Fight Club - Football Club Memberships

[Stewie]

What money from news idiot?

Not sure if serious?

Very serious know all, where did the money for the storm come from, go on tell us.

Their owners...

[Xman]

My god, can you please get it through your thick skull xmoron that when they put Melbourne up against a team from anywhere out here in the NRL, they are putting Victorian RL up against a single fucking club.

Fuck you are dumb, really dumb.

What the hell does that mean?

[Brandz]

Update

NRL (2012 number's bolded)
Brisbane – 15,801 (25,366)
Canterbury Bulldogs - 10,000 (13,218)
Canberra – 4,000 (8,348) (Not up to date)
Cronulla Sharks – 5,800 (5,800)
GoldCoast – 3,000 (6,610) (Not up to date)
Manly - ????? (9,540)
Melbourne – 8,889 (12,736)
Newcastle – 12,102 (18,460)
New Zealand – 5,000 (10,800) (Not up to date)
North Queensland – 8,813 (10,212)
Parramatta Eels – 10,713 (10,999)
Penrith - ????? (11,169)
St George – 14,727 (20,313)
South Sydney – 19,261 (22,000)
Sydney - 4,829 (9,305) (Not up to date)
Wests Tigers – 5,556 (10,248)

[Drac]

Fuck you lie a lot.

I have seen and posted articles here that state the storm have made profits you dope, yet you keep peddling this crap about the storm losing all this money.

If $65 million has been spent in Victoria you dumbarse, that's a good thing for RL considering 15 years ago, not a single fucking cent was spent.

Yep, $65 Million to get RL started and played in Victoria, money well spent, or as you people keep saying for your code, money invested in the future.

It must be fate that this article appeared today, sent by divine providence to prove you to be full of excrement.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/rugby-l ... 2d7mq.html

Former Melbourne director Gerry Ryan believes the Storm could be profitable within three years

There it is, clearly stated, in plain English, that the Storm do not currently make a profit.

With Melbourne guaranteed $20 million in additional funding over the next five years, on top of the annual $7 million grant each club receives from the game's new television deal, a new owner would have time to get the club's finances into shape.

So with $7m each year in grants, $4m extra from the nRL, and whatever they make in memberships/ticketing/sponsorships/corporates etc, the Storm still can't turn a profit, in a premiership year.

And Ryan, who had previously been interested in buying the Storm from News Ltd, said there was potential to turn the premiers into a success off the field as well as on it.

And one last time, just for a little salt in the wound, emphasis that the Storm aren't currently a success off the field.

Let's have no more of your bullshit re: the Storm being profitable.

[Storm2013]

Mmmmm drac. I have a problem with a number of your statements. Firstly parra eludes to the fact that storms financials are being associated with the funds they recieve and give to vrl for growth. Now we don't really need to head down that path do we (Suns and gws 200 mil+). But for the purpose of your agenda you can run with that.

Also yes as the article states they will only receive 4 mil per year to grow the game plus 7 million (salary cap) from the newly formed nrl agreement which seems more than reasonable compared to AFL clubs. Those are funds that start trickling in this year 2013 not 2012 which is at least 3mil+ less due to the past nrl broadcast agreement.

So when you compare those firgures for 2012 your wrong!!

Now what do you class as a PROFITABLE club? Gerry is a good businessman and I would assume that a profitable club means that they can survive without receiving handouts from AFL/nrl. With that, storm could well be breaking even but due to the fact they they recieve handouts from the nrl you could argue they dont. So when Gerry says they will be profitable in 3 yrs to me it's seems that storm are in a pretty good position.

Bar the broncos the financials for nrl clubs remain quite private and most conversation about the topic is normally only speculation.

[Storm2013]

Oh brands cheers for the update! Storm are at 8889 as of yesterday.

[ParraEelsNRL]

Not sure if serious?

Very serious know all, where did the money for the storm come from, go on tell us.

Their owners...

You mean the $10 million a year that news took from the other 15 NRL clubs?

No you don't, because you have nfi.

[ParraEelsNRL]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/na ... 5857630482

Despite the current uproar, Melbourne Storm's latest accounts reveal the embattled club to be in a sound financial position, having turned its previous year's $967,000 loss into a $1.6 million profit.

The club's recent success in the National Rugby League, including two premierships in the past three years, has obviously started flowing through to its bottom line, with income from membership fees rising by more than $200,000 to $1.3m during last season.

search.php?keywords=melbourne+storm+pro ... mit=Search


WOW, HOW THE FUCK DID THIS SLIP THROUGH AGAIN (20TH TIME).

[ParraEelsNRL]

The club itself can and does make a profit and when it doesn't, it's about the same as any other club in loses.

The millions ($10 mill a year) taken from the NRL by news over the last 15 or so years for the "Storm" was not what that implies. The millions went towards junior RL, promotion and the storm itself, news muddied the waters with this for years and you goats just swallow it each time.

The reason you see the ARLC agreeing with news in regards to future funding of the storm set up is simple, what a waste of Millions and millions of $$$$$ it would be to walk away now. You clowns keep saying RL walks away from expansion clubs all the time, yet now they have stuck with one for 15 or so years, you change tact even though you have 4 expansion money pits yourselves which seem to be bleeding more than the storm are at this time. Hypocrites.

[Brandz]

Oh brands cheers for the update! Storm are at 8889 as of yesterday.

No worries mate and thanks for the update, where can I get the storms membership numbers for furture reference?

[Xman]

The storm claim a profit after their owners chip in 12 m per year.

[ParraEelsNRL]

Now it's $12 million a year?

Fark me, make up your mind.

Forget it, you understand what has been said, you are just being a *****..... I bloodywell hope for your sake.

Dingb@t

[ParraEelsNRL]

eh, u can't say P r i c k ?

I p r i c k e d m y f i n g e r t h e o t h e r d a y, i t h u r t l i k e a b i t c h.

Stuff writing like that because some p r i c k don't like the word p r i c k.

[Storm2013]

Brandz you can get the info from the storm membership website, in the top right corner.

Xman, not sure if you know much about the nrl but we do have clubs that have outright owners like tinkler and news limited and not owned by voting members. rightly or wrongly that is our system. So I guess all AFL clubs run at a loss too then because their owners (members) also contribute millions if your way of thinking is right.

[Rabbit]

But but but 15 out of 16 clubs make a loss apparently