Perhaps we could sponsor the next director to come through the door...... Assuming there is one coming.....

Is it safe to assume this is on indefinite hold until we know there is a club and players to sponsor next year?

And indeed who the hell we'd make the cheque payable to.

I don't think I am speaking out of turn, in saying that a group of us raised this issue with RHP in a meeting (convened to deal with other matters) on 23 December. It was quite clear from the responses that the club was not in a posiution to take sponsorship/donations/whatever of this nature at this time. Even when we pointed out there was at least £800 just waiting to be collected and paid over, with very little required in return and virtually no work required from the club.

What was made public the following day may have had a lot to do with it (we certainly suspected as much), but that can only be conjecture. I think what came across was no lack of appreciation or gratitude - indeed, far from it - but that there were probably other things going on that needed to be dealt with first. As indeed it would appear to have transpired.

So I suspect you have probably concluded rightly, Duckman. It is to be hoped that we are talking "temporary" as opposed to "indefinite" hold, but I guess that is waiting on developments.

Cheers for the feedback Adey, I hope it is just temporary but I wouldn't be surprised if things are still to get worse before they get better. My glass is very much half empty at the moment. Heres hoping for a better new year.

Surely the "positive news" must be on the tip of someone's tongue by now?

Mick? Anyone? Come on, put us out of our misery.

The longer it goes without hearing anything the more I fear we've had it.

Is this still happening?

Diskin, Carvell, Walker, Manuokafoa, Purtell and Sidlow are all available for sponsorship.

I am in a meeting at Odsal this afternoon. I'll endeavour to raise it again.

If you are successful, let us know where to send money. Cannot think of a reason to not let
us sponsor.

Surprised by the fact that when the team was announced before the game so many players were still lacking sponsorship - including some of the bigger names. I know the amounts aren't huge but collectively they add up - so seems strange they haven't picked up this offer as its on the table?

You wonder if it's to do with the uncertainty regarding players' futures and the financial problems. Certainly when they read out that Carvell didn't have a sponsor, my first thought was "Wow, nobody will sponsor him?", but then when I thought about it, he was one of the names at the top of most people's "likely to leave to cut costs" list, so perhaps that's putting people off sponsoring, if they think the player may just leave after they've handed their money over.

He's one of the guys we need to keep to stay competitive and win some matches to keep people coming through the gate. The stakes are high this year.

Hello everyone.

As a result of the meeting that Adey mentioned, as well as various additional conversations, the player sponsorship is still available, for one of a number of first team players. As I understand that FA doesn't want to take this forward, I have said that I am willing to do so.

Firstly, I think that FA should be thanked and congratulated for the time and effort he has expended on this in previous seasons, and in getting us to this point for the forthcoming season.

Having spoken to Laura at the Bulls, I understand that Matt Diskin, Adam Sidlow & Manase Manuokafoa are still available. There are no junior players, general junior sponsorship or 18th man sponsorships available. while this may be regrettable, at this point I think that it is a matter for discussion next season and that we should get on with sponsoring one of the names above for now.

Likewise, there was some discussion of making this a BullBuilder, rather than RAB sponsorship. Although I am a current BullBuilder board member, I feel that this too is a discussion that should be deferred until next season: BullBuilder's role will, we hope, be determined by a new board after next week's relaunch and the AGM; and people have offered their sponsorship on behalf of RAB, so I think it would be presumptuous of BullBuilder to be seen to be attempting to hijack this.

So, are people still willing to offer their £20 on this basis? If all who initially promised chip in, I understand that we should be able to secure any of the named players. If you no longer wish to contribute, please indicate that - and, if your name wasn't on the original list, it's not too late to join!

Other than the warm glow of supporting the club, the rewards are that we can have bar passes to watch from the Coral Stand at either of 2 games during the season from the following list:

Castleford
London
Huddersfield
Wakefield
Hull KR
Catalan
Hull FC
Widnes

We also get a signed shirt, which could be raffled among contributors.

So, should we go ahead with this? If so, which player would you prefer to sponsor and for which matches would you like the passes to be available?

If it looks like people do want to go ahead, I'll provide details of payment options.

By the way, Laura asked me to pass on the following:

"Please express my apologies for the delay with this to the members, as mentioned with the events over the Christmas period I didn’t feel it was appropriate to chase or finalise sponsorship until the ownership issue was resolved."

Sounds good to me. I would personally rather we sponsor Adam Sidlow. Not that it makes a difference, but he does get across for the odd try every now and then which somehow makes me want to sponsor him more than the other. Afaik, Nas didn't score at all last season!

As far as tickets for games, I probably won't take advantage of this benefit, but the norm seems to be to try and claim them for games when the the weather is a bit better.