Port Adelaide chairman David Koch with chief executive Keith Thomas. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: Herald Sun
PORT Adelaide president David Koch is ready to fight the AFL on the damaging television blackout the Power has suffered in the past two pre-seasons.
Port has had none of its NAB Cup games televised since its 20/20 openers against Adelaide and St Kilda at AAMI Stadium last month.
Since then, Port's Adelaide-based fans have been denied matches at home as the Power has played Melbourne at Renmark on Sunday and will play West Coast at Alice Springs on Saturday night.
There also has been no television service offered to Port's Adelaide-based fans and its Sydney-based president.
"That's crazy," Koch said. "February and March are the peak times to sell memberships and sponsorships. This is the time when you can command the fans' interest in your club because they are excited by the new hope a new season brings.''
"But you need television exposure to help that. We have been denied that for two years. We, Melbourne and Gold Coast have had minimal television coverage during the NAB Cup. We want a fair break, an even break."
Port also has a alternative to the AFL's plan to hit fans with a luxury tax on blockbuster match tickets.
Koch will front the league executive at its equalisation summit at AFL House on March 20 with this option:
REMOVE the $2 levy currently on all adult tickets to AFL games of the low-order clubs on the league's financial tables.
KEEP the $2 levy on the middle-order clubs' tickets.
AND raise the levy to $5 on tickets sold by the AFL's super-clubs and at blockbuster events such as the Collingwood-Essendon Anzac Day game.
"That levy would then go into a new equalisation pool to be distributed among the clubs," Koch told The Advertiser yesterday.
Koch also is opposed to any luxury tax being applied to sponsorship takings from the AFL clubs.
"That would only stifle innovation," Koch said.
"The fairest way on this equalisation issue is to reimburse the clubs that are not in the blockbuster frame and not getting national exposure on the big television nights, such as Friday night.
"The simplest way is to take off the levy from the clubs missing out on this critical exposure and to lift it on the clubs with blockbuster events and premier television timeslots.
"Then we reimburse the clubs that miss out at the gate."
Koch earlier this week sided with the Melbourne-based clubs in particular Carlton and Geelong that will go to the equalisation summit determined to strip Sydney and Greater Western Sydney of the 9.8 per cent allowance they have on the salary cap to cover the extra cost of living in Sydney.
"They don't need any extra money whatsoever," said Koch, who lives in Sydney.
"It is more expensive (in Sydney), but there are more opportunities for a lot of players in Sydney for things outside of football.
"The AFL has got to start focusing back on the traditional heartland clubs rather than the expansion teams and look at their core again and give us a bit of a break."
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