Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Mon Jun 17, 2013 5:16 pm  

You missed Tetleys sponsoring the CC then?

Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:10 pm  

jaybs wrote:

Red Hall can't even find a sponsor yet for The World Cup! Super League or The Challenge Cup???

Tetley challenge cup

Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:41 pm  

Elite Skolar wrote:

New River and its 44 acres is definatley up for grabs for RL. The price is 0 but would need investment. Skolars idea was to have Broncos, Skolars and the RFL staff based there and become a RL centre of excellence.

When I win tomorrows Euromillions.

How refreshing to get a post with real information from those involved. Thank you.

Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:45 pm  

Snoopy wrote:

Where is this 'investment' to come from?

interestingly councils can borrow money at very cheap rates and my guess is a decent investment case could be made using current rental money would service the loan. plus you would hope control would allow RL to make some money from it rather than for other people

Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:30 am  

Elite Skolar wrote:

interestingly councils can borrow money at very cheap rates and my guess is a decent investment case could be made using current rental money would service the loan. plus you would hope control would allow RL to make some money from it rather than for other people

This could be like the Newham Council/ West Ham deal re-the Olympic stadium. Could be a good investment all-round.

Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:50 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

You missed Tetleys sponsoring the CC then?

Apologies, interesting the marketing trade press never gave a financial figure!

Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:17 am  

jaybs wrote:

Apologies, interesting the marketing trade press never gave a financial figure!

very interesting.

We have the RFL claiming that lots of small sponsors is better than one, but no financial information released on any of these supposedly "better" deals. No naming rights sponsor and I doubt Heinz, Foxy Bingo or Brut have paid even 10% of the revenue received from Engage....

More interesting is that the naming rights of the 2000 RLWC went for 1 million quid and I have serious doubts as to the "financials" of the Marriot and Hertz "partnerships" announced to date.

Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:31 pm  

I haven't read through the five pages but no, no, NO! Skolars are a club that are being run magnificently by those at the club, have put roots down in their local community and have stayed in the same ground for more than 40 minutes. To be taken over by Hughes and the London Nomads, which is effectively what would happen, would be catastrophic for the game in London and for Skolars as a club.

Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:12 pm  

Moe Lester wrote:

I haven't read through the five pages but no, no, NO! Skolars are a club that are being run magnificently by those at the club, have put roots down in their local community and have stayed in the same ground for more than 40 minutes. To be taken over by Hughes and the London Nomads, which is effectively what would happen, would be catastrophic for the game in London and for Skolars as a club.

There doesn't seem to be any talk of mergers coming from those "in the know". There were talks about ground sharing and a couple of folk seem to have made a mountain out of a molehill.

Re: Broncos and Skolars to merge? : Sat Jun 22, 2013 1:06 pm  

Being an ex-Haringey Boy who has still has a few connections in the borough, I have been making a few inquiries regarding The New River Stadium (NRS). Whilst this bidding process is currently, as previously described, is running I am lead to believe that the Council "would look very favourably to the idea of selling the NRS to a new owner with a view that remains for sporting purposes and not for re-development for non sporting purposes" and that local authority support for the idea of one (or more) professional RL sides playing out of a shiny new privately owned stadium would be a reasonably easy sell (as these things go) to councillors and other local "partners".

I am lead to believe that a possible resolution to the "athletics club issue" at NRS, could be if any new stadium owner was prepared to invest in upgrading the rather shabby athletic facilities in Finsbury Park, therefore allowing Enfield and Haringey Athletic Club to continue have their two sites set up they currently have.

Even if any prospective owners could get to this "Starting point", "There would still be a few pieces on the chessboard that would need to be moved to take this plan forward, but it may take some time to do so".

Clearly this scenario would be a long term view and would need some real commitment from any prospective new owners of the Bronco's.

It appears that relations at a "senior level" between the two clubs are less cordial than they have been in the past.

I hope that there is someone out there who could be persuaded of the merits of such an approach. However, I'm not holding my breath ............................................