I'm sure our deal per year was 7 figures, but that could mean its £1m. I actually think we get about £1.5m a season off the Kindred group but it's hardly ground breaking.The estimated deal for a front shirt sponsorship in the championship is
£500,000 If PNE can afford to stop having gambling sponsors on principle its high time we did the same. It would be a good subject to bring up at the supporters meetings
And on that subject - are Unibet paying us 4 times more than they pay Aston Villa? I think that's quite unlikely. The advert size on our shirt is certainly 4 times the size. Just check out their shirt on post #163 on p9 of this thread. That - Middlesbrough FC and Errea is the way to do it. The Unibet dot logo can contain the wording so there is no need for both the CAPITAL letters AND the dots. As for the completely inane 'Player Safety First' tagline - it's a completes a Dog's Dinner of an apology for a shirt. 3 lines of advert. It's a disgrace.The estimated deal for a front shirt sponsorship in the championship is £500,000
They HAVE listened to a lot of supporters though. Lots of Boro supporters constantly talk about the white band and how that forms a part of the club's identity. When I started going to games as a kid in 1991, we didn't have that band. We'd barely had it since the 1970s, aside from a season or two in the mid-80s I think. We had it back in 1997/98 and that was the only time until the year after we'd won the League Cup. In the years since, we seem to have had the band fairly consistently from what I can recall.Im so sick of the club not listening to their customers and stakeholders. It is absolutely crap, it is one of the few things fans look forward to whether you buy it or not, along with fixture list announcement, deadline day etc. We consistently get it wrong. An opportunity to get something so right and to have step changes in sales but oh no, lets just design something totally and utterly turd and ignore all the feedback and thoughts from their fans.
Why didn't they just keep with 32 RED?I'm sure our deal per year was 7 figures, but that could mean its £1m. I actually think we get about £1.5m a season off the Kindred group but it's hardly ground breaking.
Bizarrely, it's taken a shirt release for people to kick up a fuss. The shirt itself is quite smart, but the sponsor looks vvank. I'd rather it just said unibet. One thing that has come to light today is that they refer to gamblers, and in many cases, gambling addicts, as players. That has to change!
I really like the shirt, the thing with ravenelli was cool. The wait was dragged out a bit too long (a month) but the UNIBET LOGO LOOKS ABSOLUTLEY SHYTE!!Also, this may be a bit of a soft thing to say but I actually a bit sad for the people who work within the club TBH. They've made a big effort to tap into our past and get a superstar player back to launch a new shirt and all they're getting back online is a wave of reactionary horsesh*t. There's absolutely no sense of perspective any more.
I think gambling sponsorships on shirts are being phased over the next few years.. I'm guessing we don't have the financial clout to make responsible forward thinking decisions like thatThe estimated deal for a front shirt sponsorship in the championship is
£500,000 If PNE can afford to stop having gambling sponsors on principle its high time we did the same. It would be a good subject to bring up at the supporters meetings