Proper Gander
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Calling all posters who have contributed towards our 2018 sponsorship of Lever and K Smith - sponsor’s perk incoming.
One of our lucky sponsors plus a guest of their choosing (significant other / friend / tinder date / random you found wandering around at the Richmond Station) gets to go on an exclusive private tour of the AAMI Park facility and the MCG - hosted by Russell Robertson.
The tour is to be held on Thursday, 26 July at 10:30 am.
I’ve been on one of these. Granted it sounds a bit peculiar and awkward but it was actually really fun. It generally starts meeting up with Russell and Mrs Sponsor PR Lady from MFC, and they take you over to watch a spot of training at Gosch’s Paddock and RR (who can talk underwater) provides a bit of gossip about which players the coaching group are really excited about, and who is really professional at training. Then he takes you to AAMI and shows you around, tells some stories about his training days etc. you get to look at players diet sheets and so forth and you get to have a squiz at the whiteboards in the medical rooms which tend to list injury concerns nobody knew about - or you can for a bit until RR clocks you doing it when he marches everyone out of there pronto.
Quick coffee break, then he takes the sponsors on a guided tour of the MCG. I enjoyed that bit too even though I go to the G regularly and have been on a tour previously.
Anyway, it’s good fun and worth doing. I skipped work to go a few years back and I thought it was fun.
If you are a sponsor and you’re interested, post your interest in this thread and I’ll draw a winner from a hat next weekend. If nobody volunteers, I’ll open up expressions of interest to others on the board who may not be player sponsors for 2018.
One of our lucky sponsors plus a guest of their choosing (significant other / friend / tinder date / random you found wandering around at the Richmond Station) gets to go on an exclusive private tour of the AAMI Park facility and the MCG - hosted by Russell Robertson.
The tour is to be held on Thursday, 26 July at 10:30 am.
I’ve been on one of these. Granted it sounds a bit peculiar and awkward but it was actually really fun. It generally starts meeting up with Russell and Mrs Sponsor PR Lady from MFC, and they take you over to watch a spot of training at Gosch’s Paddock and RR (who can talk underwater) provides a bit of gossip about which players the coaching group are really excited about, and who is really professional at training. Then he takes you to AAMI and shows you around, tells some stories about his training days etc. you get to look at players diet sheets and so forth and you get to have a squiz at the whiteboards in the medical rooms which tend to list injury concerns nobody knew about - or you can for a bit until RR clocks you doing it when he marches everyone out of there pronto.
Quick coffee break, then he takes the sponsors on a guided tour of the MCG. I enjoyed that bit too even though I go to the G regularly and have been on a tour previously.
Anyway, it’s good fun and worth doing. I skipped work to go a few years back and I thought it was fun.
If you are a sponsor and you’re interested, post your interest in this thread and I’ll draw a winner from a hat next weekend. If nobody volunteers, I’ll open up expressions of interest to others on the board who may not be player sponsors for 2018.
