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[OMEGA]

So basically a company avoiding paying tax, and lots of it at that, that could go towards hospitals or schools is not as bad as someone lending money to people of their own free will, however dubious?

So, you are the bulls commercial manager, you've just rejected the deal, no one else is coming forward, what do you for now?

how on earth have you derived that conclusion from what I wrote?

Do his/her job better!

[OMEGA]

double post

Edited by OMEGA, 12 November 2012 - 02:11 PM.

[OMEGA]

triple post

Edited by OMEGA, 12 November 2012 - 02:11 PM.

[Amber Avenger]

Do his/her job better!

"Hi Boss, I've got a £1.2 Million sponsorship deal for us - you know the club that almost went extinct 6 months ago"
"Do your job better FFS"

[Ackroman]

Wow! That past me by. Tell me Leeds are being sponsored by BigTits next season. Please let it be true.

Damned predictive text

[OMEGA]

"Hi Boss, I've got a £1.2 Million sponsorship deal for us - you know the club that almost went extinct 6 months ago"
"Do your job better FFS"

yep, youve obviously got a real grasp of how these things happen.

Done with it now, Ive stated my case more than once and theres nothing more to say.

Good luck Bradford

[Johnoco]

how on earth have you derived that conclusion from what I wrote?

Do his/her job better!

Do their job better how? Big money people are not interested in RL. What do you propose? Kidnap a chief exec until they give us a bit of the action?

We aren't soccer or Union or F1, we have to take what we can and leave the morals of it for another time. Sad but true.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

yep, youve obviously got a real grasp of how these things happen.

Done with it now, Ive stated my case more than once and theres nothing more to say.

Good luck Bradford

Well you sure haven't . Club policy on financial matters us decided and overseen by the board of directors. What sponsorship to accept or turn down would have been up to them not you
Unless you are playing dumb, you don't have even a tenuous grasp of the point I'm making, despite having it spelled out for you repeatedly.
I'll try again. It's to do with picking and chasing what is 'moral' and 'ethical' according to what suits. Personally I don't give a flying fart about probiz. Neither they nor provident are doing anything illegal-although I'm not keen on what either of them do. The point is that there are people like you, and supporters of clubs sponsored by the likes of probiz who play the morality card when it suits, but don't speak up when it doesn't. If you really were in a morality trip then you would at least have made an attempt to address the issue of sponsorship by probiz.
If you were really a club commercial manager you wouldn't have had the power or responsibility to decide who or who does not support your club financially.

[Amber Avenger]

yep, youve obviously got a real grasp of how these things happen.

I detect a hint of sarcasm in your post (which is more than you managed to detect in mine... )

[jannerboyuk]

So if a legal hard core pornography company offered big bucks would people object? just wondering if people have any line at all

[Amber Avenger]

I think there are laws about when and where that can be advertised

[Gav Wilson]

So if a legal hard core pornography company offered big bucks would people object? just wondering if people have any line at all

Depends what the kit looks like...

[l'angelo mysterioso]

So if a legal hard core pornography company offered big bucks would people object? just wondering if people have any line at all

This happened with Salford.
Isn't hard core pornography illegal for people under a certain age?
Someone could take a short term loan out to help their family. They couldn't sign up to a porn channel and claim to be doing the same.
In the end it's a judgement call

[JohnM]

...this legalised extortion industry...

I realise this is your strongly held opinon but is not supported by the facts, by thecompanirs customers etc. There are many more sponsors who do things that actually endanger human life but we don't see any vituperative posts from you on that.

[jannerboyuk]

I realise this is your strongly held opinon but is not supported by the facts, by thecompanirs customers etc. There are many more sponsors who do things that actually endanger human life but we don't see any vituperative posts from you on that.

which sponsors are those out of interest?

[jannerboyuk]

This happened with Salford.
Isn't hard core pornography illegal for people under a certain age?
Someone could take a short term loan out to help their family. They couldn't sign up to a porn channel and claim to be doing the same.
In the end it's a judgement call

so is gambling but that doesn't prevent legal advertising through sports teams so i cant see why for example whatever.com couldn't advertise on leeds shirt. if they could and it was declared legal would people reject that sponsorship for moral reasons?

[Derwent]

The issue I have with Provident is not that they lend money at high interest rates, it's more that they actively seek to keep their customers in debt. It is a key part of their business model to offer new loans to pay off existing part-paid ones and keep the customers "locked in". The proportion of Provident loans that are paid up in the conventional sense is tiny.

Having said that, Rugby League simply can't afford to have moral values over this type of thing and nobody can blame Bradford for accepting this deal. Good luck to them. However it is a strange dichotomy of hoping that a major club's sponsor does not get any new business out of the deal. I hope Bradford Bulls prosper because of it, but I hope Provident do not.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

so is gambling but that doesn't prevent legal advertising through sports teams so i cant see why for example whatever.com couldn't advertise on leeds shirt. if they could and it was declared legal would people reject that sponsorship for moral reasons?

I'm sure you are right

I would say that the rules/laws regarding gambling and the promotion of it and thoise governing hard core pornography are different. For instance you can buy a lottery ticket at sixteen, children can buy and sell raffle tickets for say school fundraising. I don't think you can shoe horn hard core pornography into the same equation somehow.

My point remains that supporters of clubs who's main sponsore specialises in tax avoiudance for the wealthy and don't say anything about it, yet like to invoke morality about aspects of the sport that don't suit them are self srving to say the least.

BUt your point is a good one: gambling, and of course alcohol abuse are major social issues

[Amber Avenger]

so is gambling but that doesn't prevent legal advertising through sports teams so i cant see why for example whatever.com couldn't advertise on leeds shirt. if they could and it was declared legal would people reject that sponsorship for moral reasons?

It isn't legal for hardcore porn to advertise simply anywhere though, so it's not comparing like with like. Presumably if it did become legal, the entire moral standpoint of the nation would likely be vastly different. The gambling comparison is much more apt IMO

[Kenilworth Tiger]

Good to see OMEGA's very own Wakefield having a whiter than white sponsor
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The Undertakings by Eric Ramskill France, age 69 of Cornwall House, Portland Crescent, Harrogate, and Jonathan Dean France, age 31 of Silcoates Court, Alverthorpe, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, were given in respect of their conduct as directors of Eric France & Son (Metals) Limited ("Eric France"), which carried out business from premises at Embassy Works, Church Street, Ossett, West Yorkshire, WF5 9DG.

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Eric Ramskill France

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iii. Allowed Jonathan France to receive a loan from Eric France contrary to Section 330 of the Companies Act 1985;

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i. He failed to keep, preserve and delivery up adequate accounting records when required to do so by the Liquidator.

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