Football clubs are like V8 Supercars, they guzzle money.
They average about 11 coaches, and that's just for the senior team.
There are fitness advisors, nutritionists, strategy planners, forward line, backline, midfield and ruck coaches, head coaches, a head coach's advisor.
And they all have to be paid a minimum of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Meanwhile the players on the list are now guaranteed at least $200k a year and even the rookies are going to make some extra money.
My question is where is this money going to come from?
We've seen a few big sponsors walk and of course we've got the TV football deal of a lifetime to keep everybody happy but seven or eight clubs posted losses this year.
They'll be saved by TV money but what if people stop watching the Foxtel and opt to wait a couple of minutes and get it off Optus for nothing?
If the ratings and advertising are not there then money dries up very quickly and if that was to eventuate what then happens to the clubs?
We've become too Americanised, gradually we mirror everything that's American.
My problem is whether or not this is sustainable but in the next five or six years we'll find out.
Of course the clubs go everywhere looking for the key to win a premiership, including Utah, Arizona and Qatar.
Everybody seems to have a secret formula but it won't be long before clubs are poaching Geelong players as soon as they have retired to try and find out the keys to their success in recent years.
If you want to win a premiership, you don't have to go to any of those places, you only have to go down to Torquay.
All you need is good cattle, a sensible game plan and players that kick more goals than the opposition and defend better.
That was something that Geelong proved this year.
Hard work and ability wins premierships, no amount of money or razzamatazz can equal that.
If you get good players, treat them well and use a common sense approach to coaching then you can win yourself a premiership.
The rest is just mainly dross.