Bluetongue Stadium rights

[bikinigirl]

Does anyone else find it embarrassing that our stadium is named after a product that no longer exists?

Why haven't the signs been pulled down?

. costs money

. may then require some remedial works which cost even more money. perhaps our front of shirt sponsor for the acl would like to replace the signage with their own?

 

[VicMariner]

perhaps our front of shirt sponsor for the acl would like to replace the signage with their own?

Who's our ACL sponsor?

 

[Golly]

so who can name all the names grahame park has been called?

central coast stadium
bluetounge
northpower
express advocate

im sure theres more or at least caaled these more than once

 

[bikinigirl]

Who's our ACL sponsor?

... sorry, too subtle?



there was a lot of talk the other day about us not having a front of shirt sponsor for the acl game

 

[VicMariner]

... sorry, too subtle?



there was a lot of talk the other day about us not having a front of shirt sponsor for the acl game

Bah! I was hoping we had a sponsor. *shakes fist*

 

[tsd]

. costs money

. may then require some remedial works which cost even more money. perhaps our front of shirt sponsor for the acl would like to replace the signage with their own?

Ive got a battery drill and a spare hour, I'll do it!

 

[Gratis]

I hope this comes off - great security for the club, potential for the fans and peace of mind we'll stay on the coast!

 

[dibo]

I hope this comes off - great security for the club, potential for the fans and peace of mind we'll stay on the coast!

Hope what comes off?

 

[Gratis]

Hope what comes off?

Mariners taking control of blue tongue. I'm late to this thread

 

[dibo]

Mariners taking control of blue tongue. I'm late to this thread

Ah. Not happening. Fish interviewed former Mariners interim CEO before Christmas, and Adz typed it up. It covered stadium rights here:

And finally, stadium rights

We are talking with council who have decided to run it themselves, which is great, because we think they're probably the best people to do that, we just don't know what their proposal is going to be, and the lease for the current person runs out in February so we're looking forward to working with council to secure our games at Bluetongue. The ball is in their court somewhat; we're waiting to discuss and to look at their business plan and hope that we fit into that really strongly, and I'm sure we will because they're a great supporter of ours, and both Gosford and Wyong councils are very important to us but Gosford in particular because of the stadium.

Council asked for an expression of interest, which we put one in, so we said yes we'd like to run it and we'd like to run it like this, and so did a couple of other people, and when council got those expressions of interest they reviewed them and decided that they really would rather be more specific about what they were looking for. So the second stage is that they asked for a tender, where they could specifically ask we want you to deliver x-y-z, and we want you to pay for this-that and the other. When we looked at that we felt that those terms were too high and too expensive so we didn't put in a tender. So the confusion comes in yes we put in an expression of interest, no we didn't put in a tender, because we felt we couldn't meet those costs that council wanted to achieve.

There was one tender and it was what we term non-conforming; so they said they'd like to run it so basically what they did is they repeated what they said in their expression of interest I imagine, and council decided they weren't able to accept that, so they went to the market and no one in the market, no one in Australia, or anywhere else, could meet the terms that they requested. My understanding is from the minutes of their council meetings, is that they decided to write their own business plan and run it, which we're really excited about because we know what a strong supporter council is of the Mariners and of the Central Coast and we think it could be great.

 

[Gratis]

haha I see. for some reason I thought this was a new thread (even though I've seen it before) I thought the first post occured yesterday. damm

 

[Bladesman]

Big shake up going on at Gossie council so might be interesting to see what happens when the dust settles

 

[dibo]

In what sense?

 

[midfielder]

Big shake up going on at Gossie council so might be interesting to see what happens when the dust settles

Care to share what you know...

 

[Bladesman]

Gosford City Council means business. Having declared Council is “open for business” and “under new management” they are now “getting on with business”. To achieve their ambitious reform agenda, the organisation has streamlined its internal structure to separate strategy from operations, improve service alignment to improve quality and efficiency, and make Council more accessible and easier to do business with..

Existing Directors roles have been made redundant and applications are open for the new ones.....check out the careers page on the website to apply.

 

[finally retired]

apparently 17 of the 30 Department Managers are being axed as well as 2 of the 5 Directors. I guess someone thinks there are too many chiefs and not enough indians - probably the soon-to-be CEO who is the re-badged General Manager. Of course, those remaining will have twice the workload and will thus need to have their pay packages adjusted to reflect this, meaning no reduction in the total wage bill - except of course it will cost several million in redundancies. I guess this means we have half the current number of people working at Council at only a slightly increased cost over the next few years.

 

[style_cafe]

apparently 17 of the 30 Department Managers are being axed as well as 2 of the 5 Directors. I guess someone thinks there are too many chiefs and not enough indians - probably the soon-to-be CEO who is the re-badged General Manager. Of course, those remaining will have twice the workload and will thus need to have their pay packages adjusted to reflect this, meaning no reduction in the total wage bill - except of course it will cost several million in redundancies. I guess this means we have half the current number of people working at Council at only a slightly increased cost over the next few years.

Ring ICAC I don`t trust this Council......

 

[sydmariner]

Ring ICAC I don`t trust this Council......

so u dont trust lawrie

 

[Wombat]

SM

This Council is a nightmare to deal with although they are slightly better than a few years ago when they were voted the worst Council in Australia. That may have had something to do with our roads collapsing into giant sinkholes and taking months to fix.

Lawrie is doing a good job but is really just a figurehead.

 

[style_cafe]

so u dont trust lawrie

Lawrie is a figurehead. Take him off the boat & it still sails in the same direction.
I`ve had recent dealings with the council & I wouldn`t trust any of them.
They are pro-development regardless of what the people think.
They ignore their own LEP`s, DCP`s etc. & bypass the issues & public safety.