Quote: wire quin "See it as moaning, see it how you want. The facts are its an indication of where the sport is.
No details of the sponsorship have been released. Maybe it involves each fan being given a lucky pen and nothing else.
The sport isnt "wanted" by the better brands- accept it. Just Jeremy Kyles sponsor!! Thats the audience Foxy Bingo have decided to target as a brand. Toothless goons and rugby league.....are you starting to see where we are going with this'"
It shows why the sport is the omnishambles that it is. The problem is not people whinging that it's not good enough, the problem is most league fans are more than happy to embrace abject mediocrity, as seen throughout the thread, they're happy to be viewed as Jeremy Kyle-esque, because a lot of them are!
People with expectations of growth see these sponsorship deals as a reminder of the pathetic spread and supporter base that English League boasts, the insular, backwater nature of the game. The darts, bingo, amber leaf and chunky soup demographic that the flat cap wearers embody.
Members on this forum see it as money is money, people have heard of Foxy Bingo therefore hooray. It's no wonder the game is on its knees, most are complacent.
And now they(flat-cappers) have a new trick, they blame a minority of fans who aren't happy with the game as the reason for poor sponsorship. They say, 'Ah, by complaining about crap sponsors you're the reason for crap sponsors', as if they makes sense. As if critical voices in other sports don't exist, and to the same degree, and even higher. Doesn't seem to stop any other sport. But a few fans on the RLFANS message board are enough to cripple the sponsorship opportunities for Super League, we're told!
It's just a sad state of affairs and it will continue to be so until people stop undervaluing the game by excusing the crap we're served up
