What about approaching the club and asking for a special fans sponsership package, that way it gives comerercial companies a chance to sponser indiviudal players as its all about brand aweness for them. i.e. getting there name read out each game, it also give us a unique deal that stands out and lets the squad know its means something to us

I am sure if the club and ourselves get our thinking caps i we can come up with a deal that is unique and out side the box. We are talking serrious amounts of monies here with what has been pledged.

There has to be an oppotunity to do something differant

Just to for starters -

1) we could sponser the team sheet and readings

2) Top try scorer award each match

3) How about sposering the Man of the match presentation, were one of us presents the MOM award each week (name drawn out)

4) Some way of spowering the Coaching team and support staff so when they come out at the start of the match and half time they get a special announcment, that would give us an opportuity to appluad or sing!

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In return the club could arrange for some signed balls or shirts at the end of the season which we could draw out of the hat

Or we could pick up the sponsership of the players that comercial companies dont come in for thus, maximising the number of players we sponser

i like your thinking jonnie.

I have contacted the club's marketing team to enquire about a unique package that would mean something extra special.

More pledges would help. Great effort so far

as a follow up to this, there are many people who support Halifax who never see this board, perhaps there is an opportunity at the Xmas friendlies to work with the club to advertise that a group of fans is getting together and sponsering the team/club in an extra unique way, thus attemtping to bolster our pot!

maybe even a chance to get the courier invloved,

FANS rally behind team and find uniquie marketing idea!

we can bounce ideas around for nowt, coz if we dont come up with anything, we can always go with the player kit sporsership as orgionally planned!

only ideas at this point

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i wonder how much it would be to get something on the shirts from the fans!

that way we would be on all playing shirts and replicas!
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This is for the message board.

We could perhaps sponsor the crossbars on the posts and simply have the web address across it?

Or we could sponsor the ball boys/girls or maybe when we are on SKY we have one of those banner things that the team destroys when they burst through it?

I like the idea of a unique package.

I like this idea I am all for thinking out of the box and geting something differant going. The club already do a man of the match and market it quite sucsessfully so we need something they don`t do. Some time ago we used to do a "Champagne Moment" where we would pick out a moment in the match that was something special we did not give the player champagne we gave them money in an envelope we could do something like that and have a draw so 2 tickets were given by the club every match for the after match presentation to award the player with whatever is decided .It also gives another player a chance of winning something if he produces something spectacular in the game without being man of the match.

Sponsor the cheerleaders. Owner of winning draw ticket gets a private dance

Good point TS, i agree, having thought about it

This is getting out of hand.

Personally, I'm not interested in any of these ideas. This started out as kit sponsorship and has slowly been taken over by these out of the box musings. It is something for the users of this message board so that they can help out the club and have a chance at winning a piece of playing kit; something they can keep. I mean, sponsoring the crossbar or advertising the forum on it. Per-lease. Sorry to pour scorn on that idea, but I really think it is half-baked. Also, is giving the player a gratuity strictly legal, and not everyone would be able to go into the bar after the game to give it to them. I couldn't. How would the player be voted for during that game?

I'm sorry, but unless there is an alternative idea that EVERYONE likes then we're sticking to the original idea.

Yeah ! Sock it to 'em TS!

Great effort on the donation front by the members of this board - it's great to see.

as i said on my post - they are ideas - if no one ever had any ideas were would we be!

But agree unless everbody is in agreement the orgional idea stands

It would not hurt however to ask the club if there is uniquie opportunity that involves some playing kit, u never know TS we could end up with more!

we can ask for nowt!

i have had a few messages, so thought i would post on here so everyone could see

some of the ideas mentioned have been good and i think a unique sponsorship would be good for both parties.

however we feel that things could be complicated with bar passes and dinning options be given. it would be hard for us to monitor (what if you lose the bar pass, who does it go to at the end of the day etc) and hard for you to choose who gets them for each game (is someone who gives £5 equal to one who gives £50? who gets it for a big game V Widnes etc)

so we want to try and keep it simple with us giving you things that you can raffle (shirts, limited edition pictures, signed balls, hoodies etc)

i have personally mentioned that you could sponsor a full kit and the crowd as the 18th man. the crowd has been sponsored in the past, and it would be relevant for a fans forum to sponsor this.

it also means the forum gets mentioned on the PA and in the programme, so possibly new members

we can then arrange for around 10 items to be donated for your cause (to raffle or do with what you wish) and should overall offer a decent value for money that shouldn't cause too much hassle or potential problems

overall it is up to you guys though, and the club will try and offer you something that you are all happy with. we are more than willing to listen to any ideas that you have.

Well I think the idea of sponsoring the 18th man is a good one too but I will go along with what TS wants.