Tigers to play a home game in Cairns 2011-13 [Official]

[one-eyed]

Tigers strike Cairns deal
richmondfc.com.au
10:30 AM Thu 30 Sep, 2010


Richmond Football Club will further enhance its national brand after agreeing to play home games against the Gold Coast Suns in Cairns over the next three years.

The deal to play games in Cairns was struck between Richmond, the AFL and the Queensland Government and was announced today.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for Richmond Football Club to further develop its position as a national brand while at the same time protecting the rights of our members,” Richmond CEO Brendon Gale said.

“We will provide our members with guaranteed access to 11 games in Melbourne so they will enjoy all the benefits they would normally get as valued members of the club.

“At the same time we are able to explore innovative ways to grow our Club. We have some ambitious goals we have set ourselves and they won’t be achieved if we don’t look outside the square and be prepared to do things differently.” 

Cairns boasts a 10,000-capacity stadium that has hosted a number of major events, including international cricket matches. Australian Rules participation in the region is growing rapidly with almost 7,000 active participants across all segments in 2010.

By 2011, the population of Cairns is predicted to be 182,000, making it significantly larger than major Victorian provincial cities Ballarat and Bendigo and comparable to the City of Geelong.

“Richmond Football Club has outstanding support across Australia and this game, together with our game in Darwin, will continue to provide us great opportunities to reach out to our existing supporter base while developing the next generation of fans,” Gale said.

“We also believe that these opportunities will underpin the development of our football team. We have a young list that will benefit from being together on the road. Good teams need to perform interstate and this will be a valuable learning experience.”

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/103469/default.aspx

[cub]

Tigers strike Cairns deal
richmondfc.com.au
10:30 AM Thu 30 Sep, 2010

“We will provide our members with guaranteed access to 11 games in Melbourne so they will enjoy all the benefits they would normally get as valued members of the club.



http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/103469/default.aspx

Better be at the expense of that turd hole or I will be pi55ed off man.
The benefit I want from being 'Valued member of the club' is HOME games at the MCG - end of story .....

[Smokey]

 “For us, it is the best of both worlds: it gives our fans in Queensland a chance to see us live and we have protected the rights of our members who will still have access to 11 games in Melbourne,” Cameron said.

Great if it helps reduce our debt level and is only short term, and would be a fantastic gesture/improvement if those members domiciled in Queensland get to use their memberships for these games and not miss out to cater for Melbourne-based members like we have in the past.

And a small geographical point for Craig Cameron - it will really only benefit fans in Far North Queensland - the majority of our Queensland fans reside in the South East corner and Melbourne is closer to us than Cairns!

[gerkin greg]

Some questions

1) does it come at the 'expense' of an Ethiad home game?
2) does it mean we don't play the Sunnyboys in R2?

[cub]

Some questions

1) does it come at the 'expense' of an Ethiad home game?
2) does it mean we don't play the Sunnyboys in R2?

1 - RFC Official on BF states "You'll get 11 Melbourne games correct, and we're fighting for every one of our games to be at the MCG. We're hopeful this will happen come late Oct when the schedule is announced. " Very open ended this is! Could easily mean we play interstate 11 times ??????

2 - Pretty sure round 2 against the cancer heads will not be on anymore, they want their unveiling at the Gabba so will rule us out.

[one-eyed]

From the Cairns Post:

An exact date for next year's clash will not be confirmed until the AFL releases its 2011 draw, but it is known the match will be played during the day, most likely in July.

[cub]

Actually come to think of it we could play them round 2 at the Gabba their home game. Then in July our "Home" game in Cairns.

[gerkin greg]

the cancer heads

LMAO   

[Smokey]

They will be very very unlikely to play the Cairns games early or late in the season due to the weather - mid season is a Lay Down Misere.  And it won't affect our R2 game because that's a GC home game.

[Owl]

the cancer heads

LMAO   

Gold Coast Melanoma's, perfect!

[Ramps]

Rumour = $800,000 for this game going to RFC  - $2.4 Million over 3 years for the 3 games. Thats the rumour.

[Penelope]

There would have been a cost involved in getting access to three away games for members. The home sides would have wanted some compensation. How much that would be would be any ones guess.

[Mr Magic]

Rumour = $800,000 for this game going to RFC  - $2.4 Million over 3 years for the 3 games. Thats the rumour.

We'll need every cent of it.

[tiger till i die]

Rumour = $800,000 for this game going to RFC  - $2.4 Million over 3 years for the 3 games. Thats the rumour.

We'll need every cent of it.

They just said on Teams its 500,000 a game still not that bad 

[WilliamPowell]

Rumour = $800,000 for this game going to RFC  - $2.4 Million over 3 years for the 3 games. Thats the rumour.

There would have been a cost involved in getting access to three away games for members. The home sides would have wanted some compensation. How much that would be would be any ones guess.

Throw in the costs of getting the team & all the others up there, paying for an area for RFC memebers athe replacement games and the net profit per game aint going to be $800k or $500k