the entire premise of this question is rubbish.
How so?
Is Phil paying you to fight his battles?
He's got a mouth. Let him use it.
You cant, but hell, lets see it.
It will amuse everyone to see the mental gymnastics you go through to exclude revenue streams they are perfectly entitled to include.
All I have to do is prove these clubs rely on bailouts from non-football operations such as the governing body and gaming machine revenue.
Whether they're "entitled" to receive a large chunk of the game's revenue is debatable because every cent spent on keeping these clubs afloat comes at the expense of the players and every level of the game beneath the NRL.
The players want a larger slice of the pie because they're jeopardising their health and quality of life for the benefit of the clubs. CTE is a game changer and will bankrupt the game if it's not dealt with adequately. If we want parents to sign their sons and daughters up to play football then we'll need to convince them their children won't end up as vegetables who are thrown on the scrap heap.
We've seen other sports in this country go bust focusing on the professional side of the game to the detriment of all tiers below it.
Now let's look at the Sydney clubs annual reports.
Cronulla Sutherland Sharks
Sale of goods
Sale of goods
1,618,274
Merchandising/royalties
868,477
TOTAL
2,486,751
Rendering of services
Game day and ticketing
791,444
Gaming revenue
2,911,769
TOTAL
3,703,213
Other Revenue
Functions revenue
41,975
Members subscriptions
787,313
Sponsorship and hospitality
4,033,757
NRL grant
16,064,001
NSWRL grant
223,833
Revenue from supplier contracts
88,437
Management/consulting revenue
73,992
Other Revenue
451,225
Total revenue
21,764,533 27,954,497
TOTAL
21,764,533
27,954,497
When you subtract the amount of money provided to this club by the ARLC and NSWRL then they generated just $11,666,663. Gaming machine revenue was down as the Leagues Club at Wooloware is under development, leaving the Sharks @ Kareela Licenced Venue as their sole source of income from this sector. When you subtract gaming revenue then the club generated just $8,754,894 from football operations. That means less that football operations generate less than one-third of the clubs revenue. Gaming machines could be decommissioned from licenced venues at any point as there's a strong campaign to remove them from.
The annual grant from the ARLC is dependent upon the broadcasters paying big money to our game. Foxtel is the only pay TV service willing to pay about $240m per annum (rough guess) on our game and their future is fat from secure.
f**king lol.
North Queensland were 13th
In Sydney, the NRL averaged 157,000 on 9 for the season with R1s Panthers/SeaEagles the top rating fixture for the season at 249,000.
In Brisbane, the NRL averaged 96,000 on Nine with the highest rating game being R19s Eels/Broncos with 167,000 viewers.
That was this season. Previous seasons had the Cowboys sitting in the top six. It's also based on OzTam data, which is the viewing habits of 12,000 across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, then it's projected onto the other 26,000,000 Australians. It's far from reliable.
