Strategy CEO Thread - Jennifer Watt - Started Jan 2023

[Colby Cheer Squad]

how did we not manage to get a shorts sponsor? Seems like a pretty basic and easy thing to get?

Like anything, you set your value and if you don't have a buyer at your price, you can either choose to buckle and accept unders, or you hold out until you get your price. The issue is, once you accept unders, you're not going to get your price the next year.

 

[berniemccarthy]

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Have a look at Montu. Very big operation.

 

[ferball]

Have a look at Montu. Very big operation.

Sus dodgy campaigners. Should be shot and dumped down a mine shaft.

 

[Shermanator]

I am 1 myself dus and I can tell you now Jen is doing a grate job.

Has anyone seen Pravda Roo and Jen in the same room?..

 

[Sphynx]

Like anything, you set your value and if you don't have a buyer at your price, you can either choose to buckle and accept unders, or you hold out until you get your price. The issue is, once you accept unders, you're not going to get your price the next year.

Yep, but as soon as you let unrealised revenue from something like this go for that period of time, it's generally eroded any commercial difference 4-5x fold.

It's bad business, sometimes you just need to accept the markets determination of the value. Further, at risk of devaluing the sponsorship, you also now have to factor in brand/reputational risk. Having no sponsor on some of your apparel equally devalues your branding, as other sponsors would associate it with a brand not in demand.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Yep, but as soon as you let unrealised revenue from something like this go for that period of time, it's generally eroded any commercial difference 4-5x fold.

It's bad business, sometimes you just need to accept the markets determination of the value. Further, at risk of devaluing the sponsorship, you also now have to factor in brand/reputational risk. Having no sponsor on some of your apparel equally devalues your branding, as other sponsors would associate it with a brand not in demand.

I think you're over thinking the situation. People notice when a jumper has no sponsor. Nobody other than obsessive compulsives notices when shorts have no sponsor.

 

[Zondor]

I think you're over thinking the situation. People notice when a jumper has no sponsor. Nobody other than obsessive compulsives notices when shorts have no sponsor.

Snrubs. Not having a sports sponsor is no good. Bottom Line. Polish that turd 10 ways to Sunday and it is still no good. As hard as you're trying to. :stern look

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Snrubs. Not having a sports sponsor is no good. Bottom Line. Polish that turd 10 ways to Sunday and it is still no good. As hard as you're trying to. :stern look

 

[Sillygit]

why's it always gotta be "everything is awesome" "you're obviously close friends with someone on the board" "the club can do no wrong and you're a shill" when someone just doesn't fully and completely agree with the unending complaining or throws up an alternative perspective?

Is your argument that weak that that is always the go to?

 

[Zondor]

why's it always gotta be "everything is awesome" "you're obviously close friends with someone on the board" "the club can do no wrong and you're a shill" when someone just doesn't fully and completely agree with the unending complaining or throws up an alternative perspective?

Is your argument that weak that that is always the go to?

How many years have you been posting on BigFooty? :stern look

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

why's it always gotta be "everything is awesome" "you're obviously close friends with someone on the board" "the club can do no wrong and you're a shill" when someone just doesn't fully and completely agree with the unending complaining or throws up an alternative perspective?

Is your argument that weak that that is always the go to?

Please list in order of accomplishment, what the club has done well over the last five years.

I’m sure it’s an extensive list.

 

[Sillygit]

Please list in order of accomplishment, what the club has done well over the last five years.

I’m sure it’s an extensive list.

no no, that's not the topic of conversation. just shift those goal posts right back.

point is even if i DID write even 1 positive accomplishment, you and yours will claim that I'm a shill, or some other dumb**** word/phrase for it.

Every single time it happens without fail. That is your standard response.

And it's dumb as shit.

 

[DocSholl]

no no, that's not the topic of conversation. just shift those goal posts right back.

point is even if i DID write even 1 positive accomplishment, you and yours will claim that I'm a shill, or some other dumb**** word/phrase for it.

Every single time it happens without fail. That is your standard response.

And it's dumb as shit.

But you also routinely jump on posts with legitimate and constructive criticism with sarcastic responses. It works both ways

 

[King Corey]

Going to post without reading anything above.

Let me guess - partisan shitfight?

 

[My Left Foote]

Going to post without reading anything above.

Let me guess - partisan shit fight?

Going to quote this in every North Big Footy thread

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

no no, that's not the topic of conversation. just shift those goal posts right back.

point is even if i DID write even 1 positive accomplishment, you and yours will claim that I'm a shill, or some other dumb**** word/phrase for it.

Every single time it happens without fail. That is your standard response.

And it's dumb as shit.

Because posting anything positive the club has done (which is sweet **** all over the last five years) is irrelevant when juxtaposed against how poor the on field results have been.

And they’re the only thing that matters.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Snrubs. Not having a sports sponsor is no good. Bottom Line. Polish that turd 10 ways to Sunday and it is still no good. As hard as you're trying to. :stern look

Sure it would be good to have the revenue from a shorts sponsor. But it's idiotic to take an offer way below value. Aren't you the one telling us that household budgeting is exactly the same as business or government budgeting? Would you sell your house for well under value just because that was the only offer?

 

[The Y Factor]

I think you're over thinking the situation. People notice when a jumper has no sponsor. Nobody other than obsessive compulsives notices when shorts have no sponsor.

I never realised we even had a shorts sponsor. I’m 50!

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Because posting anything positive the club has done (which is sweet **** all over the last five years) is irrelevant when juxtaposed against how poor the on field results have been.

And they’re the only thing that matters.

So your question was a waste of time posting because you are completely uninterested in the answer. Could you be any more disingenuous?

 

[My Left Foote]

I never realised we even had a shorts sponsor. I’m 50!

Hello Solar.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

How many years have you been posting on BigFooty? :stern look

Can't speak for Git but I've been here 69..

 

[The Y Factor]

Hello Solar.

Yeah ok, I guess I don’t think past Mazda too much.

It’s only here I’ve noticed that people are so aware of sponsors, especially apparel. For whatever reason I’ve never really cared other than wanting us to make money.

 

[Luke72]

Hello Solar.

I always forget about them when I fill out the club surveys.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

So your question was a waste of time posting because you are completely uninterested in the answer. Could you be any more disingenuous?

No, I’m interested in seeing how people justify anything positive that has occurred over the last five years when matched against the shitshow that is our on field results/membership rubbish/willingness to sell games to a different state (we’re now up to our fifth state/territory)/list management/off field hiring (Paul Roos. What a win.).

My contention is that anything positive pales into insignificance when compared with the negatives.

Which is exactly why we are where we are.

 

[My Left Foote]

I always forget about them when I fill out the club surveys.

That's the only time I ever remembered them, although I don't think they sponsor us anymore.