Bumped Holden Possibly Cancelling Their Sponsorship - but have now decided not to.

[Chopstix]

Do.. or do not.

But don't bleat about it for free exposure you holdencrites!

 

[Quicky]

So have they given us the big chop yet? Or is it just more faux outrage?

 

[manicmagpie]

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...n-stick-with-collingwood-20160711-gq357i.html

Holden are sticking with Collingwood despite the Eddie McGuire "drowning" controversy, but have re-directed their funding with a greater focus on women's football, and community initiatives.

Under the newly-shaped agreement, more than half of Holden's money directed to the club will be streamed to women's and community programs. Holden - already the naming rights sponsor of the Pies' Olympic Boulevard training headquarters - will become a major partner of the Pies' women's team in the national women's league that begins next year, while the club will work with domestic violence campaigner and former Australian of the Year Rosie Batty to raise awareness for domestic violence.

 

[Lefthanded]

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...n-stick-with-collingwood-20160711-gq357i.html

also up on afl website http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-07-11/holden-announce-sponsorship-restructure-with-pies

I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the AFL revenue tax but wonder if the sponsorship being split b/w mens and womens teams would actually help CFC? Cudos to the pies and Holden if that is the case and to Holden generally for their approach on this one.

 

[PicaBoo]

also up on afl website http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-07-11/holden-announce-sponsorship-restructure-with-pies

I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the AFL revenue tax but wonder if the sponsorship being split b/w mens and womens teams would actually help CFC? Cudos to the pies and Holden if that is the case and to Holden generally for their approach on this one.

Presuming we would have found a sponsor for our womens team anyway , basically we did lose more than half of our men's team sponsorship.
And they call that sticking by? Lolz. Brilliant spin.

 

[FireKrakouer]

Cheap publicity stunt by Holden, but hopefully this can work out to our advantage. Hiding money and staff (Gubby) in the women's division. Classic Eddie.

 

[Dynamics]

To be honest I'd rather we went out and found a less hypocritical sponsor.

Wesfarmers owns Hard Yakka now... Along with half of everything else. So I guess the Hard Yakka Centre won't be happening.

 

[Mkcaptain]

Well played Holden. That's all I can say, well played

 

[left at home]

they did a very smart deal

 

[Kappa]

Well that's the most cringe-worthy SJW piece of hypocrisy I've read this year.

Have you get enough media attention yet Holden?

But hey, 2/20 of their executive team are females. So I guess they're really strong leaders in the area of female social justice .

 

[Good_Old]

Holden: How can we make this all about us?

 

[jmac70]

I'm happy enough with the statement but it should have been made weeks ago. Comes across as a publicity stunt now.

 

[Kappa]

Well played Holden. That's all I can say, well played

You'd hope most people could see straight through this cheap attention-seeking stunt.

 

[Robroy22]

Never owned a Holden....are they any good?

 

[jmac70]

Never owned a Holden....are they any good?

I had a VB as my first car. Was awesome.

 

[Good_Old]

I had a VB as my first car. Was awesome.

Didn't know they made cars, tbh.

 

[Mkcaptain]

You'd hope most people could see straight through this cheap attention-seeking stunt.

You'd hope so but I doubt it somehow. They will probably get awards now for their social responsibility.

I noticed on Sunday night that Bounce on Fox Footy still has Holden as part of their logo. They don't seem to have a problem associating themselves with a show hosted by Danny Frawley who arguably played a worse role than Ed.

 

[Robroy22]

Sorry Jmac.....I was actually searching (not unlike Holden actually) for a certain type of response, the opposite to yours!
Seriously if a Car company that's sent jobs offshore wants cheap publicity based on Ed's feud with Caro, I'd rather we had Skoda as a car sponsor!

 

[Markfs]

i started watching the video on the news.com site and I could only make it to about the 1 minute mark. These wet-nosed wannabees making their judgements about Ed......
http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/ho...d/news-story/972c813076d1ddb684822def4e24952d

 

[Lockyer24]

Buy a Ford.

 

[Dynamics]

Sorry Jmac.....I was actually searching (not unlike Holden actually) for a certain type of response, the opposite to yours!
Seriously if a Car company that's sent jobs offshore wants cheap publicity based on Ed's feud with Caro, I'd rather we had Skoda as a car sponsor!

Going to repeat myself here, but what the hell.

GM cars were found to kill a hell of a lot of people due to a faulty ignition and the company execs weren't even "aware" of the problem until late in the piece. Like, 10 years too late. They were ordered to pay their victims over half a billion $US.

They also filed for bankruptcy in 2009.

They only exist because they are considered too big to fail. Otherwise the laws of the jungle would have swallowed that lion years ago.

 

[Gungadin]

To be honest I'd rather we went out and found a less hypocritical sponsor.

Wesfarmers owns Hard Yakka now... Along with half of everything else. So I guess the Hard Yakka Centre won't be happening.

Wesfarmers owns Bunnings.....they could always turn the HQ into a Bunnings Warehouse.

 

[Topkent]

Disgraceful publicity stunt by holden
Took them a couple weeks to work this out did it?
I've never seen so many people take advantage of an 'issue' before

 

[Vicky Park]

This isn't a bad outcome. We could have lost our sponsorship over this episode. And while Holden's tactics may be questionable, they 'didn't start this', as the school yard saying goes. If they have made mileage (terrible pun) out of it, who can blame them? They pay us a lot of money to have their name plastered over everything at the Holden Centre. Eddie gave them a free kick in the goal square in terms of media coverage, and they turned it to their advantage.

Also lets not forget where a large chunk of the money will now be spent. I'm ok with that.

 

[deltablues]

This isn't a bad outcome. We could have lost our sponsorship over this episode. And while Holden's tactics may be questionable, they 'didn't start this', as the school yard saying goes. If they have made mileage (terrible pun) out of it, who can blame them? They pay us a lot of money to have their name plastered over everything at the Holden Centre. Eddie gave them a free kick in the goal square in terms of media coverage, and they turned it to their advantage.

Also lets not forget where a large chunk of the money will now be spent. I'm ok with that.

We could have lost our sponsorship over this witch hunt.

Fixed it for ya.