There is an article in today's paper about football department spending and how the more you spend the more likely you are to win premierships.


All the clubs with the biggest spending

Sydney
Brisbane
West Coast
Collingwood
Port Adelaide
etc... have made recent grand finals.




Where do we need to spend more?

Is our spending including improvements to the gym and other facilities, or is this outside the expense sheet?

Probably not what it seems Ratts can't command the coin of a Roos, Matthews, Worsfold, Malthouse, Williams, in fact any premiership coach. I'd say thats the balance.
We have a full roster of Rattens helpers just no big dollar men.

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Green Shooter

We did spend more on players salaries than any other AFL club until we got caught.

Are those figures based on last year's numbers or projections for this year? It seems we have a few extra bodies around this year compared to last year.

It's not necesarily the salaries that money is spent on in the football department, it would also include facilities and technology of which we were way way behind other clubs and still are in some areas.

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Mjonc signing off at 8888

It's not how much you spend, it's what you spend it on.

As injuries can derail a season in the blink of an eye, I'd like to see our club throw as much money as possible into injury prevention research to try to curb the amount of ligament and soft tissue injuries.

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There's so much I could say...

What is something else these guys all have in common?

MONEY TO BURN

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Not sure that is the answer. In fact I would say there would be a lot of research on this matter, the key is to get out there, find it, read it, apply it. I suspect that's what we employ people like Justin Cordy to do.

IMO, you can go overboard on these things and not get "bang for your buck". I would also suspect (but don't know for sure) that the AFL might spend some money commissioning such research? If we did identify a gap in the literature, then spend a small amount on targetted research giving a small grant to university researchers.

It's a bit like throwing more money at the fire agencies saying if we do enough research nobody will get burned.....it is an inherently dangerous work domain and despite all your best efforts accidents/injury are a normal state of the system, not the reverse.

Quick - pay Ratten more!

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