butt monkey wrote:
As for any sponsorship deal "running out", as I said, the rumour I heard was that no "deal" was in place! Mr Whelan got "free" advertising courtesy of the Warriors!!!
Free as in paying £450,000 for Fielden, paying off Milward, getting Noble in and so on you mean?
It was I am sure just the way DW ran the club given he owned it, the ground and the JJB company itself. It was "all one big thing" to him so I am sure the fact we didn't get any sponsorship for the shirts was more than offset by other money DW spent on the club. Would you not agree?
Now obviously IL needs to get sponsorship because I don't think his pockets as deep as DW's but I don't think it was some heinous crime DW committed not paying shirt sponsorship for the reasons stated above.
As to shirt sponsorship this year, IL knew the score on that when he bought the club.
Dave