Iwasn,t having a go at widnes, more the RFL.I wish Widnes all the very best next season and prove to everyone that a team can come up from the championship and be competetive and hopefully other teams will follow.Good luck to the boys on sunday and looking forward to a great season

I think Widnes have ambition and with Stobarts be aiming for the playoffs over nxt few yrs.

Well,well,well. Woods and Lewis excel again. Free naming rights. Not a penny for SL. Free advertising for Stobarts.

Dictionary meaning of sponsorship - One that finances a project or an event carried out by another person or group, especially a business enterprise that pays for radio or television programming in return for advertising time.

PAYS being the operative word in all that.
If that's the case then those two have made SL and Championship in to products not worthy of selling as the TV rights have gone for nowt to Premier Sports.

And as a Halifax fan I also believe that Widnes should have got in to SL but there are clubs in there that possibly should n't be there.

The Watcher thanks the Lord that FredParky has nowt to do with the running of Leigh RLFC.

It's an opinion and I care not a jot what you or anyone else thinks of it.

Leigh Centurions in their current state would be dead and buried after 2 years in SL, we are nowhere near a SL club

As for the SL deal? , well it is an interesting one, massive exposure against a relatively small amount of cash, the vote was very close, if it was the Championships, which would we take?

Sure I read in the RL press, that NO MONEY has changed hands, and that the SL clubs were only aware of the detail of the Betfair offer 6 hours, yes 6 hours before the meeting

But potentially huge exposure for the sport, the Betfair offer was 50 grand each, the equvilant of 5 grand to us, or 300 trucks driving around the country with your competition and clubs plastered all over them?

Thers a thread on the Hudds board were they say 6 clubs voted for stobart and 5 voted for betfred,4 clubs never turned up for the meeting

Well if having a player which 90% of the country won't recognise or care about raises each clubs income by 50000 then its the right decision.

Well Fred I know things have moved on (badly because of franchising imo and for the pro game in general) but i have been a Leyther for a long time and never thought I would see my team win at Wembley..................but they did.

Nobody knows what is round the next corner till they get there.

So 100 of their 2250 trucks will have the SL artwork. Well I think we can see who has the better side of this cross marketing deal.

Demon talking in't future

now my post is above yours & is in present time wtf