The dead rise!
So you know about Hurley’s new owners, Bluestar Alliance, rapidly and cleverly cleaning up its balance sheet by removing millions of dollars in surfers’ salaries from the ledger
Once, the best team ever assembled, John John, Julian, Filipe, Carissa, Kolohe, Eli Hanneman, Rob Machado etc, reduced to a rump of surfers clinging to pre-existing contracts.
Now, according to a well-placed source (“If only you knew,” she tells me), Bluestar are quietly negotiating to bring back at least some of its jettisoned team, with Eli Hanneman being re-signed for $us250,00 a year.
“Seems like the backlash was too hard for them and realising they had cooked too many geese are righting their wrongs,” said the source. “Very quietly and with little to no fanfare. Rob could be next. Amazing, back from the dead.”
Carrisa Moore is an interesting study.
Is she or isn’t she?
Hurley has confirmed Carissa, who is taking a year off the tour, remains signed to the company until 2025 but Instagram posts reveal a pointed absence of Hurley stickers.
“Guessing they will say she never let, just protracted negotiations as she never posted a goodbye Hurley post,” says the source. ”
Here, from one hour ago. Note wetsuit coat.
Fascinating, yes?
Who’s Eli ?
Carissa is back on hurley
Interesting the forecast was that surfers would have to start signing with non-endemic brands- and clearly Hurley is not a surf brand anymore. So now surfers are signing with non endemic Hurley. Since Hurley’s definitely not a surf brand anymore, what is it?
Can anyone on this chat spell Hurley?
“From the peaks”?
She’s a Pro through and through. Even from IG, she subtly reminds VALleys of the dizzying heights between the VALley dwellers and those who’s passion for surf rise up to the highest peaks.
if they gave wardo 250k per year, hed be fucking and fighting around the world and everyone would tune in and watch. no one cares about Eli.
Put Bruce Irons on as well!
To watch videos of him missing planes? Jeezus, aren’t vlogs of flogs already full enough of airport waiting rooms?
I’m thinking thus
Surfing sells. Just not enough coin to support a 199 surfers on tour plus coaches and other assorted middle men / bloggers/ surf media.
The Olympics IS the cash cow. If your not there your third tiered kinda sellable as a surfer.
If you win Gold. Your going to be rich and untouchable for four years till the next Olympic.
Any medel will put a surfer into the stratosphere But gold is the ticket to the moon.
The WSL. With elo and Ziff is going to be regulated too a privately run qualifying comp to weed out the best for Olympic competition. A wsl world title will be just be something you need under your belt to make it to the real competition…the Olympics!
Unless the ISP takes that role (rightly) off the WSL and play even more serious.
Miss Moore is being very very smart. Why sign a great deal when / if she becomes the first gold medal winner she will be able write a check for a lifetime and retire.
The WSL brand is what’s being abandoned by sponserers. Not the Surfers!
It will be interesting to see how the retail backlash plays out. A well placed “source” told me that significant rethinking of retail commitment is happening. Perhaps that is part of the panic?
I think works only once.
I really wish the remaining Hurley team had other decent options and they all decided to bail en-masse. It would be an awesome study in the intangible brand value of sponsored surfers.
Pro surfers have only one option.
That Need to win!
It’s the only bunniness model they have to work with
So Eli resigned and was paid out $250k so the new owners could reassemble their surf team? Then he goes out and re-signs with Hurley for $25k? ….dumb ass surfers.
Realistically though
It’s quite refreshing that a bloke who isn’t in the CT is getting a year of decent pay purely by riding a few waves, hanging with the Florence clan and wearing a shitty (possibly pearl) necklace…
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So don’t renew contracts but then resign a handful of desperates for low-budg deals? Sounds like a shrewd move to me.
Hahaha yeah that’d be nice. Perhaps I could ask for one.
I only got a message saying that I’m banned and months later I accidentally tried to comment again and it renotified me that I’m banned.
Dunno what for though, perhaps for telling the truth and calling Kelly a fuckwit with a manky looking bird or something similar….
Can’t say as I “love this shit”, but it does make for a few laughs on a hot afternoon sipping beer while hiding from the sun after feeding out bailage and pumping water all morning haha
The beauty of this non fascist digital surfrag (unlike stab and inertia who both banned me) is that I can publicly say that I don’t agree at all that Jules is awesome. He may be a great surfboard rider, but seems to be a fuckin’ pain in the arse whinging crybaby.
Aahhhh, the enjoyment of democracy and freedom of speech…
P.S. I’d love to see all these surfie ragtrade brands get thrashed upon the rocks till dead
got told last week they were re signing some of the cast offs.
Carissa still pushing for the maternity clause.
You heard it here first.
Neatly typed, expertly folded, delivered by serious man with pen.
This idea would be better if I didn’t post it for all to see, but Beach Grit should insert itself, lovingly so, so to speak into these revitalization nation contract renegotiations with sly offers to say, I don’t know, create some hyperlink to battle of the banned’s worth valuation uptick. Get Bluestar Alliance thinking they’ll lose lose if they don’t pony up instead of targeting signings on the cheap.
Not sure this makes sense. May need Hurluley regal legal dept input
Hurluley is primed and ready to take up the slack.
Sponsorhsip deals include firm handshakes, smiles, encouraging phone calls, a spare bed round at my place, fresh plunger coffee, occasional stickers, maybe a free T-shirt.
I do hope Eli and Rob thanked Hurluey management for the backlash. Possibly a resigning commission?
Story update! Eli resigns for 250k a year, according to source.
Wow! Can I get that deal too?
You may want to work on your rootability?
Yeah I gotta tone it down. Wife’s getting jealous.
You got me with fresh plunger coffee.
Sorry for your loss.
https://www.ocbj.com/news/2…
Oh that’s nothing to do with us.
Small fry. Chump Change.
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Hurluley’s aggressive and very sudden entry into the marketplace has single-handedly saved professional surfing.
You know what Eli gets without Hurluley waiting in the wings, teeth bared and with the scent of blood tingling its nostrils?
I’ll tell you what Eli gets without Hurluley on its haunches, waiting to strike…
Eli gets NOTHING.
There, I said it.
Eli, without Hurluley you are NOTHING!!.
Huuuuuuuhhhh!
Take it to the bridge!
C’mon!
Mate am ready for my sponno – currently paid to surf at the mo best ever!! Can I send you a resume and may need the spare bed as the wife does not take my enthusiasm as job status
Oh, you’re deffo in the team mate.
That went without saying.
You’ll impress the shit out of second creek when you rock up with your stickers.
What is “Hurluley”, CB? Is it a cross between Hurley and Lululemon?
They wish. It’s where Hurley and Lululemon came for naming inspiration.
It’s the shit buddy. Finally a brand that stands for everything that we are all about. Just wait till you see some of their possible advertising sketches that CB has leaked.