"The Magpies are unequivocally a powerhouse and have approximately $17 million in a future fund specifically for situations like this. The club boasted a profit of just under $4 million last year."
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/rating ... 8b8ba30f88How about the AFL raid Collingwood's future fund instead of giving Gold Coast and Brisbane 10-15$ million more in distribution funds more than Carlton? Doesn't that give those clubs an unfair advantage over a team that hasn't played a preliminary final since 2001?
Carlton has been terrible on the field for the last 15 years...but still we receive less than the Bulldogs for instance, St Kilda, North Melbourne - and even the Swans....a team that has been in every finals series basically for the last 20 years.
How about Carlton gets the same "distribution funding" as the Gold Coast or Brisbane or the Bulldogs/North Melbourne and the shortfall is made up by raiding Collingwood's future fund? They have 17$ million in the bank.
Why does Carlton have to foot the bill of the AFL's experiment in the Gold Coast? Collingwood has the money to fund it - go to them. That's how socialism works right, eventually you have to go to the profitable outlets and take from them. Start at Collingwood.
2018 -
Gold Coast – $23,696,768
Brisbane – $23,609,188
GWS – $23,234,214
St Kilda – $20,539,315
Port Adelaide – $19,805,849 (includes match day and merch)
North Melbourne – $16,918,003
Melbourne – $16,336,739
Western Bulldogs – $16,271,119
Sydney – $14,886,155
Carlton – $14,149,443
Adelaide -$12,676,532
Richmond – $12,505,575
Essendon* – $12,079,819
Geelong – $11,841,169
Fremantle – $11,469,122
Collingwood – $11,424,087
Hawthorn – $11,156,622
West Coast – $11,002,504