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    FORCE & RUGBYWA LINKS WITH ALCOHOL.THINK AGAIN

    WESTERN FORCE MEDIA RELEASE
    Tuesday, 16 December 2014


    RugbyWA and the Western Force have entered into a major partnership to promote Alcohol.Think Again.

    The partnership with State Government’s health promotion body, Healthway, will promote the importance of drinking in moderation and raise awareness around the dangers of excessive alcohol use, in addition to encouraging other important health initiatives.

    Through the agreement, the Alcohol.Think Again health message will feature across the back of the Western Force playing jersey and training strip. Alcohol.Think Again will receive naming rights to the Alcohol.Think Again Summer Sevens Series, and all levels of women’s rugby, including the Alcohol.Think Again Women’s competition, and Alcohol.Think Again WA Women’s Sevens and Alcohol.Think Again Women’s WA State representative sides.

    Nearly one in 13 Western Australians drink every day, and nearly one in four drink at levels that places them at risk of alcohol-related harm and ill-health in their lifetime. More than 10 people per week die in Western Australia as a result of alcohol-related conditions.

    RugbyWA CEO Mark Sinderberry says the partnership will help drive an important community message.

    “As an active member of our community, it’s important that we – as people and as an organisation –get behind positive campaigns like Alcohol.Think Again,” he said.

    “Our game has a number of key values, including respecting your opponent and the referee, and the ability to play hard for 80 minutes and then socialise with your opponent after the match.

    “However, it’s important that we’re playing our role in preventing risky or excessive drinking and educating on the dangers associated with it, as well as promoting the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.

    “We have an extremely passionate rugby community in Western Australia, and anything that we can do to promote their health and safety – and the community more broadly – through partnerships like this with Healthway and Alcohol.Think Again, is certainly a positive move.”

    Healthway Chair, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said: “We are delighted to welcome RugbyWA back as one of our major sports partners.

    “Sport provides important role models for the community and for kids and it is fantastic to see another high profile sport promoting the message about low risk drinking and working to create a healthy environment for everyone involved.

    “We know that people’s attitudes and behaviours towards alcohol use are influenced in sporting environments.

    “The Healthway partnership with RugbyWA will support more information getting out to the community about the short- and long-term risks associated with alcohol use and provide an opportunity to further our work to change the drinking culture.

    “Sport has been linked with a culture of high risk drinking but that is changing rapidly now with almost all of the major teams and sports in WA promoting Alcohol.Think Again or other health messages in partnership with Healthway.

    “RugbyWA and the Western Force will be joining the West Australian Cricket Association, Perth Wildcats, West Coast Fever and Perth Heat all promoting Alcohol.Think Again and we look forward to working with them.”

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    I think The InnFORCEers will stick with as our major sponsor, and stick with our motto..............................Alcohol. Drink Again

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    Another step in the right direction of being great role models for the kids.

    Perfect fit for the culture being created within the Franchise.

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    When it comes to game day....I think....ALCOHOL!!

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    I don't endorse this product!

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    Hey Boog, I'd say most in that shot would hold a liquor licence themselves anyway

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    Quote Originally Posted by The InnFORCEr View Post
    Hey Boog, I'd say most in that shot would hold a liquor licence themselves anyway
    You should learn how to spel proply.

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    Encouraging sensible drinking habits, indeed even encouraging total abstinence, is fine.

    The problem lies in the evangelical and obsessive pursuit by some of the best interests of others, by forcing their views and opinions on others as if there is only one direction worthy of following, theirs.

    Unlike smoking, drinking, in a controlled social setting, where trouble makers are ejected, such as in a properly conducted bar or club, usually can harm no-one but yourself, and, occasionally, your dignity, if you permit yourself to lose self control.

    True, problem drinkers and alcoholics are a burden on society in other ways, both socially and medically, but it is insulting and wrong to suggest that everyone, or indeed a significant minority of people who have a drink, or even several, are going to become someone else's problem.

    Everyone is entitled to travel the road to perdition or glory in their own way, and I would hate to see this sponsorship as an attempt by the salvationists to exercise their control over the availability of alcohol at the clubs.

    If a sport becomes dependent on a particular form of sponsorship which comes with strings attached, those strings can eventually turn into the hangman's rope that squeezes the life out of it.

    Like it or not, within reason, rugby is an environment in which drinking is an accepted and acceptable social norm.

    Change that, and it will become a sport engaged in only by athletes, not the grass roots. It will be destroyed for those of us who are it's lifeblood.

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    Singing from a similar hymn sheet as Fulvio, I thought the McDonalds sponsorship came at the cost of Healthway funding.

    Is that correct, and if so, what does that mean in the wash-up.

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    it means,if you have a McDonalds with a beer,you are doomed

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    Quote Originally Posted by GIGS20 View Post
    Singing from a similar hymn sheet as Fulvio, I thought the McDonalds sponsorship came at the cost of Healthway funding.

    Is that correct, and if so, what does that mean in the wash-up.
    Looking at the partners on the Force website, Macdonalds is no longer listed as a partner.

    Force Partners

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    Fulvio, I think you'll find drinking responsibly is the message, not abstinence.

    Anecdotal evidence over time suggests that at both Subi and NIB, Rugby Union patrons have pretty much followed this mantra. So, as long as we continue doing the same, it shouldn't be a problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazzmania View Post
    Looking at the partners on the Force website, Macdonalds is no longer listed as a partner.

    Force Partners
    That's what I thought would be the case.

    It's a shame, I far prefer to suck money out of the corporate world than government funding. (not that I particularly care for McDonald's, but they have plenty of money which doesn't come out of my taxes)

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