Archie and those gloves

phoenix johnson · **Posted:** Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:36 pm

There's a good marketing angle that the club could use with DeLuca and those gloves he wore last night.

Could come up with some sort of TV advert where DeLuca is advertising the brand of gloves. Coould go a little something like this...

"Hi, I'm Adrian DeLuca from the Carlton Football Club. For awhile I found it hard to take a mark whilst playing on the weekend for the Blues. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get the ball to stick right. But now that I use *insert brand name gloves* taking a mark is a breeze. *Recite brand's catchy slogan*

The first half of the ad can have footage of DeLuca dropping mark after mark and then when he mentions he is using the gloves, the footage can change to him taking mark after mark.

Could work if done right.

The Shag · **Posted:** Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:18 pm

or we could delist him...

TheGame · **Posted:** Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:20 pm

We'd have some pretty funny footage of him dropping the ball despite being the only guy on screen.

Mighty Blues · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:31 pm **Posts:** 408

ahhh how does that song go....and you took the words right out of my mouth! :lol:

i agree 100% goodbye Adrian.

Andain · **Posted:** Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:33 pm

He played... acceptable football against Sydney.

We shouldn't really bag him after that.

phoenix johnson · **Posted:** Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:43 pm

I was being serious.

Probably wouldn't use the exact dialogue that I have provided above, but something along those lines could work.

TheGame · **Posted:** Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:01 pm

Quote:

A short time ago my football life was a nightmare, I would stick my arms in the air, open my hands and the ball would just bounce out. After the first few failures it started to get me down and things just went from bad to worse. Looking at all the other players, the fans even my neighbours I just felt like they were laughing at me and it really had me in a slump. That's when I started using 'TheGloves'!

Ryan8024 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:01 pm

I hear what you're saying PJ, but I would hate to see him doing something like that.

It's good in theory (and the money would have to be pretty good for him to do it), but I'd prefer not to watch an advertisement with one of our players, virtually conceding the fact that he needs assistance with a simple skill of the game, like marking the ball.

Don't get me wrong, when I saw him wearing the gloves, and holding his marks, the first thing I thought was "good on him, he realises he's having a problem, and he's doing something about it"... I just don't think it would be good for his image, or the image of the club, to run an ad campaign like that.

budzy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:17 am **Posts:** 8128

Ryan8024 wrote:

"good on him, he realises he's having a problem, and he's doing something about it".

Absolutely. Good on him for being professional by doing everything possible to best out of himself.
Just let him quietly work away at improving the skills that he lacks.

blu944 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:24 pm

phoenix johnson wrote:

There's a good marketing angle that the club could use with DeLuca and those gloves he wore last night.

Could come up with some sort of TV advert where DeLuca is advertising the brand of gloves. Coould go a little something like this...

"Hi, I'm Adrian DeLuca from the Carlton Football Club. For awhile I found it hard to take a mark whilst playing on the weekend for the Blues. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get the ball to stick right. But now that I use *insert brand name gloves* taking a mark is a breeze. *Recite brand's catchy slogan*

The first half of the ad can have footage of DeLuca dropping mark after mark and then when he mentions he is using the gloves, the footage can change to him taking mark after mark.

Could work if done right.

Or he could take the gloves off and be the face of teflon frying pans

Ponkstar · **Posted:** Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:14 am

"New, AFL Brand Sticky Gloves. As recommended to me by Don Boravich and Hoadie Netherlands".

Lace Out · **Posted:** Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:16 am

I thought the ball looked abit dull on saturday night..
I think the ball might of been covered with thousands of little hooks..

Where they Velcro gloves? They could be promoted for beach use also!

Fabulous · **Posted:** Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:53 pm

It would be a funny commercial.
I could just see a perfect drop punt kicked to a DeLuca.
De Luca leaps for an overhead mark,
the ball slips through his fingers,
ends up getting hit in the head by the ball.

We would have so much footage of that happening, all you could do is laugh about it.

Car17on · **Posted:** Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:26 pm

TheGame wrote:

Quote:

A short time ago my football life was a nightmare, I would stick my arms in the air, open my hands and the ball would just bounce out. After the first few failures it started to get me down and things just went from bad to worse. Looking at all the other players, the fans even my neighbours I just felt like they were laughing at me and it really had me in a slump. That's when I started using 'TheGloves'!

Which is when we started calling him

"One Grab"

Andain wrote:

Quote:

He played... acceptable football against Sydney

Which is why we started calling him "One Grab"

It's just too bad Sydney don't know how to play respectable football .. perhaps that belongs in another thread

phoenix johnson · **Posted:** Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:00 pm

DeLuca is Italian for "Two Grabs"

:lol:

Best.line.ever.

camel · **Posted:** Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:27 pm

Andain wrote:

He played... acceptable football against Sydney.

We shouldn't really bag him after that.

Agreed. He was far from our worst, and was actually one of the few that did reasonably okay in that shiteful first half.

His biggest concern is being likened to Scott Camporeale by Tim Lane. :lol:

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