member and Sponsor Boost for Bulldogs

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from the Age

Members, sponsors boost Bulldogs
By Jake Niall
April 09 2003





The immediate financial pressures on the Western Bulldogs have eased, with the club's coffers boosted by more than $1 million in about a fortnight.

The Bulldogs have increased their membership by about 7000 since it was revealed that the club faced extinction if it did not improve its membership and corporate support rapidly.

Bulldogs chief executive Campbell Rose said yesterday the club had raised its membership to about 18,500 - still shy of the 25,000 target - but a significant improvement on the 11,000 to 12,000 members the club had a couple of weeks ago.

"We've got about another 7000 to go . . . in terms of our budget; we're ahead of our budget at this point in time."

Rose said the club had also signed up three western suburbs-based sponsors - Fowles Auction Group, Hudson Chemicals and Victoria University - and had not yet made any additional requests to the AFL for funds, besides the $1 million it receives in emergency funding.



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The club might, however, be required to call on its entitlement (up to $2 million) from the sale of Waverley Park later in 2003 to retire debt or to make a one-off capital investment.

Rose confirmed that the Bulldogs, who are paying about 94 per cent of the salary cap in 2003, planned to pay a similar percentage of the total player payments next year.

The Bulldogs have several leading players out of contract at season's end, including Luke Darcy and Nathan Brown and key youngsters Robert Murphy and Daniel Giansiracusa.

But Rose said he was confident the club could re-sign Darcy and Brown and still pay at or around 94 per cent of the salary cap.

"I expect so, yeah," he said when asked if the club could retain the pair and remain at 94 per cent. "We're going to have work with them and work with our whole playing group, but I think we can do that."

Keeping player payments near the 92.5 per cent minimum is one of the conditions the AFL has imposed on clubs that have been granted emergency funding.
 

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Great news, keep up the good work Campbell,there is more sponsorship out there so lets not get complacent.
A win against the Dees will keep the membership momentum going.
C'mon boys we have to win this week so people can buy their memberships before the Essendon game. We also want Essendon to win this week so their fans turn up next week so we can get some gate revenue for once.
 

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Someone mentioned earlier that to keep our stars, and to meet the 94% thing, we are going to have to cull our mature-age middle of the road players.

That puts enormous pressure on the likes of dimma, garlo, harrison, eagleton, alvey, and I hate to say it: kritter.

Unless they have stellar seasons, at least 3 or 4 of these guys will go to make way for kids on minimum payments.

hopefully eagleton, alvey and possibly dimma could be traded to other clubs. they still have a fair bit of footy left in them.
 

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Thats good news. I knew campbell would be good for us. Hes done a great job for us, but he cant stop now (and i know he wont).
Now that chris is out for the year, i think it would be a good idea for him to go into local business and ask then to join up, or become a sponser of the club.Its just an idea but it could work.
 

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