Interesting to see Victory's response:

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/melbournevictory/news-display/Melbourne-Victory-statement-regarding-EnergyWatch/46720

I assume they'll tape over the logo. I'm pretty sure of one thing though: you won't see the words 'EnergyWatch' anywhere on our apparel from here on. Lots of tape.

Maybe we could be sponsored by Scotch brand?

Ok. The playing group has been backed up twice this week.

The players have got to gut run till exhaustion on saturday.

Stand Up.

Maybe we could be sponsored by Scotch brand?

Haha! With 3M on the back.

Cam Schwab “When this great club was foundered back in 1858, we played with no jumper sponsors. The recent termination of our energy watch sponsorship allows us to embrace this tradition once again” .

LOL.

We've just erased 150 years of progress.

I know there's not much more he can say, so I'm not criticising.

But maybe we should return to playing amateurs instead of professionals.

Anyone else think that Eddie McGuire had something to do with this?

#paranoidconspiracytheory

nah......more likely Jack watts...................

we're becoming a bloody rabble.

Melbourne needs to stand up this weekend. I will not be likened to st kilda and richmond and god forbid north melbourne.

#demonblood

I disagree with this, we have stood up to the AFL this week and walked away from 2mil per year sponser, that takes guts and strength. The club and coach should be congratulated on the way they have performed this week

Well, I guess we stand for something.

We still have to stand up to the AFL on the other matter.

This is an odd week, but the MFC has made it this far, we will be fine.

Interesting to see Victory's response:

http://www.footballa...ergyWatch/46720

It's their offseason though, so they can afford to sit in the shadows and consider their options.

Cam Schwab

“When this great club was foundered back in 1858, we played with no jumper sponsors. The recent termination of our energy watch sponsorship allows us to embrace this tradition once again”

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Some dark humour.

Very Australian humour.

I'm no lawyer but there should be contingencies in place that should we have no choice but terminate the contract through no fault of our own,we should still remunerated X for current season.

How good would a win this week be now.

Nude run down the street good.

When is the last time The Melbourne Football Club was the main story on the Nightly news, for how many days has it been now.

Someone's got to go through our club with a fine tooth comb and check it's Feng Shui. There's got to be answer for all of this.

Damn you Jack Watts, you have ruined everything!

On a serious note, this is the only decision the club could have made. No other correct decision in this situation.

You cannot keep this jerk onboard and alienate everybody that he offended.

All I'm interested now is how much we got out of them, at least for this year, and what is our plan going forward. Might be time to suck it up and take a sponorship deal for FOJ sponsor for less than we initially wanted. Better than nothing.

When is the last time The Melbourne Football Club was the main story on the Nightly news, for how many days has it been now.

It's been 3 weeks or more.

If CS was negotiating with more than one party for the FOJ sponsor it allows him to offer more options and get two parties on board or maybe even three. The options certainly have broadened now!

Dreaming. Schwab cannot get one on the front of the jumper, and you think he might have three lining up??? The last three major sponsors have landed in our lap in spite of the current administration, and for various reasons none of them are still here. I know some people try and be glass half full, but this is ridiculous

When is the last time The Melbourne Football Club was the main story on the Nightly news, for how many days has it been now.

Would be so much better if it were because we'd won a game of football, though.

Dreaming. Schwab cannot get one on the front of the jumper, and you think he might have three lining up??? The last three major sponsors have landed in our lap in spite of the current administration, and for various reasons none of them are still here. I know some people try and be glass half full, but this is ridiculous

Almost as painful as your bleak viewpoint that you keep ramming down everyone's throats..?

When is the last time The Melbourne Football Club was the main story on the Nightly news, for how many days has it been now.

Correct 3 weeks, I would have rather not had anything happen over the past 3 weeks and we smashed Brisbane and this was our media highlights on how good we looked on field.

Your right on the money re fjs opportunities

Gives us a chance to open up old sponsor negotiations and potentially get a more stable sponsor!

Also shows the AFL, clubs and codes a level of integrity and a line in the sand - racist and slanderous shouldn't be tollerated

Dreaming. Schwab cannot get one on the front of the jumper, and you think he might have three lining up??? The last three major sponsors have landed in our lap in spite of the current administration, and for various reasons none of them are still here. I know some people try and be glass half full, but this is ridiculous

The wheel of publicity turns in mysterious ways Thomo, we will be ok.

I am old fashioned, when you do the right thing and act with consistency and integrity and set standards, good things happen.

Cam Schwab

“When this great club was foundered back in 1858, we played with no jumper sponsors. The recent termination of our energy watch sponsorship allows us to embrace this tradition once again”

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Haha - I take it that is not for real?! That said, turn the club back to the supporters - there is something romantic about no sponsorship on the back.

Thinking aloud, I wonder what the yield on the sponsorship agreement was anyway, once contra and sponsor support costs were included?

Anyone else think that Eddie McGuire had something to do with this?

#paranoidconspiracytheory

Actually I think this was Ben Polis' plan the whole time. Paid overs for sponsorship and had no intention of following through with it. Blew it up creating more publicity without having to fork out any substaintial amount of money. It's worked out perfectly for him.

Apologies to Range Rover. I hope I'm not stealing your thunder!

Integrity Donation to the club made.

I hope they put the sponser-less jumper on sale.

Given that we were in the media spotlight, we had to act quickly on this one to be able to control the story.

We can now control the message from the story as 'we are a club of high integrity and this is unacceptable - we're too good for him so we dumped him', rather than sitting on our hands for a day and then having the media find a different angle as they speculated.