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    Poorest clubs paying to play at Etihad Stadium

    Now I have put this up given recnt stadium debate in regards to Subizco, AFL etc

    Poorest clubs paying to play at Etihad Stadium

    Damian Barrett | April 14, 2009 11:55pm

    MELBOURNE'S financially vulnerable clubs will be forced to pay to play matches at Etihad Stadium this season. The revelation comes after venue management withdrew commitments to provide fixed match returns.

    In an escalation of the bitter stand-off between the AFL and the stadium's operators, the development will affect all clubs, including Collingwood, which use the venue for a home match. If they have no set deal with management of the stadium what grounds do they have to sue?

    Of the stadium's regular users, it is likely to most hurt the Western Bulldogs and St Kilda, as North Melbourne and Carlton have been operating without set deals for some time.

    The AFL has taken Etihad Stadium management to court and is also in a major stand-off with the MCG Trust.

    It informed its clubs of the Etihad Stadium decision in an email which read, in part, "they have advised that they will not be continuing with the current fixed match return arrangements that some clubs have had in place for the last three years".

    While Etihad Stadium crowds in the 46,000 vicinity will provide for the home team the possibility of making $150,000, crowds of 30,000 or less will require the club to write a cheque to the ground's operators.

    Financial returns will drop sharply when crowds fall below 40,000, a crowd which would on most occasions reap about $50,000 for the home team.

    Some club-stadium deals expired at the end of last year, and the clubs had assumed they would roll on in to 2009 and beyond. Here it is, apparently the deals with the clubs have expired at the end of last year, and one expires mid-2009

    The Bulldogs will be financially exposed in their home matches at Etihad Stadium in Rounds 18 and 19 against Fremantle and West Coast.

    Bulldogs chief executive Campbell Rose said last night the change in match payments posed a serious dilemma for his club.

    "It is of significant concern," Rose said. "The battle to resolve the disparity in stadium economics has gone up a notch; the heat has been turned right up."

    It is believed Collingwood had been guaranteed $200,000 for any home match it was to play at Telstra Dome.

    The Magpies will now receive less than that amount for their Round 7 Etihad Stadium match against St Kilda.

    The Herald Sun understands the change will not affect Carlton, as it has been operating under the gate-receipt arrangement for some time.

    North Melbourne has not been subject to a deal at Docklands since 2007, and last year it was not granted financial returns that had been given previously for reaching certain crowd numbers.

    It is believed the Dogs had struck an arrangement where they received $15,000 for games at Etihad Stadium against non-Victorian clubs, and $45,000 for Melbourne clubs.

    The AFL's chief operating officer Gillon McLachlan could not be contacted.

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    AFL review finds interstate clubs fare better in stadium revenueFont Size: Decrease Increase Print Page: Print Greg Denham | May 06, 2009
    Article from: The Australian
    THE AFL today reinforced its current No 1 issue in football, releasing damning statistics which reveal the widening gap between the Melbourne clubs and their interstate counterparts in income derived from stadium deals.

    The league’s ongoing battle to significantly improve match returns for home clubs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and at Etihad Stadium, which host 92 of the AFL’s 176 home-and-away games, will be intensified following the release of the league’s 2008 financial review.

    The competition’s uneven playing field is further emphasised by the $2.7 million gap in net stadium returns between non-Victorian clubs and the 10 Victorian clubs.

    The non-Victorian average was $11 million, topped by West Coast, which received $17 million from Perth’s Subiaco Oval. The average net return to Victorian clubs was $8.3 million.

    The Eagles received a net return of $41 per attendee from 11 home games, while Richmond was the lowest, and received less than $13 per attendee for its home games last year at the MCG (eight) and at Etihad Stadium (three).

    AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou yesterday described the stadium deals for this season to be "even bleaker" for the Melbourne-based clubs.


    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...6-2722,00.html

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    I'm sure the returns of West Coast and Fremantle would be worse off if they and the WAFC had to pay market value for Subiaco Oval

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    I thought the Pies only played at the MCG
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    No mention of the Bombers who enjoy ridiculously good revenues...especially when they beat the pies...

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    Collingwood aren't exaclty poor with their army of bogans

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