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The AFL is set to spend $1 billion across the next decade in an effort to fast-track more people signing up to play footy. In a major push to double the number of registered participants by 2033, the AFL will increase funding into traditional NRL states New South Wales and Queensland, but remain fully committed to financially supporting the heartland football states of Victoria, Tasmania, South Australian and Western Australia as well as the territories.
The $1 billion war chest for the next decade is aimed at getting one million signed-up participants, almost double the 526,000 currently registered.
AFL officials are confident that the unprecedented level of expenditure at community level will set the code up nationally for generations, with a goal of extending the game’s reach into every home in the country.
It follows an AFL Commission pledge in August 2022 to enshrine an investment of 10 per cent of industry revenue back into game development and community football.
the $1b will be spend on initiatives including:
● Constructing new ovals and facilities and increasing capacities.
● Rolling out modified versions of the game to attract new markets including diverse communities.
● Boosting women’s participation from 27 per cent to 50 per cent.
● Retaining juniors from the age of six to ten, to make up for impact of Covid from 2020 and 2021.
● Helping regional clubs with planning, funding, volunteering and grant applications.
● Assisting the expansion hub in Western Sydney to drive greater fan engagement for GWS, Sydney Swans, Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast.
AFL chief executive officer Andrew Dillon said the investment was critical to the code’s future success and was a key plank of the league’s planning across the next decade. “The heartbeat of our game is at the community and grassroots level,” Mr Dillon said. “A strong community game supports the elite AFL and AFLW competitions, while a strong AFL and AFLW game helps fund and support the community. “Ultimately we (the AFL) need to ensure we continue to help build local football around the country with the goal of getting football in every home.”
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1 billion spent and in a decade only Victorian teams will still be winning flags lol
 

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The AFL would be better spent solidifying traditional states, they're the ones that stand to lose the most. Sports itself is a challenge in current times, let alone a crowded market.

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I wonder what the Victorian government says…. The AFL is basically another department of their government.
1 billion siphoned from the game to promote/impose Victoria in QLD and NSW.

They’d say it’s money well spent.
 
I wonder what the Victorian government says…. The AFL is basically another department of their government.

Gotta hand it to them though.

Since the era of interstate dominance from 1992-2006 (3 flags for WCE, 3 flags for BL, 2 flags for ADL, 1 flag for PA, 1 flag for SYD), they’ve done everything they can to put Victorian clubs on a rocketship to the moon.

What did we get over here?

The SANFL treating their AFL licenses as cashcows to be mercilessly milked, while the likes of Rob Lucas took a sh¡t on Port at every opportunity — even RT’ing lame gags about our China initiative while his own government was backing it for the trade ties.
 
Gotta hand it to them though.

Since the era of interstate dominance from 1992-2006 (3 flags for WCE, 3 flags for BL, 2 flags for ADL, 1 flag for PA, 1 flag for SYD), they’ve done everything they can to put Victorian clubs on a rocketship to the moon.

What did we get over here?

The SANFL treating their AFL licenses as cashcows to be mercilessly milked, while the likes of Rob Lucas took a sh¡t on Port at every opportunity — even RT’ing lame gags about our China initiative while his own government was backing it for the trade ties.

The “non-vic” club dominance that was almost entirely teams finally snagging one based on their entry concessions / mergers.

Since then non-vic clubs have won 2 of the last 17, and that was a cola’d to the wazoo swans and cashed up eagles.

My prediction is the next 20 years we will see 0-5 non-vic sides take the cup at best. If I had to pick a number, probably 2.
 
The “non-vic” club dominance that was almost entirely teams finally snagging one based on their entry concessions / mergers.

Since then non-vic clubs have won 2 of the last 17, and that was a cola’d to the wazoo swans and cashed up eagles.

My prediction is the next 20 years we will see 0-5 non-vic sides take the cup at best. If I had to pick a number, probably 2.
West Coast, Sydney, Brisbane and maybe Adelaide if they get their shit together are the only non vic clubs who will win a GF.

Us Freo and the expansion teams are just there for numbers.
 
The boys club by Micheal warner is a brilliant read and shines the light on lots of horrid things the AFL do and how they operate

The afl media then gave it maybe 48 hours of press and pushed it under the carpet
It must be such a great feeling for bad guys when they are exposed and the medium chosen to expose them is a book. You know nobody will actually read it because people have the attention span of a goldfish now.
 
Ooh, an invite to a free fitness program? Run by...Brett Burton? Errm, no thanks?
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Former Port Adelaide player Kane Cornes has taken aim at West Coast Eagles players for wearing flamboyant costumes to their intra-club match. The Eagles hit the track for their final intra-club of the summer on Saturday and, as they did last year, arrived in costumes ahead of the hitout. Some of the outfits included Liam Duggan in overalls, while Elijah Hewett and Reuben Ginbey dressed up as Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift respectively.
Cornes was left unimpressed by the spectacle as the Eagles look to turn the tide on two horror seasons. “I’m completely going to be on an island with this and I’m happy to be on an island on my own,” Cornes acknowledged on SEN Breakfast. “Pull up your socks West Coast Eagles, who turned up to their internal trial all wearing the most ridiculous outfits you have ever seen. “It’s a takeoff of the NBA, it’s a bit of fun, I get it, but there were players with overalls with nothing on underneath, there was players dressed as superheroes, there was suits with beanies, there were Hawaiian shirts. It was ridiculous.”
 
Re the $1bil spent on game development over a decade, the AFL in in best politican mode. Wrote this yesterday on footy industry board.

Given a few days ago the AFL released its 2023 results and in it they said

* $89.7million to Game Development (up from $60.8 million);

Then in you apply a 3% compound growth to 2024 thru to 2033 ie 10 seasons then the amount put into game day development will go from $92.39m in 2024 to $124.17m in 2033 and that totals $1,090.93m in those 10 seasons.

Great commitment by the AFL, given they cranked up game development $29m in 2023, and I hope they are transparent about what they have spent in each state and territory each year and how much they have committed to Auskick and how much to actual football competitions.

But this has shades of politicians just trying to make up the biggest number possible to get the biggest headline.

Politicians used to say they will spend $X or raise $Y next financial year, then they started marketing it to the public they would spend $XX or raise $YY over the 4 year forward estimates, to then saying they would spend $XXX or raise $YYY over the next 10 years.

Covid put an end to this bullshit, because no one can project 10 years forward as if no big changes will occur, and they have gone back to talking about the 4 year forward estimates spending or tax raising amounts. The exception has been the lifetime build/buy and operating costs of the nuclear subs over the next 30 years.

The left wing media and commentators couldn't help themselves over the stage 3 tax cuts and had to always quote the 10 year figure the "rich" would receive in tax cuts as they lobbied the Albanese government to scrap / change the coalition's 2019 Stage 3 tax cuts.
 
Former Port Adelaide player Kane Cornes has taken aim at West Coast Eagles players for wearing flamboyant costumes to their intra-club match. The Eagles hit the track for their final intra-club of the summer on Saturday and, as they did last year, arrived in costumes ahead of the hitout. Some of the outfits included Liam Duggan in overalls, while Elijah Hewett and Reuben Ginbey dressed up as Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift respectively.
Cornes was left unimpressed by the spectacle as the Eagles look to turn the tide on two horror seasons. “I’m completely going to be on an island with this and I’m happy to be on an island on my own,” Cornes acknowledged on SEN Breakfast. “Pull up your socks West Coast Eagles, who turned up to their internal trial all wearing the most ridiculous outfits you have ever seen. “It’s a takeoff of the NBA, it’s a bit of fun, I get it, but there were players with overalls with nothing on underneath, there was players dressed as superheroes, there was suits with beanies, there were Hawaiian shirts. It was ridiculous.”

It's the heat I tell ya - they've all gone doolally
 
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