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You realise we're taking money from them right? Not funding them to do more drilling.
They got a lot of mileage recently out of the Wallabies being sponsored by Cadbury.Yeah, but they don't sponsor us for nothing. Big red logo over every jumper and on the sponsorship boards behind press conferences. They get a lot of visibility.
I always liked the way Roy & HG would broadcast sporting games by calling the teams by the product advertising logos on their jumpers.
Regardless of where you stand on the positives or negatives of the companies that sponsor your favourite teams, it's one of the crass elements of major sports when teams in the throes of excitement of winning a premiership in the next 5 minutes they're putting on the product placement baseball cap or whatever. The hilarious Hawthorn football club in the 1980's doing a victory lap and putting loaves of bread into the premiership cup.
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I wish they would remove all betting adds, and stop betting companies from sponsoring clubs.I have bigger problems with our sponsorship from TAB than Woodside.
Also I just learned that Corporate Sports Australia is a sponsor. How are they allowed to sponsor an AFL club when they manage players?
Deal with the gambling ads and sponsorship first.I wish they would remove all betting adds, and stop betting companies from sponsoring clubs.
Not sure if that, or clubs being dependent on pokies is the bigger issue.
Are you talking track and field athlete? Or general athlete? Even if he becomes a 100/200m gold medallist, there would be a number of people that I doubt he gets anywhere near from golf, tennis, NBA, F1, soccer. Mailata in NFL. Greg Norman is worth US$400 million. Dwarfs what Usain Bolt would be worth.
I am with you on the multi positional players, and especially the talls Nicholls and Riddle. Assuming they develop well, we have increased depth on every line.So a recent article on afl.com.au discussed the list changes for season 2025 Looking at our list changes I love how many multiple positional players we have added while delisting players that mostly played one position.
Eg.
IN
Shai Bolton (trade, Richmond), Jaren Carr (No.63 draft pick, father-son), Quinton Narkle (SSP), Charlie Nicholls (No.34 draft pick), Murphy Reid (No.17 draft pick), Aiden Riddle (Rookie Draft)
OUT
Josh Corbett (retired), Tom Emmett (delisted), Ethan Hughes (delisted), Max Knobel (delisted), Sebit Kuek (delisted), Ethan Stanley (delisted), Matt Taberner (delisted), Conrad Williams (delisted)
I think the balance of our list looks way better and we've added some significant skill to our list in Bolton and Reid (Narkle's also pretty skilled) Early days but the training reports on all of draftees appear super promising too.
Plus it turns out we almost certainly would have drafted Reid if we'd kept pick 11 according to Cal Twomey who said we tried to move up offering our first and second picks to get Reid and not Berry like most thought including me. Our pick 11 turned into 14 which Richmond used on Jonty Faull (who we would have overlooked) so basically we got the trade most wanted in effect as we got Bolton and the player we would have taken if we had kept pick 11 for the 1st and third first rounder we owned plus a bonus of an early 3rd rounder from Richmond in the 2025 draft too.
Not suggesting you are incorrect, but we’ll never know in all honesty. I reckon every club says this whenever they are in this situation. I can recall dozens of examples over the years. I can still remember SOS telling everyone after the 2018 superdraft that he would have taken Liam Stocker in the top 6 of that draft when they swapped future 1st with Adelaide to get him at pick 19.Plus it turns out we almost certainly would have drafted Reid if we'd kept pick 11 according to Cal Twomey who said we tried to move up offering our first and second picks to get Reid and not Berry like most thought including me. Our pick 11 turned into 14 which Richmond used on Jonty Faull (who we would have overlooked) so basically we got the trade most wanted in effect as we got Bolton and the player we would have taken if we had kept pick 11 for the 1st and third first rounder we owned plus a bonus of an early 3rd rounder from Richmond in the 2025 draft too.
I don't think he was lying about this so it's not a great example, they gave their future 1st (top 6) to get himNot suggesting you are incorrect, but we’ll never know in all honesty. I reckon every club says this whenever they are in this situation. I can recall dozens of examples over the years. I can still remember SOS telling everyone after the 2018 superdraft that he would have taken Liam Stocker in the top 6 of that draft when they swapped future 1st with Adelaide to get him at pick 19.
“Couldn’t believe he fell to 19, absolute steal”
It'll be another Xmas presentI wonder if Brayshaw will be announced soon or if he's changed his mind. If he's signed on the club would have announced it by now.
Channel 10 said last week it will be done in early 2025 at the earliest. Whether that was just the club trying to protect a Christmas announcement.... we will know in about 48 hours.I wonder if Brayshaw will be announced soon or if he's changed his mind. If he's signed on the club would have announced it by now.
Reckon it drops on Christmas Day - as Andy, the brothers and friends knock out the last of the 100/100’s.It'll be another Xmas present
Yeah I was convinced it was gonna be an Xmas day present but with that news and the Young news dropping a few days ago I’m not as certainChannel 10 said last week it will be done in early 2025 at the earliest. Whether that was just the club trying to protect a Christmas announcement.... we will know in about 48 hours.
They got a lot of mileage recently out of the Wallabies being sponsored by Cadbury.
I mean even satire aside, given even a passing knowledge of Australian history leaving yourself open to the label "Choco" seems like bad marketing.
WW2 term widely in use by the volunteer soldiers to describe the conscript units. Choco = Chocolate Soldiers = Melt in the heat. Might still be about in the army as a degroatoy term for reservists.I don't get any of the references in this post. I rarely watch rugby so I take it Cadbury might be a sponsor but I'm not familiar with how "Choco" was used historically, other than it's the (probably unrelated to your whatever point you're making) nickname of a former footballer and coach, or how is it connected with mileage.
Edit: I see you bolded the Roy & HG part of my post so I guess that's who you're referring to with "they". I'll have to listen to that episode of "Bludging On the Blindside" titled 'Examination of Stoolage'.
It’s always been our biggest name out of contract player announced on Christmas Day.
As much as Young is a massive signing he isn’t like Serong and Darcy. But someone else is.
