"ON THE eve of the Western Bulldogs' second consecutive finals series under Luke Beveridge, club president Peter Gordon has described the next 10 years as a period of unprecedented opportunity for the club.
With 41,000 members, revenue on the up, average crowds above 30,000 for the first time since 2010, a women's team in the AFL's inaugural national women's league, an exciting young list, profits and a home game planned in Ballarat next season, Gordon is bullish.
The 58-year-old sees this as the chance for the club to push not only for a flag but to establish the sort of security it has craved for decades.
"We now look to a period of the next 10 years where, for the first time in 100 years, we can move and make a significant shift out of the bottom quartile size-wise," Gordon told AFL.com.au."
Peter Gordon talking about getting the Dogs out of the minnow zone got me interested in this:
Where do BF posters see their clubs in 10 years?
I think if Port are successful (finals, flags) and up and about, we'll see us cracking the 70,000 members mark in the next 5 years. I think our finances will match the big boys with Koch and KT in charge. The China Connection is a big one. Playing games there might get us sponsorship from the Far East (inb4Huwaei), and could easily see us matching the heavy weights off field. We've already done amazingly well for a suburban club from the North-West of Adelaide so it's amazing how much further we can go.
The 2 WA clubs are ones I think will rise massively too. With the new stadium, higher memberships/attendances/sponsorship/finances would most likely follow and will see them probably become the powerhouses of the comp (maybe not Freo but definitely West Coast).
With 41,000 members, revenue on the up, average crowds above 30,000 for the first time since 2010, a women's team in the AFL's inaugural national women's league, an exciting young list, profits and a home game planned in Ballarat next season, Gordon is bullish.
The 58-year-old sees this as the chance for the club to push not only for a flag but to establish the sort of security it has craved for decades.
"We now look to a period of the next 10 years where, for the first time in 100 years, we can move and make a significant shift out of the bottom quartile size-wise," Gordon told AFL.com.au."
Peter Gordon talking about getting the Dogs out of the minnow zone got me interested in this:
Where do BF posters see their clubs in 10 years?
I think if Port are successful (finals, flags) and up and about, we'll see us cracking the 70,000 members mark in the next 5 years. I think our finances will match the big boys with Koch and KT in charge. The China Connection is a big one. Playing games there might get us sponsorship from the Far East (inb4Huwaei), and could easily see us matching the heavy weights off field. We've already done amazingly well for a suburban club from the North-West of Adelaide so it's amazing how much further we can go.
The 2 WA clubs are ones I think will rise massively too. With the new stadium, higher memberships/attendances/sponsorship/finances would most likely follow and will see them probably become the powerhouses of the comp (maybe not Freo but definitely West Coast).
