Hazydog wrote:So now the dust is settling on Gather Round, I'd be interested in knowing what tangible benefits to each SANFL club were. Seems like all of them had AFL clubs training/conducting clinics at some point. Were these well attended and did they generate any additional revenue for the clubs?
Also - given we will have 3 more years of it at least, and assuming the Parade gets another couple of games each year, does that favour them financially? (Genuine question - I dont know if they benefited at all financially or whether the coffers went to the AFL/SANFL only?)
From what I gather (no pun intended), looks like many of the training sessions were well attended - apparently something like 5,000 rocked up at Glenelg for Richmond's training session.
I'd hope other SANFL grounds would get the chance to host Gather Round games. Given the feedback about double headers, perhaps play more games at suburban/regional grounds, so that by the end of the 3 year deal, every SANFL ground (and the odd regional ground) has been able to host a game (and the associated upgrades that come with it).