when the fact that Collingwood get's the income from 50k - 80k home games is taken into account and we are sitting second only to Collingwood.

Can't wait till KP is fully refurbished and can hold 35k - 45k and we can play 8 -9 home games in Geelong

 

[AM]

Maybe I was a bit too subtle, but by this article we are ranked the second most valuable football club in Australia, bigger than Essendon, bigger than Carlton, bigger than HAwthorn, bigger than any so-called Big 4, except Collingwood.

Great effort from Cook and Costa considering we worth about 1/1000 of that 10 years. No idea what Cook is getting paid, but he is worth every cent of it.

Yep! That's what struck me too. Not sure how much it means but can't wait to show a Bomber friend who has spent all year telling me how they'll be bigger than Ben Hur by the end of 2012.

 

[Asty]

Geelong
2010 $238 million
2011 $87million behind pies
= $257million
increase for cats = $19million (a long way from the late 90s)

which isn't too bad for a team expected to be on a downslide this year. Pies increase is expected after a premiership and $81 million is a big jump but they are a big club.

 

[TheTimeCometh]

Sometimes at games, like last friday nite, i wonder just how AND why the pies got so big?

No offence to pies fans but there is a markedly bogan presence when wandering thru those crowds compared to others - such as seven days later when we will be confronted with middle-class-private-school-educated-leafy-eastern-suburbanite-origins of the hawk variety, y'know faux-hawks and up-turned polo collar wearin'.

I wonder if that early success ie 20's, pre-50's, then numerous gf appearances is enough to explain the #'s. Low socio-eco peeps breed. Instead of "holdin back for my promisin law career" and selective breeding they have three by age 22 - the turnover of generations must be quicker than others. So, in turn, the #'s just explode.

Like lemmings. the mind boggles.


oooh, it makes me wonder.

 

[TheTimeCometh]

Maybe it's just because Idiocracy was on the other night.

 

[kidkenobi]

I think it's great that Collingwood are as professionally run as they are and they should reap the rewards of that. it sets a bench mark which i think all teams aspire to which is only good for the competition. The AFL - regardless of the complaints we all may have about various aspects of it - is probably one of the most professional sporting leagues in the world in nearly every aspect, and considering the limited audience, packs a pretty mean punch, ESPECIALLY compared to the NRL, which from the outside sometime seems a bit amatuerish (to me anyway).

definately in the last decade the cats have been working super hard behind the scenes to try and reach the same heights the pies have off the field, and we should be proud of all that work as i it is now paying off big time, and i think we are as well placed, if not better placed, than any other sporting club in this country to keep that upward trend going: being a one-team-town, the ongoing redevelopments and the fact that we clean up financially from every home game etc.

it's great to know that regardless of how the team is performing on the field, the club is still going to be in tip top shape off of it, thanks to cooky, costa et. al.

 

[Terex8]

I totally agree. Collingwood's initial supporter base derives straight from that suburb all those years ago, which was apparently one of the roughest suburbs in Melbourne.

It has/had nothing on Geelong on a Saturday night. The likes of Belmont & co make Collingwood look like Toorak in comparison.

 

[David the Cat]

It has/had nothing on Geelong on a Saturday night. The likes of Belmont & co make Collingwood look like Toorak in comparison.

LOL...yea right.