2011 Jersey & Sponsorship Discussion

[Alex28]

If I was paying over $500K a year to sponsor a team, and I was asked to bastardise my logo for the privilege of forking over that cash, I'd be saying no.

The fact that one of the best teams in the comp has taken so long to get a major sponsor shows that companies prepared to spend a lot of money on sponsoring League are pretty rare and the clubs need to work towards accommodating sponsors, and not live in a dream land like some of the forumers here and say the sponsors should be compromising themselves so their logos become less effective for the sake of the jersey.

If that silver logo was used on a wet day on a muddy field, that logo disappears in like 5 minutes.

 

[Alex28]

Hang on, you are having a shot at us whinging that the original crown logo looks shit on the jersey and advocate it getting changed, then say the exact same thing we are saying later on in your post (bolded bits). You would be in the minority IMO if you think the tweaked logo isn't a hell of a long way improved over the box logo.

You guys are saying the logo needs to change to suit the jersey. I'm saying if they want the sponsor bad enough they change the design of the jersey to suit the sponsor. Completely different.

 

[Timmah]

If we were talking a logo on a plain white background being slapped on, I could understand the carry-on about this.

The Crown logo is just as it appears on the Storm logo - navy square with the crown symbol and the word. It's as integrated as it can be.

Wow on the other hand, for the Broncos, are one company that stuffed it when it came to putting the logo on.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Um , no

From experience companies are more worried about the correct artwork / fonts etc

And they know that colour clashes will happen and make alternative logos in case, see below

 

[Cumberland Throw]

What ever happened to URM rubbish people being the major sponsor ???

 

[Patorick]

What ever happened to URM rubbish people being the major sponsor ???

 

[Tiger_Tim]

Did we end up finding out what these special Storm jerseys are for?

ETA: They have 'MELBOURNE' written above the number, where the sponsor/player name would normally be....strange...

 

[docbrown]

They should make it their stanard jersey. The silver/grey works great!

 

[hellteam]

The less purple the better. Looked much better, back to their usual navy

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Did we end up finding out what these special Storm jerseys are for?

Good question, be surprised if they just did it for shits and giggles.

 

[LeagueNut]

They should make it their stanard jersey. The silver/grey works great!

Agreed.

 

[applesauce]

Did we end up finding out what these special Storm jerseys are for?

ETA: They have 'MELBOURNE' written above the number, where the sponsor/player name would normally be....strange...

It was ment to represent a "V" for Victoria and the Melbourne on the back for "State/City pride".

It was their equivalent of SOO for Victorians.

 

[nqcowboy87]

what about the grey

 

[squeeze]

what about the grey

the grey is silver and its the secondary colour of victoria

 

[nqcowboy87]

i thought victorias colours hwere navy blue and white, hence the v for afl origin matches and the original storm jerseys which only had tints of purple and gold

 

[BDGS]

They should make it their stanard jersey. The silver/grey works great!

I agree, fantastic jersey.

 

[Isaiah85]

I agree, fantastic jersey.

Thirdeded

 

[Craegus]

Some 2012 possible jersey news, that I don't think has been posted previously (apologies if it already has).

Parramatta to wear Blades jerseys from next year.

Source:

Parramatta has been added to the Blades Australia Facebook page under favourite teams (which only features teams that wear their apparel). Further to the the Richmond AFL club has also been added.

This then matches the 2 "coming soon" blank sections on their website in the team authentic apparel section.

 

[beagle]

Some 2012 possible jersey news, that I don't think has been posted previously (apologies if it already has).

Parramatta to wear Blades jerseys from next year.

Source:

Parramatta has been added to the Blades Australia Facebook page under favourite teams (which only features teams that wear their apparel). Further to the the Richmond AFL club has also been added.

This then matches the 2 "coming soon" blank sections on their website in the team authentic apparel section.

Parramatta are switching to Sekem next year,as announced on the Eels forum yesterday, not Blades. The range already appears on the Sekem website

http://www.sekem.com.au/pdfs/Eels-On-Field Brch-8pp_20-6-11.pdf

I don't know where you got Blades from?

 

[Craegus]

Parramatta are switching to Sekem next year,as announced on the Eels forum yesterday, not Blades. The range already appears on the Sekem website

I don't know where you got Blades from?

Ok well as I said it was possible news.

Secondly, not being a parra fan, and seen it had not been put here, I had no idea of that happening.

And thirdly, it specifically says in my post where I got the possible change from.