Cripesginger wrote:
Stobarts have fleets of wagons. Each club will get around 5 or 6 that deliver daily in their catchment area. every day of the week they will be on their rounds. So no cornwall for these wagons. SL will get some for promoting the game seperate from that given to each club.
Stobart have 20K or so 'stobart spotters' and their stobart fest had 8000 people attend. Would see this being tied in with Gf or magic weekend etc
There will probably be scope to advertise games at stobart depots
I think there is still a stobart programme on C5 so plenty of opportunities for tv promo there.
It is possible that stobart have agreed a deal that creates room for significant secondary sponsors - like heinz
Stobart have close working relationships with many blue chip businesses so there is potential for tapping into these contacts for sl.
also several sl clubs will probably have contracts with betting companies. these may have been lost to clubs if betfair came on board.
The Wagons will not necessarily deliver in a clubs catchment area, when we load wagons at my work we don't give a toss whats on the outside of the trailer (be it company branded, fleet branded or just plain sided) we only care for what type of trailer it is (Box, tautliner, Double Decker, Semi Deck ect). Working with tight deadlines there will be no gurantee these trailers will go where people want, won't be long before someone's moaning that there's a "St Helen's" Stobart Trailer delivering to Tesco in Warrington or something.
As for advertising at depots, we get stuff advertised at the depot I work at, don't know how effective that is, I know the Union were offloading some free Fev tickets last season, think they had 2 pairs to each home game or something, but people only took them as they were free, some will have been going anyway.
Out of all the Stobart Spotters, how many are likely to have an interest in sport, these are people who choose to spend their free time not watching sport, but spotting Wagons, thats their choice, RFL might as well sponsor RailFest in york this year, be far more people there but won't attract many if any more speccies to the sport.
As for the BetFair thing, not sure sky would have been too happy with that, they are often advertising SkyBet during the coverage, And another bookie (Stan James?) often advertises during the ad breaks in the games too.