COLLINGWOOD president Eddie McGuire has lashed cash-strapped clubs for "blowing" money on overseas pre-season camps.

McGuire was speaking after the Magpies announced a $5.2 million profit for 2013, a sum the club has largely attributed to its 80,000-strong membership.

The Pies also revealed they had increased football department spending this year to $22.5 million.

He said some clubs had become complacent and that reliance on league funding could lead to "a cookie-cutter franchise for clubs run by a central organisation".

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McGuire said he would raise his concerns about the AFL's more aggressive path towards equalisation at upcoming meetings with the league.

"If I was running a club that was that was on a handout or not being able to make a profit, I don't think I would be blowing $500,000 on an altitude trip," McGuire said on Tuesday.

St Kilda, Brisbane, North Melbourne and Port Adelaide are among clubs to have overseas camps this pre-season.

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The Saints are expected to join Brisbane in posting a large loss, while North Melbourne and Port Adelaide still rely on extra funding from the AFL.

McGuire was part of the AFL's equalisation fact-finding mission to the United State in July.

He said he supported the concept of all AFL teams being sufficiently well resourced to be competitive, but the US example could not be applied to AFL because teams there are privately owned.

"I have a real worry that clubs are just going to sit there and become dependent on the AFL," McGuire said on SEN.

"It doesn't work that way ... I'm for equalisation, but what I don't want it to become is the end of people having aspiration.

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"There are a few questions to be asked before we just start ripping money off clubs and doling it out.

"I'm not quite sure about the way things are heading at the moment - we've got some meetings with the AFL coming up so we will voice our situation there."

McGuire said the quickest way to get clubs on an even footing was to restore a level playing field in relation to the draft and salary cap, both of which have been affected by the generous concessions offered to expansion clubs Gold Coast and GWS in recent seasons.