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Jack Toft

Years ago

2065 Wildcats members re-sign on day one of renewals

Melbourne have absolutely no reason not to be #1.

"Melbourne is the sporting capital of Australia"
Highest participation rate of basketball
More kids play basketball than football
Junior rep teams smashing nationals
Lots of company HQ's in Melbourne
Off season to AFL means sponsors can promote all year around
etc etc

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Jack Toft

Years ago

Perth do a lot of things right and there are a number of things that work in the favour of the Wildcats. There are some things other clubs and the NBL itself could learn from them, especially with the social media aspect, promotion and community/corporate engagement.

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Nathan of Perth

Years ago

^ And if you handed it to a few of the posters on here, it'd deliberately be a mess :P

Oh yeah, renewing, need to get on that.

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koberulz

Years ago

Yeah, there are a lot of favourable circumstances for Perth: on-court success, a new venue that was in itself all over the news in the months before its opening, an owner that doesn't mind spending money, reasonably friendly media, and they've probably got one of the most efficient advertising dollars in the league. The other capital cities would be way more expensive for the same coverage (they've had multiple full-page ads on the back of the paper, for example), and the regionals simply don't have as many eyeballs to reach.

That being said, I'm sure if you handed the team over to a poster from here at random, they'd be a mess in a pretty short space of time.

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Wookiee

Years ago

There's no doubting the professionalism of the Wildcats over the years, but it's more a good case study for the "get a rich owner who doesn't mind spending money over a bunch of seasons to allow the business to do things right, not cut any corners and actually build a solid, well run, off court business"

It's not just a case of putting the right people on the court, they've had some duds, just like other teams, but their professionalism off the court and being able to pay for the right people really helps too...

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Anonymous

Years ago

We will all be Wildcat fans by 2065

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