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Bucks5 
Nicky D - Parting the red sea
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* according to the Herald Sun power index (and Eddie and the Seedsmiester  ).
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/collingwood-named-australias-most-powerful-afl-club-according-to-sunday-herald-sun-power-index/story-fnp04d70-1227348447711
| Quote: | Collingwood named Australia’s most powerful AFL club according to Sunday Herald Sun Power Index
IT’S been long debated over beers, sparked fights in the schoolyard and argued around the office water cooler — who is the biggest club in Australian football?
Ask most and they’ll say Collingwood is not only the club we love to hate most, but it’s also the most powerful in the game. Some declare it the biggest in Australian sport.
Essendon and Carlton’s army of supporters would argue they’ve won the most flags so it should be them. After all, what’s more important than premierships?
Hawthorn would claim its current dominance and the fact it’s won eight flags since 1983 makes it the undisputed king of the AFL.
Then there’s the interstate powerhouses; massive organisations like West Coast and Adelaide, who can virtually call on a state’s worth of fan and corporate support.
Today, the Sunday Herald Sun seeks to settle the great debate once and for all, casting a forensic eye over each club’s particulars to measure their level of power......... |
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Piethagoras' Theorem 
the hypotenuse, is always a cakewalk
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substitute powerful for successful and it might mean something.
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Piesnchess
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Not much good having power if it does not translate into Premierships, I loathe the bastards, but the Hawks have that one well and truly sewed up, the most successful team I have ever seen, since the early 1980s, bar none.
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mattys123
Joined: 07 Jul 2009
Location: Narre Warren, VIC
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Shows that Eddie and Pert are doing their jobs well, now all we have to do is figure out a way to translate that onto the field.
The problem is with the footy dept spending tax it's hard to gain real advantages over the poorly run clubs now.
Yes, that's what they are, poorly run clubs, not unlucky or in need of a handout, they are poorly run.
St Kilda spent millions moving to the middle of bloody nowhere (Seaford) and are now going to turn around and move back to Moorabbin.
North have spent millions on training facilities yet still sell their soul, oh sorry home games to anyone who is interested.
And the Gold Coast Suns and Brisbane Lions, wow, talk about poorly run clubs, on and off the field.
It should be the strongest survive and thrive, if we could spend unlimited amounts on the football department we would solve our problems quickly. |
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Piesnchess
piesnchess
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^ Merge a few skint and I mean, perennialy skint, Melb teams, thatd help, no bastard cared about us in the 80s and 90s when we were flat broke, they were rapt in our pain, we came within an hour of insolvency by the banks, and other teams and fans were rapt, ringing up talkback radio, laughing at our plight, hoping we would die and soon. !
Stuff em, stuff em all, shove it up their collective arses. !!
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i hate carlton
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I can recall the Saints, the Bulldogs and Fitzroy rattling tins to survive.
Never gave them a cent. i was incredulous when i read in mcalisters book that we gave money to those clubs so they could 'survive'.
It makes more sense to have teams in Tassie and Canberra. They would get a membership base and actually grow the broader AFL support base. Long term - better comp (less crap teams) less subsidies, more AFL, less rugby.
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MagpieMad 
One in, All in!!
Joined: 15 Jan 2001
Location: -37.798563,144.996641
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| mattys123 wrote: | Shows that Eddie and Pert are doing their jobs well, now all we have to do is figure out a way to translate that onto the field.
The problem is with the footy dept spending tax it's hard to gain real advantages over the poorly run clubs now.
Yes, that's what they are, poorly run clubs, not unlucky or in need of a handout, they are poorly run.
St Kilda spent millions moving to the middle of bloody nowhere (Seaford) and are now going to turn around and move back to Moorabbin.
North have spent millions on training facilities yet still sell their soul, oh sorry home games to anyone who is interested.
And the Gold Coast Suns and Brisbane Lions, wow, talk about poorly run clubs, on and off the field.
It should be the strongest survive and thrive, if we could spend unlimited amounts on the football department we would solve our problems quickly. |
don't forget the sacking of coaches and paying out millions in contracts.
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Member 7167
"What Good Fortune For Governments That The People Do Not Think" - Adolf Hitler.
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
Location: The Collibran Hideout
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| FrankieGoesToCollingwood wrote: | | substitute powerful for successful and it might mean something. |
Luck has a lot to do with success and luck unfortunately cannot be purchased. |
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Golden Gordon 
Joined: 06 May 2015
Location: Victoria Park
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Yeah looking at all those categories we are obviously the #1 club in the land over the long history of the VFL/AFL.
The only stats I queried was the ridiculous suggestion that SinCity Swans have the largest "raw" base of support. They said our support was estimated at around 750,000, but SinCity were at 1,100,000. What? 
Yes, perhaps a million people in Sidinee have "heard" of the Swans, but good grief they rarely get more than 30,000 to their average home game. And half of those don't know a thing about football. You can hear it in their screams during each game. I bet there would be less than a million people in SinCity who have ever been to a game of AFL footy once in their lifetime. A joke!
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Darkstranger
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Using that theory Melbourne Storm would have over 4 million supporter base?
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