big screen scoreboard ye or na!

Discussion in 'Bulletin Board ARCHIVE' started by pilleyphil 2u, Dec 9, 2011.

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  1. Archey

    Archey Well-Known Member

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    No, pointless waste of money

    The current one keeps score, that's the purpose of a scoreboard.
     
    Archey, Dec 10, 2011
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    Re: No, pointless waste of money

    the object of a football stand is to sit in but it doesnt stop the club from making a lot of money from selling advertising all over it.
     
    SuperTyke, Dec 10, 2011
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    Re: No, pointless waste of money

    I'm more shocked how skint we are, are we really struggling to come up with 100k for a videoboard? A championship club with championship revenue paying one of the smallest wage budgets in the league? We are getting poor crowds but still averaging over 10k with most of the games being £30. A lot of clubs in league 1 running a steady ship have these installed and much better facilities around the ground.
     
    Gordon Owen, Dec 10, 2011
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  4. EastStander

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    Re: No, pointless waste of money

    I've never really seen the point at a football match....it's not as though there are so many goals that you can't keep count! The clock is fine, except they stop it once we get to injury time so that defeats the point as well, might as well just check my watch.
     
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  5. andytyke

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    Re: if having a big screen scoreboard was such a cash cow...

    they do have video screens, they are only small but they do have em. Or they did when I went last season
     
    andytyke, Dec 10, 2011
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    Would prefer that they fix the system in the East Stand Lower then we can inderstand what is being said.
     
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  7. Archey

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    Re: No, pointless waste of money

    It's an actual FA rule that they must stop the clock when we enter injury time, so that the scoreboard doesn't undermime the referee.

    Newcastle United, one of the biggest clubs in the country, with one of the biggest and up to date stadiums, don't have a scoreboard. Just a timer in every corner of the ground.
     
    Archey, Dec 10, 2011
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    Re: No, pointless waste of money

    Don't Liverpool only have a score, scoreboard?

    Been to some games years ago when the scoreboard was like the old fashioned cricket ones. Where someone changed the number cards. Sure Swindon's used to be like that.
     
    W1zz, Dec 10, 2011
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  9. Whi

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    Mark Stokes, when I asked about Gordon's quote, said that that scoreboard quoted, wasn't the standard they hoped to acquire. The one the club are after is above 100k.
    That was just a FB conversation, and I will share more when Ive met the guy in January. Anybody who wants to join me is more than welcome.
    I say fair play to the club for agreeing/offering to meet us.
     
    Whitey, Dec 10, 2011
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  10. KFC

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    Re: No, pointless waste of money

    Which is ironic in the context of EastStander's point, as Newcastle is the one ground where we often need a scoreboard to keep track of the score!
     
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    Re: No, pointless waste of money

    That's my favourite option. Little to go wrong, environmentally friendly and dripping with retro cool.

    Alternatively, they could hand out white cards to the crowd to hold up in the shape of the score. Human scoreboard. What could go wrong?
     
    budmustang, Dec 10, 2011
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