Cancel your Primus subscriptions...

[Supermercado]

... if you had one

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/ne...onsor-bails-out/2008/08/12/1218306896950.html

CASH-strapped Melbourne Football Club will almost certainly lose its major sponsor at the end of this year.

The Demons said yesterday that telecommunications company iPrimus had advised them it was unlikely to renew its contract as naming rights partner, which is in its fifth and final year.

However, the club said negotiations were underway with a view to the company continuing as a lower-level partner in coming seasons, with talks also being held with other potential sponsors.

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank iPrimus for their outstanding support and partnership over the last five years, and I am pleased that iPrimus would like to continue with us in some form," Demons president Jim Stynes said.

"Anyone who partners with our club now will be joining a club that is heading into an exciting new era."

The loss of the sponsorship deal is a blow to the club, which has recently made significant headway into erasing its $5 million debt. The Demons raised more than $2 million at a fundraising dinner earlier this month to kick off their debt-demolition campaign.

The bottom-placed club also received an off-field blow today, with the news that agile forward Aaron Davey and athletic big man Paul Johnson would miss the rest of the season due to injury.

Davey missed last Friday night's loss to Geelong with a bruised heel, but X-rays have since indicated he also had a stress fracture, wiping him out for the remaining three rounds. Johnson will have surgery on an injured hip early next week.

Say, Foxtel - you've sponsored the Debt Demolition. How about it?

 

[omit]

...iPrimus actually did something other than sponsor Melbourne, i had no idea they were a telecomunications company

 

[davey_magik]

Not good news. Club needs to find a major sponsor ASAP.

 

[TelkoTheGreat]

suggestions ?

 

[RandB]

In fairness they aren't totally abandoning us...

"However, the club said negotiations were underway with a view to the company continuing as a lower-level partner in coming seasons, with talks also being held with other potential sponsors."

But still a pretty precarious position we are now in. If we are lucky enought to jag a major sponsor who does the right thing by the club then this could work out for us with iPrimus as an extra smaller sponsor. Until that happens though it certainly is worrying times. Kicks in the guts are one thing we don't need when the club is trying to claw it's way forward.

 

[McLean_4_Captain]

It's not good news, but i'm sure it was no major surprise to the board. Primus is S T ruggling big time, they were also a sponsor of North but pulled that because they weren't doing so well. I'm sure that Jimmy & co have been lining up other potential major sponsors for months expecting Primus to pull the pin. Hopefully they can be at least be kept on as a smaller sponsor.

Hopefully Foxtel is a realistic option.

I haven't heard Don Argus' name thrown up for a while. I know he was too busy to get on board as chairman, but maybe he could use his considerable pull to land us a BHP sponsorship....

 

[RandB]

I haven't heard Don Argus' name thrown up for a while. I know he was too busy to get on board as chairman, but maybe he could use his considerable pull to land us a BHP sponsorship....

That would rock M4C but realistically I would have thought it unlikely to happen as part of any useful business platform to BHP. Surely if BHP sponsored MFC it could only be out of charity. Either way we'd take it though. I'm not savy on the whole corporate thing but I don't see too much BHP would get out of it... apart from being associated with the best footy club in the universe.

 

[master bate]

suggestions ?

Snickers?

If Mars are sponsoring the Tassie team that doesn't even exist then we could have snickers, they already had the Mr T ad (did that ever go to TV besides on the footy show) with us. I'd use snickers much more than I ever used Primus thats for sure.

 

[Supermercado]

Snickers?

If Mars are sponsoring the Tassie team that doesn't even exist then we could have snickers, they already had the Mr T ad (did that ever go to TV besides on the footy show) with us. I'd use snickers much more than I ever used Primus thats for sure.

Serious? I barely even watch TV and I saw it about 45000 times.

 

[McLean_4_Captain]

Serious? I barely even watch TV and I saw it about 45000 times.

I think he means the MFC & Mr.T one, not just the soccer one with Mr.T

I missed that episode of TFS and still haven't seen it.

 

[stickman11]

Couldn't Jimmy Russel up some Irish pounds.

 

[McLean_4_Captain]

Who's Jimmy Russel?

 

[melbournemartin]

I have iPrimus internet. It's terrible.

 

[stickman11]

I have iPrimus internet. It's terrible.

I have bigpond, it is terrible as well.

 

[omit]

I have bigpond, it is terrible as well.

i have it as well. expensive for anything with decent speed and 60gb download limit is a hassle, but there isn't a single plan in australia without a data limit
>.<

 

[Edwards27]

A topic i made about iPrimus relating to the dees and roos

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477244

 

[chopper41]

Club X should take over.......and give all members free pr0n.

 

[Edwards27]

LOL Chopper..Nice sig aswell, You should change it to Jessica Alba....Nice work