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In 14 seasons in football, Gold Coast Suns’s lack of success cost competition.

However, at a personal level, it is unlikely that no one will cough more than the Media Mongol. Craig Hutchison.

It all started in late 2010, the sun was soaked on the balcony of the Burleight pavilion. Hutchison, who does not use his power and influence at the moment, overheated his eyebrows in the amount of concessions delivered to Suns, who will enter the competition the following season.

Hutchison was convinced that AFL’s new men would be very successful, and was willing to put his money where his mouth was.

Unfortunately, for Hutchison, the three gentlemen who heard their description had a special interest in football. These are three amigos? Gillon McLachlan (It was not CEO yet), then the legal boss Andrew Dillon And then the fixture/broadcast guru Simon Lethlean. All three took part in the launch of the suns … And all three loved their wines.

Im I’m ready to be a bottle of Grange on it, Hut Hutchison said.

“What?” He returned Amigos.

This was the agreement: Hutchison would give each person a bottle of 1996 Penfolds Grange every year when Gold Coast did not play the final. But each year they were waiting for a bottle of a person.

There were three amigos and they wanted more people to be involved. Some of the invitations were 3Aw PowerBroker Shane Healy and the former AFL manager Richard Simkiss (now running Hutchison’s Events Arm).

For Hutchison, it turned out to be a difficult 14 years that had blown up people in the way of honoring the agreement.

Each year, without failing, Hutchison literally won and listened to, delivered a bottle of thin wine to each of the participants and paid the bill for lunch at the end of each season.

The first recurrence was in Scopri, one of Melbourne’s best Italian restaurants in Carlton. The last one was in the world famous Gimlet, where the lobster would bring you back $ 188.

One year, he even flew to Adelaide (of course a special jet) for a year.

Hutchison, a ruthless businessman who knew how to save a dollar, was an expensive exercise.

For different seasons, there are other people entering and entering the group that collects annual grange bottles, so it is difficult to put a definite figure on how much Hutchison bifurized. But we know that there are at least six people who make money every year.

Now, mathematics was never my strong team at school, so fold me up.

A bottle will bring you back to Murphy’s $ 1499 (I heard great things) Grange (I never tasted, but I heard great things). 84 bottles of six bottles every year for 14 years.

84 x 1499 $ = 125.916 $. This lunch or special jet is paid before paid.

And you didn’t even hear the worst.

As the Suns enter the second years Damien Hardwick In 2025, things were a bit boring for the participants. Apparently, they were tired of collecting a bottle of $ 1500 every year. Thus, the conditions of the agreement were changed.

Hutchison was allowed to choose two eaves to play the final, and if both of them do, the carrot was doubled. Rod? If both teams missed, this would be another bottle of grange. Each. Who chose? Carlton and Essendon.

These elections meant that Hutchison did not collect bottles for the first Gold Coast, who made the final for the first time.

It’s enough to grind you.

And for Hutchison, he gives an idea of ​​how long the season lasts to the last match of the season, and he had to beat Essendon to make Suns’s first output.

If the bombers somehow suffered the upset of the season, Suns would be for eight (repetition) and “hutchy” 12 bottles of Grange ($ 17.988).