Funny I'm in the middle of setting 10 work dept budgets for 17/18. Guess what it hasn't happened yet but I have a good idea of what Incom and expenditure will be.
Geez if you are actually in business you will know the process of budgeting and that you use last years figures and best guess forecasts on what you know to set your budget for the year ahead. Pretty sure it is no different for the nrl. They will have reasonable idea of expected income, predicted expenditure and budgets will be getting finalised.
As I said there is fixed costs for running the nrl then a big discretionary Budget that they decide what they want to spend it on. Fixed costs are club grants, admin and game running costs. After that they prioritise what they want to spend on. Be it expansion or digital or grass roots or higher ceo salary or a link up with touch footy or png or Fiji or a dozen other things that they could invest in.
Some of us think that prioritising expansion and investing so that we have the ninth game to sell is what they should be doing. That's all.
I've been involved with business in various positions ,possibly well before you started whingeing about rl crowds.
I have also been involved in forward estimates(production)and costings getting close sometimes other times not so ,with things completely out of ones control.Ever heard of Force Majeure clauses in shipping contracts ?Flooding to prevent transport getting through?Currency fluctuations, so you take out covers.
Of course they (the NRL)would be setting estimates ahead(they have indicated a figure for grassroots), but you have never heard of budget blowouts, acts of God,women's competition planned,possible expansion.The NRL lost money last year.Did they forsee that?
As we have seen last years figures to work on 2017 get blown out of the water, when we see 2017 with drops in crowds due to 1 months of torrential rain,Cyclone Debbie,clubs needing extra loot not budgeted for
Hell SOO merchandise sales in 2016 were well down on prior estimates due to series decided early and a non sold out SOO3.Look at the 9s tournament, crowds down and now looking at staging it in Oz.
The NRL like most sports in this country is supposedly set up as a non profit organisation to propagate the game.hence the reason they get Govt grants at times.
Well Einstein the 16 NRL clubs, the RLPA,the NRL still don't know what the salary cap plus the 30% will be.This is a fixed cost that hasn't even been settled yet.The very reason clubs, players,player managers are in a bind.And the percentage of total 16 club grants against total income is what? A bloody big %.
When that figure is settled upon, other expenditure can be better assessed.
No doubt NSWRL and QRLamounts would be set .
Admin salaries would be easy to project forward,as would DOs,then you have the ambassadors,Men of League ,charities.various assistance set up for players,Integrity unit.
They haven't finalised the sale of their 2 NRL owned clubs.The affect of not having ANZ stadium for a couple or more years or Parramatta.Grand finals where will they be played?.Will SOO on Perth get a packed house.
You can project ahead ,that doesn't mean automatically you will be close to the mark.
We all may think an extra game will give us X amount.We don't know for sure, matter of fact wouldn't even hazard a guess.One minute Gyngell (ch9)said an extra side in Brisbane would be worth $20m pa to broadcasting then went cold on the idea.
But you have indicated in the past you want less Sydney sides, so your extra game comment is more like a distraction
