Bye Bye, Yellow Dildo!

'Newport Gwent Dragons are delighted to announce that Eteach has signed up as their new headline sponsor.

'These are exciting times at Rodney Parade, with a leading UK company further developing its relationship with the Dragons. Eteach has supported the Dragons for a while by appearing on both the home and the away kit, and they will now renew their contract with the Dragons by becoming their main shirt sponsor.

'The Eteach name and logo will be prominently placed on the front of the Dragons jerseys for RaboDirect PRO12, LV= Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup competitions and gain Europe-wide exposure to well over a million TV viewers as well as live spectators.'


http://www.newportgwentdragons.com/News/Article/25063

So there you go. We only had the one season with the Discount Tyres yellow dong motif on our jersey - and what a season it's been.

Thanks for the memories.

Doh, didn't see this thread, I may actually buy next seasons shirt

I didn't mind the logo so much, but the name just makes us sound a bit garbage (Discount anyway). I bought two shirts last season (home and European), so it clearly didn't bother me too much.

The Eteach logo has been on our shorts and is pretty big on there, so hopefully it doesn't drown the front of the short too much.

You could spot a dong at 50 paces!

'Disc0unt' was also unforunate as the '0' was often hidden...

I spent an extra tenner and bought a decent rugby coat instead of the jersey

munkian wrote:'Disc0unt' was also unforunate as the '0' was often hidden...

I spent an extra tenner and bought a decent rugby coat instead of the jersey

Very apt as they played like a bunch of discounts against Glasgow, IIRC.

munkian wrote:'Disc0unt' was also unforunate as the '0' was often hidden...

I spent an extra tenner and bought a decent rugby coat instead of the jersey

A couple of questions!
Is it lucky?
Did you get an extra 10% discount for doing the deal online?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTHeu_9gI-s

Cardiff Dave wrote:

munkian wrote:'Disc0unt' was also unforunate as the '0' was often hidden...

I spent an extra tenner and bought a decent rugby coat instead of the jersey

Very apt as they played like a bunch of discounts against Glasgow, IIRC.

No, we played like tyres - we just rolled over.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

Cardiff Dave wrote:

munkian wrote:'Disc0unt' was also unforunate as the '0' was often hidden...

I spent an extra tenner and bought a decent rugby coat instead of the jersey

Very apt as they played like a bunch of discounts against Glasgow, IIRC.

No, we played like tyres - we just rolled over.

And the players actually looked Tyred after Glasgow ran them ragged for 80 mins too.

ScarletSpiderman wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

Cardiff Dave wrote:

munkian wrote:'Disc0unt' was also unforunate as the '0' was often hidden...

I spent an extra tenner and bought a decent rugby coat instead of the jersey

Very apt as they played like a bunch of discounts against Glasgow, IIRC.

No, we played like tyres - we just rolled over.

And the players actually looked Tyred after Glasgow ran them ragged for 80 mins too.

and deflated.

It was a car crash of a performance.

Lets hope we 'e-teach' them a lesson next season

munkian wrote:Lets hope we 'e-teach' them a lesson next season

Please teach me you skills oh master

Ithankyou

Still on a positive note, I'm quietly optimistic for next season, can't see us doing any worse

I think we've made decent - perhaps more than decent - signings in the right areas. We're possibly still light on genuine, quality wingers, but otherwise I'm hopeful we can give a better account of ourselves next season.

Yeah, we were blessed with wingers at one point, get Brrreeewwwww back

Will Harries needs to up his game. If Mike Poole can get a run of games, he could be great for us.

I like Pooley but he's cursed with injuries, I heard rumours he had left though ?

I haven't heard anything. They named a few players were leaving but he wasn't one of them.

munkian wrote:Ithankyou

Still on a positive note, I'm quietly optimistic for next season, can't see us doing any worse

At last! I have seen Welsh optimism..... Tempered with self depreciation sure... But optimism nonetheless.

Jenifer McLadyboy wrote:

munkian wrote:Ithankyou

Still on a positive note, I'm quietly optimistic for next season, can't see us doing any worse

At last! I have seen Welsh optimism..... Tempered with self depreciation sure... But optimism nonetheless.

Cardiff Dave wrote:

Jenifer McLadyboy wrote:

munkian wrote:Ithankyou

Still on a positive note, I'm quietly optimistic for next season, can't see us doing any worse

At last! I have seen Welsh optimism..... Tempered with self depreciation sure... But optimism nonetheless.

Bloody spellcheck. Self deprecation.

Jenifer McLadyboy wrote:

Cardiff Dave wrote:

Jenifer McLadyboy wrote:

munkian wrote:Ithankyou

Still on a positive note, I'm quietly optimistic for next season, can't see us doing any worse

At last! I have seen Welsh optimism..... Tempered with self depreciation sure... But optimism nonetheless.

Bloody spellcheck. Self deprecation.

You knows it

Self deprecation is over hyped.

Glas a du wrote:Self deprecation is over hyped.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

Down with gravity!

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:Down with gravity!

I thought it was down with trousers up with mini-skirts? (jeeze you can tell its friday and almost quitting time on here).

I think Dragons have shown with their signings that they weren't happy with this season and want to improve the squad.

Talei Burton Rees are all good signings. However I think that 7-11 in the table will be tight, and all the teams in it look to be improving next year, making it hard to escape it or move up.

However I did say at the start of the season that Dragons aim would be to turn RP back into a bit of a fortress. Won 5/11 and a few embrassing results. I think Dragons aim next year will be the same as last year, but they will be better equiped to do it.
Win 7/8 home games, and don't let anyone leave RP with a BP win.

Enough of these one liners...

That's the thing, Kingshu: losing at home is one thing (not desirable, but it happens), but this season the visitors haven't even had to work that hard for the win.

Aye, I could live with our shocking away form as our homegames were generally very strong and we didn't often lose let alone give away try bonus points.

This was before the Bisley stand though...

goodbye yellow dill-doh...

I can just hear Elton...

Glas a du wrote: goodbye yellow dill-doh...

I can just hear Elton...

Awww. Does that mean I'll have to stop calling you spunkian?

What you do in the privacy of your Parent's basement is your own business

I think we lacked penetration this year

I'm itching to get a double ender pun, but it's just not coming!!!

maybe something to do with the double header, in the mill stad

I go to discount tyres for my tyres. It's the lowest of the low tyre place. Lovely, friendly staff but a real spit and sawdust operation. Where real cheapskates go.

Kinda embarrassing that they became our sponsor (no offence to them). Our sponsor may as well have been 'Raza's Buy And Sell' from Commercial Street in Newport!

munkian wrote:Ithankyou

Still on a positive note, I'm quietly optimistic for next season, can't see us doing any worse

Munkian,

Whilstr I agree we can't get any worse (well other than lose to Zebre to) its always sad thats how we set our bench mark.

Why the feck we didn't get Howarth in there Edwards for me has had his chance and failed and oh please Kingsley get a deal done with the Russkis so you can help us out to.

Got to have optimism, agree about Howarth and Kingsley, we need a clear out from the top down