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sooperdooper said:titanium has pokies...its main focus is a cocktail bar and it attracts alot of locals
apologies, my bad. Never been there I just have not seen any pics with pokies in the shot.:sarcasm:
sooperdooper said:titanium has pokies...its main focus is a cocktail bar and it attracts alot of locals
jimmyo said:Wow it's an impressive move if it happens. I'd like to see Dennis Fitzgerald do something constructive like this instead of calling our next opponents chokers. I think SS just became my 2nd fav team.
Jack Off said:As a Souths fan whilst I would like to see it work I'm not sure it will and we don't know if the Leagues club board will even pass it yet.
I mean PHAC is a very very smart man and him and Crowe know how to use the media to their advantage...I meanthey probably know that the League's club won't approve so they just say to the media, "Oh look let's get rid of pokies as it will help the community et etc" and even if it doesn't work out people will view them as the "good guys" because they TRIED until the "bad guys" of the leagues club board refuted them. And at the end of the day they don't lose a cent and still get good publicity for not doing anything really. But hey that could be me being sceptical.
BUT even if it were to be approved I can see WHY PHAC wants this. Quite simply the types os people that predominatntley play the pokies in that area are on welfare and unemloyed and quite simply give the place a bad name. Get rid of them and you get rid of the bad name they bring to the club.
smeghead said:But where would Asian gangsters launder their money if Star City had limits like that??
sherrinator said:If RL clubs didn't have pokies, they would be losing money. The NRL teams are there to bring the gamblers in.
bobmar28 said:well off inner city yuppies because that is who will be able to afford to eat there.
Misty Bee said:Ever since the pokies tax came in, this has been on the cards. Saints Leagues recently reduced the footy club grant by $2 million. When the club cull of the late 90's was on, Souths Juniors declined to give a chunk of their poker machine money to the Bunnies. That's where a lot of their problems stemmed from with Murdoch.
Souths might be formulating the blueprint for the modern club. Like Wests in the 1950's, this could herald a new era in RL funding.
One nagging problem, though. PHac and Crowe have deep pockets with which to help the club out of financial holes.[/quote]
Richo has been straightforward, the modern day football club needs approx $16,000,000 a year.
The idea is to get this amount plus some more to invest for the harder times.
Rusty would need to make at least 3 movies a year to sustain the club on his ownsome.
However board chairman Bill Alexiou-Hucker said, without seeing the proposal, he believed the club would go broke within 12 months without the $150,000 per month from its 60 pokies.
For clubs (any club) to complain about the increase in pokie tax is pretty poor. The things are a menace to society and the clubs should be fortunate that they had the machines to build monolithic clubs.Misty Bee said:Ever since the pokies tax came in, this has been on the cards.