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GC-17.com.au - Saturday said:
Looks like they are well on the way another milestone reached.
GC17 Hit 20,000
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Looks like they are well on the way another milestone reached.
Father Jack
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From what was told to us volunteers before last weeks' Carrara game, they are hunting for another 10k signatures as apparently the business sign-up thing isn't going quite as well.
Supposedly Port Power have a couple of hundred thousand supporters. Can the GC turn this number into memberships and bums on seats though?
If this figure was pre-sold memberships, they'd be hitting the ground running.
If this figure was pre-sold memberships, they'd be hitting the ground running.
It was reported that 80 businesses had already paid 3 grand a pop. What was their target, 110 wasn't it?
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I wonder how many of them were actually GC'ers? I signed it, although I won't buy membership or attend games, Still will be good to see the GC represented in another competition.
What's this? AFL fans abusing statistics to make their sport appear more popular than it is?
Well that's a first
Wouldn't suprise me if half North Melbourne and the other clubs on death sentences signed this to save their own skin
111 apparently. 10 major sponsors. 100 minor sponsors. And 1 super-major sponsor.
I was at a GC17 function last week and they said they were very happy with the 80 something businesses they had signed. - That could've been a positive spin, but that figure seemed pretty good to me. The business packages aren't too exciting though. They're more of a charity than anything...
Well in the form, state and suburb were mandatory fields... so they wouldn't have any problems filtering it.
Father Jack
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Well, I guess John Witheriff was just making it sound like we were doing something important. Either way, if they signed up 30k it would certainly make them look a bit more enticing to a potential sponsor, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see how that translates into actual,real support.
I've signed this 5 times already. Looking forward to another opportunity
If it's actually the case that 80 local businesses have coughed up 3 grand for basically nothing, then I would have thought that's a brilliant result. Signing up major sponsors at this early stage will be very hard when you're not offering anything yet, and what you are offering is years away. Companies aren't going to want to commit to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in 3 years time for a package that hasn't been invented yet.
It's fine for Mars to commit to a team that will never exist (not in the next 10 years anyway), but it's much harder to get a company to promise dollars it knows it's going to have to pay.
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If you're being serious, then that's not something I'd be going around telling everyone....I've signed this 5 times already. Looking forward to another opportunity
What's this? AFL fans abusing statistics to make their sport appear more popular than it is?
Well that's a first
Wouldn't suprise me if half North Melbourne and the other clubs on death sentences signed this to save their own skin
It is the most popular code in the country. Fact.
sorry if this has already been said, but whos the super major sponsor?
What's this? AFL fans abusing statistics to make their sport appear more popular than it is?
Well that's a first
Wouldn't suprise me if half North Melbourne and the other clubs on death sentences signed this to save their own skin
Can't fudge figures in RL or RU....the vast expanses of empty seats say it all!
Its the Super Sponsor and 10 major sponsors they'll have problems with, but no doubt the AFL will have a contingency plan put in place to deal with that- temporary overseas sponsors already affiliated with AFL.
I can't imagine the 'corporate boxes' have much to offer at Carrara, or space, so the 80 wish-grabbers are quite a feat.
Well done GC17 in getting the 20,000. I'm a supporter and voted once, as were all supporters able to do. That '5 voter' poster is a troll, pay no attention.
I can't imagine the 'corporate boxes' have much to offer at Carrara, or space, so the 80 wish-grabbers are quite a feat.
Well done GC17 in getting the 20,000. I'm a supporter and voted once, as were all supporters able to do. That '5 voter' poster is a troll, pay no attention.
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I have no doubt that the GC is going to be a viable market. There was a lot of anti GC propaganda around last year from North Melbourne, but I think it is a market that is ready to support an expansion team.
Yep. 20,000 people from around the country signing an online form to help create a club that many of them think is an important step in their favourite sport's quest to be the undisputed #1 game in the land come to fruition is evidence enough that this place deserves its own football team.
I don't think they'll struggle with those sponsors at all. An AFL team is represented nation-wide and across all mediums. I'm not even sure they need a local sponsor for this unlike the 80 minor ones.
No one cares. I saw a guy sign up his 2 young boys. One was about 2 by the looks of him and the other was still in his mummies tummy. I just thought I'd sign up for me, myself, I and my little brother and my future son.
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Wtf?? Man you type rubbish.
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Ahh Unlisted remind me how many people can fit into Carrara?
Wouldn't know, never been there. I bet it is more than 6k though.
