Originally Posted by
Sheikh
I don't think that the Force will ever be truly self-sustainable. If you assume that the organisation costs $10 million a year to run, and we have only 7 home games a year, then even is we filled Optus Stadium for every home game (~60,000 tickets, so ~420,000 home attendances) the ticket price would be an average of $238 per game.
All professional sports need money from TV, which gets collected and distributed by, for us, Rugby Australia. The best the Force can achieve is that the money from RA plus the income from gate receipts, sponsorship, etc, covers the costs and we can be in the black. But that's not self-sustainable because we are reliant on the RA hand-out, and as we've seen through Alison's analysis of ARU finances we consistently received the lowest hand-out of the five SR clubs.