No major sponsor yet?

[Steve Dore]

In this article, Caro writes that we just announced a major deal with Westpac .....

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...ort-struggles-20110307-1bl6k.html?from=age_sb

DEBT-RIDDEN Port Adelaide ....... Duncanson said that Port, which last night announced a new major sponsorship agreement with Westpac and now boasts superior training facilities to most AFL clubs .....

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...ort-struggles-20110307-1bl6k.html?from=age_sb

She is confusing us with the Cows whose training facilities are named the Westpac Centre under a sponsorship deal with Westpac.

As a Victorhoea centric journo she probably can't tell the difference between Port Adelaide and Adelaide.

 

[The Playbook]

Normally id put this down to a mistake but she was at the club last week and was given a tour of the facilities, so maybe they told her something and she has jumped the gun.

 

[simba_]

well she could mean 1) we have signed Westpac as a major sponsor and she blew our announcement 2) she thought signing WATPAC last week as a Premier Partner was actually Westpac 3) WATPAC are increasing their newly signed sponsorship. I am thinking 2 but Westpac would be great financial backing.

 

[bringbackbucky]

Normally id put this down to a mistake but she was at the club last week and was given a tour of the facilities, so maybe they told her something and she has jumped the gun.

Caro was defintely in town as a guest of Port last week.

I wonder if she has let something slip (lets hope!) or if she has truly confused Westpac / WATPAC.

Interesting...

 

[Enviable Tradition]

If true. See ya later Commonwealth Bank. Thanks for nothing!

 

[reCOGnise]

Surely this cannot be a mistake? that is too big of a one to make!

The WATPACannouncement was a while ago and certainly not a major annoucement.

Please let there be something in this!

 

[Macca19]

Im putting it down to her incompetence for now.

 

[reCOGnise]

When you put the pieces together, i still think its too big of mistake for EVEN her to make.

I guess we wait and see.

 

[Spadge]

Im putting it down to her incompetence for now.

i am as well....
while i would love it if a major bank became our major sponsor i just cant see it

 

[Steve Dore]

When you put the pieces together, i still think its too big of mistake for EVEN her to make. ......

Ignoring the WATPAC/Westpac debate why have no other media picked up on this announcement that the club made last night? It was an "announcement" not an exclusive leak to Wilson. None of the local media have reported it and the club hasn't even posted this announcement on the website.

.... Duncanson said that Port, which last night announced a new major sponsorship agreement ....

I suspect Caro may have dreamt the whole thing.

 

[The Smaller Warrior]

I haven't heard anything on this at all at work either,

And all the execs know I'm a pretty big PAFC fan so I would expect to have at least heard something.

Huge if true though.

 

[Spadge]

TSW

you have clout... make it happen son

 

[The Smaller Warrior]

I asked Caro on Twitter, and all she did is retweet my post. So who knows what that means haha.

 

[blaargh]

I asked Caro on Twitter, and all she did is retweet my post. So who knows what that means haha.

Not really Caroline Wilson or AFL's First Lady but the twitter account we wish she had. Calling it how we think she'd see it. We RT fools who don't read this.

 

[PowerKat]

i am as well....
while i would love it if a major bank became our major sponsor i just cant see it

agree - I can't see the same bank that has their name on the cows training facility deciding to be a major sponsor for us.

Happy to be proven wrong though.

 

[Poached_Egg]

Is MyATM staying on board. They have a five year deal dont they?

If so, wouldnt Westpac conflict with their business? Both are in the business of ATMS. For Westpac it is a small part of the business for MYATM it is their sole business.

Be very strange if true.

Even weirder if she is wrong given she was at the club last week and spoke face to face with Duncanson and Haysman.

 

[wapower]

Is MyATM staying on board. They have a five year deal dont they?

If so, wouldnt Westpac conflict with their business? Both are in the business of ATMS. For Westpac it is a small part of the business for MYATM it is their sole business.

Be very strange if true.

Even weirder if she is wrong given she was at the club last week and spoke face to face with Duncanson and Haysman.

You're confusing Westpac the Bank with Watpac the contracting and property business.

 

[Port85]

agree - I can't see the same bank that has their name on the cows training facility deciding to be a major sponsor for us.

Happy to be proven wrong though.

It's not beyond the realms of possibility. In Scotland, Rangers and Celtic have had mutual sponsorship agreements (ntl, Carling, Tennents) where the same organisation is the main kit sponsor for both clubs. This is done, despite both clubs despising each other, to gain a lucrative advantage in the city (wider Scotland) as it does not set one group of fans against another.

Its possible that a sponsor could view sponsoring both SA footy clubs in some form as a good opportunity, without alienating fans from the other.

 

[Poached_Egg]

You're confusing Westpac the Bank with Watpac the contracting and property business.

Isn't Caro suggesting Westpac, the bank, are the new joint major sponsor? Not Watpak.

If it is Watpak it makes sense and is another example of poor journalism.

 

[The Smaller Warrior]

haha I know, I noticed this after. Doh

 

[Powersurj]

Im on hold as i type this with the PAFC will see what i can find out....

 

[Powersurj]

Cant believe the hold music just voilins no advertising the club at all ...

 

[bringbackbucky]

haha I know, I noticed this after. Doh

Classic. Lol

 

[reCOGnise]

Classic. Lol

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6038/newsid/108592/default.aspx

anyone checked the PAFC website.

on the 7th there was an article about WATPAC renewing their sponsorship to second tier level.

http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6038/newsid/108592/default.aspx


So perhaps it all is a big mistake afterall.

 

[Powersurj]

10 mins on hold worse than telstra lol