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  1. Lenzo

    Lenzo Well-Known Member

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    I spoke to Grace Hung about this at the civic reception at the town hall at the end of last season and she said it was done by a friend of hers as a bit of fun as Grace is Toby Tyke mad. It wasn’t a lot of money either if you’re a multi millionaire.
     
  2. Jay

    Jay Well-Known Member

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    Read Deputy Dawg's post. It's not really about whether the image is fake or not. It's that the situation is fake. It wasn't what it was sold to us as. It's either photoshopped or a tourist photo like on the log flume.

    As someone who has used photoshop since 93, I think they are fake. But then there are claims that it was filmed in situ. I can't counter claim that. And maybe both are true as I struggle to rationale the practicalities of photographing an image on a billboard that is there for seconds. So maybe they're mock-ups.

    The point was it was sold to us as a wow and it's anything but.
     
  3. Dan

    DannyWilsonLovechild Well-Known Member

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    Is the page of our image not just showing the transition of taking the image, creating the cut out for windows then showing it in situ? There’s ones for other companies and events too

    Do we know if any of our directors have influence at this company?
     
  4. bright red

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    What the heck are you on about? It was never more than a bit of fun. Sold as a wow - guess that’s supposed to be yank talk but means nothing to me. What did you think it was? Lutu Media arrange to put messages on that Nasdaq screen -a quick google showed me that. Even individuals have paid to have their own face on it as a laugh.
    I think you think you stumbled upon or searched out some big news and it’s just a non-story. Leave it.
     
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    orsenkaht Well-Known Member

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    Are you inviting us to draw allegorical conclusions?
     
  6. Jay

    Jay Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the input, useless as usual.

    It wasn't argued as a bit of fun at the time, it was us selling ourselves to the world, a great marketing campaign from our billionaire owners, you're changing history. It was them using their influence to project Barnsley FC to an international market. And it was nonsense.
     
  7. bright red

    bright red Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the abuse - true to form.
     
  8. Jay

    Jay Well-Known Member

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    I don't think they have influence in the company. I think we were allowed to believe it was an international marketing campaign when it was nothing of the sort.
     
  9. Jay

    Jay Well-Known Member

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    There's no abuse. Not one word of it.
     
  10. TitusMagee

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    I can see where you are coming from:

    https://www.barnsleyfc.co.uk/news/2018/april/new-york-reds/

    It does create the illusion that they are trying to increase brand exposure when in reality it wasn't that big of a deal. Was clearly a PR attempt to excite punters but we haven't seen anything more substantial since.
     
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    So hang on, I can get a massive picture blown up on Times Square for fairly modest outlay

    This sounds like it could be a right laugh

    Presumably photos of **** and balls are allowed?
     
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    #fakenews :)
     
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    I think you're confusing Times Square with Peel Square!☺
     
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    In fairness my recollection is that it was portrayed to demonstrate our ‘international presence’

    It was proper Mickey Mouse though let’s be right
     
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    Depends i would have thought on how visible they are on the photo
    Not making disparaging accusations by the way he he
     
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    I guess it’s just how you conduct yourself. “Useless as usual” in describing my input was a bit cruel don’t you think?

    The whole way in which you have framed this thread in wanting us to be shocked somehow by the revelation revealed by translating a Chinese website has been a little self serving. You thought it somehow proved that the image was a lie when it clearly wasn’t. You’ve switched to say It was hyped up when it first appeared but what do we expect with Americans involved?
     
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    I couldn't care less if it's true or not, this is mint.

    I'm fully in to it. Like that time Cryne got a helicopter to Ipswich and my mate flew him there.
     
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    Just wasted 5 minutes of my life reading 3 pages of this knackers. And then a further minute typing this post. Time to log off.
     
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  20. Jay

    Jay Well-Known Member

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    It's not cruel when you've just lectured me and continue to do so. And it certainly wasn't abusive.

    I think it's a pertinent point, particularly when you look back at the link Titus has given. I maintain they are photoshopped, but if NY Tykes have vidieod it then I'm wrong. But I wasn't doing what you have accused me of doing, I was trying to highlight that our owners haven't been doing what they claimed they were doing, and I think that's important, I'm sorry you don't and feel the need to be aggressive to someone who only wants to highlight that.
     

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