News What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 5

[Oliver G]

That we're second (only behind West Coast) for net assets as a club. That's insanely good.

We'll have to wait for the 2025 financial report, but these are the reported numbers compared to 2015...

 

[Westerndog11]

We'll have to wait for the 2025 financial report, but these are the reported numbers compared to 2015...

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Success and the consistent competitiveness of the team really has driven great results off the field.

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

We'll have to wait for the 2025 financial report, but these are the reported numbers compared to 2015...

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The only slow growth is revenue.

 

[lachy]

The only slow growth is revenue.

Would expect it to be given the major source of revenue is AFL distributions which as a percentage of the overall pie has dropped significantly over the years since 2015 as we became much more financially secure

 

[dogwatch]

A lot of the large growth in assets would have come from government support for the redevelopment wouldn’t it?

I presume the court case liabilities are subsumed here as it’s shown as “net” assets.

Good numbers.

 

[Graeme Cook]

We'll have to wait for the 2025 financial report, but these are the reported numbers compared to 2015...

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Can we cash in any net Assets

 

[dogwatch]

Lynton Besser raised some awkward questions about the practices of Disney in Australia on Media Watch last night.
(4:31 video)

Ep 40 - Gambling loophole - Media Watch

Live-streaming giant Disney+ exploits a loophole allowing it to run gambling ads during live sport that others aren't allowed.

www.abc.net.au

Is this the organisation that our club President KWW is MD of? It's time to clean up Disney, Kylie! Or would you rather exploit a loophole than act ethically?

 

[Prince Imperial]

The only slow growth is revenue.

We were operating two poker machine venues back then which generated $6m so we should take that into account.

 

[dogwatch]

Here's a review of the "COVID draft" 2020 which has so far seen a poor yield compared to other years.
Longish article but worth a read. Naturally there's a bit of discussion about JUH but there's a lot more than just him. For example the Hawks took 5 players and none of them are still at Hawthorn, several of them not even in the AFL any more. (At least we've still got McNeil!)

Short summary:

• Thilthorpe, Holmes and Gulden the best of the bunch. The only three players from that year to have become AAs.
• Recruiters had a lot of difficulty assessing players due to limited exposure.
• Player development suffered from not having much footy in their final junior year.
• Was always looking like a poor draft year anyway, even before Covid hit.

'A year of turmoil': Inside the AFL's infamous 2020 COVID draft

It is the AFL draft that has become a cautionary tale to clubs. Five years on from the infamous 2020 draft, here is the story on the tumultuous year from those involved in it.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Norm De Guerre]

 

[MrChristo]

I might have missed in the dialogue, but what was the North Hobart connection?
(Dad's shirt).

 

[Norm De Guerre]

I might have missed in the dialogue, but what was the North Hobart connection?
(Dad's shirt).

Its hard to discern given he's a low talker..

He may've said that his father was a triple premiership player with Hawthorn for all I could tell.

But he mentions his introduction to the game being as a 5 year old father son with the Singapore Sharks.

Apropos of nothing much at all and that Winston T-shirt. Im just happen to be wearing my Parkside Brewery T from when I was living in Vancouver. I played plenty of golf, but no footy there tho...

 

[MrChristo]

But you drank.

He definitely said, It's the best I could [do/come up with]. ?

Just interested 'cause I grew up in Tas.
North Hobart are the Demons, can't even think of a Southern "Bulldogs" team.
(South Launceston were the only TFL team as I recall...)

 

[stefoid]

Bye bye Balmain house on the water, hello western suburbs!!

 

[Hobdog]

But you drank.

He definitely said, It's the best I could [do/come up with]. ?

Just interested 'cause I grew up in Tas.
North Hobart are the Demons, can't even think of a Southern "Bulldogs" team.
(South Launceston were the only TFL team as I recall...)

When I played for the Kingston Tigers in U12 (Tasmania) we also had the Kingston Bulldogs due to loads of kids wanting to play.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Bye bye Balmain house on the water, hello western suburbs!!

It’ll be interesting to hear who he gets to board with. Libba had a newbie stay with him last year. Also Treloar has had Sanders recently.

 

[Bulldogs85]

Western Bulldogs 2025 Financial Result

The Club has delivered an underlying operating profit for the 2025 financial year.

www.westernbulldogs.com.au

 

[threenewpadlocks]

Western Bulldogs 2025 Financial Result

The Club has delivered an underlying operating profit for the 2025 financial year.

www.westernbulldogs.com.au

What caught my eye was $6 million in gameday revenue (ie people buying tickets that were not associated with memberships, money we get from AFL members/away game members scanning into our games), an increase from $3.7 million last year.

That's a huge increase and some very, very rough back of the envelope calculations of there being roughly 8,000 people per home game that attend without a membership on an average game, and this year it was about 11,000.

Collingwood home game, 40,000 crowds against non-Melbourne games, huge for our bottom line, but also huge for the future by exposing us to potential neutral fans, Western Suburbs, immigrants/expats or whatever without a team. Our attendances have grown as we play an attractive, high-scoring brand of football, and because we're not crap, we never really play a game in Melbourne these days where we're no chance of winning.

Just an absolute shame we lost all three of those major games and also couldn't give these new fans finals to be excited about. A real missed opportunity, not just winning a flag, but in an existential sense, an opportunity that this season could have been a lot more in improving our status and health as a club.

 

[lachy]

What caught my eye was $6 million in gameday revenue (ie people buying tickets that were not associated with memberships, money we get from AFL members/away game members scanning into our games), an increase from $3.7 million last year.

That's a huge increase and some very, very rough back of the envelope calculations of there being roughly 8,000 people per home game that attend without a membership on an average game, and this year it was about 8,000.

Collingwood home game, 40,000 crowds against non-Melbourne games, huge for our bottom line, but also huge for the future by exposing us to potential neutral fans, Western Suburbs, immigrants/expats or whatever without a team. Our attendances have grown as we play an attractive, high-scoring brand of football, and because we're not crap, we never really play a game in Melbourne these days where we're no chance of winning.

Just an absolute shame we lost all three of those major games and also couldn't give these new fans finals to be excited about. A real missed opportunity, not just winning a flag, but in an existential sense, an opportunity that this season could have been a lot more in improving our status and health as a club.

Good pickup. Would be interesting to know what the revenue difference was from the moved Crows game to see if we made more money from the crowd than we did from the Ballarat deal.

All arguments about the lack of crowds at Marvel against interstate clubs are from a bygone era. We draw well in decent timeslots on a Saturday or Sunday these days

 

[threenewpadlocks]

Good pickup. Would be interesting to know what the revenue difference was from the moved Crows game to see if we made more money from the crowd than we did from the Ballarat deal.

All arguments about the lack of crowds at Marvel against interstate clubs are from a bygone era. We draw well in decent timeslots on a Saturday or Sunday these days

Maybe it's just confirmation bias but as someone who has proudly put on a member scarf to sit through 18,000 attended games in the pre-Bevo era, with entire rows to yourself in the GA, it was slightly unnerving to have someone with a non-member scarf sit down next to you in a packed stadium, and while cheering the Dogs, only really know who half the players are or overhearing them tell their friends basic facts about players that to you is just matter of fact (oh wow, so Lachie Bramble did come from Hawthorn? You do remember watching Sam Darcy's dad play?). A different footygoing experience. Part of me yearns for those 18,000 crowds against Freo, even though it's not healthy for our club.

 

[GetDimmaBack]

Bye bye Balmain house on the water, hello western suburbs!!

Get him a place on the Strand in Willy - won't be homesick for long

 

[The White Mouse]

Bye bye Balmain house on the water, hello western suburbs!!

Do you get the feeling we're building to 2027? Butters ..... prime Bont ... Darcy ..... Freijah ....

 

[Norm De Guerre]

 

[MaxiBont]

This was posted on the AFL reddit and a Swans fans commented:

The miracle of blind umpires. Taking pride in this is so utterly cringeworthy.

I guess if you have nothing, you’ll grind out the worst umpired GF of this century and try to make out that that team deserved it.

Good on you.

They're still so salty about it lol

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

This was posted on the AFL reddit and a Swans fans commented:

The miracle of blind umpires. Taking pride in this is so utterly cringeworthy.

I guess if you have nothing, you’ll grind out the worst umpired GF of this century and try to make out that that team deserved it.

Good on you.

They're still so salty about it lol

There is always one. Hey swans, we beat every single team in the competition except the Cats, we had the wood over you from 2015 onwards, that’s not the umpires.