PhilH wrote:-How will ONE Port be financially better off having Magpie home games as AFL curtain raisers given any extra bar, canteen & car parking money at AAMI goes to the SANFL and instead of all to Port if the games were at Alberton?
I assume that they would save money by running both games at the one Stadium in the one time slot rather than opening up Alberton Oval for an SANFL game (the costs of paying SANFL staff for an extra 3 hours might be << costs of opening up Alberton for the afternoon).
That plus the extra catering revenue that ONE Port share from the better facilities (and maybe more joint merchandise sales) at AAMI and from some people staying for 5 hours might mean they only need half the attendance they would need at Alberton to make the same or more money. The extra money that the SANFL get from the catering is also good for the SANFL as a whole.
Possibly there's also the intangible benefit of having all the Port people in the one place at the one time and having the whole thing feel like one club to shore up the supporter base for the future. Not sure how that translates to extra money in the short term.
Having thought about it for a while that's the best I can come up with without seeing the business plan.
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