Twickenham product placement

If it's £100M then well done the rfu.

Let's be frank everyone will still call it Twickenham whilst the RFU have received £X to plough back into the game.

So having previously been sponsors of a discredited bunch in Barnet Allianz are now sponsoring a discredited bunch in Twickenham. They sure know how to pick them!

Twickenham was going to be sponsored by Durex, but they had to pull out at the last minute.

I would rather the RFU stipulated the name stayed, so it became Allianz Twickenham, than change it completely. That's what happened in Scotland with BT Murrayfield, undoubtedly satisfying both sponsor and supporters.

However, if I was told that the RFU, given the parlous state of its finances, were approached and turned down £100 million (£10 million PA for the next decade), I'd be puzzled and possibly angry that they didn't do whatever it took to secure the future of the international and grassroot games in England.

As the ground is in Twickenham and will be accessed on the tube by Twickenham Station, everyone (bar those contractually stipulated to use the new name, such as commentators) will continue to use the old name.

I hope the money is used to grow the game, particularly at the Championship level and below, and isn't just pumped into the marquee events at HQ to make the internationals more luxurious.

Fake_Shemp wrote: I would rather the RFU stipulated the name stayed, so it became Allianz Twickenham, than change it completely. That's what happened in Scotland with BT Murrayfield, undoubtedly satisfying both sponsor and supporters. However, if I was told that the RFU, given the parlous state of its finances, were approached and turned down £100 million (£10 million PA for the next decade), I'd be puzzled and possibly angry that they didn't do whatever it took to secure the future of the international and grassroot games in England. As the ground is in Twickenham and will be accessed on the tube by Twickenham Station, everyone (bar those contractually stipulated to use the new name, such as commentators) will continue to use the old name. I hope the money is used to grow the game, particularly at the Championship level and below, and isn't just pumped into the marquee events at HQ to make the internationals more luxurious.

Do you really think this will filter down? It’s all about redeveloping Twickenham to distance the national team and the “elite” events from the rest of the game. It’s sickening and Sweeney is being paid more in a month than the average annual income in this country to preside over the diminishing and destruction of 90% of the sport.