Just read this article in the Fin Review

The headline is a little surprising but when you read it closely the sale was 5000 tickets. (Not bad though... bet we sell under 1000 for Darwin and the Alice.)

http://www.afr.com/business/sport/port-adelaide-tickets-for-china-afl-game-sell-out-in-under-three-hours-20170331-gvasty

There is something about this that is not quite right or is it just my cynicism. (Perhaps it was living through the Skase and Edelstein times.)

Gina bought into Channel 10 to give herself leverage. Buying into the AFL is a pretty good way to give yourself leverage as well.

"The major backer of the China game is Shanghai CRED and its billionaire founder Gui Guojie, who joined forces last year with Gina Rinehart to buy the Kidman cattle properties for $365 million."

Will be interesting to follow the reality as distinct from the hype (remember those statements before grand finals where they used to say "broadcasting" to X hundreds of millions when in reality there was lucky to be 100-200 thousand viewers overseas at best.)

Im glad we didnt bite on this one. WIsh we were playing port or the suns the week after they get back.