Interesting expose in todays HS detailing the innovative business plans and initiatives other clubs are developing to create a non core business revenue stream. This is enabling other clubs to grow their businesses and eliminate the need for Pomies.
I’ve been critical of our clubs lack of focus and attention to this area whilst other clubs leave us dithering from year to year wondering how we can financially exit Pokie Machines
@Bacchusfox Just replying to you here so as not to drag things off course too much in the AGM thread.
The figures are based off the expenditure data published by the VGCCC here. They publish venue level data twice a year, LGA level monthly. Loss per machine is more accurately player loss per machine.
Expenditure/player loss/net cash balance seem to be interchangeable terms but essentially if you put in $50 and play it down to $0.00 then $50 is recorded towards the expenditure total (minus any jackpot contributions). Loss per machine just divides the venue expenditure figure by the number of EGMs in the venue at the end of the reporting period.
Re: Melton Country Club figures. FY23, Venue expenditure $8,453,362.77 ÷ 90 Machines = $93,926.25 per machine
Do you recall where you heard the $6878 a month figure? In this last FY, 38.5% of venues were below that amount, so it makes me question it a bit. The machines at Windy Hill only got three quarters of the way there!
Given that gambling advertising has become ever present at football grounds and on screens around the country while Gill was AFL CEO, I wasn’t surprised to read this. I am glad to see him go, and wish him well at a gambling company.
Tim Costello, chief advocate at the Alliance for Gambling Reform, has compared gambling in Australia to guns in the US. Like gun control, the majority of Australians want stricter gambling advertising laws.
“63 cents in every dollar going through a poker machine comes from someone addicted,” says Costello. There are no definitive figures for the number of suicides caused by gambling in Australia, but, based on Hong Kong, which has lower gambling rates, it is likely about 20%, he says.
Any word from the club as to their stance in owning 190 poker machine licences?
Their stance is that they would like to be sitting pretty with numerous highly successful alternate revenue streams but because they aren’t really very good at anything, they’ll just have to settle for dirty gambling cash.
No Pokies at Essendon (NoPE) are seeking constitutional change to have Essendon acknowledge that poker machines cause harm. Refer to nope.org.au/agm/
No Pokies at Essendon (NoPE) are seeking to give Essendon members a vote on amending the club’s constitution, to make the board more accountable for their continued reliance on pokies. The amendment would require the club to include in their annual report a statement recognising the harm caused by pokies and acknowledging that the club’s pokies operations contribute to this harm.
Our goal remains to see Essendon end its dual existence as a gambling company, we believe this is an important step towards achieving that.
In order for the resolution to be put to a vote at the time of Essendon’s AGM in December, we require 100 Essendon members to sign our request by the end of September. The request includes a resolution with the proposed amendment and an explanatory statement to be distributed to all members at the time of the vote.
To sign the request you will need:
• To be a 2024 Essendon Member (this includes AFLW members) • Be aged over 18 • Have your Essendon membership number
