Well I hope the kit has a body of white and a return to a chevron.

Our best seasons are when we have a kit like that...?

I think he was born in Leigh ?

And he is certainly still connected with Emirates - VC.

You have actually posted something factual and interesting < falls off chair>. As you say, it could well be the reason that the deal was brokered. And if we (Wire) can get free flights to Oz, perhaps the team will manage a pre-season down under.

If that is correct, then that would be a min of £million 0.5 / year. That would be a lot more than Brookson and a really important deal for the club.

Unless it was over 5 years



All sounds very impressive

I was lead to believe that the sponsorship deal on the stadium is or was only worth around £60,000 over 5 years.

Pretty poor if correct, around £1000 p/m. ??

No, it was £60,000 (approx) a year, with a modest increase each year from what I can remember.

Is this the HJ deal?

Ben Jones Bishop evidently signed before he went to South Africa with the England team

the original HJ deal was 75k a year for 10 years

thanks for that

Even so, a bargain £1000 p/w for a stadium that over the period has had almost blanket sky games and world cup football, semi finals, championship finals.

£1000 per second on tv...so £1000 for sky 90mins plus repeats.
Good business.

ruddy hell!!

BJB isnt in the England squad. I thought only Ferres was travelling as a reserve?

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Hollands

The Hollands Meat and Tater Pie Dome has something of a ring to it.

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If only, it's not their stadium.

yep that's true.

Does the new deal include naming rights to the stadium?

It sounds as though it doesn't. They have tip toed around the subject; "…...branding ….within the stadium and the website". I am sure they would have said stadium naming rights otherwise.

The emirates logos were very apparent on sunday night. Considering how much existing advertising was covered up.

Thought that myself. Only Emirates and Total weren't obscured of our normal sponsors hoardings.

The sponsored deals were perhaps based on a warrington standard sl and cup season. ??

Haven't Emirates hoardings been up at least all this season ?

for 2 seasons at least, what i was saying was that aside from the main sponsor boards, total, martin dawes etc, were all covered up in blue,including the individual box signs, the FLy Emirates boards in red were very noticeable.