The Raiders are a wealthy club. However doesn't mean they'd find it easy obtaining much extra from outside the cap in Canberra.
You would be amazed how many services a big leagues club requires - security, produce, meat, alcohol, accounting, pokies... The list goes on. Pretty widely known how the "good" clubs leverage their supply agreements.
Wests could do the same for us.
Look at the Knights major sponsor - Newpave. They get literally nothing from sponsoring us. They don't sell anything to the public. At most clubs they would be TPA, and a national customer facing company would be sponsor. Why don't we have a major sponsor like that?
LOL bad management doesn't count as an answer - it simply isn't any sort of relevant answer. our current board are probably one of the more accomplished NRL boards from top to bottom.
And even when we were a "chook raffle" pre-Tinkler we had one of the more accomplished CEOs running the joint in Steve Burruston, who took the gig for love. We also had a sponsor in C&A who again sell nothing to the public.
If it was as simple as LOL Matt Gidley... Don't you think the NRL would have moved him on?
We have more sponsorship revenue than 12 other clubs - running last, with a major sponsor who are basically making a donation.
There is something else going on, and it has been for a long time. We are a low income, unfashionable town. We have 3 national companies headquartered here, 2 of which are major sponsors (2 banks, so the other is a competitor of one of the sponsors). We have tapped out our local sponsor market. Probably a first step is thE NRL (our owners, remember) pointing a proper major sponsor our way - allowing a lot of our sponsors to become TPAs instead). That is if they aren't going to fix the system.
Another whinge I guess 😐
