Squawk wrote:Also, I recall that a lot of Port's facilities have been from private sponsorship also (eg Alan Scott Headquarters). Given that Port has also received grant money for other facility upgrades, one does wonder where the rest of their football/social revenue has been spent if big ticket purchases have often been funded by "extraordinary income".
I know Port has said it has the lowest average expenditure on football operations - but if so, where is the rest of the money actually going?
I think youll find the club just doesnt make enough money. Whilst costs would have increased fairly significantly over the past 5 years, weve gone from earning a little bit of money out of AAMI, to having to write the SANFL significant sized cheques after each home game. Our major decrease in crowds is whats killing the club. And whilst yes the SANFL may take too much from games from both AFL clubs, the club needs to find ways fast of getting its crowd back up to the 27k average mark minimum.
stuff like the overseas trips were done a few years back when we were swinging from small profit to small loss.
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