Re: Magpies spend $20m to buy flag
Originally Posted by
Sockeye Salmon
That's revenue, not football spending. Collingwood spent about $19.5M on their football dept.
"If you subtract player payments from the equation, then the bottom four for football department spending in 2010 were Melbourne (13th), Richmond (14th), North (15th) and the Bulldogs (16th). The Dogs spent $4.7 million on their football department, not counting players, compared to the $8.8 million Collingwood spent on everything besides player payments."
They still spend nearly double what we did.
Footy dept is not the only aspect of a club to give on field playing a boost.
Besides
The suspect part of me reckons that not all spending on their football dept is listed for public analysis.
Clubs have and always will use 'gifts' and undocumented spending to further their goals.
The more money they have, the greater the temptation to do it.
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