Daniher deplores 'selling games'

[Schneidergirl]

Daniher deplores 'selling games'
May 27, 2004

MELBOURNE coach Neale Daniher has slammed the AFL for forcing clubs to sell their home games interstate to raise revenue.

Daniher said today that clubs such as Melbourne, the Kangaroos and the Western Bulldogs don't want to play home games away but have no choice.

Melbourne will play their fourth home match at the 'Gabba on Sunday and Daniher said the club will play away for the next 10 years if it is the only way they can make money.

He said richer clubs such as Brisbane, Collingwood and Essendon also have more money to poach young players who the weaker clubs have spent years developing.

[NMWBloods]

How does the AFL force them to sell home games? If the people running the clubs had half a brain then they wouldn't need to do things like this to raise money.

[CureTheSane]

Sad, but the AFL has these clubs by the balls.

The AFL want them gone, it doesn't take much to make that happen.

They want to stick around, then they really need to get their **** together while the AFL pull their puppet strings and start solidifying their positions as stand alone clubs.

[NMWBloods]

I don't think many people realise just how badly these clubs are run.

Here's one example.

Football club needs to mail out something to its members for marketing purposes. They also need to mail out something to members for something else (can't recall what), but the second mail out is done by a different department to marketing.

They do not think about combining their mail out into a single one.

Someone suggests to them that it would be a good idea to do so to save costs. They can't do it as it doesn't make sense to them because they each have their own postage budget!

Therefore the club spends twice as much on postage as it needs.

There are many many examples like this!!