Sportswashing
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@voodoo said in Sportswashing:
Starship Hospital tells Netball Australia to hold their orange juice
What???!!!!!
What the fuck????
This cannot be real
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@mariner4life said in Sportswashing:
@voodoo said in Sportswashing:
Starship Hospital tells Netball Australia to hold their orange juice
What???!!!!!
What the fuck????
This cannot be real
Yep, it’s true
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so it appears there was more to this story.
1 Starship were only given 3-4 hours to accept or decline the donation. They have a due diligence process they have to follow and it was not possible to do this in that short a time frame.
2 They have said they have plenty of donations from the gambling industry and should not have said otherwise and have adjusted their statement to reflect this....
3 The doner admits he might have gone off half-cocked.
1 I understand 2 I don't - sounds like someone woke in the media team has been brought back into line following a backlash 3 yeah well you would, wouldn't you. Offer half a mill and be told fuck off with your feelthy money.
I wonder why the timeframe was so short and whether the end result of the money going to the organiser's niminee was the desired outcome
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@Catogrande said in Sportswashing:
Upvote for use of the word feeelthy.
But then counter-acted by "doner".
Unless the guy is Turkish, and this was some sweet subtle casual racism. In which case - upvote. -
@booboo said in Sportswashing:
So the taxpayers of the state of Victoria have come to the rescue of Netball Australia.
$15m stumped up.
Admittedly Vic gets guaranteed Super Netball final plus guaranteed Test matches, and some visibility, but I can't see the return in overall $$ matching the outlay.
That's the risk with any sporting sponsorship of course - and many don't sponsor for a return, or at least only one that marketing people believe in.
When you look at how much money state governments plow into incentives and tax breaks for all sorts of things, I'm not sure that $15M is more than a couple of bucks down the back of the couch.
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@Tim said in Sportswashing:
American universities are fucking disgusting, especially the bigger sports schools. just brothels by another name.