edwahu wrote: ↑October 27, 2019, 11:08 am
The NRL only pays for two nights economy travel and twin rooms for 27 people. So I would say it is a factor for clubs that go beyond that.
NRL only pay 1 nights accommodation
Any extra days teams pay accommodation costs, hire of the bus and driver, food etc
edwahu wrote: ↑October 27, 2019, 11:08 am
The NRL only pays for two nights economy travel and twin rooms for 27 people. So I would say it is a factor for clubs that go beyond that.
NRL only pay 1 nights accommodation
Any extra days teams pay accommodation costs, hire of the bus and driver, food etc
Which surely makes a strong case that teams needing to do the most travelling should get a better deal. The Cowboys and Warriors are probably the worst impacted and I’d be happy for them to receive the greatest benefit as long as we get the next best benefit
The figures for football spending pretty clearly don't correlate to travel costs. There is a $7 million difference between the spends of the Broncos and Titans... while the Warriors... who would clearly have the highest travel costs of any club, by a long way, have the second lowest spend amongst the one team towns. It is likely that the costs the NRL meets are excluded, but the Warriors would still likely have the most extra bills to meet. The Cowboys would likely have the second highest, if not the highest, extra travel costs but their football spend is still less than average.
The article points out the differences are likely mostly driven by coaching staff costs. The figures look pretty much to be the results of decisions the clubs themselves take...
Here are the figures for one team towns, who travel the most, for football department spending:
The broncos also have 7mill more then the titans to spend, warriors and knights also not as finacially stable as other clubs thus why they spend less imo
It’s interesting stuff but tricky to interpret much into it without a little more detail about what’s included in the figures. It would be good if the NRL was more transparent with these things.
Clubs that work hard to promote their teams and successfully get members and sponsors should not be disadvantaged or made to be levelled with lazy administrations, but equally it’s not a particularly balanced comp if it’s dominated by a few clubs with geographical advantages or wealthy sponsors.
There is probably no silver bullet that fixes everything, but hard to believe the NRL couldn’t be doing a lot more than what they are now.