should have taken the money from betfair...£750k..... then paid eddie stobart to advertise on 100 trailers for a year.....i recon the rfl would have at least £500k left per year if theyd have done the deal

Guaranteeing as logical anything the RFL do= naive

I would suggest it is highly probably that they have done the opposite.

That said most trucks should at least leave the M62 corridor a couple of times a week, I know we northerners are a bit insular but I do think we occasionally sell things to southerners

Joke of a deal.

When I first heard it I assumed it was the whole fleet, then read 5% or 100 vehicles.

Done a lot of M Way driving in the last week M1 / M62 / M6. Noticed about 30 Stobbart lorries and none with SL brand. Stobarts won't be able to believe their luck.

Saw one on the M6 outside Brum yesterday

Now we know what you have to do to get on the Board of S/L
Have your brains removed .I see why the 2 Hull Clubs voted
against the deal

Havent seen any either, as we all know the RL wouldnt know a good deal if it hit them. Perhaps more to do with other clubs ties with eddie stobart already?

I thought it was 6 trucks per club (84) + 100 general super league ones?

Yeah, but at twice the price.

Similarly how many stobart customers are made directly aware of RL via their product? Engage as a mutual society have 500,000 customers of all ages all over the UK. RL will have been on most of the literature if not splashed over the brochures for potential customers too along with their community initiatives also.
Sure, over a long period the trucks may well have a wider exposure but that will still only be a few seconds fleeting glance at what is just another truck (when you're mainly focusing on what you're doing or the road conditions ahead) It seems to be scant in terms of direct impact. Was there even any national press on the matter seeing how Stobart's are/were in the public consciousness?

I'm not saying it is a really bad deal for RL but it isn't pulling up any trees for mine and the whole last minute deal just seems amateur at best.

The taking of the deal has nothing to do with the RFL, it was the clubs who voted for it.

And I've read somewhere that the value of the advertising is £2million, so we've got good value for money from them, as well as the ability to add new sponsors for things that the title sponsor has previously had, such as the deal with Heinz Big Soup announced yesterday.

And anyway, the 750k split between 14 clubs is 53 grand each, it would hardly make a difference to them, instead of increasing the Sky deal in future, as well as any potential club sponsorships and additional sponsorships from the RFL.

Don't talk commone sense, it doesn't wash well on here.

I had a tin of Heinz Big Soup last night, not a mention of rugby league anywhere. Similarly, no mention of the game anywhere on the case of Magners I bought.

I'm amazed the RFL bother paying professional marketeers, when we have such a wealth of free talent, readily on tap on these very boards.

It's not Heinz soup it's alaphabetty spaghetti ,and you have to assemble the word "super league",but don't fret they have promised to include more s,u,p,e,r,l,a,g.u, letters

I'm quite interested in all the people claiming that Engage promoted the game on their literature, they didn't.

And I simply love the massive FC flag on the side of the P&O fer....oh, hang on.