Stobart super league title sponsers

[wiggydoran]

According to the SL web site. RFL to give press conference on Wednesday.

could this be a conflicted of interest with Stobart sponsering widnes?

[exile in Tiger country]

According to the SL web site. RFL to give press conference on Wednesday.

could this be a conflicted of interest with Stobart sponsering widnes?

It's worse than that, isnt O'Connor the Widnes chairman (not Tez) CEO at Stobart or something similar?

[eccywarrior]

i think its great news and hope its biggest sponsor yet.
least its heard of unlike carnegie or engage.

[pieeater]

So its the Stobart super league for 2012. Good one!!!!

[mike binder]

have you only just found that out , was mentioned months ago

[josie andrews]

have you only just found that out , was mentioned months ago

Not too sure about that Mike. The reason there aren't any SL sponsor badges on players & replica shirts is because they hadn't got a sponsor up until last week!!

[jaws1]

According to the SL web site. RFL to give press conference on Wednesday.

could this be a conflicted of interest with Stobart sponsering widnes?

JJB sponsored SL as well as Wigan

[michael inch stoke]

According to the SL web site. RFL to give press conference on Wednesday.

could this be a conflicted of interest with Stobart sponsering widnes?

Why?
Cant think of any problems when it was sponsored by JJB

[Wigan_forever1985]

Any sponsor in the modern climate is a very very good thing. They should name a truck after each team

[kitt green warriors]

according to today's league express the RFL aren't receiving a bean in sponsorship money, they are instead getting club names on lorries, club badges on lorries, pictures of players on sides of lorries ETC, they may name some lorries after players so we might see Jamie Peacock going past us on the road instead of Suzy, it says you see a Eddie Stobart every 4 1/2 minutes on the motorway, clubs get to choose what routes they want as well. It sounds like they have gone for advertising over money and I am glad about that. Betfair offered £750 k which is still low compared to £1.2million last year off Engage, but the RFL didn't want their main sponsor being associated with gambling. The RFL were considering having no main sponsor but instead a group of sponsors like the champions league in football. Having said all this I am still not sure Eddie Stobart is a big enough brand, surely for no money being paid out a company like "Pepsi" or similar would have been interested and I am sure more people know Pepsi over Stobart. Having said all that it's better than Carnegie or Engage. Well done RFL for once you have done alright I reckon.