Club profit takes a Swan dive

[liz]

The ticket thing must be at least in part due to the primitive online systems of Ticketmaster and Ticketek.

Last Friday I tried to buy two tickets to tomorrow game. Given it's against the Pies and at the Dome I didn't want to risk just turning up in Melbourne and not being able to get in. I didn't try to specify area or price- just any two, best available. It told me that no tickets were available. I tried another 4 or 5 times over last weekend and early this week and got the same response. Then I got bored (and it started to dawn on me that I'd probably have to work this weekend).

Is the game sold out? I've read nothing in the press to suggest it is, and I'd be surprised if it were to sell out more than a week ahead of time. Or is Ticketmaster just crap?

[cruiser]

Is the game sold out?

I bloody hope not!! I'm flying down today and intend to get off the airport bus at Spencer St and go straight to TD to get a ticket.

[NMWBloods]

I think all the tickets for level 1 are sold out but level 3 remains open for general admission.

[Bear]

The sooner we get a 2nd team in Sydney the better.

Yes it will 'cost' a lot of money over the next 10 years - that is if you only look at the expenses in setting up and running the WS franchise, and ignore the offsetting growth in AFL sponsorship and TV revenue it will bring.

But unless we go beyond the Swans, the game will stagnate in Sydney, and will remain largely irrelevant in Australia's biggest population zone - Western Sydney.

The Swans bring in so much money indirectly through TV and sponsorship, their future will always be guaranteed. A local rival and some real interest in the AFL in Western Sydney will strengthen the game and the Swans here, in a big way.

The AFL does a very good job in running the game and the competition, and its foresight over the last 20 years is what has us at the top of the heap right now... despite much criticism from some fans.

[barry]

Profitability means nothing in the AFL. According to that article, only St Kilda made a loss last year. Yet we know Melbourne and North were receiving SIGNIFICANT handouts. Are handouts counted as "revenue".

What needs to be published, is a list of each clubs revenue. If Sydney arent in the top half, then I'd get concerned. at $33m I'd guess they are top 6. Collingwood, WC and Adel about $40 - 50m. Essendon, then us.

[Wazza]

Undoubtedly, but is that facing the ground from the stand, or facing the stand from the ground?

well you would be sitting on the fence, wouldnt you

Cheers

Waz

[Bas]

Swans would have saved alot of money by not posting out the pre-grand final registration letters. As if

[DST]

Swans would have saved alot of money by not posting out the pre-grand final registration letters. As if

Nice one, that is an AFL letter and paid for by them as is everything else including ground hire, team travel costs etc.

They just use our database to send it.

If it had been up to the Swans as to where they played the North game it would have been at the SCG, the AFL got greedy didn't sense the mood of the mob and looked dumb for it.

DST