Would you be happy if our ground was sponsored?

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  1. Gordon Owen

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    and we sold the naming rights? I suppose it depends who the sponsor was...

    Lidl.
     
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    no i wouldnt be happy . . . but can understand why clubs do it.

    if we sold the naming rights it wouldnt really matter though as it will always be Oakwell to me!
     
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    Lidl? Netto more like. A tie up with Ann Summers could be interesting though!
     
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    Morgs R Us, would be appropriate at times

    or Slumberland Beds Stadium of Silence.
    Seriously, If Oakwell could still be incorporated into the name I think it would be ok.
     
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    I think it should be sponsored and named after the sponsor.

    I suggest that it should be sponsored by Oakwell Brewery! They could split it between the ground and the east stand.....so we'd have the ground called Oakwell and the East Stand named The Brewery Stand!
     
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    Re: Morgs R Us, would be appropriate at times

    Why not if its extra income get it done.
     
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    If it brought tens of thousands of pounds into the club, I don't see the problem. The people who care about the club, (i.e. the fans) would still refer to it as Oakwell. I'm not in the slightest bit bothered that Sky Sports might have a reporter at The Lidl Stadium. They can call it what they like as long as the club benefits financially.

    What would be fantastic, and I can't believe a potential sponsor hasn't thought of it is to do the exact opposite. I.e. sponsor a stadium to maintain its historical name for a certain amount of time. The novelty & the goodwill would generate more good publicity for the sponsor that a run of the mill type sponsorship.

    I also like the idea of shirt sponsors leaving the shirts deliberately blank or handing over to a charitable cause one game a season. Again, the novelty value will generate more publicity than doing the same thing over & over. Think there may be some league rules against this though.
     
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    "We'll cross live to Jeff Stelling who's at Woody's chippy stadium - best cod in't tarn......"
     
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    You'd want Chris Morgan to sponsor the ground ?

    Highly inappropriate imho.
     
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    If thats in reply to my 'Morgs R Us Post..

    Morg is in relation to Mortuary.
    Which is quite apparent as to what I was meaning if you read all of my post, ie Stadium of Silence.

    Hope this helps
     
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    Re: If thats in reply to my 'Morgs R Us Post..

    greggs sausage roll stadium?

    or the best of the lot................................. 'thereev' stadium

    hope this helps
     
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    No

    When the £100,000 player the sponsorship money bought us turns out to be **** and is released on a free transfer and we're languishing mid table in league 1 I'm sure we'll take great solace in the fact that we now watch football at the ASDA Superstore Stadium.

    **** chasing a quick buck. **** selling your soul for a one off payment, the consequences of which will live with you for years. It's Oakwell. Some people might sell their grandmother if the price was right but I wouldn't. Football may be trying to turn itself into a hard nosed business where only money matters but it doesn't mean I'm going to buy in to it. Tradition is all we've really got and I wouldn't be prepared to sell it.

    Not that I'd have any say in the matter though.
     
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    Re: If thats in reply to my 'Morgs R Us Post..

    get away, really ???

    No it didn't help.
     
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    Re: No

    ok then...thereev's oakwell stadium
     
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    Re: No

    This St James Park rename, why an Areana? I thought Areana's had to be closed roof, where a stadium was open air.
     
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    Re: No

    The point being that regardless of any sponsorship, or what the media have to call it, it will always be Oakwell to those who want it to be. Just don't see the problem, and tradition/ history matters to me.

    All hypothetical, as given that we've failed every year since it was built, to find a sponsor for the East Stand, we're hardly likely to get one for the ground.

    Wouldn't get much for my Grandma in any case. Sadly.
     
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    Re: No

    Idealistically, no. Any money generated only goes to overpaid players and agents anyway, so I'm not in favour of football's equivalent of selling the family silver. However, the overpaid players need paying and there's only so much they can take from the supporters, so if it becomes necessary then it will happen. Can't see us getting an offer like Newcastle's £10m per year though.

    Still, I can't see many Geordies referring to their ground as anything other than St. James' Park, just as much as I sit in the Ponty End and not whatever the sponsor is (Is it still the Ora Stand? Shows how much notice I pay to sponsors).

    It will not be long before players change their names to suit sponsors, particularly our Latino cousins, who make nicknames up for themselves anyway. Not be long before we have a Brazilian captain called Ferrari-o or Pepsicola-o.

    I get fed up with the sponsors adverts wrapping around TV programmes ad breaks too. Everything on the FX Channel seems to be sponsored by Joop aftershave, and yet I've never felt inclined to go out and buy some. I'm sure some research teams will spend hundreds of thousands of large corporations' money to demonstrated how advertising works, but it all seems a bit of a racket and a bit annoying to me. "MacDonalds, the official fast food of the World Cup...Coca Cola, the official cola based drink of the World Cup...etc". Do you think different food and drink manufacturers bombard FIFA with suggestions of what they need an official version of for the World Cup? Just in case they do, if FIFA decide to have an official parkin of the World Cup, I'd nominate Lottie Shaw's.
     
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    I was under the impression we did not actually own the ground at all

    I thought we just rented it, or have I missed summat?
     
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