Maybe the Arabs have struck oil under the HJ !

If it is a big deal they should say how much. Helps up the value of the club commercially.

The tone of the announcement on the Club Site suggests that something has been on the cards for a considerable time.

From the conversation 6 months ago, it seems like it was always going to happen, but they weren't sure how it would pan out. Glad it's been ironed out, as it's always a major bonus to have Global brands involved.

Your not wrong. This will be a great bit of business by the Club and one that will help finance the future. We can't and shouldn't stand still. We now need to look to the future and embrace what the club are doing to keep us at the top end of SL.

Well personally, the sooner they get the stadium naming rights the better.

I cannot stand the current name, its ruddy ridiculous and I have only ever referred it by HJ since day one.

Big in name and worth..........The deal is a 7 figure deal

a heptagon!

On a different note, has anyone heard about the former multi millionaire owner of Moonpig.com 'Nick Jenkins' offering to pay Simon Moran a large sum for Warrington RL, with Moran turning it down flatly?

I was talking to my lad about this last night. He hates the ground being called Halliwell Jones and thought Emirates is even worse. He calls it Wilderspool. I said you can't because Wilderspool is an area but he didn't care about that. We settled on calling the ground, The Winwick Road Stadium.

A few years back, I remember listening to Alan Beswick on GMR radio talking with fellow Warringtonian Maurice Flannigan, he was CEO at emirates airlines.

Perhaps the seeds of emirates interest in RL and Warrington was because of this connection??

I have seen an image of a new kit emirates has the main sponsor on it however I presumed it was for another Aus pre-season tour

IIRC Padders took credit for setting up the Emirates deal.

who/what is that? Please FMC?

He only did it the basis that Chris Bridge would be the new face of the brand.

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.