It's a partner, not the main sponsor.

Sorry if already mentioned but the challenge cup is now sponsored by good old Tetley's! Not the tea bags! m.skysports.com/article/sports//8423108

Sorry if already mentioned but the challenge cup is now sponsored by good old Tetley's! Not the tea bags! m.skysports.com/article/sports//8423108

the rfl need to take there heads out the sand and realise that betting firms, ie: ladbrokes,corals etc etc are at the forfront of televised sport..
the rfl should be going cap in hand to the likes of p[addy power offering the complete sponsership rights to superleague and the national leagues instead of pi$$ing around with freeby sponsors from stobart......
RFL had a freeby sponsor with stobart........RFU has guiness, coral bookies and many more....enough said really....
and the man who let the shocking descion happen should be removed from his post immediatly and he should hang his head in shame....

Wasn't Lewis iirc

because the RFU dont have blinkers on for a start...
utterly disgraceful descion from the RFL to allow no money to change hands for a sponsorship deal.....

what facts are them then?? the fact that the rfl allowed a sponsorship to happen with no monetry value, then wondering why most of our clubs are potless..... there facts........

The fact that the SL chairmen voted in favour of the Stobart deal. I think the final vote was 9 in favour, 5 against. The two Hull clubs were against for what it's worth.

Don't let that stop you from ranting about the RFL though.

As for your comment prior to that about the RFU not having blinkers, how is that relevant to what I put? You don't know what a demographic is, do you?

They're different sports, the levels of exposure are different, the people who follow the sports are different, it's played professional in different regions, do I need to go on? There are problems with RL of course, but by comparing RL to RU you're always fighting a losing battle.

I agree on these points. The biggest problem is image, RU is a sport that is and has traditionally being the toff rugby where as RL has and still is classed as a Northern working mans game.

The RFL need to promote the sport in a different way I feel to entice some of the RU money. RU will probably always be the better off relation purely and simply because of the people involved and its circle of friends so to speak.

Until the RFL improve the image that comes across to people outside the game it will always struggle to attract media attention and with it lucrative sponsorship. Not having any sort of proper terestrial TV coverage also I feel does it no favours.

The RFL put two sponsorship options to the SL clubs. The [iclubs[/i voted (by a narrow majority) for the Stobart deal. And as the clubs - not the RFL - own the naming rights for SL, the RFL had zero choice in the matter.

But hey - don't let the facts get in the way of another anti-RFL rant.

it went through by only one or two votes didnt it? i seem to remember catalans vote was crucial in the end

rlthis is about as good as a SL advert getsrl

That advert is tremendous.