Dogs Announce Record Profit

[Cyberdoggie]

Re: Dogs Announce Record Profit

As expected it's a great result.

Few concerns though!, we need to capitalize on it both on and off the field.
If we fall away performance wise, we are still one of the smaller clubs around, so this sudden boom needs to be used to recover from all these years of being disadvantaged and put us on a level playing field.

Sponsorship: Ok 1 sponsor coming on is good in EML, and ASICS, are they an increase over BLK? or have we just transitioned from them to ASICS because of the financial issues of BLK?
Not sure about everyone else but I was hoping for more to come on board. Mission have been awesome but surely there is another major sponsor that can see what a winner really is? I know a lot of the major car makers are already traditionally aligned to clubs, what about Mitsubishi, Isuzu or Honda? or other big name brands or banks etc?

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Dogs Announce Record Profit

As expected it's a great result.

Few concerns though!, we need to capitalize on it both on and off the field.
If we fall away performance wise, we are still one of the smaller clubs around, so this sudden boom needs to be used to recover from all these years of being disadvantaged and put us on a level playing field.

Sponsorship: Ok 1 sponsor coming on is good in EML, and ASICS, are they an increase over BLK? or have we just transitioned from them to ASICS because of the financial issues of BLK?
Not sure about everyone else but I was hoping for more to come on board. Mission have been awesome but surely there is another major sponsor that can see what a winner really is? I know a lot of the major car makers are already traditionally aligned to clubs, what about Mitsubishi, Isuzu or Honda? or other big name brands or banks etc?

I've long thought we should pursue News Corp, Rupert isn't ironed on to a team. If they got the back of the jumper we could change the logo to the newspaper owned by them to what state we are playing in. It's a perfectly tailored sponsorship arrangement. If we could get them, you'd hope NC could help us with exposure on TV, pay TV and newspapers. So what if Rupert owns our souls, I know I'm happy to part with mine for the good of the club.

[Bornadog]

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BAD's going to be happy.

Let me see the finer detail first

Well I am not happy with borrowings still at $4.1 million. Happy we reduced it by $1.5million.

[hujsh]

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I'm not very financially minded...how does this translate to the spin that we wiped off most of our debt?

Yes we need answers.

It was pointed out at the time that it was net debt (which Prince Imperial reiterated) so all it meant was we had more assets relative to the debt

[Drunken Bum]

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I've long thought we should pursue News Corp, Rupert isn't ironed on to a team. If they got the back of the jumper we could change the logo to the newspaper owned by them to what state we are playing in. It's a perfectly tailored sponsorship arrangement. If we could get them, you'd hope NC could help us with exposure on TV, pay TV and newspapers. So what if Rupert owns our souls, I know I'm happy to part with mine for the good of the club.

I'm not sure i could in all good conscience continue supporting the team if that was to occur, as much as i love the club it is not unconditional

[ledge]

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Well this year is already going to give us more than last year in membership and merchandise , plus the better deal with Etihad and bigger crowds, better time slots, next year is the time to consolidate for the year after that's the key.

[Greystache]

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I've long thought we should pursue News Corp, Rupert isn't ironed on to a team. If they got the back of the jumper we could change the logo to the newspaper owned by them to what state we are playing in. It's a perfectly tailored sponsorship arrangement. If we could get them, you'd hope NC could help us with exposure on TV, pay TV and newspapers. So what if Rupert owns our souls, I know I'm happy to part with mine for the good of the club.

I think that ship has sailed BT, New.com.au/Herald-Sun are merely a more biased version of the Essendon FC website these days.

[Throughandthrough]

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I we were sponsored by News Corp you'd have to pay to read anything about the dogs



"You won't believe how the dogs went in the AFL grand final today"

[Bulldog4life]

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I think that ship has sailed BT, New.com.au/Herald-Sun are merely a more biased version of the Essendon FC website these days.

Exactly G man. It has been one article after another about the Bummers for the last 2 months. Ridiculous.

[always right]

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It may not be too many years before our club is sponsoring News Corp. Print revenues ain't what they used to be.

[GVGjr]

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I'm still very pleased that the club has made some significant steps towards eliminating the debt and setting us up for financial stability over the longer term.
It's a long journey and was never going to be fixed even by the ultimate success we should be all so proud to have been a part of.

I hope so many of our supporters don't sit back and think winning the flag last year is enough because it isn't. We still need to continue to dig a bit deeper financially when we can and encourage others to come along for the ride. People and hopefully more sponsors want to be associated with winners and we are just that.

I suspect given the huge response to memberships we will be well ahead of our budgets and targets so if we can back up and generate another boom profit we will make further inroads in reducing the debt a bit further this year.

We are still in a marathon race but we are certainly in a far better position than we were 12 months ago.