Always Right Match Committee - Round 11 Vs Melbourne 2021

[Jeanette54]

Age reporting an estimate of $300k loss for the Dogs not having a crowd at the game.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...27-p57vnl.html

Fox sports quoted $650k, I guess The Age is conservative.

[jeemak]

So, we can't all just read this and with a straight face think that it's not complete bullshit. We lose money due to poor timing and circumstances beyond our control, but additionally look at Collingwood who were likely to earn three times as much as we do per person who attends one of their games at the MCG versus ours at Docklands.

What the actual *!*!*!*!! How is this still a thing given we subsidised the purchase of Docklands more heavily than any other club bar St Kilda when the stadium was PE/ non-AFL owned, thus securing the competitions financial position, and we still get duded on the rate of return per spectator.

This needs to be addressed, the disproportionate rate of return based on geography from stadium deals is too much of a bitter pill to swallow, albeit explaining why we didn't get our budget smashed to the extent the bigger clubs did during last year's lockdown.

[Happy Days]

Age reporting an estimate of $300k loss for the Dogs not having a crowd at the game.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...27-p57vnl.html

That's fine, I heard we just made some speculative investments in a rapidly developing economic market and still project to make it to the moon.

[jeemak]

That's fine, I heard we just made some speculative investments in a rapidly developing economic market and still project to make it to the moon.

Handed the keys to Coinspot in exchange for free consulting services.

[EasternWest]

That's fine, I heard we just made some speculative investments in a rapidly developing economic market and still project to make it to the moon.

[Vred]

Fox sports quoted $650k, I guess The Age is conservative.

Word was this game was going to be 40k+, all corporate boxes were sold out and tickets were drying up fast. Such a big loss for us.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Word was this game was going to be 40k+, all corporate boxes were sold out and tickets were drying up fast. Such a big loss for us.

Yeah, this is gonna hurt our bottom line.

[Mantis]

I'm really glad Lippa got selected, he deserves a chance to have a crack as an inside mid given it's been his best position at the lower level and he's - albeit with some flaws - had a genuine crack at trying to be a different kind of player when playing seniors.

He would want to make a better fist at it than he did against Richmond as I doubt he will get many more chances if so... I'm hopeful that Pat can develop into the player we would like, but his lack of a hard edge is worrying.

Interesting comments from Bevo on the radio today around wanting players to play given how good they are and trying to find positions for them. He mentioned Dale, B. Williams and Ed Richards as players who were too good to leave out of the side and thus were shoe-horned into roles that may not really suit them over time. I reckon this is something that Pat's had to deal with.

All have a turn of foot & are penetrating kicks which our side lacks so it makes sense.

[Mantis]

Word was this game was going to be 40k+, all corporate boxes were sold out and tickets were drying up fast. Such a big loss for us.

I find this hard to believe given tickets hadn't even gone on sale.

[Grantysghost]

I find this hard to believe given tickets hadn't even gone on sale.

Coterie guest passes had etc, I had already registered for friends.
Might be that.

[The Pie Man]

Coterie guest passes had etc, I had already registered for friends.
Might be that.

Did I hear hospitality for this game had sold out weeks ago?

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Did I hear hospitality for this game had sold out weeks ago?

That's what I heard last night. The reporter said Ameet Bains didn't even want to look at the financials around it, as it's going to make for very poor reading.

[bulldogtragic]

That's what I heard last night. The reporter said Ameet Bains didn't even want to look at the financials around it, as it's going to make for very poor reading.

This is the flip side with Cody Raak. Let’s say we pick him up and now his salary on the books. In this scenario he’s playing vfl to probably a low-ish level and not dominating the NAB League. Then this happens and there’s a huge hole in our budget and we are thinking about whether we can carry Raak as an extra voluntary salary and cut him one year in like NMM a couple of years back.

Do we look to try to select a player or two or three in the mid season draft with Dunkley, Treloar & Jong meeting the criteria. I’d argue the fairest thing is to cancel the MSD so clubs losing big money don’t get disadvantaged. They should do that today.

[1eyedog]

Well we are just going to have to win and keep pushing to 50k members to help offset the loss.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

Well a Covid write off for financ4s for this round.
Plenty more where this came from. Not our last blockbuster.
As long as we realise our potential.