I was curious about the history of funding of the AIS. The results really suprised me. The AIS funding actually peaked in 2010/2011. Though taking football inflation into account it peaked in 03/04. I wonder why it stopped producing good players? The 2000 olympics team contained most of our golden generation and the players born after 1981 formed the missing generation which should have benefitted from generous ais funing.

I take all data from clearinghouseforsport.gov.au . I put the raw funding numbers first in AUD then in brackets I have the number adjusted for football inflation in 96/97 funding numbers

96/97 2.3 million
98/99 2.7 million (2.5)

99/00 2.8 million (2.3)

01/02 2.3 million (1.7)

02/03 2.3 million (1.6)

03/04 5.5 million (3.4)

04/05 5.5 million (3.1)

05/06 5.9 million (3.0)

06/07 3.3 million (1.6)

07/08 7.1 million 3.0)

08/09 7.0 million (2.7)
09/10 7.1 million (2.5)
10/11 9.1 million (2.9)
11/12 5.7 million (1.7)
12/13 3.5 million (0.9)
13/14 5 million (1.2)
14/15 3.2 million (0.7
15/16 3.2 million (0.6)

2017 shut down

Curious on peoples thoughts about the rise and fall of the ais