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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
craigsahibee
Sydney will be wearing an all white guernsey.
Common sense has prevailed if this is the case.
I don't have a problem with the occasional marketing exercise that generates revenue and PR for the club, but literally the only other club who has a red back with white number combo is Sydney, so if they were wearing their normal jumpers it would have been as idiotic as scheduling a Ballarat game to start at 3.20pm in the depths of winter.
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Re: Our jumper
I think it's horrible. Maybe the leadership group did agree to it, but Easton looks like he's just thrown up in his mouth.
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Re: Our jumper
Can someone point me to an article, club statement or similar where it suggests we are actually getting a significant financial windfall? I get that it's a good reason to bring something as horrible as that into the world, but I just haven't read anything that says that this is actually happening. If we haven't been promised something worthwhile, that'd be very disappointing. Not as disappointing as our comm's team languishing Lachie's 5 year deal news almost instantly with this shite. But, that's kind of a given with our comm's of recent years.
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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Can someone point me to an article, club statement or similar where it suggests we are actually getting a significant financial windfall? I get that it's a good reason to bring something as horrible as that into the world, but I just haven't read anything that says that this is actually happening. If we haven't been promised something worthwhile, that'd be very disappointing. Not as disappointing as our comm's team languishing Lachie's 5 year deal news almost instantly with this shite. But, that's kind of a given with our comm's of recent years.
Why wouldn't you want the club to explore opportunities like this? I get it's not the most amazing jumper of all time but how amazing we are aligned with the world's biggest movie franchise, and their lead man is a Bulldogs supporter..... C'mon it's bloody awesome.
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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Can someone point me to an article, club statement or similar where it suggests we are actually getting a significant financial windfall? I get that it's a good reason to bring something as horrible as that into the world, but I just haven't read anything that says that this is actually happening. If we haven't been promised something worthwhile, that'd be very disappointing. Not as disappointing as our comm's team languishing Lachie's 5 year deal news almost instantly with this shite. But, that's kind of a given with our comm's of recent years.
I doubt we're getting much at all apart from some sales of the jumper itself. Kids will probably like it and of course Marvel/Disney will for getting their brand out there. You mentioned the news of Hunter 5 year deal getting pretty much squashed. I logged into Facebook this morning and all I could see was people discussing the jumper. I logged into Twitter after work and it's all I saw also. Lachie committing for 5 more years is huge for us instead everyone's focus is on this dam thing we'll be wearing in Round 1.
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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
Why wouldn't you want the club to explore opportunities like this? I get it's not the most amazing jumper of all time but how amazing we are aligned with the world's biggest movie franchise, and their lead man is a Bulldogs supporter..... C'mon it's bloody awesome.
My point being I'd want it to make money. If we are for sale (and we are, as Packer said, there's a bit of whore in us all), I want to be well paid for. We've explored selling games in almost all parts of the country, explored building pokies venues, explored bringing in people from Nike because they'd bring in big dollar sponsors etc. We've been good at exploring, not as much as cashing in. I'm hoping that this is a cashing in exercise, that's all. Yay capitalism. And why drown out the great Hunter re-signing news with this?
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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
G-Mo77
I doubt we're getting much at all apart from some sales of the jumper itself. Kids will probably like it and of course Marvel/Disney will for getting their brand out there. You mentioned the news of Hunter 5 year deal getting pretty much squashed. I logged into Facebook this morning and all I could see was people discussing the jumper. I logged into Twitter after work and it's all I saw also. Lachie committing for 5 more years is huge for us instead everyone's focus is on this dam thing we'll be wearing in Round 1.
Is it that hard to put out one story at a time?
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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Is it that hard to put out one story at a time?
I don't get why this could not have waited until next week say on Monday or Tuesday. The jumper is horrible, people voting it one of the worst ever. I was expecting cross promotions but nothing like this. I had thoughts of Marvel mascots at the ground or cool side attractions like a mini Avengers Station, never did I think we'd desecrate our jumper like this.
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A team full of Thors, the kids will love it!!
They've done studies you know, 60% of the time, it works every time!
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Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
Why wouldn't you want the club to explore opportunities like this? I get it's not the most amazing jumper of all time but how amazing we are aligned with the world's biggest movie franchise, and their lead man is a Bulldogs supporter..... C'mon it's bloody awesome.
Not the most amazing jumper of all time? I admire the understatement.
It's awful beyond belief, and unlikely to look any less embarrassing if we get pantsed by the Swans while wearing it.
We're also trying to earn back a bit of respect at the moment, both inside and outside the fold.
So sure, lets trot out in comical sponsored dress-up to launch our 2019 campaign.
We're long suffering tenants under a shitty deal in a stadium they bought the naming rights to, and now we're their costumed bannermen. Yeah, it's bloody awesome.
Why'd we agree to this again? Oh they'll make it worth our while, right.
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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
ratsmac
A team full of Thors, the kids will love it!!
Yes! The kids! Won't somebody think of the children.
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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
My point being I'd want it to make money. If we are for sale (and we are, as Packer said, there's a bit of whore in us all), I want to be well paid for. We've explored selling games in almost all parts of the country, explored building pokies venues, explored bringing in people from Nike because they'd bring in big dollar sponsors etc. We've been good at exploring, not as much as cashing in. I'm hoping that this is a cashing in exercise, that's all. Yay capitalism. And why drown out the great Hunter re-signing news with this?
They didn't drown it out. At the season launch there were two annoucements, the biggest being Lachie resigning and then they spoke about the jumper as an aside.
I certainly can relate to the tradition of the jumper, but that ship sailed long long ago. Hemsworth is a dogs "supporter". We are playing at MARVEL stadium. Would have been an opportunity missed if we didn't do it. And by the way capitalism isn't all that bad, I hope you're not wearing brand name shoes or typing on an iPhone.
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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
Murphy'sLore
I think it's horrible. Maybe the leadership group did agree to it, but Easton looks like he's just thrown up in his mouth.
Wood is a big Marvel fan, I think you will find he thinks it's a good idea
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Re: Our jumper
Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
They didn't drown it out. At the season launch there were two annoucements, the biggest being Lachie resigning and then they spoke about the jumper as an aside.
I certainly can relate to the tradition of the jumper, but that ship sailed long long ago. Hemsworth is a dogs "supporter". We are playing at MARVEL stadium. Would have been an opportunity missed if we didn't do it. And by the way capitalism isn't all that bad, I hope you're not wearing brand name shoes or typing on an iPhone.
I love capitalism, don't know where that came from. That's why I said "yay". So much so that I'd love the club to embrace it too. That's where ideas get turned into lots of money. Ideas like playing home games at Canberra, SCG, Darwin, Cairns or pokies, Edgewater and silly jumpers not making nearly enough money make us rely on socialist deals at our home ground. I think every member wants to see the club make more money. We cashed in after a flag, I'm up for more of those to help us along. I don't see this as one that will age overly well. We will see.
If our comm's people didn't think a stupid jumper would outstrip a positive news story for our club, they underestimate the stupidity of the footy media and stupid footy fans generally. Which in a sense, makes them pretty stupid on this specific point. We are fighting to get our footy cred back, releasing both stories on the same day doesn't help us. I don't think it's a remarkable thing to observe, others have noticed it too. It's just another own goal. The die hards just have to remember that we got a good long term signing, and hopefully infer from that it's a vote of confidence in the future by Lachie in the direction of the group.
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