Quote ="J20"SO'C is still a director of Stobart and still a share holder he's just decreases his stake to below 3% so as a shareholder has less influence now is all. No pointvreading explanations on trust as peoples fantasies take over
From what I gather a lot of Widnes sponsorship deals (Inc O'Neils) are ip for renewal for 2012, obviously designed to see what division we will be in. I'm not sure how long Stobart's deals are for club & stadium so as with a lot of things only time will tell!
The one thing I did hear some time last year was Stobart to sponsor SL & Tesco (who have a Stobart contract?) would then sponsor the Vikings. Purely rumour though.'"
Just to add to that and sorry for diverging (slightly):
I've heard the Tesco one and that was way back, maybe early last year. The Stobart / SL link has been bubbling away for a while too. As for the kit at the time I believe that we approached Adidas about producing the kit but they wanted too much money to produce an initial mock-up. We then opted for Nike to produce the black kit. SOC has since said that the kit for 2012 was decided in 2008 (presumably the first season in SL in mind). Using an educated guess I'd say that Nike or Adidas will be making the kit next year. Not sure where the shop would fit in though and whether/how the club would plan to use this, that is if the club choose not to renew the O'Neills deal. I wouldn't mind an Umbro number myself. Do some decent training gear and t-shirts etc.
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