William Hill to be sponsors of the SPL?

[rayrangers]

Doncaster close to signing a deal.

Is this any different from last time as Unibet are our shirt sponsors?

 

[CF4]

Reports saying record deal done with William Hill.

 

[Southsideblueblood]

Doncaster close to signing a deal.

Is this any different from last time as Unibet are our shirt sponsors?

You make a perfect point.

 

[The People]

At least we will have a sponsor for our league
Wasn’t long ago we didn’t even have one

 

[SuperGers07]

Ladbrokes used to sponsor it years back.

It’s been either nobody or crap like cinch since

 

[Barry Slimfit]

I bet its piss poor money

 

[Virgil Hilts]

Was there not a former SPL board member that was high up in William Hill?

 

[Rab The Bear]

I bet its piss poor money

Odds on to be.

 

[legalbeagle]

I presume so, aren’t Celtic also sponsored by a betting company?

 

[Bristol_bnose3]

I bet its piss poor money

Hardly surprising given the value of the product they are sponsoring.

How many other companies wanted to bid? Probably f88k all interest from anyone else.

 

[SuperGers07]

I presume so, aren’t Celtic also sponsored by a betting company?

Daftybet or some such nonsense

 

[The Lone Sniper]

Could be worse.

 

[legalbeagle]

Reports saying record deal done with William Hill.

Yeah, sounds about right - sold it over for Russ Abbott’s Greatest Hits on vinyl

 

[SuperGers07]

The highest record deal was £1.6m a year with Cinch

Doncaster will spin anything

 

[isawthat]

You can bet on it.

 

[nelster]

Was there not a former SPL board member that was high up in William Hill?

Of course.



Pretty sure theres also crossover between Shifty MacLennan and various William Hill high up employees that went to join him, prior to Shifty McGifty jumping into the SPL role.

 

[Gameboy]

Doncaster close to signing a deal.

Is this any different from last time as Unibet are our shirt sponsors?

Depends on how the SPFL act and if they’ve learnt their lesson from the last time.

 

[GeeSpot]

I presume so, aren’t Celtic also sponsored by a betting company?

Will be interesting to see how it plays out. Maybe Unibet won't be making as much of an issue with it as Parks was re: Cinch (although in reality that was more a point scoring/posturing with the SPFL rather than genuine damage to Parks car sales business). I'd imagine if 888 (Hills) and AsianBGE (Dafabet) weren't going to be OK with this, it'd be a complete non-starter.

 

[aye me]

£1.6 million a year

 

[Mview83]

Surely this is exactly the same as the cinch thing as we have 32 Red as a sponsor?

 

[Papasmurf]

Surely this is exactly the same as the cinch thing as we have 32 Red as a sponsor?

It would be hilarious. And predictable. If this was the case.

 

[The Blue Lamp]

1.6m spread over 20 years or something like that knowing that f#cking mutant

 

[Jelle1880]

£1.6 million a year

That's what cinch were paying. I don't believe for a second it'll be much more tbf.

 

[bkkbear]

It would be hilarious. And predictable. If this was the case.

its ok cause donny bhoy has checked and double checked for conflicts of interests and spoken with those clubs with potential issues.



not.

 

[JD1872]

The issue with the Cinch deal was they did not follow the correct process when we declared a conflict of interest. I doubt we will do the same this time considering that most teams are sponsored by betting companies anyway.

 

[nelster]

£1.6 million a year

So we could have a £40 “SFA SPL Corrupt to the Core” addon to mygers to win the sponsorship deal.

 

[JudgeDread]

1.6m spread over 20 years or something like that knowing that f#cking mutant

Knowing Neil Doncaster - he’s more likely to sign up with Harry Hill.

 

[Kingdom Bear]

Surely this is exactly the same as the cinch thing as we have 32 Red as a sponsor?

As long as the league sponsor compensates the club sponsor it’s all good

That’s what went wrong with the cinch deal … Doncaster tried to pull a fast one over Parks

 

[GourockBlue50]

I presume so, aren’t Celtic also sponsored by a betting company?

Will this not have the potential to lead to a cinch like scenario as happened with us?

 

[rangeral]

32 Red became sponsors in 2014

Ladbrokes 2015-2020 League
Betfred 2016-2020 League Cup
William Hill 2011-2020 Scottish Cup

and nothing was raised about those deals about any conflict of interest

 

[bud_light]

Thought sponsorship from betting companies was being banned?

 

[Ted Rangers]

The clubs can agree to have a rival sponsor. I imagine all clubs have agreed to this one.

 

[wee_g]

Thought sponsorship from betting companies was being banned?

Was about to ask the same, thought it was supposed to be phased out?

 

[ChildOfGoth]

On every level this is wrong .

 

[Davie Weir]

Was about to ask the same, thought it was supposed to be phased out?

The Premiership agreed on it down south but I don’t think it was anything bigger.

 

[rangeral]

Thought sponsorship from betting companies was being banned?

Was about to ask the same, thought it was supposed to be phased out?

The Premiership agreed on it down south but I don’t think it was anything bigger.

They certainly are looking at it make it law

English Premiership clubs have agreed to shirt front sponsorship ban from 2026/27 as part of the ongoing review of current gambling legislation.

The parent company of Ladbrokes has scaled back it's sponsorship in football that was around 5 years ago

 

[Slipster]

Just announced, a 5 year deal

 

[rayrangers]

Will be interesting to see how it plays out. Maybe Unibet won't be making as much of an issue with it as Parks was re: Cinch (although in reality that was more a point scoring/posturing with the SPFL rather than genuine damage to Parks car sales business). I'd imagine if 888 (Hills) and AsianBGE (Dafabet) weren't going to be OK with this, it'd be a complete non-starter.

You would have thought that this would have been looked into with the Cinch deal but this is the SPL and Doncaster we are talking about

 

[Vallance]

£1.6 million a year

Aye on free bets.

 

[Arkanoid]

32 Red became sponsors in 2014

Ladbrokes 2015-2020 League
Betfred 2016-2020 League Cup
William Hill 2011-2020 Scottish Cup

and nothing was raised about those deals about any conflict of interest

They probably raised the request with the club and all effected parties agreed, unlike the cinch bullying and non communication nonsense from Doncaster.

 

[Arkanoid]

William Hill splurging their Tonali and Toney winnings on this deal

 

[Gaz030191]

The fact they haven't announced the figure and just say "record deal" you know it's not going to be much.

A quick google says the Swiss league has a sponsorship of around 31 million euros a year. A league below us in the coefficient and one we should be looking to be on par with.

And we're probably going to be asked to be thankful the combined £1.8 million that gets agreed.

 

[borderbluenose]

888 holdimgs have lost a lot of value in last 3 years and brokers worried ( still make a profit ) but the SPFL sponsors have a poor record for difficulties Petrofac Cinch in trouble apparently suspect only offer on table

 

[govanfront85]

Doncaster close to signing a deal.

Is this any different from last time as Unibet are our shirt sponsors?

Knew it would be something like that as they were "talking about changing the rules"

In reality, it's no different to the Tennents Scottish Cup when we were sponsored by McEwans in the 90s.

It's just about getting round the table with clubs and sponsors. They weren't prepared to do this with the cinch thing.

 

[Ally’s Golden Boot]

Quite shocked at this news tbh. I was expecting the new sponsor to be MD20/20 or something like that.

 

[bluetonic]

The issue with the Cinch deal was they did not follow the correct process when we declared a conflict of interest. I doubt we will do the same this time considering that most teams are sponsored by betting companies anyway.

The Parks connection had a lot to do with it also, no conflict of interest this time.

 

[Simply a Bear]

I've got visions of Doncaster signing the contract with a bookies pen.

 

[legalbeagle]

Will this not have the potential to lead to a cinch like scenario as happened with us?

I’m just thinking that if they are ok with it (and let’s face it, they have signed off on anything Doncaster does) then it will be fine.

Given the prevalence of betting companies involved, maybe contracts are written in such a way as to allow for this.

 

[a_weir]

Doncaster close to signing a deal.

Is this any different from last time as Unibet are our shirt sponsors?

On paper and as per the rules, no.

However…

We don’t have a large shareholder who runs a betting firm.

So there’s much less of a conflicted business interest.

 

[Class of 72]

I expect ant deal to be a pittance