NT Government slams Melbourne Demons for lack of community engagement, seeks replacement AFL club

I know we only see it from our side, but I thought our community engagement work looked stellar.

I wonder what this means for the sponsorship?

4 minutes ago, DemonAndrew said:

NT Government slams Melbourne Demons for lack of community engagement, seeks replacement AFL club

I know we only see it from our side, but I thought our community engagement work looked stellar.

I wonder what this means for the sponsorship?

Now that I come to think of it, I can't recall that the NT was mentioned at the season launch.

Please make it happen that we get some other form of sponsorship, that the AFL gives us a better run of Friday night home games and that we never have to sell our home games interstate again.

The quicker we don't need to sell games the better.

it's worth $500k to us annually tho, isn't it?

Is it entirely that NT is unhappy with mfc or is it, at least in part, because: '...three clubs have expressed an interest to play in the Territory — these clubs are Melbourne Demons, Essendon and Port Adelaide,” Barrett told NT News'?

I would have thought the new Multicultural Zones (all 3 clubs have a zone in NT) are designed to deliver all the things the Minister is looking for.  Call me cynical but I reckon the other clubs are piggy backing off the AFL funding they will get to sweeten a deal with NT and oust us in the process.

Have we been slow off the mark to tap into the Multicultural Zone negotiations?  We will be involved in NT zones whether they sponsor us or not so we may have some fences to mend. 

But if there is a God, please do not less us lose the sponsorship to the Windy Hill cheats!

Edited March 11, 20169 yr by Lucifer's Hero

I think the community engagement all started to drop off when we opted with the Sunshine Coast heat and humidity training as opposed to remaining up there.

Alice Springs had Petracca and Trengove do some community stuff but they were injured. I believe the rest of the group flew in, played the game and flew out.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is being beautifully orchestrated by Action Jackson himself.

I am surprised by this. The club always ended up with a lot pf PR over visits to remote communities etc. So maybe there were expectations of other benefits for the NT.....will be interesting to see what comes out. 

If proven that we don't treat sponsors well it would be the first real blemish for PJ................

reading the article didn't provide any detail

one guy praised the demons, the other didn't say much if anything anti-dees

the headline was very specific but that seemed about all

Let's hope there is a better deal in the wings closer to home

Much closer....

Hmmmm - will be interesting to hear/see how the club responds to this.

one would think that when the sponsorship contract was drawn up there would be very specific conditions laid out for both sides to comply with
i suspect this nt minister is now looking for something different to the conditions that their own people originally signed up to

it's probably more political than anything to do with contract performance

6 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

one would think that when the sponsorship contract was drawn up there would be very specific conditions laid out for both sides to comply with
i suspect this nt minister is now looking for something different to the conditions that their own people originally signed up to

it's probably more political than anything to do with contract performance

Probably an Essendrug Supporter.

Edited March 11, 20169 yr by old dee

I'd be interested in what specific community engagement activities the Eels have done that we haven't done. When and where they visited. It seems a bit iffy to me. 

Have we won a game there yet? Financials aside, it hasn't been a resounding success story on the field. The conditions have tended to have a knock on effect the following week as well. At least they have appeared to.

 

The NT News is easily the worst tabloid in Australia. The actual quotes did not reflect the severity of the headline. NT politics is also an absolute circus so I wouldn't be surprised if this is just Giles trying to get more money out of the AFL. 

1 minute ago, Ricky P said:

The NT News is easily the worst tabloid in Australia. The actual quotes did not reflect the severity of the headline. NT politics is also an absolute circus so I wouldn't be surprised if this is just Giles trying to get more money out of the AFL. 

I was going to mention this

the NT News is on a par with The Truth Newspaper of the 70's and 80's so it could be all BS

But as i said. A deal closer should win us more games. 

 

2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

I was going to mention this

the NT News is on a par with The Truth Newspaper of the 70's and 80's so it could be all BS

But as i said. A deal closer should win us more games. 

 

We have been down this road before but I cannot help myself.

We have lost after Darwin Games in the past because we have had a crap team

We could not beat anyone anywhere that is the reason it has bugger all to do with going to Darwin

WA sides have been travel to the east every other week for years, when they have had good sides they win when not so good they lose.

The WCE won  flags travelling back and forth in a final series.

It ain't Darwin it is the list we have had.

The sooner we get out of there the better , playing in that heat twice a year ,and forgoing home games in Melbourne, could be the difference between winning an extra game or two.

Just now, DeeZee said:

The sooner we get out of there the better , playing in that heat twice a year ,and forgoing home games in Melbourne, could be the difference between winning an extra game or two.

Rubbish

9 minutes ago, old dee said:

We have been down this road before but I cannot help myself.

We have lost after Darwin Games in the past because we have had a crap team

We could not beat anyone anywhere that is the reason it has bugger all to do with going to Darwin

WA sides have been travel to the east every other week for years, when they have had good sides they win when not so good they lose.

The WCE won  flags travelling back and forth in a final series.

It ain't Darwin it is the list we have had.

Meth Coke have travelled every 2nd week for over 20 years. It is part of there normal schedule. 

For us it is inconvenience....

1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Meth Coke have travelled every 2nd week for over 20 years. It is part of there normal schedule. 

For us it is inconvenience....

We are never going to agree on this your Sirship. Have a good weekend.

18 minutes ago, old dee said:

Rubbish

I think the argument Old Dee is the taxing conditions Darwin provides more so then the length of the flight.

Just now, AngryAtCasey said:

I think the argument Old Dee is the taxing conditions Darwin provides more so then the length of the flight.

I have no idea how you can judge when the whole time we have been going there we could beat time with a stick.

Care factor - zero.

Cash grab. Even against Freo we had a smaller supporter base at the game. Port and Essendon are the two most followed teams in Darwin - the NT gov shifts their sponsorship $ over and they get more exposure as well as a greater economic injection with the larger influx of tourists. 

14 minutes ago, old dee said:

We are never going to agree on this your Sirship. Have a good weekend.

You spent time up in the red dirt OD?