With the likelihood of department cuts. What areas do you see being phased out?
Do we need to trainers to massage players on game day? 2 strategists?
Interesting to note on Footy Classified Ross Lyon mentioned how many personell were in a footy department and game day nowadays then back in 2007. He mentioned how it was your IT technician, senior assistant, midfield, forward and Defensive coach back in 2007
Now you had 2 midfield coaches, 2 physio trainers, 1IT guy, 2 senior assistants, club doctor, Ruck coach, forward and defensive coach, 1 tactician coach.
He also mentioned how it got to a stage where the senior head coach didnt even run training sessions.
Would be interesting to see how many we have and where we will see the cuts come.
ASSISTANT COACHES âTOLD TO APPLY FOR CENTRELINKâ
Almost every AFL assistant coach has been stood down and theyâve reportedly been told to apply for the federal governmentâs Centrelink payments or manual labour jobs.
âAs a result, the club made the heartbreaking decision this week to stand down more than 75 per cent of our staff, across every operational area of the club, until further notice.
A minimum number of staff will now work on severely reduced hours to ensure the club remains operational during the suspension period, which is due to run until at least May 31.â
The existing broadcast rights agreement saw Channel Seven, Foxtel and Telstra fork out a huge $2.5 billion â or $418 million per year â in 2015, for the rights from 2017-2022. The current financial health of the AFL will no doubt play a role when CEO Gil McLachlan and his team begin negotiating the next deal .
Cry me a f*cking river AFL.
Itâs time to pay the wages of your industry⌠or f*ck off.
âThe scheduled member payment plans will continue for the time being, with member reconciliation to be reviewed when we have full visibility of the season and fixture.â
The AFL spend the billions on propping up our competitors, funding a womenâs league we arenât allow to play in, employing a thousand staff directly (wtaf) and long lunches.
Yep - all the AFLâs pet projects are absolute money pits. GC & GWS would be draining the AFL dry, they would be generating bugger all in terms of memberships, sponsorship & gate receipts plus they add stuff all to the TV audience sp you couldnât even argue they represent value there. All up these clubs would have around $30M each in salaries not to mention every other expense most of which would be payed by the AFL.
You think they are getting paid without games. Why do you think they were so desperate to go ahead, all those $ stopped this week. There is no broadcast revenue hence everyone got stood down.
This is a company that made nearly $5 Billion In the last 10 years just from TV broadcasting rights.
There is absolutely no reason why they shouldnât be stepping in to stop AFL club employees being let go.
