Nothing to do with one Aviva Premiership is it?

If they have the money then let them do what they want with it. Just get them into very complicated contracts meaning if they do struggle because of the economy then the RFL will get the money regardless.

Because "Premiership" in RL terms is the old end of season competition for the top 8 clubs, and would be seen by everyone else as a rip-off of the wendyball competition.

"RFL Engage Super League", it should be.

Super League is the sort of name for minority sports, who want to appear glamorous and popular, when it's about as convincing as a kid from a council estate wearing knocked off two line-stripped adidas gear.

If the dark side want to monopolise the word 'rugby', let them.

Personally I'm sick of people who know nothing about either code, dismissing 'rugby' as boring and complicated, because all they see is jonny Wilkinson's lot huffing and puffing around, and jumping on each other. These are the same people who think nothing of asking "what's the difference between league and union?" My reply is that it would be quicker to point out the similarities.

Instead, we ought to distance ourselves - we already refer to American Football as NFL, octagonal cage brawling as UFC, Gaelic Football as GAA and the like, so why can't simply we be RFL?

It will only take a year or two of the media and the fans calling us RFL for it to become habit, and once that happens, people should see that our game is actually, nothing like union, and start to take it seriously, instead of it being the child.

Hence my "RFL Engage Super League" suggestion.

Has to be the 'Skol Super League' surely.

if they keep this going they will be getting lifetime achievement awards...attending 4 games..wow..they are clearly in it for the long haul with that track record.

Sorry but all of this activity puts me in mind of that bloke who put $20M into that one-off cricket match in the Caribbean. Turned out his money wasn't as good as someone else's - it WAS someone elses!

It could be worse. How do like the sound of "The SportsDirect.com Super League"?

I want [url=http://www.mega.comthese guys[/url to sponsor it.

Why?

be carefull if you keep thinking outside the box they will lock you out



Btw i like the idea

Agree with that 100%

I'm fed up of trying to explain the differences of League and Union to fellow pupils in London. Whenever Rugby is mentioned they just assume I'm talking about Johnny Wilkinson



And your idea in theory would probably work, so I really do not see why it shouldn't be done.

I suppose Sponsorship reasons at the moment. Engage have paid for it to be called 'The Engage Super League', and will want to keep those exclusive naming rights.

However, what's there to stop the RFL insisting on it when renewing the deal, or negotiating with a new sponsor?

TECHNICALLY it already is:

I like this idea. could actually work.

I said years ago that Rugby League should drop the name Rugby.

And as with sponsors the RFL need to think out of the box.

No offence to Engage, Co-op, Leeds met & northern rail but they are hardly massive sponsors for which is in all aspects a European competition. There is only Leeds Met that could be used for the French market.

The Cooperative Group are probably one of the biggest companies in the UK, they have revenue of around £7bn for the first 6 months of 2010 and profits of around £300m for that period. They have fingers in pretty every kind of pie: financial services, energy, food retailing, legal services, travel, pharmacies, funerals etc...

They also have a database of around 5million members, whom they have regular contact with newsletters etc...

With their increasing high street presence, and the massive customer list they have the RFL should be begging them to get more involved in the game. The Cooperative Super League sounds good to me.

Still not a European company.

Once again, I've said this. Whilst I appreciate that money is at a premium these days, we should refocus the sponsor's role as one that provides RFL with awareness, rather than money.

For instance - wouldn't it be great if we could get someone like Cadbury's, who instead of putting £X in, would guarantee us promotion on all their chocolate bars, and in a given number of their TV adverts?

Taking it further, the weird and wonderful ads they've been doing, such as the gorilla one, and the top gun inspired one could easily be transferred into a Rugby League theme. A RL themed creme egg or easter egg would be an obvious thing to do as well.

My view is that the awareness things like this could create - at little effort and little additional expense to Cadbury - would easily yield a small fortune for RL in general.

This one has a nice ring to it, although not an ideal sponsor I admit:

[url=http://www.pooperscooper.co.uk/Potential new sponsor?[/url

Now that's a company livin' the dream.

Just to see wiggy and toofy have to introduce the live game from that league would be worth it........
"what do you think think Stevo"?
"Well Eddie...if they keep playing like this both teams could end up at the pooper scooper super league grand final in October"

I have thought along similar lines but I would rather (at risk of being nailed to hypothetical posts) we called our sport the NRL. I think its an acronym which runs along similar lines to the US sports NFL,NHL,NBA e.t.c.

With the Catalans/Tolouse's involvement, the sport has become more than national, ERL perhaps?