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Ive already said the financials are excellent. People just like to read what the want to read. I will balance my commentary where as most on here just see the world through the Vlandys koolaid.
As we all know, the afl are compulsive liars.
This is what a strategic withdrawal looks like
Nice job avoiding the real issue of my post- junior development funding and bloated salaries for afl officials.
what activities are these, specifically?
Would you pay execs an extra $6mill if it meant an extra $300mill in revenue? Hmmm.
Jesus there you go again. You just can’t help yourself. No wonder so many here are just plain sick of you. We are closing the gap without the avarice you so obviously approve of.
Id suggest its a fair question, pay peanuts and all that. I mean they have had $2billion more revenue than us in last decade, maybe exec quality has something to do with that? Again, dont be afraid of the hard questions. heard of 'you get what you pay for'? Now sure it might just be pigs at the trough, or it might be that extra salary has bought better quality management and exec and helped them realize that $2bill revenue gap?
I’d like to see how much of the afl budget goes into legal fees covering up scandals such as the Fagan/Clarkson Hawthorn racism debacle. I’d suggest it’s many millions.
I’d suggest that you are wrong. We’ve just had poor management for too long and are catching up at a rate of knots. I’d suggest they have wasted $millions on the Gold Coast and west Sydney for bugger all return. I’d suggest they have huge legal expenses covering up multiple racism scandals. I’d suggest they are a bloated organisation that pisses money up against the wall as so many such organisations do. And I’d suggest the level of financial waste they’ve engaged in is exemplified by the blatant lie by your mate Gil that they are bigger than us in QLD. If they are half as good as you keep telling is then why do they have to lie so blatantly about their achievements?
You're entitled to your opinion, Im not hear to defend them, I go on the facts as best as we can see them. In financial performance they have trounced us, continue to trounce us and thats where we need to pivot. Its great to see the gap will close this year, and looks like potentially by a bit. It may widen again in 2025 when their new mega deal kicks in and we will have to wait till 2028 to see our next deal to hopefully catch up again. They have enjoyed revenue from their asset investment for last few years where as we are only just building ours. I applaud the current surplus which is what they are using to buy assets. The $56mill surplus this year will largely have been spent on the two hotels we have bought in Cronulla and SC.
As usual you deflect and hide whilst continuing to downplay our achievement compared to theirs. They had a 20 year start on us of a clear national vision and they implemented that without the recent multi million dollar salaries you admire so much. They’ve had a ton of advantages including extra revenue and we are still there breathing down their necks despite Greenberg and gallop. They’ve thrown literally tens of millions of dollars at a media department that spews out puff stories like clock work. For all that you admire about them they can’t get any real traction against us. And at last we have a leader who throws it back at them and you whinge about that. What you’ve done here this afternoon is what everybody predicted. AFL lackey.
haha, like I said don't be afraid of critical analysis, it wont hurt you!
If you stopped rating your opinions so highly and critically analysed them you’d see what we see.
I dont rate my opinions at all, I put them out there and they are for others to be interested in, or not. Hopefully they create conversations, argument maybe a bit of controversy. Things that make life a bit more interesting.
