"If you start putting caps and luxury caps on spending, you'll stifle creativity and innovation,"
What a rediculous comment. By capping spending, you will encourage innovative ideas to get a benefit with the same amount of money as other teams. Every team now going to America for altitude training is hardly innovative - the bulldogs going to a specific altitude room on the otherhand allows them to stayclose to their facilities, and agruably get similar benefits (for far less cost). The latter is innovation, the former is all about the moolah.
I just wanted to point out how ignorant this post is.
I thought it was quite obvious that the smaller clubs are benefiting from the "rich" clubs here. North Melbourne and the Dogs were not pioneers in the altitude quest - they are trailing the ideas and spending that other clubs have invested previously. This is exactly what the article is pointing out. Had there been a cap on spending, this altitude phase would never have occurred.
To say the Dogs are more innovative than the teams going to Utah is "ridiculous" as well. You really are a turkey with no education in this field whatsoever. They allow for completely different adaptations.