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The Australian Rugby League says that an Australian Sports Commission survey does not accurately reflect the registrations and participation numbers which show that rugby…
Here is some more AFL pokie dependance…
Taxpayers footing Magpies’ pokie bill
Mark Russell
October 10, 2010
THE Collingwood Football Club has used a legal loophole to get taxpayers to help cover $2.7 million it spent on running the club and its pokies venues in the past year, describing the operating costs as a ”community benefit”.
But the club’s five poker machines venues – which brought in almost $23 million in revenue – made no community benefit payments to the elderly or the poor in 2009-10, documents filed with the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation show.
Over the past year, Collingwood rose to the top of the pokies ladder, raising $10 million more than the next most lucrative club, Essendon.
Collingwood is one of nine Melbourne-based AFL clubs allowed to claim a tax break of 8.3 per cent on pokies revenue if they can prove they are spending at least that much on community initiatives.
But under a loophole, clubs can claim payments to players and officials, as well as some venue running costs, as a benefit to the community.
Three of Collingwood’s venues – the Club at Caroline Springs, the Coach and Horses at Ringwood and the International at Lilydale – submitted statements to the commission on September 30 that claimed the Magpies spent $2.9 million on the community in 2009-10, including $2.7 million on ”operating costs”, of which $2.16 million was for wages.
The Magpies’ statements show the venues contributed almost nothing to the 12 listed philanthropic categories of community benefit, including the relief of poverty, educational scholarships, protection of the environment, and services to treat problem gambling.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/taxpayers-footing-magpies-pokie-bill-20101009-16d37.html
NRL Commission needs 'dinosaurs'
It’s a bit rich trying to take the high moral ground on the back of the AFL’s views of pokies. Many AFL teams have been just as committed to gambling as the NRL clubs, even if it isn’t their main form of income.
This is from the Courier-Mail:
“Uproar at Brisbane Lions’ pokie palace
James O’Loan
The Courier-Mail June 05, 2008
BRISBANE Lions Football Club is pushing to build a “pokie palace” in Logan Shire, arguably the problem gambling capital of Queensland.
The multimillion-dollar club has lodged an application with Logan City Council to build an indoor entertainment facility with up to 200 poker machines, a bar, dining room and merchandise/bottle shop in the Springwood commercial zone overlooking the Pacific Motorway.
The decision was made after 130 possible sites were investigated during more than six years and, pending approvals, doors could open by mid-2010.
The site, nor details of the large-scale facility, were intended to be publicly announced for months.
Anti-gambling groups say the number of poker machines will inflict further` damage on the local community.”
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/uproar-at-lions-pokie-den/story-e6freoof-1111116540724
Attempting to put 200 poker machines in one of SEQld’s lowest socio-economic areas is not something that should be applauded, and thanks goodness it wasn’t approved.
Change is taking place in the NRL. The NRL have started to focus on memberships over the last 3 years which will reduce the reliance of pokies for the clubs.
NRL Commission needs 'dinosaurs'
Hahahahaha, what an article! The AFL is barely making a dent in the majority of the Australian market. (TV ratings wise in QLD & NSW with neither the Swans or Lions averaging close to 100k per game in prime time on FTA and uncontested spotswise on a Saturday night).
55% of Australia’s population is in NSW and QLD, maybe they should concentrate on lifting their abysmal ratings first. The Swans average about the same as the Storm in Melbourne, the only difference the Storm don’t get shown before midnight…
Can Aussie Rules really rule the world?
Those figures of Danny’s are Sky Sports ratings (60%+ of NZ households) for the last 3 weeks (including last night with no NZ NRL team playing only u20’s).
Rugby League is definitely growing in NZ. 🙂
NRL, A-League should expand in New Zealand
He has to change his whole physiological structure. He had to do special training programs at the Storm & Broncos because his lactic acid levels get incredibly high under aerobic conditions. Even if he loses the weight, changes his muscle fibres from fast twitch to oxidative (which I doubt will happen enough to cut it at AFL level), he will not be able to go back the other way to the same level he is now. Once you lose fast twitch, they are goooone…
If he returns to league, physiologically he will not be the player he is now or could of been.
Israel Folau's switch to Team GWS makes sense