lol now compare with the biggest NRL clubpiesman2011 wrote:http://www.smh.com.au/AFL/collingwood-m ... 1jrc2.html
This article is suggesting that Collingwood may be worth 344 million US and if it was a soccer club world wide it would be ranked 14th, in front of teams like Hamburg and Man City. Its a few years old though.
but in AFL circles
collingwoods, fanbase is vastly over rated in AFL circles,& is regularly over rated thanks to old eddie maguire, Richmond and Essendon, gain more in sponsorship dollars than collingwood, draw close to collingwood in crowd figures despite playing home games at Edihad, & traveling to expansion sites of GWS, cairns & gold coast when collingwood.
the pies main income come comes from pokies & their 80k list of members comes from 1 & 3 game memberships. Essendon, Richmond, Hawthorn & carlton all have similar turn overs, net assets than the pies, but never the less can a bumsniffer shed some light on the big NRL clubs