lasted one day as CEO of Essendon this month when the club decided he could not support both the teachings of his church on homosexuality and the social values of the club.
The range of company activities considered unobjectionable as sponsors can also only shrink.
Woodside Energy, for example, is having a booming year financially thanks to surging global demand for its gas due to dire shortages across Europe, exacerbated by the fallout from the invasion of Ukraine. Socially, the company’s outlook is far more volatile despite the fears of many people about their ability to heat homes or businesses this winter.demanding the AFL club dump Woodside as its major sponsor because of its oil and gas activities.
This doesn’t mean the club will agree. But it does mean management of club and company will have to manage the loud, uncomfortable clamour – even from a minority – for dissociating the team from “fossil fuels”. Woodside’s immense value to the economy is supposedly not part of the game.This inevitably means individual players will also be freer to register personal disapproval of deals – including presumably wearing of logos.
The fact Alinta will end its five-year sponsorship deal with Cricket Australia received much more public attention, for example, after
Anyone would think these companies that sponsee sporting clubs actually get any value for their money, they will just straight out advertise using other mediums, they won’t actually care, only losers are the sporting bodies them selves, all I can say is lots of luck
Haven’t seen any renewable energy companies offering sponsorship- to busy taking tax payer handouts from the government.
Stuff the sports….. let the woke step up and sponsor
Sport going woke now!!! 🤡
It looks like a case of compliance by sports folks if sports management and corporation are going to force sponsorship on them.