Player Sponsorship

While they were listing out the team on the big screen, I saw a few players without sponsorship. Would anyone else be interested in contributing to a player being sponsored by the Connacht Clan? George Naoupu was an obvious one who stood out as not having sponsorship.

I believe it used to be something like €500 to sponsor a player. It may be more now but I think its very possible to get 50 people contributing €10 or 25 contributing €20 and it would give the Clan a bit more publicity among supporters.

Maybe a Connacht Clan player sponsorship site similar to the grassroots to greenshirts could be set up by the branch to allow everyone contribute whatever they felt they could and maybe we could sponsor more than one player?

Just an idea.

Borders no.2 wrote: While they were listing out the team on the big screen, I saw a few players without sponsorship. Would anyone else be interested in contributing to a player being sponsored by the Connacht Clan? George Naoupu was an obvious one who stood out as not having sponsorship.

I believe it used to be something like €500 to sponsor a player. It may be more now but I think its very possible to get 50 people contributing €10 or 25 contributing €20 and it would give the Clan a bit more publicity among supporters.

Maybe a Connacht Clan player sponsorship site similar to the grassroots to greenshirts could be set up by the branch to allow everyone contribute whatever they felt they could and maybe we could sponsor more than one player?

Just an idea.

I'd contribute for definite

ConnachtCows wrote: I'd contribute for definite

I'd throw a few bob in for it.

Count me in

I'm more than happy to follow up with the branch in relation to this if there is enough interest.

Only 13 of the forum members have voted and we have over €300 promised.

There are nearly 400 users of this forum, I know we can reach €500 before the season starts proper.

Remember you can get involved for as little as €10.

I think Borders no 2 made it perfectly clear at the beginning of this topic what the goal for the money was going to be (at least I understood it).
Try to try and raise about €500 so that the Clan could help sponsor one of the players.

Look at the recent examples run by the Branch “Grass roots to Green shirts” which has stalled and fallen pitifully short of its target. This was something which to use your phrase was “formalised what the objective” had lots of time and money spent on it, and to what objective. In the end, it will be lucky to cover its costs.

At lease Borders no 2 is taking the time to suggest ideas. I would rather know if there is sufficient interest in an idea before spending time and effort on it and before the Clan approaches the marketing department of the Branch.

We would look pretty stupid if we approached someone about sponsorship only to find out that there would not be enough support to follow it up. At least this way we will know. If we do not reach pledges of €500 buy simply asking a question, there is absolutely no point in going to the effort of organising the structure, and getting someone to spend the time collecting it for real.

To use a quote from one of my favourite moves of the 70’s, Kelly’s Heroes “Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves”.