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Can we create another Hawthorn era?
- Thread starter Bennnny
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Apologies if someone mentioned earlier. This is another poke in the eye for Richmond. We've managed to assemble an amazingly balanced list considering numbers and salary cap. While other teams will be jettisoning trash we'll be letting go of athletic freaks and emerging talent. You watch how other teams will cut back further than required to pick up our surplus. That's what I'd do.
Incorrect , Rance is contracted till the end of 2021, we haven't dropped him off the list yet & probably wont this year anyway
If this season is binned then we just need to win 2021, and 2022. That's 3 consecutive premierships. There's a strong possibility that the 3 or 4 financially strong clubs will weather the storm better, and bounce back quicker, than the other teams. We're one of those lucky teams. We have Dimma, Pies have Buckley, so that puts us at the top of the pile and the pies a lot lower
Also the fact that the vast majority of Clubs are being assisted by the AFL & will need to pay the $ back so it will widen the gap between us & them.
A further aspect of this is that the AFL has effectively used the loan taken out to guarantee the survival of all 18 clubs until the loan is repaid. Would like to be told I am wrong because the sooner Gold Coast is waived off, the better the competition will be.
IMO It was extremely foolish for Demetriou to set up the club in the first place and all other clubs have had to pay out, to keep them going, - $25,000,000 last year.
There has been no significant change in their financial position or membership, over the period and despite the draft picks they have been gifted the team continues to fail,
The Clubs Board should be officially but privately cautioned and if there is no substantial improvement in both its ladder position and financial position, by the end of 2021 season, the license should be retired in favour of probably Tasmania, to be determined before that season's Draft.
IMO It was extremely foolish for Demetriou to set up the club in the first place and all other clubs have had to pay out, to keep them going, - $25,000,000 last year.
There has been no significant change in their financial position or membership, over the period and despite the draft picks they have been gifted the team continues to fail,
The Clubs Board should be officially but privately cautioned and if there is no substantial improvement in both its ladder position and financial position, by the end of 2021 season, the license should be retired in favour of probably Tasmania, to be determined before that season's Draft.
Many sporting clubs have tried and failed
A-League, Gold Coast United - gone
NRL, Gold Coast-Tweed Giants - gone
( they changed over the years to the Seagulls, the Gladiators and Chargers)
Basketball – Gold Coast Cougars/Rollers (1990-96), Gold Coast Blaze (2007-12) - gone
Rugby Union – East Coast Aces (2007) - gone
Baseball – Gold Coast Clippers/Daikyo Dolphins/Gold Coast Cougars (1989-99) - gone
Ice Hockey – Brisbane Blue Tongues (2008-2013) - gone
Can even throw Brisbane Bears in there. They eventually came good once the permanent move to Brisbane came.
Gold Coast is a grave yard for professional sport clubs.
Yep, the Gold Coast is where professional sporting clubs go to die.
Money well spent IMO. They are a great Tiger nursery, contributing to two famous premierships for us, nearly a third, and possibly another two. Long May They Continue!
Agree, the Gold Coast is a sporting graveyard.
Send them to Tassie, they deserve a team it is an Aussie Rules state.
DS
GWS are the same financially despite being competitive on field. For mine they should have ensured we have 16 financially viable & competitive Clubs before adding 2 new ones. those struggling at the time still have yet to recover aside from us
Wasn’t aware of the figure but the issue shouldn’t be about the money. They don’t give a dam about football on the Gold Coast. Never have and never will.
The next license should go either to a Tasmanian based team or a team directed to recognising the contribution made to the game by our indigenous people, based wherever.
Gold Coast was a terrible choice and in 50 years time it will still be pathetic.
The AFL should recognise its error and correct it now.
But I heard Leigh Matthews say that via his discussions with tv management this basic mathematical theory isn’t true.Actually I don' know how I came up with that, I can't work it out again. Seems wrong.
It should be more like $44 million. Based on the TV rights being $400 million a season, so the nine games come out at about $44 million each.
I understand the argument will be that Gold Coast games aren't attractive for the TV and they wouldn't pay equally but the ninth game is important because it allows for big paying games like Thursday nights and Sunday twilights while still keeping the traditional Saturday/Sunday timeslots.
