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This thread should be on the main forum...
Why?
So every bored moron out there can wheel out the same old crap again?
It may shut up a small amount of those north haters bagging our crowd numbers. How can anyone look at these figures and not agree that we got shafted this year?
The truth of the matter is that COLLINGWOOD ARE SUBSIDISED BY NORTH MELBOURNE, NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND. It is our abhorrent fixturing that allows them to generate inflated revenues. On a level playing field they would earn LESS - THAT IS A FACT.
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One day this might finally sink into the heads of those that lay the boots in at every opportunity.
Brilliant points there Utility. It's time to get out there WANM. It's be nice to get some air time so we can debate teh facts with those who continue to put us down.
PS. I want that quote on a t-shirt
Great work utility - and kudos to Zondor for cracking open this nut a few days ago.
So.. how do we use this data for our benefit?
I may not have time to clean this up into a nice little package but I do intend to demonstrate how the fixturing inequality is damaging in the short-term and over time.
As I have demonstrated North's NVT fixturing is 9% worse than the average. It may not sound like much but, to take an example people are more familiar with, the RBA expands the money supply by an average of 7% per year. This means the purchasing power of your money halves over a decade - how much was petrol/milk/bread, etc. tens year ago? Inflation eats away at your savings but you don't really notice it because it is in relatively small increments - BUT THE LOSS COMPOUNDS.
It is the same with the fixturing. We have copped the raw end of the stick for over a decade and suffered what appears to the the WORST EVER FIXTURE from a commercial perspective.
I think the management of the club deserves a big pat on the back. This year they were faced with:
- The fixture from hell (as previously discussed),
- Coming off a seven win season finishing 13th - including a coach leaving mid-season,
- Starting the season 1-3,
- Not playing a home game against a Victorian side until round six, and
- Getting flogged by over 100 points in our first game in Melbourne.
Yet:
- Net attendance from the last game against same opposition has INCREASED,
- Membership has INCREASED from last year (correct me if I am wrong), and
- Membership has INCREASED over 30% from 3 years ago.
This is all after our own 'Lost Decade' off the field. In hindsight the club's management was severely scarred by the AFL's merger push in the mid-90s, and completely lost the plot when Ron Casey passed away. The management of the club during this time was poor to diabolical:
- Greg Miller was not equipped to manage the club and ham-fisted a Sydney co-location,
- Aylett regime moved us from the MCG to the Docklands WITHOUT A CONTRACT and without his much publicised five-year plan and gave up our TRADITIONAL Friday night games without a whimper,
- Michael Easy lasted six weeks as CEO,
- After the botched Sydney co-location, we moved to Canberra without really demonstrating any lessons learned,
- Geoff Walsh was a CEO in training and improved on the job, but has proven to be below par and held the members with contempt,
- Graham Duff was full of bluff and bluster as chairman and ran the club further into the ground,
- Rick Aylett, whilst a nice bloke, was clearly not the right man for the job,
- The club decided to give up 'safe' money by playing games on the Gold Coast,
- Like in the mid-90s when the club, Melbourne, almost a majority of Hawthorn members, and the football world was CONNED into believing clubs NEEDED to merge - four board members and a large section of the football world were CONNED into believing the club needed to relocate and die.
(Please add to this list if I have forgotten anything)
It was the great work of Ron Joseph, James Brayshaw, WANM, Roosistence and others - most notably Bob Ansett - that called the AFL's bluff and the rest is history.
Also - one thing I have touched on is that the club plays 11 home games at the Docklands this year, fulfilling ~25% of the contractual requirement. This is a MASSIVE CONTRIBUTION BY THE CLUB. While people may love the MCG, the Docklands is a fantastic facility and NORTH IS CONTRIBUTING A QUARTER OF THE CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS to pay it off for the benefit of ALL clubs. At a guess Collingwood play ZERO home games there this year.
The truth of the matter is that COLLINGWOOD ARE SUBSIDISED BY NORTH MELBOURNE, NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND. It is our abhorrent fixturing that allows them to generate inflated revenues. On a level playing field they would earn LESS - THAT IS A FACT.
The spotlight must be put on the AFL regarding the fixturing. The reason for it is EXECUTIVE BONUSES are tied to KPIs that encourage this MALFESCANT BEHAVIOUR. The AFL executive (Demetriou and co.) are RESPONSIBLE for our fixturing but the COMMISSION is ACCOUNTABLE for the executive. Either they have incompetently created faulty bonus KPIs or WANT US TO BE SHAFTED.
The bonus culture is no different to the Wall Street bankers. Demetriou is the Blankfein of the AFL.
Blankfein says, "I do God's work". Demetriou says, "I serve the game".
Blankfein says, "We did nothing illegal". Demetriou says, "Fixturing complaints are unfounded".
Goldman Sachs create financial products designed to blow up - they are financial arsonists.
The AFL create rigged fixtures designed to blow us up - they are football arsonists.
Someone seriously needs to take the AFL to the sword over this issue. All we ask for is EQUITY, the Aussie FAIR GO. Let's see the media put them to the acid.
Oh, and the AFL rejected our application to play a home game in Perth, where we have significant sponsors and a relatively large number of members. Their reason: IT WOULD COMPROMISE THE FIXTURE. What a ****ing load of horse ****.
BIG HELP REQUEST:
Can somebody please post our membership stats for 2006-2010 inclusive, for both 'ticketed' and 'non-ticketed' members.
Muchas gracias.
Good and interesting post.
However it's the lack of members that is hurting us.
The people who join up in a crisis to make themselves feel good and then drop off.
There are also the people who join up the side is winning and drop off when the side isn't doing as well.
All clubs have these people and can accommodate them but we need everyone on board.
Ticketed + Non-ticketed
2006: 24,700
2007: 22,372
2008: 34,342
2009: 30,613
2010: 29,138*
Ticketed + Non-ticketed
2006: 24,700
2007: 22,372
2008: 34,342
2009: 30,613
2010: 29,138*
It is not a media release. If they are too lazy to open the document and view the content then they miss out on being spoon-fed a (decent) story on one of the slower weekends during the year. I'll also contact them again next week and ask if they bothered to read my previous email.To the media a 5 page document is anything but sexy - keep it to one page with additional info available on request. 5 page doc says too much to read so it goes in the bin.
It was simply a table of the info previous posted. The inequity is scandalous and should be communicated to show just how much of a raw deal we have.Also, I'd be very concerned about the possibility of offering just a comparison with Collingwood up - every club probably has it worse than the 'pies and you don't want to generate a "poor North" mentality towards the club.
That's exactly the point. Hardly equitable. What do you think Eddie would say if Collingwood copped what we do, and have over the last decade?comparing with Collingwood is like chalk and cheese.
That's exactly the point. Hardly equitable. What do you think Eddie would say if Collingwood copped what we do, and have over the last decade?