Phoenix Sponsorship

Yeah Id like a company like Xero to sponsor us

If it was someone like Xero, why not make the entire away strip their corporate blue. Could be worth extra dosh.

Sony could have been putting the PS4 logo across the kit - just before it's launch. Oh well. Hopefully nothing garish

I doubt that Xero would see any value in sponsoring the Nix. I'd imagine any new sponsor will be a brand with a broad trans-Tasman appeal. I'd like to see something like Air New Zealand - could be good tie-ins for travelling fans.

coll look with the away kit....not so sure on stripey

my mate works for Ricoh. He told me a couple of weeks ago they are going to sponsor the phoenix, but wasn't sure at at what level. Could be a go.

Thats two ends of that Vivian St block covered then..plus the billboard, on busy streets....nice

Doesn't look like reading are renewing their sponsorship. 

Cameron Lindsay's mates will have to pay for their movies now. 

Fontera?

The email out today says that the new shirt and 'principle partner' will be revealed on sunday...

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/wellingtonphoenix/news-display/wellington-phoenix-announce-new-principal-partner/74807

Huawei signed on for 3 years

Have they signed on to spy for us or to given the Chinese national team insights into who'll Siggy will stomp on when we play them...

new chant..Hu a wei

Hu a wei the lads? (fake Geordie accent)

No TAB patch on the sleeve on this season's strip? TAB gonski?

Hopefully

Dont get me wrong, I like the nix getting money wherever they can get it, but gambling sponsorship... no thanks

Nix games are full of kids, made me sick to see the place swamped with pro-gambling carry-on 

Yup/

So no Hard News and Staf this year then?

lol

What about some Huawei eye candy then? 

Banzai aiieee would be happy if his sig is anything to go by

Thems are Korean (SNSD).  Huawei is Chinese.

I however do not discriminate when it comes to eye candy. I am an equal opportunities perv.

Put it this way, based on the first clip we had with them trying to pronounce Huawei, I'm not fussed if we lose TAB. They seem like a 'fun brand' especially if they can take a laugh at themselves. If they can continue how they started, I think its going to be a great success.

Do we get a discount if we buy one of their phones?

Im not too fussed about losing TAB. Theres something i find unsettling about your own sponsor showing the halftime odds when youre trailing... i dunno. Their job is to be neutral when it comes to gambling, so ive always found it strange that theyve tried to align themselves with the Nix.

This is awkward.....

Why?

Yes I saw that but why is it awkward?

I've made anti-gambling statements before - during last season when TAB vomited their branding all over the stadium. I don't see how anything changes or becomes awkward. 

I am happy at least that their sponsorship has been scaled down to just taking money from mugs around here. 

Well that didn't take long.

Didn't George Harrison sing a song about Wah Way once?

Came across an interesting feature on Huawei in Time magazine April 15 2013:

Some would say the Nix are now effectively sponsored by the People's Liberation Army.

Principally a manufacturer of telecommunications hardware, Huawei are a shady outfit, banned from tendering for contracts in Australia and the USA. This is due to concerns that as a company with close ties to the Chinese government, military and intelligence, it could use its telco products for spying and sabotage.

These are actually reasonable fears considering that the Chinese government and its intelligence agencies have been involved in cyberattacks on the US government and businesses. And that more than 100 individuals or corporations were charged with industrial spying in the US on behalf of Chinese interests last year.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-10/chinese-telco-huawei-tries-to-shake-off-spy-image/4744886

They'll be seeing the Phoenix sponsorship as a way of trying to gain acceptance in the Australian market for it's principal business of telco network equipment after it was barred from tendering for the national broadband network there (sales of its smart phones are allowed everywhere as they are not seen as a security threat).

Huawei are one of the world's biggest corporations, the second-biggest supplier of telecommunications infrastructure after Sweden's Ericsson and the third largest smartphone company, with $ US 34.5 billion in sales last year (more than McDonalds).

Of course, the truth often lies in-between - in my opinion, although there are grounds  to be suspicious of communist China's methods and intentions in some areas of business (it's a corrupt country with a bad government that infringes on human rights and is full of bad business practices and amoral attitudes of "the ends justifying the means"), often they are just trying to do business, the same as anyone else.

The Time magazine article is quite balanced and includes dissenting Western opinion on Huawei such as that of Eric Anderson of the National Intelligence University, Washington (author of "Sinophobia - the Huawei Story") who has found no evidence Huawei has ever been involved in espionage. Eric Harwit, University of Hawaii (author of "China's Telecommunications Revolution") believes US lawmakers are basically shutting Huawei out to protect US telecommunications equipment manufacturers.

However its founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei is ex-People's Liberation Army and thought even by some Chinese experts to retain ties with the military. Cheng Li, Brookings Institute: "The telecom industry is part of the national defence industry in China." Huawei's rapid growth has been linked to its ties with the Chinese government and hence huge resources made available to backing it.

Huawei remains mysterious as one of those peculiar Chinese communist business entities, never listed on any stock exchange and never publishing any financial records, never accountable to anyone except its own management and the Chinese government...Eric Harwit believes ties to the PLA are not significant, but admits that, like any Chinese company, they will in the end do whatever their government tells them to...

Recently a British parliamentary committee found cause for concern and began investigating the security implications of British Telecom's use of Huawei equipment....Canada are following suit...