Behind a paywall. Is there anything to say how much we might lose and how we might make up the loss??

Covid- the gift that keeps on giving. 
 

Edited June 2, 20214 yr by Jaded

Haven't read, but i thought i saw somewhere someone say ~$800k for ALice springs game and if a big crowd ~$2mil for Queens bday :(

Time for a levy on memberships? 

3 minutes ago, old dee said:

Time for a levy on memberships? 

or even  an outright request for help. Surely at 10-1 theyd have some people ( that could afford it) be willing to chip in. I would. 

Our 2 biggest money-spinning games of the year

Hopefully the Alice game can be played later in the season. QB will need to be re-scheduled to later in the year (and hoping Covid is back under control) or else played inter-state. The Big freeze is a big drawcard so if moved inter-state can still attract a large crowd, circa 30,000+ in Adelaide perhaps, so could still generate a reasonable financial outcome or at least cushion the blow.

Still can't work out why they don't move the Melbourne v Collingwood game to the following round when both teams have the bye. There's some reasonable chance they will be able to play at the MCG in front of crowds by then. At worst, they do what they would otherwise do.

Huge $$ hit. Good suggestion about moving the money games forward.

On a positive note Gus and Gawny very entertaining this week. The co star was ANB .  Got a few laughs out of it.

16 minutes ago, Wells 11 said:

or even  an outright request for help. Surely at 10-1 theyd have some people ( that could afford it) be willing to chip in. I would. 

The Vic state government is the architect of this farce, and as such should bear the financial responsibility.

No tin rattling before the government has poured its resources into the sport it helped to strangle.

Reports it will likely be a loss of around $1.4 million for those two games. This pandemic can [censored] right off!

As posted in Alice thread, NTAFL believe we will still have a game here, should help bottom dollar 

6 minutes ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

As posted in Alice thread, NTAFL believe we will still have a game here, should help bottom dollar 

Yes but at the expense of robbing us members of attending yet another home game. I’m all for playing in the NT instead of playing one of our other interstate matches, but I would hate to give up an MCG home game for an NT game, even tho I understand we need the money. 

5 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Yes but at the expense of robbing us members of attending yet another home game. I’m all for playing in the NT instead of playing one of our other interstate matches, but I would hate to give up an MCG home game for an NT game, even tho I understand we need the money. 

Not necessarily robbing you if you aren’t allowed to attend, regardless, may not happen, just passing on info, but if it does happen, surely members will get a make up game

The other thing that may not gave been mentioned is that even though we had the gates for the tigers match it was reduced capacity so it was nowhere near the usual money spinner. So two years in a row we have been screwed out of our usual big games. 

just throwing an idea out there re: Alice. If things don’t get better hubs might be back on the agenda (even if it’s temporary), I would really push Alice as a location for a hub that features us. Could be a way of getting our Alice money back while not being the only team giving up home games. 

6 hours ago, faultydet said:

The Vic state government is the architect of this farce, and as such should bear the financial responsibility.

No tin rattling before the government has poured its resources into the sport it helped to strangle.

I think Dan Andrews might be back in 4 2 6

Does anyone know whos home game the Collingwood v Melbourne game was last year? It normally swaps but not sure on this one.

20 minutes ago, Wrecker46 said:

Does anyone know whos home game the Collingwood v Melbourne game was last year? It normally swaps but not sure on this one.

It was our home game at the Gabba

I'd be trying to get Queens Birthday at Adelaide Oval - both from a financial sense but also given we played ordinary there last time and have Port back there on the run home it'd be good to get another run on that deck.

I'd then be trying to push the Hawks game to Alice later in the season. Hawks are rubbish and their fans aren't turning up so the gate take will be ordinary anyway. The other reason for the Hawks game and not GWS is that I'd rather play Gold Coast on the back of Alice than Port at Port.

If we can't move that game then so be it. Keep winning games and the $$$ will look after itself

8 hours ago, manny100 said:

Huge $$ hit. Good suggestion about moving the money games forward.

On a positive note Gus and Gawny very entertaining this week. The co star was ANB .  Got a few laughs out of it.

Backward not forward !!! The Bug Freeze blockbuster. 

1 hour ago, Stevienic23 said:

It was our home game at the Gabba

That's not the Blockbuster game in 2020 that we get each 2 years now. 
That's  why we retained the 2 big games Anzac Eve and QB again.

Might be better if we have a game just low key and get a big QB next year and the split means that we have the blockbusters one per year and finances are more stable each year.

This timing couldn’t be worse for us but being top of the ladder and a great chance of a flag will do wonders for our bottom line. Extra memberships and sponsorships will compensate for the loss of gate receipts.

The best financial objective for us at the moment is to keep winning games of footy.

You would think if we play home finals that it will make up the loss. 

12 minutes ago, deeTRACted said:

You would think if we play home finals that it will make up the loss. 

I actually don’t know what the financial return is for finals matches, I suppose us not being involved in many for a while has made me not really care. But do home teams get the gate takings? Does it go to the AFL and then portion goes to competing teams?

I remember Hawthorn stating that for one of their premiership they made a small loss as staff, player and marketing costs were well up.  Its the next year through increased membership that you make the money.