News GFG on board as joint major sponsor

[Papa G]

Whyalla being his 'Spiritual Home" is probably laying it on a bit thick.

 

[bomberclifford]

Whyalla being his 'Spiritual Home" is probably laying it on a bit thick.

Thought the same thing.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Whyalla being his 'Spiritual Home" is probably laying it on a bit thick.

Yeah his spiritual home is crap but it is the spiritual home of iron ore in Oz. Well Middleback Ranges - Iron Knob then Iron Baron, then Iron Baron more so than Whyalla but exported out of Whyalla.

These deposits were the first commercially exploited in the 1880's taken over by BHP in the late 1890's and helped make them the big Australian. All iron ore smelted at Port Pirie, Newcastle and Port Kembla until well after WWII came from there. Whyalla steel works started in the 1930's. Oz's international iron ore exports from this area started 50 years or so before the Pilbara exports, just nowhere as big.

 

[GremioPower]

Whyalla being his 'Spiritual Home" is probably laying it on a bit thick.

It means that he is there “in spirit.” His body can be in his “Bodily home.”

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

From today's Weekend Australian sports section





The Wallabies secured a new jersey sponsor in GFG Alliance, with jumpers printed up with the company logo, only for the deal to fall over at the 11th hour after controversial businessman Sanjeev Gupta’s company struck trouble amid the Greensill Capital collapse.

The mooted deal with Gupta’s steel and mining conglomerate GFG Alliance had been negotiated for months and had only been recently terminated. Gupta is now desperately scrambling to save his global empire after the collapse of his main financier Greensill.

The Weekend Australian understands Gupta’s offer to Rugby Australia was to have at least matched the estimated $5m Qantas had been paying for its major sponsorship for the Wallabies, which ended last year.

The relationship between GFG seemed unlikely, perhaps indicating Rugby Australia’s desperation. One senior rugby source said: “Why a steelmaker in South Australia?”

But talks were called off in recent weeks before a deal was officially struck, although the parties went as far as printing up Wallabies jerseys with the GFG logo on the front.
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Meanwhile, GFG Alliance remains a sponsor of AFL club Port Adelaide, of which it has been a major partner since striking a five-year deal in February 2019. Port sources said GFG remained in touch with the club’s management and had so far paid all of its sponsorship instalments on time and in full.

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[Grave Danger]

From today's Weekend Australian sports section





The Wallabies secured a new jersey sponsor in GFG Alliance, with jumpers printed up with the company logo, only for the deal to fall over at the 11th hour after controversial businessman Sanjeev Gupta’s company struck trouble amid the Greensill Capital collapse.

The mooted deal with Gupta’s steel and mining conglomerate GFG Alliance had been negotiated for months and had only been recently terminated. Gupta is now desperately scrambling to save his global empire after the collapse of his main financier Greensill.

The Weekend Australian understands Gupta’s offer to Rugby Australia was to have at least matched the estimated $5m Qantas had been paying for its major sponsorship for the Wallabies, which ended last year.

The relationship between GFG seemed unlikely, perhaps indicating Rugby Australia’s desperation. One senior rugby source said: “Why a steelmaker in South Australia?”

But talks were called off in recent weeks before a deal was officially struck, although the parties went as far as printing up Wallabies jerseys with the GFG logo on the front.
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Meanwhile, GFG Alliance remains a sponsor of AFL club Port Adelaide, of which it has been a major partner since striking a five-year deal in February 2019. Port sources said GFG remained in touch with the club’s management and had so far paid all of its sponsorship instalments on time and in full.

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" Meanwhile, GFG Alliance remains a sponsor of AFL club Port Adelaide, of which it has been a major partner since striking a five-year deal in February 2019. Port sources said GFG remained in touch with the club’s management and had so far paid all of its sponsorship instalments on time and in full. "

 

[MrMeaner]

I hope we are searching for a replacement. Reports do not look great for GFG's survival.

 

[Astronema]

still can’t believe we are sponsored by a ******* mining company... We’ve definitely moved a long way from working class roots..

 

[Schulzenfest]

still can’t believe we are sponsored by a ******* mining company... We’ve definitely moved a long way from working class roots..

As has every other club in the league. How many Collingwood supporters do you think can afford a new Lexus?

 

[Tredz]

still can’t believe we are sponsored by a ******* mining company... We’ve definitely moved a long way from working class roots..

 

[Papa G]

Lol. Being a miner has never been considered a working class pursuit.



This persons contributions get sillier and sillier.

 

[GremioPower]

It’s sponsorship, for Christ’s sake.

The others are an American conglomerate and a state-owned Chinese company.

 

[MrMeaner]

I wonder if someone isn't trolling a little too hard. There is a fine line between plausibility and caricature.

 

[Grave Danger]

I wonder if someone isn't trolling a little too hard. There is a fine line between plausibility and caricature.

Hopefully that's what someone's PhD supervisor will tell them.

 

[chickentendies]

still can’t believe we are sponsored by a ******* mining company... We’ve definitely moved a long way from working class roots..

Ah yes Dazza the driller from Salisbury Heights epitomizes the bourgeoisie with his 1.4 jet skis and 3 bedder house on a 500 sqm block. Only sacrifice he has to make is a 3:1 roster and his body being campaignered by the tender age of 34

 

[Tredz]

Lol. Being a miner has never been considered a working class pursuit.

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This persons contributions get sillier and sillier.

Bloody bunch of aristocrats!

 

[Relativity]

We need more soup kitchen sponsorships.

 

[Duck Farmer]

It’s sponsorship, for Christ’s sake.

The others are an American conglomerate and a state-owned Chinese company.

So you're saying we're sponsored by a highly-leveraged corporate vulture, ex-slave owning Confederates, and the Chinese Communist Party?

What could go wrong?

 

[Doctor Feel]

We should probably just say being employed in a skilled job makes you bourgeois, and therefore trash or something.

 

[backtozero]

still can’t believe we are sponsored by a ******* mining company... We’ve definitely moved a long way from working class roots..

Wait til you find out what KFC does to chickens.

 

[backtozero]

Lol. Being a miner has never been considered a working class pursuit.

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This persons contributions get sillier and sillier.

All I see is heaps of cishet white male privilege.

 

[Astronema]

I wonder if someone isn't trolling a little too hard. There is a fine line between plausibility and caricature.

No i just really *really* don’t like mining companies aka the main accelerator of environmental destruction and climate change.

 

[Kickpuncher]

I suppose you don't like MG either because you know cars are bad for the environment too?

Perhaps we can ask Elon to get Tesla to sponsor us?

 

[Grave Danger]

We need a sponsor that will give us a shot in the arm, or generally harden us up...

 

[RangaInTeal]

I suppose you don't like MG either because you know cars are bad for the environment too?

Perhaps we can ask Elon to get Tesla to sponsor us?

Just get Red Bull first...