Shirt Sponsor 23/24 - BK8

[chrisw1]

Surprisingly awful decision by the club and we deserve the media shit coming our way. I would suggest that you don't buy the shirts and donate a third of what you save to charity so they dont miss out.

Miss out how? 

[montague]

Surprisingly awful decision by the club and we deserve the media shit coming our way. I would suggest that you don't buy the shirts and donate a third of what you save to charity so they dont miss out.

Miss out how? 

Aren't they promising to donate a third of profits on the third kit to charity or did I misunderstand

[Steve67]

Today, I love Aston Villa just a little bit less.

[sid1964]

Wrexham have managed to get an American airline company to sponsor their shirt for next season

I can honestly say I do not know who BK8 are.

I suppose if someone is offering you 3 times more than anyone else then you take the money that is the best offer.

You dont have to buy the shirt, the choice is yours, similarly if you feel that strongly about the shirt sponsor, return your season ticket etc..

[PaulWinch again]

I hate gambling and would love to see it gone from sports.

But, I find it funny how everyone ignores the fact that we were already sponsored by gambling companies anyway and have been for years.

Sky use coverage of our matches to sell SkyBet and sell advertising slots for our matches to other gambling companies. That money then comes to us through their rights payments.

When we were in the Championship the prize money came from SkyBet.

We, and every other club, is already neck deep in it. The only difference here is that the filthy cash isn’t first being washed by another party first.

I’m not sure people are “ignoring” that are they? You can be dissatisfied at the general influence of gambling/gambling money in football and still be pissed off that your club signs one up as “Principal Partner”.

[chrisw1]

Wrexham is hardly a typical example.  They've got a Disney documentary and two US megastars promoting the club worldwide.

[Chico Hamilton III]

You dont have to buy the shirt, the choice is yours, similarly if you feel that strongly about the shirt sponsor, return your season ticket etc..

Yeah, suck it up, long suffering, loyal fans. Like it or lump it but don’t dare complain. Pay up or let the person in the queue behind you through.

[Brazilian Villain]

Wrexham have managed to get an American airline company to sponsor their shirt for next season

And if that airline had sponsored us people would still be complaining saying, "FFS, we're not Newton Heath".

[Dogtanian]

I hate gambling and would love to see it gone from sports.

But, I find it funny how everyone ignores the fact that we were already sponsored by gambling companies anyway and have been for years.

Sky use coverage of our matches to sell SkyBet and sell advertising slots for our matches to other gambling companies. That money then comes to us through their rights payments.

When we were in the Championship the prize money came from SkyBet.

We, and every other club, is already neck deep in it. The only difference here is that the filthy cash isn’t first being washed by another party first.

I’m not sure people are “ignoring” that are they? You can be dissatisfied at the general influence of gambling/gambling money in football and still be pissed off that your club signs one up as “Principal Partner”.

I think there’s a lot of ignorance, yes. The articles appearing this morning fail to mention the betting advertising that’s already everywhere in football and on reading them you’d think we were the only ones accepting gambling cash. The same goes for the posts on here and what I’ve seen on social media.

[Drummond]

Oh and Trade Nation are our new sleeve partner. Yet more of the same.

[PaulWinch again]

I hate gambling and would love to see it gone from sports.

But, I find it funny how everyone ignores the fact that we were already sponsored by gambling companies anyway and have been for years.

Sky use coverage of our matches to sell SkyBet and sell advertising slots for our matches to other gambling companies. That money then comes to us through their rights payments.

When we were in the Championship the prize money came from SkyBet.

We, and every other club, is already neck deep in it. The only difference here is that the filthy cash isn’t first being washed by another party first.

I’m not sure people are “ignoring” that are they? You can be dissatisfied at the general influence of gambling/gambling money in football and still be pissed off that your club signs one up as “Principal Partner”.

I think there’s a lot of ignorance, yes. The articles appearing this morning fail to mention the betting advertising that’s already everywhere in football and on reading them you’d think we were the only ones accepting gambling cash. The same goes for the posts on here and what I’ve seen on social media.

I haven’t seen the articles, but that’s commentary from the outside on Aston Villa. I think that’s different from people being aware and dissatisfied about the influence of gambling in football. The point being that being dissatisfied about the general state of the game, but not actively calling it out all the time doesn’t preclude people from being more actively vocal about the club signing up with a gambling firm as principal partner.

[kippaxvilla2]

Wrexham have managed to get an American airline company to sponsor their shirt for next season

And if that airline had sponsored us people would still be complaining saying, "FFS, we're not Newton Heath".

And that this is an absolutely disgraceful decision by the club and is a catastrophe for the environment.

[paul_e]

I hate gambling and would love to see it gone from sports.

But, I find it funny how everyone ignores the fact that we were already sponsored by gambling companies anyway and have been for years.

Sky use coverage of our matches to sell SkyBet and sell advertising slots for our matches to other gambling companies. That money then comes to us through their rights payments.

When we were in the Championship the prize money came from SkyBet.

We, and every other club, is already neck deep in it. The only difference here is that the filthy cash isn’t first being washed by another party first.

I’m not sure people are “ignoring” that are they? You can be dissatisfied at the general influence of gambling/gambling money in football and still be pissed off that your club signs one up as “Principal Partner”.

I think there’s a lot of ignorance, yes. The articles appearing this morning fail to mention the betting advertising that’s already everywhere in football and on reading them you’d think we were the only ones accepting gambling cash. The same goes for the posts on here and what I’ve seen on social media.

I haven’t seen the articles, but that’s commentary from the outside on Aston Villa. I think that’s different from people being aware and dissatisfied about the influence of gambling in football. The point being that being dissatisfied about the general state of the game, but not actively calling it out all the time doesn’t preclude people from being more actively vocal about the club signing up with a gambling firm as principal partner.

...again.

I think that's the most important part here. I don't remember anything like this amount of angst from either our own fans or from outside when we signed up with various gambling and trading partners in the past.

Personally I don't like us having sponsors like this but a quick look across the sport suggests that there's a very limited number of companies willing to put in the sort of offers we'd be interested in and most of them want Champions League exposure. Hopefully Heck can work on getting us something much better and we can look at killing this deal early by next summer but I don't think we had the time or financial flexibility to walk away from this right now.

[kippaxvilla2]

Looking at it plain and simply - they offer the most money.  End of discussion in the boardroom.

[Scott Nielsen]

Oh and Trade Nation are our new sleeve partner. Yet more of the same.

I don't think they are the same at all. I know nothing about Trade Nation, specifically, but everyone should have a brokerage account and investment principles should be taught in school.