$50 donation program to help RFC in 2020

[one-eyed]

Also mentioned tonight that the TV rights money has ceased being paid given there's no games.

Eddie McGuire sent shockwaves through the AFL community on Tuesday after candidly speaking about the future of the game after the suspension of the code on Sunday.

"The Channel 7 money, the Foxtel money, stopped this week. It’s finished, it’s all over.

"There’s no gate receipts, the AFL is cutting through its costs, all the clubs are cutting through their costs, and we have to come to an elegant situation here … if there’s no money, there’s no money.

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/coronavirus-eddie-mcguire-shares-bleak-afl-outlook-014357937.html

[one-eyed]

Nick Riewoldt thinks the AFL should consider ‘private ownership’ to keep clubs alive.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/st-kilda-great-nick-riewoldt-thinks-the-afl-should-consider-private-ownership-to-keep-clubs-alive/news-story/49de5f31242d8508eec01ffa08e5cbe5

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AFL clubs contacting corporate partners in bid to keep staff in work

By Sam Edmund
SEN
2020-03-25

The AFL and its clubs are reaching out to sponsors in a bid to keep stood down staff employed.

As the suspended AFL scrambles for survival amid the coronavirus, the league’s 18 clubs have been ordered to lay off up to 80 per cent of staff.

The limited number of employees who survive the cuts will be forced to work drastically reduced hours while the competition is in shutdown.

Carlton has contacted its corporate partners as part of a redeployment strategy to keep its people in work.

The Brisbane Lions have reached out to major sponsors, including XL Express and Neds, in a bid to keep its staff out of Centrelink queues.

The AFL itself is working behind the scenes with its corporate partners, including Coles, Toyota and NAB, to ease the pain on some of the 80 per cent of staff it has been forced to stand down.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/03/24/afl-clubs-contacting-corporate-partners-in-bid-to-keep-staff-in-work/#

[Rampsation]

I have a different opinion and thats ok

[Rampsation]

Pools and gyms to close. Aligned Leisure is up the creek without a paddle now. Things are bad for the rfc.

[cub]

We got our poo together just in the Knick of time
You watch the AFL  milk us the  skunks druggies from the west
To prop up poo no soul clubs like GC GWS
Not to mention the norfs and bulldogs
And stuff Oort Adelaide also

[Rampsation]

We may not be in a position to prop anyone up if the season gets cancelled and aligned loses millions. We'll be looking to prop ourselves up.

[one-eyed]

Rating every AFL club's viability during shutdown crisis

    * March 27, 2020 1:20pm
    * Tom Morris@tommorris32
    * Source: FOX SPORTS

RICHMOND

No club is completely shielded from the current revenue issues the game faces, but Richmond’s 100,000-strong membership gives the club a significant upper hand. In an unprecedented show of unison, big clubs like the Tigers have already been working with smaller clubs on uniformed membership options. All 18 clubs understand that the strong getting stronger and weak getting weaker is bad for the game.

STATUS: Healthy

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/rating-every-afl-clubs-viability-during-shutdown-crisis/news-story/85bbc179ee50958c1c7e768b8ba30f88

[rogerd3]

Of course I would.
Tigerland not immune it seems.
BG on 7 news tonight.
Anyone listen to the podcast.

[one-eyed]

Benny Gale on Ch 7 news just now:

* He went into bat for the players. Bagging them has been "tiredsome, unimaginative and unfair".

* 60 staff at RFC stood down.

* Footy hasn't overspent. It's about competition. About promoting people and getting the best out of them.

* There will be change to footy once this is over.

* We need the support of our members more than ever. He's been blown away by the generosity so far.

[one-eyed]

Richmond open for business

By richmondfc.com.au
27 March 2020

Richmond Football Club remains very much open for business, despite having to stand down a number of staff this week.

The Club – and the entire AFL industry – is navigating the significant financial impact of the coronavirus and that has meant some difficult decisions have had to be made, Richmond chief executive Brendon Gale said.

“It is incredibly hard asking staff to stand down or work on reduced hours for a period of time,” Gale said.

“These people have all made a significant contribution to building a Club that our fans are proud to be a part of.

“The responsibility of those remaining at the Club is to work as hard as we possibly can in the coming months and sustain a business that will welcome these wonderful people back as soon as possible."

And to that end, Richmond Football Club is still very much open for business.

“Our membership lines are open, our on-line retail business is open, our digital team are on deck and will work to deliver our fans some great content that will keep them engaged while the season is on hold,” Gale said.

“And, of course, we will work with our fantastic partners, and be as innovative as we can, to deliver them the value they deserve in return for the fantastic support they provide us

“Beyond that, Korin Gamadji Institute and Bachar Houli Foundation staff will maintain their important work, engaging key communities through innovative digital programming.

“The Richmond Institute of Sports Leadership will continue to deliver its education program and our health and recreation business, Aligned Leisure, will continue to build despite the current interruption to its business.

“So there is much hard work to be done. We owe that to our members, supporters and partners. And we owe it to our staff who are enduring some difficult times like so many Australians are right now.

“We will get through this together.”

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/581457/richmond-open-for-business

[one-eyed]

Gil on MMM yesterday said all 18 AFL & 14 AFLW clubs will remain after this crisis.

Barrett said thanks to the soon to be $600m loan from the NAB & ANZ.

Clubs won't be going back to the way they were as that $600m loan will need to be paid back over time via cost-cutting.

[Rampsation]

The afl is going to waste the greatest opportunity to refocus and reorganise the competion it will ever have. Melbourne as a city has too many clubs. North, St Kilda and Melbourne shouldnt be in the competition. Those xlubs are just wasting resources and taking up sponsorship dollars that should be shared by the clubs. Its time for a superleague. Now is the opportunity.

[Diocletian]

The AFL and their compliant media parrots will trot out the "all clubs will survive" line for as long as they can - the NRL are saying the same even though it's obviously not true....let's see if they're still saying that once this is all over after they go through the books and do the sums...

[mightytiges]

The AFL friendly media thinks the AFL will try to hold onto the Suns in case the NRL's Titans go to the wall. That would leave the Suns as the only professional team in a national comp. on the Gold Coast.

It's the Saints and North who are most at risk. The AFL saying 18 clubs will survive (thanks to that $600m loan) doesn't rule out relocation of a club or two.

[one-eyed]

Many AFL club and league employees stood down or laid off last week will be eligible for the federal government's income support money of $1500 per fortnight.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-and-club-staff-eligible-for-government-bailout-money-20200330-p54ff4.html