ahhhhhh ....this may have been true in the pastpHyR3 wrote:the whole nrl is going through a transition into the independant management. just hope they dont screw up the onfield any further and hopefully make it better. but financially they are extremely competent, and NRL will soon be matching AFL in terms of money.
i really wish we had your management, live simulcast all games, grassroot development, mostly decent rule system, financially well managed etc. etc.
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but the VFL is in massive strife these days & this idea they are well managed has come under serious threat in recent years
11 of their clubs are financially near insolvent & only survive with hand outs from the VFL
hence its future fund is near empty so grass roots will suffer eventually
these clubs have over committed to budgets they can't service with their revenue
they can't cut costs even if they wanted to
they don't have leagues clubs like NRL clubs do .. to wind their losses back to zero at the end of each year
so VFL clubs carry over debt year on year on year
all the VFL is good at is smoke & mirrors to deflect the real state of play
the VFL has suggested its richer clubs hand over charity to its weaker ones to help them stay afloat .... the richer clubs have rightly told the VFL to get fucked
and the VFL has stuffed up this last round of expansion delux .... f'd it right up
both the thuns & midgets will be dependant on the VFL for tens of millions to operate from year to year ... for decades to come
if they had not expanded then the VFL would have had about 250 Million more then they do today to help struggling clubs in the heartland ... & the Wions who are just in an awful state financially & the SWines surprisingly .. who even when they're premiers .. can't make a profit

nah
more issues then a row boat in shit creek without a paddle .... does the VFL have
