Measured response from you Tapscott Tough. You seem to have good insight into where we are going. I admire your positive take on this and hopefully your long term vision will eventuate. The thought of Wind turbine technology is exciting and one to be keenly pursued for the long term, by our ever alert sponsor chasers. Go get em Schwabby and co...................even for next year !

With forsight and vision similar to this we could gazump other sporting organizations for this potential sponsorship moolah.

Hopefully the club will also think outside the square to attack with frenzy, any possible corpoarate dollars that we can get our collective hands on.

Hope Tappy will give you and I many years of tough footy. ( He He He! Guess who!)

Edited February 24, 201213 yr by Still Waiting

do we get a tax break for donating to a charitable organisation?

All this talk about "No Sponsorship".

This is a "Marketers Dream"

Imagine the impact it's going to have when the Sponsor is finally announced.

What is the saying?

No such thing as Bad Publicity

We could win the flag this year and some people would still be complaining we played round 1 NAB Cup without a sponsor

FMD - to call this "....a low point" for the club

You have to be kidding

Come round - no sponsor - sure, have a crack - but the season hasn't even begun

To be honest I'm more interested in seeing how our PLAYERS actually PLAY and let others worry about sponsorship

Fact - with Energy Watch - we are $300k p/a ahead of last year from out FOJ and BOJ sponsors

Clearly the club is waiting for the right deal and not jumping at shadows like some of you

I'm sure Schwab could've signed 10 sponsors by now if he was as nervy as some people - clearly he has something bigger in mind

Edited February 24, 201213 yr by Viney12

We could win the flag this year and some people would still be complaining we played round 1 NAB Cup without a sponsor

FMD - to call this "....a low point" for the club

You have to be kidding

Come round - no sponsor - sure, have a crack - but the season hasn't even begun

To be honest I'm more interested in seeing how our PLAYERS actually PLAY and let others worry about sponsorship

Fact - with Energy Watch - we are $300k p/a ahead of last year from out FOJ and BOJ sponsors

Clearly the club is waiting for the right deal and not jumping at shadows like some of you

I'm sure Schwab could've signed 10 sponsors by now if he was as nervy as some people - clearly he has something bigger in mind

While we are $300k ahead of last year, according to some, that will mean bugger all as the 2 sponsors last year got bargain prices...

While we are $300k ahead of last year, according to some, that will mean bugger all as the 2 sponsors last year got bargain prices...

Probably cause the deals were rushed - which no doubt some complained about

Probably cause the deals were rushed - which no doubt some complained about

V12 - Might be best to read the pending announcement in the paper when it is published. If you rely on D'land forum to hear about the sponsorship details, and it isn't above $1.9m a season, there will be some angry people on here.

I can't believe most people on here are happy with the current situation.This is a massive issue, but some here seem to think it is a good thing.

Are those of you that think it is not a problem that the Club do not have a FOJ sponsor also the ones that were happy with Bailey last year, and new Tom Scully was staying?

I can't believe most people on here are happy with the current situation.This is a massive issue, but some here seem to think it is a good thing.

Are those of you that think it is not a problem that the Club do not have a FOJ sponsor also the ones that were happy with Bailey last year, and new Tom Scully was staying?

you can drop the strawman arguments too thomo

I can't believe most people on here are happy with the current situation.This is a massive issue, but some here seem to think it is a good thing.

Are those of you that think it is not a problem that the Club do not have a FOJ sponsor also the ones that were happy with Bailey last year, and new Tom Scully was staying?

I think you have made your point Thomo....I suggest you ring our CEO Cameron Schwab and have a chat with him....eyeball to eyeball...otherwise give it a rest....

For the last time...Dealing with Asians takes time...they do not rush with the "Ferang" sorry that is Thai but the same culture difference.

If this deal comes off it could set us up for a decade or more...

I can't believe most people on here are happy with the current situation.This is a massive issue, but some here seem to think it is a good thing.

Are those of you that think it is not a problem that the Club do not have a FOJ sponsor also the ones that were happy with Bailey last year, and new Tom Scully was staying?

I'm not happy with it at all Thomo. It was my concern way back when, in regards to our asking price, or at least the asking price of some posters, and what what we are potentially losing by having too higher price tag. I'm not saying we should look all desperado and accept $500k a year, but I had major concerns that if we think that $1.9m+ a season is what it's worth and we SHOULD NOT sell for anything less, we could get to this stage where we don't have anyone.

As a number of people have said, there are still 5 weeks to go, but I'm getting edgy. Have we knocked back a $1m a season deal because we wont more? I don't know, but it's not far away where that sort of deal would be more than sufficient.

While we don't have millions of supporters, the fact that you can't buy a kid a footy jumper is very disappointing. We might not be losing out on heaps of revenue from those sort of sales, it is still a bit frustrating. But, I have said since day 1, in Cam I trust.

I can't believe most people on here are happy with the current situation.This is a massive issue, but some here seem to think it is a good thing.

Are those of you that think it is not a problem that the Club do not have a FOJ sponsor also the ones that were happy with Bailey last year, and new Tom Scully was staying?

I know you are upset over the fact that you can't get in early for your 2012 footy jumper, but don't you think you are going a little over the top?...particularly considering you have absolutely no idea as to where the club is at in terms of securing a sponsor...a lot can happen in 5 weeks.

take a deep breath thomo I am wrapped we have Reach on the jumper it shows respect to a legend and a bloody good charity and if schwab says we are in discussions I believe him. We are not the Labor party so we should believe what the administration says

This thread is turning into Jones from Dad's Army.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6wok7g7do

I can't believe that some on this thread are excited about having a charity on the jumper instead of a sponsor, some are sure that we have a sponsor already, while others are wondering what sort of discount that they can get from a nonexistent sponsor. I know there is glass half full, but some are just delusional.

Melbourne is heading into the season without a FOJ sponsor. Nothing to be happy about in this thread.

FFS Thomo.

Instead of wasting your time venting your pent up frustration on this site.

Do something that really matters.

Put your money where your big mouth is.

If you can do any better than what the people at MFC are trying to do, then I will back you all the way.

But as far as I'm concerned you are just pissing into the wind.

not so much related to the sponsorship, but more about the posts earlier on about afl compared to rugby union in queensland

Revealed: Why we aren't all runing around with Sherrins (in qld)

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/rugby-gold/revealed-why-we-arent-all-runing-around-with-sherrins/story-fnc2cvv1-1226281283015

Steped into a elevator this morning. Had just bought my son his first pair of footy boots. He was wearing his Melbourne jumper.

Inside the elevator this complete stranger said to me,

"Melbourne eh, I herd China Airways are going to be your new sponsor this year."

Door opened and he left.

Take that of what you will but that really happened. Cant say if its true or not.

Sorry if this has been spoken of before.

Get your indicator on, because this thread is about to merge!

Steped into a elevator this morning. Had just bought my son his first pair of footy boots. He was wearing his Melbourne jumper.

Inside the elevator this complete stranger said to me,

"Melbourne eh, I herd China Airways are going to be your new sponsor this year."

Door opened and he left.

Take that of what you will but that really happened. Cant say if its true or not.

Sorry if this has been spoken of before.

All I ever get is elevator music .

You mean Collingwood's new sponsor?

Eddie has announced he's going to take his bat, his ball, and our sponsors and go home.

Rumour going around we have signed china airlines as our major sponser???

Edited February 25, 201213 yr by dazzledavey36

Rumour going around we have signed china airlines as our major sponser???

Rumor going around where? Only mention I've seen, other than your, was that of gOlly's in the Other Sponsor thread.

apperently on MMM this morning

Rumour going around we have signed china airlines as our major sponser???

What is Energy Watch sponsorship wise??? I thought that they took over from the Hankook/Kaspersky sponsorship. My mail is that Energy Watch are paying us a lot more than Hankook/Kaspersky did per season.

If we can land China Airlines it will show a certain Eddie moron that we can play with the big boys.

There's already an 18 page thread high on the front page