I think it's supposed to be an onion.

Do you mean Rooney and Ferguson?



As for the advert....

We can argue all day about whether the joke works (it doesn't) and whether having these stereotypes advances our image to new markets (it really, really won't) but for me te cardinal sin is there is no actual rugby on it! What were they thinking?

Theyve gone for the ' subtle ' approach, and failed, RL should be in your face

That's my main issue.

The football advert with the two dating has football on show.

Definitely worse adverts on the TV though. I cringe everytime the BT Infinity advert comes on. Awful advert.

No expense spared on that one! Marketing and RL remain great strangers.

Indeed - it's not exactly Saatchi & Saatchi is it?

Not that it needed to be of course; a bit of heavy metal music, some big hits and silky skills, intercut with fireworks, cheerleaders and small children with their faces painted. SL advert - done.

All done after having somebody opening one of the new rolling billboards, ie this is what we are delivering to your door

Or a bloke ordering Sky Sports then cut to a Stobart truck pulling up outside his house, with the Wigan & Saints teams piling out the back and knocking the bejesus out of each other on his front lawn.

It's really not difficult.

Yep, I suggested something similar earlier in the thread, the possibilities are not quite ' endless ' , but certainly large, and I'm sure Eddie would have been happy to help

Maybe they're going to add clips of the relevant teams/players who are playing in that weekends televised games, as they do with the aforementioned p !$$ poor football adverts.