South West Metro ‘Robertson Gardens’ PIRATES announce four(4) year sponsorship deal with Robertson
Gardens ‘Comfort Inn & Suites’ accommodation and conference and events centre- 281 Kessels Rd
Nathan.
On Wednesday 27th April 2011 the South West Metro PIRATES Basketball Association held its annual
Queensland Basketball League (QBL) Season launch at the venue of its new naming rights Sponsor –
Robertson Gardens. The venue was decked out in the PIRATES Gold and Purple team colors with flags
displaying the new sponsorship agreement. Steve Ryan (General Manager) of Robertson Gardens stated
that “they are very excited to enter into this 4 year agreement with a very locally based sporting
organisation which competes in the state wide competition at the highest level”. “The PIRATES have
enjoyed great success in recent years with both the Mens and Womens teams regularly competing in
the playoffs and Robertson Gardens wants to share and reward that success with this partnership.”
The season opening event was a great success with the players in the Development League and QBL
teams being presented with their playing singlets for 2011 and an opportunity for the strong South West
supporter group and volunteers to meet with the Robertson Gardens staff including Michelle AllsoppDirector of Sales and Marketing and the heads of each of the Robertson Gardens business units.
Certainly it was an opportunity for the new sponsor to showcase its conference and events facilities in
over 10 acres of the Robertson Gardens grounds. Ideal for Weddings and any celebration where they
take care of all the catering from 3-180 people together with a 4,000sqm trade fair field. Any enquiries
can be directed to Michelle on 07 38751999.
To mark the event SWMBI President Jan Brown welcomed all attendees and a celebratory cake was cut
with the help of Steve Ryan of Robertson Gardens as pictured below
Pirates players were presented with 2011 playing singlets
The Robertson Gardens PIRATES will commence the 2011 QBL season on Saturday 7th May when they
host the Gold Coast Rollers. The D-League games will commence at 3.00pm and the QBL Womens game
at 5pm and Mens tip Off is at 7.00pm. All Pirates games are held at the Hibiscus Sports Complex Klummp
Rd Upper Mt Gravatt. There is a long and fierce rivalry between the Pirates and the Rollers with all
teams featuring current and past WNBL and NBL players such as Pirates -Brendan Teys, Nate Niesler,
Steve Broom (Mens) and Jess Wallis in the Womens. Whilst the Rollers Men have got Scott McGregor
and ‘ Australian Boomer’ Adam Gibson on their Roster in 2011.