Derby to rename Pride Park

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  1. fir

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    Nowt to do with new breed of fan.
    I love the history of the club, so it won't make any difference to me what it says on the tickets, or what tv commentators refer to. The ground will always be Oakwell. I'd take 7million in the knowledge it's still Oakwell, no matter what it says on the ticket.
     
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    I'd hate it. Sell your soul to the devil and when he says dance you dance.
     
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    I've vented my rebrand ideas about the badge and about my love of history etc.

    Compromise Idea (devils advocate - not my ideal)

    £xxxxxxx invested to rename grounds?
    But incorporates 'Oakwell' instead of a total change
    Part of the deal they organise a renaming of the other stands after ex players/Rev Preedy ev
    Funds a club museum at the ground they could solely sponsor

    Don't shoot the devil?!? Thoughts?
     
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    Good idea, everyone would call it oakwell anyway.
     
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    It would be idiotic for us not to consider it. Id still call it Oakwell no matter how much we get paid to call it the Biffa bins stadium.
     
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    £7 million to a club like ours on its arse would be fantastic in my opinion. I would rather us progress than drop down the leagues. We would still be barnsley football club when all said and done.
     
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    Only problem is Derby is a bigger club than us and so can get £7000000 no one would give us that sort of money at the moment a better question would be should we rename Oakwell as for example the Haysledon stadium for 1 million over the next 5 years.

    Personally I am not in favour IOC renaming old stadiums with historic names but it's not something I'd lose sleep over It will always be Oakwell to me in the same way the Ponty doesn't change
     
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    For £7m we could call it the "People From Barnsley love to felch dogs Stadium" as far as I'm concerned.
     
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    Pretty much this ^^^

    I think it's fair to say that many of us don't like the idea of changing the name of the ground (despite 3 nice new stands, it's still a ground, not a stadium, we're not that posh) but when you throw £7 million in to the mix it's very difficult to resist. We're all whores and we've all got out price.

    Thing is though, no one would offer Barnsley anywhere near that much. Saying we'd accept £7 million is pie in the sky because we'd never get it. The real question is how much would you accept?

    Then there's the name. 'The iPro Stadium' doesn't sound offensive to me. It's modern and sporty and reasonably bland and you'd soon forget it even existed and continue to call it Oakwell. We'd get some upstart internet company offering dodgy deals with a ludicrous name buying the stadium rights for a million and defaulting on payment. Big Thing anyone?
     
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    FWIW Jay, I think you're right. Purely a hypothetical debate. I think Derby is also a slightly different proposition, as Pride Park is relatively new anyway, and the Derby fans probably accepted the impact on their heritage, when they relocated from The Baseball Ground.

    I just wouldn't be surprised if Ben & Mo were looking at this with interest...
     
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    Same. Get on the blower to G.A.Y club in London to see if they want pay us 7 million to play at the Gay Stadium. As many have said we fans would still say we play at Oakwell. However our budget to try and climb the league which will hopefully entice more fans through the turnstiles would be bigger.
     
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    Derby attract well over 20,000 crowds. We struggle to attract 10 thousand.

    We wouldn't get an offer anywhere near 7m.
     
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    Arsenal get 30 million a year for five years......

    http://www.arsenal.com/Emiratesnewdeal

    Arsenal get crowds three times bigger than Derby but Derby's deal is 700k a season for ten years? So based on your theory of crowds being the only thing that matters when sorting a sponsorship deal Emirates should only be paying 2.1 million a season to Arsenal. I don't think we'd get 7 million over ten years but I reckon we could get 5+ :)
     
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    I know the owners of Pulse and Cocktails. Mi brother knows them really well.......they are from Sheffield...........I'll ask them

    A pair of black french knickers flying over the WELL would look great
     
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    I reckon Dyson should offer naming rights for the fanzine. 10 million quid gets you the chance to call it Andy Rammell is Chuffing God for a season.
     
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    Not sure 25 years as a fan is a new breed but anyway. I think it's called being realistic and having a financial head on.
     
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