Football Department Spending

[whufc]

whufc, Collingwood are in a much, much better financial position now than then

Also, the deal the AFL did with the MCG to release the G's hold on Preliminary finals gave Collingwood (and the G) extra "blockbuster" games at the G and I reckon that was about the same time Collingwood really started to turn their finances around.

It's not a Crows or Power whinge anyway. If you walked into Collingwood's facilities and then toured North Melb's I reckon you'd be amazed at the difference. Ditto probably Central's compared to Sturt's.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong but I think it definitely helps those teams on field performances. What to do about it I don't know.

What about Geelong being successful over the last few years. Port Power is another club who managed fine before, the Bulldogs have made semi finals of a shoe string budget and St.Kilda arent exactly the richest club going around.

Then you look at SANFL level and how has money, facilites etc helped North Adelaide, West Adelaide are managing fine this year and Sturt in 2009 made the GF on an extremly low budget.

[Booney]

To the poll question, does it buy success? IMO,no.

Does it contribute to heading in the right direction, hell yes. Bottom line for me is you can have all the money in the world it wont buy you any premierships,but, without the funds in the modern day it will become increasingly difficult.

[hottie]

I dont believe it guarantees success,but it gets down to clubs who spends wisely.

[the big bang]

this story you say you read in yesterdays paper was in the Australian a couple weeks ago. and, as i can't remember, correct me if i'm wrong, yes Collingwood did spend the most and got a flag out of it, but i'm pretty sure West Coast spent the second most, and got a spoon out of it?

if i do recall correctly and that is right, then i guess it really just goes to show it's not HOW MUCH is spent, but what IT'S SPENT ON.