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Geelong Football Club plans for life without pokies

The Geelong Football Club is looking to get rid of its poker machine licences, the club’s chief executive says.

The club earned $3 million from the 100 machines at their home ground at Kardinia Park last year, but in a long term plan the the machines would be gone altogether, for ethical reasons.

“Gaming is basically insurance for a club,” Mr Cook said.

“We are trying to become less reliant on gaming and our vision is not to rely on gaming to add to our profit in the longer term.”

Jason Lassey

Ive been collecting and publishing Sports related crowd, financial, and ratings data here and on twitter for about 12 years.

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