Hope it Helps

YF

Without any malice or disrespect intended I would like to say that football in Australia has moved on a lot over the past 20 years and NZ has stood still. This is not the fault of anyone in particular rather than I think the realization in Australia by business and government of what football has to offer both on and off the field. However the growth (media, and major league) in football over the past four years has been breathtaking.

The question is why, football has always had the most number of juniors, and over the past 12 or so years had 200 odd players in overseas leagues. Two words Asia & Potential.

First Asia.

What does Asia bring to Australia, and more importantly what could Asian bring to the Nix. My starting point is the size of Asia, remember in football that the Middle East is included in the AFC.

Assuming the Nix make the top two in the league table they will play in the pan Asian games broadcast across Asia & North America

Size just over 5.1 billion people less India and the Philippines 1.3 billion, leaving 3.8 billion people within AFC.

Its exciting isn�t it so lets number crunch this figure.

3.8 Billion

10% of 3.8 billion is 380 million

1% of 3.8 billion is 38 million

10% of 1% is 3.8 million

100th of 1 % is 380, 000 people which as a fraction is 0.0001 fairly small even the most conservative of accountants and business and governments hopefully would recognize this is small in the extreme.

Stas show that international tourist often travel in pairs or groups, so of the above figure we can add and again very conservatively a constant of 2.4. Again lets assume a low figure but an international tourist spent about $ 1, 750 per week and if they travel as far as NZ a 1.5 week is the norm.

So here we go, here we go (sorry it is a football site)

380, 000 people times 2.4 times 1, 750 times 1.5 equals 2,349,000,000  dollars  or 2.35 billion

10% GST collections equals  234,900,000 or over a quarter of a billion dollars.

Assume much of the money is paid in wages again assume a low tax rate of 10% and another 234, 900, 000 million. Combined over half a billion dollars in tax alone which would build the odd school or pay for the odd bridge.

Lets say my already conservative figures are way over stated by a factor of four, even at a quarter of what I said the Asian input is still over 100 million.

Now lets add to that the North American income, CAN YOU HERE THE NIX SING����.BEEHIVE�����..NO   NOOOOOOOOOO���.I SAY AGAIN ����.CAN YOU HERE THE NIX SING �����HOPEFULLY �����YERRRRRRRRRRRR.

On top of this is the business it may open up, I mean who in there right mind would want to sit at the table with the cream of Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Middle Eastern & North American business and government heavyweights. ANYONE WITH EVEN HALF A BRAIN, even a rugby official.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you ask what are; the Australian governments doing? ? ? ?

Commonwealth government   8 million per year to fund juniors and women�s league,

                                                 3.5 million in AIS (Australian Institute of Sport cost for   

                                                                                 Olympic and top players)

State Governments                   5 million combined (Sports development programs

                                                                                   aimed at the best juniors)

                                                  About 4 million per Socceroo match paid by state gov

                                                   So the cities are beamed back into Asia. 5 home

                                                   matches per year. Cites are in a bidding war for

                                                   Socceroo matches.

All up about 8 + 3.5 + 5 + 20, or 36.5 million per year and growing. Five years ago maybe 1.5 million. BEEHIVE DOES THIS SCREAM AT YOU �����CAN YOU HERE THE NIX SING.

Big business is getting on board.

Beehive if you put about 3 million into the Nix�s, you could earn maybe half a billion in return, put another say 8 million into your juniors the returns are massive and far in excess of anything either rugby or yachting could even come close to.

Potential

NZ business and Government officials and pollies sit at the table with the cream of Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Middle Eastern & North American business and government heavyweights.

Impossible to put a figure on trade, influence, positioning, �anyway you look at it,�it is huge.

Over to you guys at YF hope it helps but as an Aussies that wants you to be successful (apart from when you play the Mariners) you could do with some help. The only reason our government is helping is because over time we kept putting forward arguments based on logic and figures and in time it worked. Soccer mums helped a lot to in becoming almost a demographic in themselves. I hope the Beehive will listen to you good luck and hope it helps.

Your�s in Football

Midfielder

Last words Go the Mariners  F the Scum (still have not got over it so don�t ask)

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