CUTTERMAN wrote:JK wrote:
IF the Crows genuinely believed they were going to bring through big crowds why didn't they ever try to establish a home base and have their own matchday revenue?
As part of giving Barack to the clubs and helping them increase their game day revenues
sure, that was their "public" reason. but the real reason was to save money. how much would it cost the average SANFL club on upkeep of their ground? watering, groundsmen, grandstand upkeep, lease fees?. it would all add up pretty quickly. and that is ignoring the question of where the crows would set up. what suburb would the "team for all south australians" set up? who would they lease/buy the ground from?
it all would have been too hard, much easier to sell the "you will get an extra home game, with an extra 4k through the gate on top!!" to the easily led club delegates.