Footy media , love’m or hate’ m ?

[Mr Brightside]

On a positive note why isn’t Brenton Speed calling more games on Fox? He is brilliant to listen to. Unbiased and calls it as it is.

Thought similar last night , just simply calls the game , no bull *smile*

 

[Mr Brightside]

Who in the AFL MEDIA unit is running an agenda in grounding journalists everything about RFC...
And which club has managed to keep mishaps quiet..

Media definitely has a jealous tone to it, re us this year more then any other year .

absolutely no doubt there’d be quite a few players and staff who would have broken COVID protocol, either accidentally or deliberately that will never hear about

 

[Quickdraw]

With +100k members maybe someone should ask why is it that WCE still wasn't able to fill Optus Stadium for home games pre COVID?

It's a fair question.
I couldn't care less whether they have 100k members or not. What I want is this year's premiership.
Win that Tigers and we'll have 110,000 members next year!

 

[Relton Roberts]

Just mention them. Why the mystique?

Eddie McChins is the dictator of anti Richmond media it all aligns towards him ,to deflect Collingwood issues and jealousy that we're currently the biggest & most successful Victorian Club

 

[DragaTheCro]

Eddie McChins is the dictator of anti Richmond media it all aligns towards him ,to deflect Collingwood issues and jealousy that we're currently the biggest & most successful Victorian Club

Yep. His commentary during the Port game was disgraceful and unprofessional.

 

[No left foot]

7.20 into a 11 minute presser one of the flogs finally brings up the Geelong game.

Hardwick previews Geelong

Damien Hardwick addresses the media ahead of the Round 17 match against Geelong

www.richmondfc.com.au

 

[seven]

Big Article
Tigers aren't kings anymore
West coast have surged past Richmond's 100,434 members this year, with 100,709 signed members for the 2020 season.

Firstly who gives a toss and secondly theyre from a state with 3 million people in it.
33% in a 2 football club state

Cool bananas.
Lets see if they can do it 3 yers in a row

 

[eddazol]

It's a fair question.
I couldn't care less whether they have 100k members or not. What I want is this year's premiership.
Win that Tigers and we'll have 110,000 members next year!

The eagles have played in front of their home fans in WA. It would be interesting to know how many memberships were cancelled this year across clubs.

 

[22nd Man]

Inside the bloated bureaucracy of the AFL empire

For years the AFL has refused to disclose how many staff it employs at its sprawling Docklands headquarters and interstate outposts. But now leaked do...
Inside the bloated bureaucracy of the AFL empire

For years the AFL has refused to disclose how many staff it employs at its sprawling Docklands headquarters and interstate outposts. But now leaked do...

Can anyone unlock this HUN article please?

 

[22nd Man]

On a positive note why isn’t Brenton Speed calling more games on Fox? He is brilliant to listen to. Unbiased and calls it as it is.

Think the COVID cases in Hutchy's studio has sidelined a lot of the SEN/ AW / Fox staff.

Hutchy's better be careful, he looks high risk.

 

[tigertim]

Inside the bloated bureaucracy of the AFL empire

For years the AFL has refused to disclose how many staff it employs at its sprawling Docklands headquarters and interstate outposts. But now leaked do...
Inside the bloated bureaucracy of the AFL empire

For years the AFL has refused to disclose how many staff it employs at its sprawling Docklands headquarters and interstate outposts. But now leaked do...

Can anyone unlock this HUN article please?

Cant copy it but says the AFL has 795 employees and in 2003 there were only 100.

367 under general counsel Andrew Dillon, 116 under media boss Darren Birch, 100 under commercial boss Kylie Rogers and 93 under Shocking.

There also 8 in house lawyers, 42 in finance, 26 in strategy and 10 in integrity and 6 ex Vicpol officers.

There’s 104 at AFL NSW, 88 at AFL QLD, 40 at AFLNT and 29 at AFL TAS.
Wages last year were $155.6m and Gil got $10.5m.

 

[JR8]

Wages last year were $155.6m and Gil got $10.5m.

Highway robbery from Gil the Dill.

 

[saigon tiger]

Cant copy it but says the AFL has 795 employees and in 2003 there were only 100.

367 under general counsel Andrew Dillon, 116 under media boss Darren Birch, 100 under commercial boss Kylie Rogers and 93 under Shocking.

There also 8 in house lawyers, 42 in finance, 26 in strategy and 10 in integrity and 6 ex Vicpol officers.

There’s 104 at AFL NSW, 88 at AFL QLD, 40 at AFLNT and 29 at AFL TAS.
Wages last year were $155.6m and Gil got $10.5m.

Gravy train at its worst.

 

[Althom]

Cant copy it but says the AFL has 795 employees and in 2003 there were only 100.

367 under general counsel Andrew Dillon, 116 under media boss Darren Birch, 100 under commercial boss Kylie Rogers and 93 under Shocking.

There also 8 in house lawyers, 42 in finance, 26 in strategy and 10 in integrity and 6 ex Vicpol officers.

There’s 104 at AFL NSW, 88 at AFL QLD, 40 at AFLNT and 29 at AFL TAS.
Wages last year were $155.6m and Gil got $10.5m.

What a massive bloated waste of space.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Thought similar last night , just simply calls the game , no bull *smile*

He’s always been a good caller. I suspect he’s part of the B team, because he does exactly what you said Mr B. It’s a bloody circus.

 

[mrposhman]

Cant copy it but says the AFL has 795 employees and in 2003 there were only 100.

367 under general counsel Andrew Dillon, 116 under media boss Darren Birch, 100 under commercial boss Kylie Rogers and 93 under Shocking.

There also 8 in house lawyers, 42 in finance, 26 in strategy and 10 in integrity and 6 ex Vicpol officers.

There’s 104 at AFL NSW, 88 at AFL QLD, 40 at AFLNT and 29 at AFL TAS.
Wages last year were $155.6m and Gil got $10.5m.

Just to add to this, I did a review of the financial statements when the AFL released them. The cost increases in club land have largely followed the increased revenue. The increases in corporate costs (AFL House etc) have increased way in advance of the revenue increase under Gill, which has been impacting margins and therefore safety nets. I can't find where I saved the info but the increase in cost (ie. reduction in efficiency or cost increase above and beyond the revenue increase) was largely in the region of 10's of millions of $'s.

Just imagine if they had better cost control, maybe a lot of peoples jobs would have been saved at club land as the AFL would have had access to a lot more available cash for the downturn. All this talk about jobs being lost at AFL HQ but really those jobs should not have been there in the 1st place.

 

[tigertim]

He’s always been a good caller. I suspect he’s part of the B team, because he does exactly what you said Mr B. It’s a bloody circus.

Yeah, he needs to get a catchcry like “wowee” or “drown them in your honey” to be taken seriously.

 

[Rancey18]

Yeah, he needs to get a catchcry like “wowee” or “drown them in your honey” to be taken seriously.

Dwayne Russell is as cringeworthy as it gets...

 

[sconies]

Can anyone unlock this HUN article please?

Leaked documents reveal the full extent of the bloated bureaucracy inside the AFL
For the first time, we can exclusively reveal the full scale of the AFL empire, which employs almost as many workers as the 18-team national competition has players. See the staggering headcount and wages involved.

AFL staff numbers exploded to a staggering 795 before last month’s cuts were announced, leaked internal documents reveal.
The Herald Sun can for the first time reveal the full scale of the AFL empire, which employs almost as many workers as the 18-team national competition has players.

A not-for-profit organisation that pays no tax, the AFL employed about 100 staff before the appointment of chief executive Andrew Demetriou in 2003.

A dossier detailing the body’s hierarchy has emerged as league chiefs begin slashing jobs because of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

The AFL has repeatedly refused to disclose how many staff it employs at its sprawling, two-storey Docklands headquarters and interstate outposts.

Not even club presidents are privy to the information.

But the documents obtained by the Herald Sun reveal there are 367 staff working in departments overseen by AFL general counsel Andrew Dillon, 116 under AFL Media boss Darren Birch, 100 for commercial boss Kylie Rogers and 93 in football operations run by Steven Hocking.

Birch will depart late next month under a plan to reduce the league workforce by about 20 per cent.

The leaked organisation charts reveal there are eight in-house lawyers, 42 staff in the AFL finance division, 26 in strategy and 10 in the integrity unit, including six ex-Victoria Police officers.

Another 104 are employed at AFL NSW, 88 at AFL Queensland, 40 at AFLNT and 29 at AFL Tasmania – the majority of which work with local and grassroots competitions in those states.

More than 400 work at AFL House in Melbourne.

The wages bill for the AFL bureaucracy topped $115.6 million last year – $10.56 million alone on chief executive Gillon McLachlan’s 11-person executive team.

Almost 80 per cent of the workforce was stood down in March and placed on the Federal Government-funded JobKeeper payments program.

THE AFL EMPIRE BY THE NUMBERS

States and game development - 338 (employees)

Growth, digital and audiences - 116

Commercial - 100

Football operations - 93

Clubs and finance - 42

Strategy - 26

HR - 23

Executives - 11

Integrity and security - 10

Corporate affairs - 9

Legal - 8

TPP - 5

Infrastructure, projects and investments - 4

Inclusion and social policy - 3

Health and safety - 3

Others - 4

Total staff - 795

The league says a skeleton AFL staffing team that continued to work after the COVID-19 crisis started had taken a minimum pay cut of 20 per cent.

The game’s 850 players have been hit with 50 per cent pay cuts, while the 18 clubs have been ordered to cut staff and save millions of dollars in costs.

An AFL spokesman said McLachlan had taken the same 50 per cent pay cut as the players this season, but the size of his salary remains a closely guarded secret because of an edict pushed through by AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder.

His wage was last publicly disclosed at $1.74 million three years ago.

The AFL executive team – set to be marginally reduced – earned an average salary of $880,000 last year.

AFL staff are due to be notified about their futures next Tuesday and many roles made redundant from October 16.

The AFL stopped publishing its official staffing numbers in its annual report, filed with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, several years ago.

It now boasts about a dozen in house departments, including the office of the chief executive, football operations, game development, legal and integrity, commercial operations, corporate affairs, finance and broadcasting, infrastructure, major projects and investment, inclusion and social policy, diversity, AFL Media, strategy and human resources.

It also contains this flowchart which is a little clunky to post here, but you get the drift.

 

[Spirit of Jack]

Just to add to this, I did a review of the financial statements when the AFL released them. The cost increases in club land have largely followed the increased revenue. The increases in corporate costs (AFL House etc) have increased way in advance of the revenue increase under Gill, which has been impacting margins and therefore safety nets. I can't find where I saved the info but the increase in cost (ie. reduction in efficiency or cost increase above and beyond the revenue increase) was largely in the region of 10's of millions of $'s.

Just imagine if they had better cost control, maybe a lot of peoples jobs would have been saved at club land as the AFL would have had access to a lot more available cash for the downturn. All this talk about jobs being lost at AFL HQ but really those jobs should not have been there in the 1st place.

The AFL would have to be one of the most bloated, corrupt, inept and unaccountable organisations in Australia. Apart from securing billion dollar TV rights - which anyone could secure with the eye balls the AFL attracts - they are a constant stream of #$%@ ups, pissing away good money after bad.