2010 WORLD CUP MERCHANDISE

**Dave A** · 13-Jan-10, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by The Flying Scotsman

Also Listening to the sound of these imfamous vuvuzela's should be an experience to saviour wooooo hoooooo

Let's hope they don't ban them for the World Cup. It's definitely part of our local flavour!

Originally Posted by wynn

problem with the server at the moment?????

The TFSA server, Wynn?

**Pap_sak** · 12-Jan-10, 12:03 PM

I was very slow off the mark - looked at the prices and said "no way, too high" I was wrong...Retailers are very weary of having dead stock after the WC.

**tonyflanigan** · 12-Jan-10, 09:04 PM

@ Scotsman. um... I'm kinda Irish, or so I've been told at any rate, but apart from that, no apologies or any such thing for background. I mean, who am I to bitch at my dad 'cos of his background. LOL, all I know is that to get to the Mother Country, you fly north, and about two thirds of the way there you turn left. I think.

Next up, and this is for Marq as well. Marq, you bring up a few damn good points. I'm not going to go into the fifa (read political) angle now. I may just get annoyed and ban kilts or declare tartan illegal. South Africans do have what it takes to be successful, anywhere in the world. I have considered the emigration thing many times, but (close yr eyes admin) fuck that. South Africa is where I was born, and South Africa is where I stay. In other posts it may seem that I'm disenchanted, I am, but I have made the decision to do the best that I can, right here. We have international clients who are totally blown awat with the work we have done for them, and all have become long-term clients.

I think that what I'm trying to get to is that rather than cry into our Klippies and coke, and buy the newspapers just to get peed off at what our esteemed national leadership is up to, we should rather expend our energy and expertise on those things that will bring us what we want (eg.:work, to make money, to buy a car or a bottle of scotch).

No doubt there are many places in South Africa that are only going to get crumbs out of the WC, but don't let that stop you, or slow you down. We may not be the biggest biz in our field, not even the best, but what we do have is excellent customer service, and that, when all is said and done, is where our next client comes from.

I'm not pessimistic about South Africans, just the ones who feel they deserve everything just because of who they are.

Oh, and poor service delivery for the tourism industry,

, a fave topic, but I won't go into that now...

**The Flying Scotsman** · 13-Jan-10, 04:53 PM

With name like Flanigan Tony i knew where your roots lay a long time ago.

As the Scots would say "BÃ*onn adharca fada ar na ba thar lear"

**tonyflanigan** · 13-Jan-10, 06:48 PM

blarry hell Scotsman, I don't understand a word you've written there!

Lol, I am able to have a conversation in Hinglish, have a grasp of the mudder-tale (afrikaans), and can say a few bad things in two african dialects, but I swear, what I saw there in your post makes me wonder if I should'nt be speaking to my attorney...

Only problem is my attorney is sarf effrikin

**Marq** · 13-Jan-10, 07:29 PM

Gary Baily's website www.gameplan2010.co.za offers a few ideas on how to cash in on the worldcup.

Correction to that link its here.

I dont know that it offers anything positive. - for example - there are two ways to get into the accommodation thing - one, only if you are graded and two, only if you go with us. Some choice.

Then this is the solution to help the poor:-

It's vitally important that corporate South Africa is seen to be helping to get the benefits of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to the poorer communities - so any African type gifts, please try and source them from the rural communities, and please don't be shy about letting them know that corporate South Africa is helping the poorer communities!

This under sponsorship:-

Soccer has long been seen as the perfect vehicle for sponsors to deliver messages to the dream male demographic,

'dream male demographic' - what is that?

Seems the BS has already started in the quest for 2010 business opportunities.

**The Flying Scotsman** · 13-Jan-10, 04:36 PM

http://www.theforumsa.co.za/forums/group.php?groupid=10

**Dave A** · 14-Jan-10, 01:23 PM

Thanks Wynn. I'm a bit more sensitive than usual because I managed to crash the TFSA server quite spectacularly the day before. It was only a couple of minutes downtime, so I doubt too many people noticed.

Back on topic, I had a hawker trying to sell me a World Cup cap at the traffic lights less than an hour ago. It had the official logo, so I take it the pirates are starting already.