Highlanders vs. Blues
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
@antipodean said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
I say dump this prick. The ABs don't need him and neither does NZ rugby.
You might want to speak to the sponsor first who are clearly smart enough that this furore has provided them with an amount of free advertising they couldn't have hoped for. Arguably on a level that their actual sponsorship wasn't going to provide.
Something that has been mentioned numerous times already.
Makes SBW's "moral stand" even more ridiculous.
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So before SBW is burnt at the stake here is a different view on the conscientious objection clause.
Of course, I assume SBW won't be playing the 2nd test vs the Lions either.
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@Frye Instant Finance?
Obviously these sort of things happen more often than we think. It's just not played out in the public arena.
Sure SBW could have handled it better but the only option I see is to have a specially made jersey missing certain sponsors logos like Amla and Tahir do with the SA cricket team.
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@Bovidae the issue for me is why has this suddenly become an issue for him?
I know people love to put the boot into the guy, and some of it is well deserved, but what you hear form his team mates and coaches, he is the ultimate professional and great guy to have in your team, so makes you wonder if it is the advice (or lack of) he gets elsewhere about things that seem to be the issue.
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@Bovidae said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
@Frye Instant Finance?
Obviously these sort of things happen more often than we think. It's just not played out in the public arena.
Sure SBW could have handled it better but the only option I see is to have a specially made jersey missing certain sponsors logos like Amla and Tahir do with the SA cricket team.
He had the names of his family embroidered into the jersey so you'd imagine it would have been easy enough for the logo to be removed pre-game. But nobody would have noticed that so what would be the point.
Doing an add is completely different imho because it makes you a public face of that product and implies that you personally endorse it.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
He had the names of his family embroidered into the jersey so you'd imagine it would have been easy enough for the logo to be removed pre-game.
I'd expect the jerseys are bulk made and the extra embroidery is post.
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@antipodean said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
He had the names of his family embroidered into the jersey so you'd imagine it would have been easy enough for the logo to be removed pre-game.
I'd expect the jerseys are bulk made and the extra embroidery is post.
Sure, but he's had ample time to request any alterations.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
@antipodean said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
He had the names of his family embroidered into the jersey so you'd imagine it would have been easy enough for the logo to be removed pre-game.
I'd expect the jerseys are bulk made and the extra embroidery is post.
Sure, but he's had ample time to request any alterations.
So your issue is timing?
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Sonny Bill Williams is on the brink of getting a dispensation to wear a special jersey without the logos of two of the Blues' and New Zealand Rugby's most significant sponsors on it.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11836304
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New Zealand Rugby has confirmed that all of the country's professional rugby players have a clause in their collective contracts allowing them to opt out of promoting finance companies, banks, alcohol companies, tobacco companies and gambling companies.
Doesn't seem to be a problem to me. I'd wager AIG will still be prominent on a particular black jersey he wears...
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@antipodean guess Insurance is seen slightly differently but Allah?
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I prefer jerseys free from Sponsors logos.
I trust the public will be given the option to buy the Blues jersey, SBW edition...
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@Billy-Tell I'd love a Blues jersey without the NIB logo splattered all over the front.
although the training jersey suits it.
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@taniwharugby I agree. Hopefully he clarifies this week why the stance has only being taken now and we move on. This is becoming more of a story than it needed to be.
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@taniwharugby said in Highlanders vs. Blues:
@Bovidae the issue for me is why has this suddenly become an issue for him?
I know people love to put the boot into the guy, and some of it is well deserved, but what you hear form his team mates and coaches, he is the ultimate professional and great guy to have in your team, so makes you wonder if it is the advice (or lack of) he gets elsewhere about things that seem to be the issue.
Haha you'd think he was 10 years old. If he chooses to associate with people like Nasser and raging homophobes like Menk then that is a reflection of his own character.
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If the conscientious objector thing was key, surely the Blues management would have known at the start of the season (or when contract was signed) and prepared for the eventuality of SBW on the field with a jersey sans BNZ logo.
By whacking on lots of peach coloured strapping tape over a dark blue jersey, he has deliberately made it a noticeable thing. HEY EVERYONE I'VE COVERED UP SOMETHING. When it could have been a more discreet black marker pen or black tape or whatever.
And he's played plenty of games with the BNZ logo on jerseys uncovered. Why now is it an issue?
Publicity stunt.
