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I must say I'm extremely disappointed with the DL response to this.

High profile, sure, perhaps we should try EnergyWatch? But then again, they never killed anyone, so play on.

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    28 minutes ago, FireInTheBennelly said:

    I must say I'm extremely disappointed with the DL response to this.

    High profile, sure, perhaps we should try EnergyWatch? But then again, they never killed anyone, so play on.

    I hear you firey one.  I think we've all just been totally desensitized.

    Look around at the complete moralistic  cesspool the world has become.  I could list of any number or recient events that people no longer seem reactive to.

    It's too late at night for me to sum up a cohearant reaction what I think of the MFC's involvement in this asides from why does anything with potential good like this for the MFC always seemingly need to turn to complete shiiiiit.

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    This a great sponsorship pick-up but everything just got super-seedy.

    We just ditched gaming. This one feels way off. 

    I won't bag the product, but in a high-performance sports arena?

    Seriously?:

    “Across a number of my previous clubs, we used Red Bull as part of our match day and high-performance programs,” Burgess said.

    “I believe Red Bull can provide our players with the ability to sustain energy throughout both training and, crucially, matches.

    “It’s a product I trust and when coming to the Dees, I wanted to introduce as part our program mix.”

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    5 hours ago, Skuit said:

    This a great sponsorship pick-up but everything just got super-seedy.

    We just ditched gaming. This one feels way off. 

    I won't bag the product, but in a high-performance sports arena?

    Seriously?:

    “Across a number of my previous clubs, we used Red Bull as part of our match day and high-performance programs,” Burgess said.

    “I believe Red Bull can provide our players with the ability to sustain energy throughout both training and, crucially, matches.

    “It’s a product I trust and when coming to the Dees, I wanted to introduce as part our program mix.”

    Hopefully they're using Andy Walshe as part of this, rather than the product itself... judging the quotes above though, I think not.

     

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    4 hours ago, Engorged Onion said:

    Hopefully they're using Andy Walshe as part of this, rather than the product itself... judging the quotes above though, I think not.

     

    Cheers man - I forgot to consider the distinction between company and product (which share a name). 

    The article is quite evasively worded - never fully referring to the drink. 

    "Red Bull’s product has been used throughout the pre-season to assist with performance"

    I do believe they are referring to the drink, but if they're not then that is pretty dodgy in itself (falsely leading kids to believe sports-stars are using a given product for performance is not cool). 

    The main thing: I may have gone off half-cocked. I was thinking of the near 30g of sugar per can and my own experience (a kick before an even bigger crash), but there could indeed be benefits for elite athletes.

    Quite a bit of literature out there in favour and against - and I'm not going to sift through it (along with determine who funded it). But, Burgess also referred to previous match-day use, and I doubt there would be much research into AFL-type conditions.   

     

     

     

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    18 hours ago, MyFavouriteMartian said:

    What happened to this sponsorship.?

    Was it a Red-Herring instead.?

    Don’t know MFM but stumbled across some news sort of related to Red Bull this morning....

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