NRL 2020

@antipodean said in NRL 2020:

@gt12 said in NRL 2020:

I don’t see why any reasonable contract wouldn’t have a clause about behavior that negatively reflects on the brand (association) that led to them sponsoring the club.

I should imagine any sponsor involved with the NRL has that clause automatically inserted by the NRL these days.

Yep, exactly.

I should add that I don't really see why a company that promotes this:

is going to the NRL with sponsorship and not expecting trouble, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that from a branding perspective for the restaurant, it's kind of a win-win or at least there is some risk hedge, because if there are no problems the sponsorship deal puts your brand in front of people all over, but if it does go wrong, you can pull out, recoup some investment if you structure the contract the right way, and get lots of free press about being on the right side of things - strengthening your brand positioning.

@gt12 said in NRL 2020:

@antipodean said in NRL 2020:

@gt12 said in NRL 2020:

I don’t see why any reasonable contract wouldn’t have a clause about behavior that negatively reflects on the brand (association) that led to them sponsoring the club.

I should imagine any sponsor involved with the NRL has that clause automatically inserted by the NRL these days.

Yep, exactly.

I should add that I don't really see why a company that promotes this:

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is going to the NRL with sponsorship and not expecting trouble, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that from a branding perspective for the restaurant, it's kind of a win-win or at least there is some risk hedge, because if there are no problems the sponsorship deal puts your brand in front of people all over, but if it does go wrong, you can pull out, recoup some investment if you structure the contract the right way, and get lots of free press about being on the right side of things - strengthening your brand positioning.

Although they had been their sponsor for quite some time now(hadn't they?) This was all about renewal??

@gt12 well I certainly hope there was some pulling out!! but hopefully they wrapped it up!!

Turns out these guys gave that company an opening too and they did the same!

This is already good marketing for Rashays. I didn't know they were a chain (have walked past their Darling Harbour restaurant) and thought they were Indian place. Now I know they're a chain and they're not an Indian restaurant.

@Nepia said in NRL 2020:

This is already good marketing for Rashays. I didn't know they were a chain (have walked past their Darling Harbour restaurant) and thought they were Indian place. Now I know they're a chain and they're not an Indian restaurant.

I'd never heard of them before this. They've certainly got their money's worth.

@antipodean said in NRL 2020:

@Nepia said in NRL 2020:

This is already good marketing for Rashays. I didn't know they were a chain (have walked past their Darling Harbour restaurant) and thought they were Indian place. Now I know they're a chain and they're not an Indian restaurant.

I'd never heard of them before this. They've certainly got their money's worth.

If not for the Darling Harbour one I would be the same and to be quite frank I only noticed it because they had a pretty maitre' D.

I went to Rashays at Dee Why. Fucken shit.

how good. one of the blokes also plowed a teacher from another school he met on a separate visit. loves Port Maquarrie!

@mariner4life just loves giving back and is passionate about education sex ed that is!

@Hooroo said in NRL 2020:

@gt12 said in NRL 2020:

@antipodean said in NRL 2020:

@gt12 said in NRL 2020:

I don’t see why any reasonable contract wouldn’t have a clause about behavior that negatively reflects on the brand (association) that led to them sponsoring the club.

I should imagine any sponsor involved with the NRL has that clause automatically inserted by the NRL these days.

Yep, exactly.

I should add that I don't really see why a company that promotes this:

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is going to the NRL with sponsorship and not expecting trouble, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that from a branding perspective for the restaurant, it's kind of a win-win or at least there is some risk hedge, because if there are no problems the sponsorship deal puts your brand in front of people all over, but if it does go wrong, you can pull out, recoup some investment if you structure the contract the right way, and get lots of free press about being on the right side of things - strengthening your brand positioning.

Although they had been their sponsor for quite some time now(hadn't they?) This was all about renewal??

From the link above:

The Bulldogs were on the verge of announcing the two-year deal on Tuesday night, having agreed to terms with Rashays after long-time sponsor Kia left the club for the Brisbane Broncos this year.

@gt12 said in NRL 2020:

@Hooroo said in NRL 2020:

@gt12 said in NRL 2020:

@antipodean said in NRL 2020:

@gt12 said in NRL 2020:

I don’t see why any reasonable contract wouldn’t have a clause about behavior that negatively reflects on the brand (association) that led to them sponsoring the club.

I should imagine any sponsor involved with the NRL has that clause automatically inserted by the NRL these days.

Yep, exactly.

I should add that I don't really see why a company that promotes this:

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is going to the NRL with sponsorship and not expecting trouble, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that from a branding perspective for the restaurant, it's kind of a win-win or at least there is some risk hedge, because if there are no problems the sponsorship deal puts your brand in front of people all over, but if it does go wrong, you can pull out, recoup some investment if you structure the contract the right way, and get lots of free press about being on the right side of things - strengthening your brand positioning.

Although they had been their sponsor for quite some time now(hadn't they?) This was all about renewal??

From the link above:

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The Bulldogs were on the verge of announcing the two-year deal on Tuesday night, having agreed to terms with Rashays after long-time sponsor Kia left the club for the Brisbane Broncos this year.

Sweet

Just not main sponsor. Been with the club since 2014

Rashays had first joined the Bulldogs as a sponsor in 2014 under Raelene Castle and Ray Dib's leadership.

@Hooroo

Ha, I missed that!

not guilty your honour!!! she flat out told me what was up, with a wink! my penis can't fight that kind of mind control!

@mariner4life :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

After the hilarity of yesterday, the season begins tonight with the Eels and the Dogs

In a great piece of news for the Warriors, RTS is actually still in doubt. FML

Any predictions for the year?

I would love for a breakup of the Roosters/Storm stranglehold. My problem is the teams best placed to do that are the Raiders (fuck Ricky Stuart) and Manly (fuck Manly, and fuck Des Hasler). I also hope Bennett and the Rabbits fall in a heap. And the Sharks collapse.

I think i could handle the Eels doing well. And the Tigers (pffft hahaha). Obviously the Cowboys (i will actually make an effort and go down to check out their new stadium). Pretty much everyone else can die in a fire.

Oh, and in the first real shock, guess which club doesn't have a single 5-day turnaround? One of only 2?

@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:

Oh, and in the first real shock, guess which club doesn't have a single 5-day turnaround? One of only 2?

Broncos and Warriors?

so close, but you picked the wrong deadbeat team. The Titans the other one.

As if the NRL would ever flick the Warriors a bone

@mariner4life said in NRL 2020:

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A remarkable uproar for a story with no victim.

Nobody was hurt, ( quite the opposite), except, I guess, the sensibilities of sponsors and the public.

The lads will be severely punished for jeopardizing an income stream, with no weeping victim to show for it all.

Game 1 of the season was a fizzer. Defense was okay, attack was piss poor. Eels win 8-2 with a 65th minute try

Only funny thing was the introduction of the "captain's challenge", and it was predicatbly a joke. Footballers are too fucking dumb to use this properly. The Eels wasted theirs when a prop convinced the captain it wasn't dropped, it was stripped. In a huge shock, that wasn't overturned. Everyone LOLed at the Eels for being fucking idiots and wasting it on at best a 50/50.

The Dogs then said "hold my beer" and used it on a play where they dropped the ball, it got shunted around by both teams, and all i can imagine was, they hoped there was no vision of them knocking it on. There was. Shane Watson applauded the TV on both occasions.