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RIP Pizza Cup?

Callumcafc
Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
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Papa Johns will end sponsorship of EFL Trophy, with US-based pizza company opting not to renew £1m-a-season deal and league officials searching for new backer



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11886353/Papa-Johns-NOT-renew-sponsorship-EFL-Trophy.html
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  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    Thanks for the memories Papa Johns
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,030
    I still I still refer to it as the JPT! 
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,103
    In the world of community rugby, the RFU stopped the league season on 11 March. That’s totally unheard of. It always used to be that clubs played up until Easter and then went on tour. This season they have introduced a cup competition which is sponsored by … Papa Johns 🍕. Guess what, no one is interested. Clubs are pulling out en-masse. There’s a theme emerging here 🤔
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,483
    edited March 2023
    Chance for good old Thomas there, always wanted " a slice of the action", can see it now... The Sandgaard Cup....thing is, we would probably go and win the bloody thing and have him present it to us...😂
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,733
    This sponsorship will take some topping. 
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,976
    I don’t understand Hawaiiiiiiiiiiiii (an) they are stopping
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,877
    SuedeAdidas said:
    This sponsorship will take some topping. 
    Best pizza gag so far.
  • Rylo
    Rylo Posts: 860
    I’m sure another sponsor will fancy a pizza the action. 
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  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,222
    Another one bites the crust
  • Jonniesta
    Jonniesta Posts: 1,152
    Shame. It appealed to a wide base... I guess someone else will have to raise the dough.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,846
    Hopefully no new sponsorship will come forward and this abomination of a competition will die the quick death it deserves. If I owned the club I'd take pleasure in playing the youth team, taking the fine, getting knocked out as quickly as possible and publicly announcing that the club would expunge all reference to the games from its records. 
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    What a blow.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,215
    Back to being called the Football League Trophy then 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,590
    _MrDick said:
    In the world of community rugby, the RFU stopped the league season on 11 March. That’s totally unheard of. It always used to be that clubs played up until Easter and then went on tour. This season they have introduced a cup competition which is sponsored by … Papa Johns 🍕. Guess what, no one is interested. Clubs are pulling out en-masse. There’s a theme emerging here 🤔
    Yeah, it's started a Domino effect.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    Let the Premier League sponsor it... they're so desperate for it to include their U21 sides
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    I'm disappointed they quit their sponsorship after only three years, as I expected them to stay for quattro stagioni.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,071
    Surprised they paid £1m a year for it. It would hardly increase their profile, guess it's pennies for a company their size.

    Pepperoni. 
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,548
    Hopefully with a slice of good fortune we won't enter it next year 
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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    The competition provides a good half way house in order to play fringe players and youngsters.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
    seth plum said:
    The competition provides a good half way house in order to play fringe players and youngsters.
    I don’t get it
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,371
    Callumcafc said:
    seth plum said:
    The competition provides a good half way house in order to play fringe players and youngsters.
    I don’t get it
    It’s a chance to give youngsters a slice of the action.
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,975
    The best they can do is turn it back into a straight knock out competition. Im baffled how its survived this long with clubs getting 3 figure attendances in the group stages. The Wembley final must subsidise literally the entire rest of the competition. 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,071
    CAFCTrev said:
    The best they can do is turn it back into a straight knock out competition. Im baffled how its survived this long with clubs getting 3 figure attendances in the group stages. The Wembley final must subsidise literally the entire rest of the competition. 
    I wouldn't be surprised if most clubs lost money hosting trophy games. A Wembley final and £1m annual sponsorship isn't going to stretch that far.
  • twiggyaddick
    twiggyaddick Posts: 1,564
    se9addick said:
    I still I still refer to it as the JPT! 
    Will always be the LDV Vans
  • CL_Phantom
    CL_Phantom Posts: 5,512
    Where's the dough gonna come from now?!?
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,217
    twiggyaddick said:
    se9addick said:
    I still I still refer to it as the JPT! 
    Will always be the LDV Vans

    To me it will always be the Sherpa Van Trophy.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    twiggyaddick said:
    se9addick said:
    I still I still refer to it as the JPT! 
    Will always be the LDV Vans
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2xqT80uxIw
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    ^Whoever put this on the internet has misspelt it!

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