Old sponsors

[ledge]

As we are on sponsors, can anyone think or come up with all our major sponsors over the years and when sponsors really started taking over naming rights?
I remember Pyrox was one, that would have been late 70s i think.

[GVGjr]

Re: Old sponsors

East Coast and ICI spring to mind.

[ledge]

Re: Old sponsors

Actually ICI might have been our first big one.
They were pretty good to us over the years and i think they got taken over, thats why they didnt continue.

[Prince Imperial]

Re: Old sponsors

Vodafone (99-01) and the 05 TAC campaign circa 88-89 were others.

[Happy Days]

Re: Old sponsors

I still have a jumper with Ocira on it....no idea what they do/did, but I think its from around 98.

[ledge]

Re: Old sponsors

I have one with just the VFL emblem on it, it was Colin Seerys old one number 47, must be late 70s I think , just what year did that stuff start does anyone know?

[Rocket Science]

Re: Old sponsors

I still have a jumper with Ocira on it....no idea what they do/did, but I think its from around 98.

That'd be 'Orica'...they're a big chemicals and mining mob.

[Happy Days]

Re: Old sponsors

That'd be 'Orica'...they're a big chemicals and mining mob.

Yeah that one.

[Happy Days]

Re: Old sponsors

I also remember having a whole bunch in '02, including the Yellow Pages and Bob Jane T-Marts.

[ledge]

Re: Old sponsors

Orica took over ICI I think.

[alwaysadog]

Re: Old sponsors

Actually ICI might have been our first big one.
They were pretty good to us over the years and i think they got taken over, thats why they didnt continue.

I think you'll find ICI became Orica. The business that had once been into chemicals and explosives transmogrified and Orica was created. ICI / Orica were our sponsors directly after the failed 1989 merger. They were with us for some years but when Smorgo came to power or shortly thereafter he said they were not paying enough as our major sponsor. I think he expected them to kick in a bit more, but they walked away, amicably it has always been claimed.

[alwaysadog]

Re: Old sponsors

East Coast and ICI spring to mind.

The tie up with Eastcoast was through a former player who was either an executive with them or a partner. He had, blond hair, I can see the head in my mind's eye but the name won't come. At one stage they offered the players a big cash incentive to win games and make the finals.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Old sponsors

The tie up with Eastcoast was through a former player who was either an executive with them or a partner. He had, blond hair, I can see the head in my mind's eye but the name won't come. At one stage they offered the players a big cash incentive to win games and make the finals.

Denny Schwartz.

[GetDimmaBack]

Re: Old sponsors

The tie up with Eastcoast was through a former player who was either an executive with them or a partner. He had, blond hair, I can see the head in my mind's eye but the name won't come. At one stage they offered the players a big cash incentive to win games and make the finals.

Robert Percy was an executive with Eastcoast IIRC.
He played a few senior games in the late 60s. I think he's your man.

[Scraggers]

Re: Old sponsors

Was 'Go West' one of our sponsors in the mid to late eighties?

I'm sure I recall them sponsoring us