Third party agreements?

[manlyfan76]

I don't know anything about these agreements that the Drongos and Dogs seem to abuse but now that we are winning games and looking more attractive to prospective sponsors, couldn't we attract a major sponsor (even at a discounted rate as the season is under way) and then use the money promised by the Penn family and Quantom for some third party agreements/ salary top-ups to ensure we keep all the players that we would like to keep and thus increase the brand and our winning ways? I know its hard to get a sponsor but we need money to stay on top.

 

[Dan]

Basically once we start getting more Friday night games, then we will get more sponsors. Monday night games don't really help.

Friday Night footy is by far the most watched. I know if I had dollars to spend I would be looking at the broncos for value for dollar

 

[manlyfan76]

No doubt Dan, I live on the GC and have to watch Titans membership ads on the tv. . I realise its difficult in the congested Sydney market, but heres hoping.

 

[eagles2win]

I'll get howled down for this but the team I would get into if I was a wealthy business man would be Souths (apparent huge supporter base to advertise to, recognized logo etc)

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I don't know anything about these agreements that the Drongos and Dogs seem to abuse but now that we are winning games and looking more attractive to prospective sponsors, couldn't we attract a major sponsor (even at a discounted rate as the season is under way) and then use the money promised by the Penn family and Quantom for some third party agreements/ salary top-ups to ensure we keep all the players that we would like to keep and thus increase the brand and our winning ways? I know its hard to get a sponsor but we need money to stay on top.

I don't think they can because they are directly involved with the club (Penns and Quantum) but a group of wealthy business people i.e the Thoroughbreds can.

 

[ERNIE FOR NO7]

I'll get howled down for this but the team I would get into if I was a wealthy business man would be Souths (apparent huge supporter base to advertise to, recognized logo etc)

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I don't know anything about these agreements that the Drongos and Dogs seem to abuse but now that we are winning games and looking more attractive to prospective sponsors, couldn't we attract a major sponsor (even at a discounted rate as the season is under way) and then use the money promised by the Penn family and Quantom for some third party agreements/ salary top-ups to ensure we keep all the players that we would like to keep and thus increase the brand and our winning ways? I know its hard to get a sponsor but we need money to stay on top.

I don't think they can because they are directly involved with the club (Penns and Quantum) but a group of wealthy business people i.e the Thoroughbreds can.

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thats right the third party cant be a club sponsor

 

[Ralphie]

Third party agreements must be with an organisation that is not currently associated with the club.The club are not allowed to guarantee that a third party will honour that agreement and the third party agreement needs to be on a commercial basis.

For instance the local cafe couldn't pay a player $500,000 to work in the cafe for 10 hours a week because that is simply not commercially realistic. By contrast a multinational company might quite reasonably pay a star player $150,000 per year to promote their business. The point of the commerciality requirement is to stop a wealthy owner like Tinkler from handing $500k to the local cafe for a third party agreement.