Saints43 wrote:So why are there ex-Fitzroy supporters on this forum? Shouldn't they be in the pool room looking at their recent premiership memorabillia?
There are also Collingwood and WCE supporters on this forum. There are thousands of ex Fitzroy and South members and supporters who support Brisbane and Sydney
Saints43 wrote:Sydney & Brisbane have won flags only with significant concessions from the AFL. Concessions that made it easier for them to beat us. That's great, isn't it?
St.Kilda got significant concessions by being pathetically crap. that allowed us to challenge fir a flag in 09 and 10. That was great wasn't it?
Saints43 wrote:The AFL should save Melbourne clubs - they are members of the league. Why shouldn't they be funded - if need be - like expansion clubs. They play matches that are televised all over Australia that make up the TV rights payments from networks.
So you agree that the AFL commission has done a good job in helping teams that otherwise may well have gone under.
I agree too. Just say Melbourne, Footscray, and North went broke and dies. A combined 600,000 supporters of these teams Australia wide would be disenfranchised, 80,000 paid up members would be without a team, hundreds of people would lose their jobs, and the advertising and revenue pie would shrink for the AFL.
Because we now have 18 teams due to the AFL help the lesser financial clubs, we have this fantastic result of 1.2 billion in TV rights revenue.
terrific isn't it?
Saints43 wrote:And, how have St Kilda been saved by the AFL? We have never received a penny from them outside the normal distribution channels as far as I am aware.
All clubs benefit from the equalisation fund and we recieved revenue from the AFL.
Do you honestly think that the Saints would have anywhere near 40k members if we hadn't benefitted from the AFL and its policies. We were pretty broke before Butters and Waldron took over.
Remember the SoS tin rattling?
How often do you reckon Saints supporters would have kept doing that? How many members would we have if we were broke and couldn't afford players if there was no draft?
When Blight was coach, we had 17,000 paid up members. Through our we have grown that to nearly 40k.
All with the assistance of the AFL. Really it is quite simple and if you didn't know how the AFL have helped clubs like ours, you really haven't been paying attention.