Aren't you just a little ray of sunshine?
Please explain, thestadium still bears their name, are the paying for that privilege
We could run out to Dueling banjos every week.
An 8 acre site surely isn't big enough!
Which is presumably why so few of them have gone down the sponsorship route, the exception being Saracens' Allianz Park. Even "proper" rugby clubs like Leicester, Northampton, Bath & Gloucester have kept the original names of their grounds.
£37 million debt for a Rugby club is insane
Amended for you, no worries
Ricoh were going to let the sponsorship expire and not renew. ACL didn't, and still don't have a new sponsor in place so would have had to double up on work, i.e.: pay once to have all the Ricoh signage removed and then pay again to have the new sponsors put up.
There was a discussion about rugby on the radio the other day. Didn't pay it a huge amount of attention but a couple of points being made got my attention.
It does have another name - it was the City of Coventry Stadium during the Olympics.
That's just mad, it's like a premier league football club being a billion in debt. How do you get in that situation knowing full well the income isn't going to happen. I can (sort of) understand it with football clubs because you get to the premier league and you're quids in massively but they are already at the top of their sport, where is the growth? Wasps, to me anyway, look fucked long term even with the Ricoh (maybe because of it) but for Saracens to get in that much debt without even owning land is idiotic.
True, but it had NEVER been called that beforehand. It was only because Ricoh were not giving backhanders to the International Olympic Committee to have their name used so they had to come up with something neutral and arbitrary
Not my opinion, that's what happened.
