2 days out from the season and with official launch events over and the media coverage, including photos of club captains etc complete, we are heading into what will probably be our last shot at SL for at least 5 years with no main shirt sponsor.
This is unforgivable.
Unlike Chelsea (Thanks Curtism) or even Cronulla sharks a few years back, it's not like we are holding out for mega bucks, but to start a 27 game TELEVISED SEASON unable to flog the shirt sponsorship seems to highlight an appalling lack of commercial ability from the commercial department. Furthermore, it does "reek' of the other new "sponsors' actually not paying to be on the shirts either, given that "upgrading" sponsors to "match day sponsors" seems like all this commercial guy was capable of last year.
Whilst I don't want the club to do a Newcastle and fold only to unfold crumpled and unusable, is this the right time for Hughes to cut the umbilical cord and let us sink or swim? Income wise we must be quids in given the squad/rent can't be costing us any more than last year and SL should add at least another 13,000 paying fans to the years total income, so maybe, if we are preparing for the lower tier next year we should do so without the anchor that is Hughes involvement weighing us down? Let's face it. We're not going to get anything like the funding in 2024 ever again with the same people doing the same thing and expecting a different result, are we?
