Given the inevitable rise of Carlton as a team and club over coming years, its pretty @#$%&! abovious that a "Massive" sponsorship deal is coming our way.

I hardly see it as an amazing predication by this topics author. Especially considering how long its is taking for this so called massive deal to come through. I call it stating the obvious.

they are involved in woodchipping and pulp mills aren't they?

i was going to say that's not very 'green', then i realised that visy can't be 'green' and make disposable cardboard packaging can they?

has Juddy been hoodwinked?

It goes both ways, but even if all that isn't true there's still the fact that the production of the electricity used to charge electric cars causes more environmental damage than equivalent amount of fuel used by a petrol car.

Great work Mark

Certainly got KB going and gave Greg Swann a chance to have a dig at him, well done!

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yeah right... maybe you should have comne on early on and backed me up since it was so blooming obvious..

Look the people i know outside of here...on here know more details...

Do i now all the ins and outs of this deal... no........ but i know ore than you...

And there are a few of them... so ner ner ner...

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i'm not entirely sure that's a fact, but i'll accept your word on it.

I hope i don't offend anyone, but i think the Prius/Civic hybrid thing is a fad at the moment, but ony because they are a little ahead of the power generation methods here in Australia now. In a few years when we generate our power more efficiently and cleanly the scales will tip heavily in the hybrid car's favour.

bottled water is interesting. I don't know for a fact, but i've been told that it takes four litres of water to make a one litre water bottle. not to mention the petrochemicals, and the fuel and pollution resulting from the freight of these things all over the world.

try spelling Evian backwards

sorry, way off topic

There is always a bigger fish

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ahhhhhh but rhe small fish taste sweetest... (personally i dont agree... i hate whitebait...)

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Didn't Rod Butterss state in a press conference that vodafone will jump to Carlton? I know this isn't the massive deal you're talking about, but is it a smaller sponsorship?

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I'm guessing you don't like snapper or redfin either.

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I also don't think GM have much cash to spend after writing off a Massive US$39Bil from their books this past week.

Doube post

Well I went onto the Forbes website and listed below the top 32 companies in the world. All of these are MASSIVE!

I also pulled off the top 28 Australian companies. Some of them make some interesting reading....especially the company ranked 745 in the world. Would be rather ironic if it happened!

Take a look, make some comments. Perhaps Synbad could tease us all by saying the new sponsor is (or isn't) on the list.

Over to you all!


TOP 32 COMPANIES IN THE WORLD - source - forbes.com

1 Citigroup United States Banking
2 General Electric United States Conglomerates
3 American Intl Group United States Insurance
4 ExxonMobil United States Oil & gas
5 BP United Kingdom Oil & gas
6 Bank of America United States Banking
7 HSBC Group United Kingdom Banking
8 Toyota Motor Japan Consumer durables
9 Fannie Mae United States Finance
10 Wal-Mart Stores United States Retailing
11 UBS Switzerland Diversified financials
12 ING Group Netherlands Finance
13 Royal Dutch/Shell Group Netherlands/ United Kingdom Oil & gas operations
14 Berkshire Hathaway United States Insurance
15 JP Morgan Chase United States Banking
16 IBM United States Technology
17 Total France Oil & gas
18 BNP Paribas France Banking
19 Royal Bank of Scotland United Kingdom Banking
20 Freddie Mac United States financials
21 DaimlerChrysler Germany Consumer durables
22 Altria Group United States Food, drink &
23 ChevronTexaco United States Oil & gas
24 Pfizer United States Drugs &
25 Wells Fargo United States Banking
26 Verizon Commun United States Telecom
27 Barclays United Kingdom Banking
28 Morgan Stanley United States Finance
29 General Motors United States Cars
30 Nippon Tel & Tel Japan Telecommunications services
31 Microsoft United States Software & services
32 Nestlé Switzerland Food, drink & tobacco



TOP 28 AUSTRALIAN COMPANIES - source - forbes.com

86 Natl Australia Bank Banking
110 News Corp Media
126 Commonwealth Bank Group Banking
149 Westpac Banking Group Banking
160 ANZ Banking Banking
164 Telstra Telecommunications services
517 St George Bank Banking
580 Coles Myer Food markets
594 Woolworths Food markets
669 Qantas Airways Transportation
682 Suncorp-Metway Diversified financials
733 Wesfarmers Conglomerates
745 Amcor Materials
772 AMP Insurance
805 Foster's Group Food, drink & tobacco
879 Westfield America Trust Diversified financials
888 QBE Insurance Group Insurance
913 Westfield Trust Diversified financials
932 Macquarie Bank Diversified financials
978 Insurance Australia Group Insurance
1,058 Rinker Group Construction
1,121 General Property Trust Diversified financials
1,155 Publishing & Broadcasting Media
1,157 CSR Group Construction
1,173 Bluescope Steel Materials
1,233 Australian Gas Light Utilities
1,303 Lend Lease Diversified financials
1,353 Coca-Cola Amatil

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All hail the might and power of Sir Richard....putting Carlton back to where it should be.............arrogant and talking of premierships again.

The sponsorship will be MASSIVE somewhere in the prder of 5 mill.

Vodafone didnt come to us.. because they would have to multply their $$$$ a couple of tmes at least.
Optus will remain a sponsor
I heard Hyundai are back in some sponsorship capacity also.

There all staying coming back or introducing themselves to us instead of running away....

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Thanks for the update Synners, (raises a Red Bull in your direction). Hey, it isn't Red Bull is it?

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We will see when its announced.. one thing is for sure it wont be Dan Murphys..

Bruce did a great job to tie us over ....

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People need to relax a bit, I think. Sports sponsorships can be complex beasts, and it's not like the good old days when the President's mate's company signed a small cheque in exchange for a seat in the box (not the richmond kind) and the chance to rub shoulders with the players.

Over the past few weeks, the club would've been calculating exactly how much this is worth to potential sponsors, in light of both the Judd signing and the AFL draw. 16 FTA games, and Judd's (logo-ed) presence in the media make a difference.

Brands like to be associated with sporting entities who'll not only give them visibility, but also positive associations. I'd say with every passing day (and forget the Pratt/ACCC stuff - that's a minor hiccup) our case just gets better and better.

But it's patently obvious that we're now in a position to financially benefit from the good work Swann etc have done, thanks to Pratt. I have no idea who the sponsor is, though. But they'd better bloody hurry up: I have a flight to book, a new PC to buy, I'm shopping for a car... and I need to know what to buy!

The best thing about getting Swann over is he made some ripper contacts during his time at Collingwood.
The Irish scout is one..
The massive sponsor is another......

................and.......... he met Judd and had a very fruitful (for us) chat with Judd in the Emirates corporate tent(Thats also a classic) last year...that chat crystalised into Judd at Carlton

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I reckon instead of retiring the No.43, we give it to Swann.

McKay would surely approve.