A couple more pics:











And you would have thought they might have polished the trophy first...............

Thats impressive. Anything to spread the good game is surely a good thing.

Again i am assuming we have an increased deal with Sky which will have paid for the advertising of the game so the money has come in from them rather than Stobart hopefully for the first year only !

Sky seem to be driving this rather than the RFL as it is they that will really benefit from this with possible increased subscriptions to there service, hopefully theres also a kick back for the RFL

Who knows its all speculation but i honestly cant see the game being sold up the river somehow

Any pictures of our truck?

and sheep

start to watch , then that will become more attractive to their advertisers and therefore should result in a better cash deal from that nice Mr Murdoch next time round

As far as localised marketing to bring in more paying spectators ? , thats down to you as individual clubs , however the slogan on the trailers suggests the opposite , very strange

I believe our lorry has Sam 'scoring a try'.

Boooooo !!

they are staying up north for the foreseeable future.

so its just advertising superleague on tv then?

It's a pants deal. 100 trucks is nothing. We have given up over a million a year to have some trucks with pictures on them. Seems crazy to me. I'd like to know who the 5 clubs were that voted against it.

Apparently according to observer each super league team will be allocated 6
trucks solely for their team.

Soon to be seen on a motorway near you!!!

rumour has it that they've chosen that truck to deliver to Leeds

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r6HamSoz2wOOOOOOOO[/url

Brilliant

Who's that whale?

Ben Harrison

Six clubs voted for Stobart; Widnes, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield, London, Catalans.
Five clubs voted for Betfair; Leeds, Salford, Castleford, Hull FC, Hull KR
Warrington, Wigan and St Helens were absent from the meeting.

Leeds, Hull, HKR , Salford and Cas voted against
Widnes, Wakefield, Bradford, Huddersfield, and London voted for.

Wigan, Saints, Warrington and Catalan were not at the meeting.

Echo...

If true its a disgrace that 4 clubs did not have representatives there for such an important meeting, particularly when Wigan and Saints are 2 of the biggest clubs in the game.

If you read the report in League Express, as I have done, the four clubs who didn't attend sent letters expressing their thoughts and preferences. The clubs that voted in favour of Betfair were (according to League Express) Leeds, Hull FC, Hull KR, Castleford and Salford but (according to League Weekly) were Leeds, Hull FC, Hull KR, Castleford and Wakefield. All the rest voted in favour of the Stobart deal.

So rugby league is the second most watched sport on sky sports behind football. We have a whole weekend where Super league dominates the channell for two days. A huge play-off series and grand final which gets massive viewing figures, Stobart will have their name next to all of these events along with everything on the internert, every time the competition gets mentioned... and all we have in return is 100 trucks. I can't believe we havn't got a penny. I could have negotiated a better deal than that, it is a disgrace.

No wonder we are so far behind Union when they are negotiating deals with Aviva worth 20million over 4 years.

The people at Stobart have pulled off the best deal in the history of sports business.

Depends whether or not it's a loss leading exercise in the hope of giving the game some exposure to bigger sponsors.

The RFL are getting money for the deal from secondary sponsors.
Heinz for one are to have their name on the trucks and will be paying for it.
SKY the same deal and other sponsors will follow.
When it comes to "brands" Stobart is far better to be associated with than Betfair, it is a good deal as far as I'm concerned.