Goodbye Guinness Premiership

[Teh Mite]

Hello "Aviva Premiership Rugby"

http://www.northamptonsaints.co.uk/news/6727.php

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[TRF_Olyy]

Slightly better than the rumoured "LV= Premiership",
Will still miss the GP though, and will probably still call it by that for the majority of the season

 

[tinchy17]

I read that somewhere too, but at least I now know it's true

 

[Thingimubob]

Hmmm, Aviva Premiership just doesn't have the same ring to it that the Guinness Premiership does. Like Olyy said, most people are going to call it the Guinness Premiership for most of the season. Same as the 'Aviva Stadium', it's always going to be Lansdowne Road to me.

 

[TRF_Cymro]

Poor now it will be the AP not the GP

 

[Teh Mite]

Everyone said the same thing when it went from "Zurich Premiership" to "Guinness Premiership".

So ling as I can still have 8 pints of Guinness at every APR match, I don't really care what it's called!

 

[Saints1]

Can we please ensure that we keep Paul Whitehouse away from promoting this please?!

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Aviva... Can you drink it? If not, bad choice for a sponsor

 

[Teh Mite]

Can we please ensure that we keep Paul Whitehouse away from promoting this please?!

We've been shouting "Green Army" at FG all season!

 

[Saints1]

I hate those adverts!

 

[GazzaJAnimal]

One of the things I'm not too keen on is the competition logo. Just an oblong, in blue and yellow. That's not gonna look good on the Gilberts is it? Not as good as the Guinness logos by comparison.I know that the Aviva corporate colours are blue and yellow, we'll have to live with that. But their logo is pretty boring compared to Guinness's. Plus Guinness is a much more palatable drink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cyRil]

It just seems right that alcoholic drinks sponsor rugby though!
I'm gutted that the WRU has dropped Brains in favour of Admiral Brains is the perfect sponsor for Welsh rugby!!!

 

[Teh Mite]

The only Brains that Powell ever had were on the front of his shirt...

 

[GazzaJAnimal]

The only Brains that Powell ever had were on the front of his shirt...

Yes indeed :lol:

 

[TRF_Olyy]

It just seems right that alcoholic drinks sponsor rugby though!
I'm gutted that the WRU has dropped Brains in favour of Admiral Brains is the perfect sponsor for Welsh rugby!!!

Magners to become the "Direct Line League"?
Seems they're all heading towards insurance now

 

[cyRil]

Magners to become the "Direct Line League"?
Seems they're all heading towards insurance now

Well just as well with all these scrum-related injuries these days...

 

[Conal]

Well just as well with all these scrum-related injuries these days...

next they will be calling for scrums to be banned!

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

next they will be calling for scrums to be banned!

And then being slagged off for doing so by a colluegue a week later

 

[Duckdee]

Magners to become the "Direct Line League"?
Seems they're all heading towards insurance now

I think it swings back and forth.

 

[Thingimubob]

The only Brains that Powell ever had were on the front of his shirt...

Hahaha :lol:
Apparently this isn't a good mixture with pints of Guinness and a Golf Buggy either...