it's going to be bigger than the men's game, will be self funded due to the large crowds and sponsors lining up to get high exposure
I'm very excited

Please note - Hawthorn decided not to apply for a womens league licence - that is a club that knows what its doing...

you are dreaming

Didn't say there was a crime, trying to go straight into a professional league from such a low base is ludicrous. Shouldn't be a national comp either.
I say this because of the costs involved

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Hawthorn is a club that likes to wait for massive incentives to exploit, in case you haven't noticed.

Our mob are not going to set up a team that is a loss-making exercise, nor is any other founding club. The attendance figures will be conservative, and the rest will be driven by AFL supplied money and sponsorship dollars. The AFL bears the burden, if any.

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you are dreaming

And we're down the bottom of that pile and need to think differently to make up the gap. Walking around like we have Hawthorn's resources and opportunities will just see us come up short until they make a whole series of mistakes (i.e. not going to happen).

We'd be stupid to turn down any revenue source, no matter how slender the profit margin, especially in a growth market.

FWIW, I don't think Hawthorn know as much as you think they do.

Are Geelong and the Dogs badly run clubs these days? They're pushing for licences.

Everyone's wondering what Hawthorn are doing, but the answer is simple. They want to save themselves some marginal establishment costs and can afford to divest funds elsewhere for a superior return in the short-term.

If the league grows, they can cash in on it then, probably no sweat off their back. We, on the other hand, need to assume that risk now and push to be a powerhouse in the women's game on the off-chance (small, but not impossible) that we can harness a greater return in the medium to long-term.

If you want to play a relatively risk-less strategy compared to Hawthorn, how can you expect to become like them? How do you expect to make up the margin?

Worst case scenario here is the league folds within a decade, and that's not going to be a loss-making exercise for the club at all.

Now frankly, the harping on about women being inferior athletes and thus an inferior financial opportunity was well covered in the last shit stain thread on this topic, this topic was supposed to be about the 2016 matches, including some trial rules in the upcoming games.

You're about 5 years too late to stop this particular form of the Clubpocalypse you're so worried about which, like most of your posts, is frankly laughable.

spoken like a true carlton insider....

its got nothing to do with the merits of the womens as players - its the big issue about the 6.4m debt, the drag on the resources of this already weak club, the 4 wooden spoons in 13 years.. this incompetent board continuing this mediocrity..

So, what's your growth strategy Mozzie?

How will it not help?

Just remember this number, 28%.....