Do we really need a new scoreboard or should we buy a big clock and........

Still a little perplexed why folk want a board but only want to show the time and score, I'm reasonably sure most of us can tell the time and remember which team has scored... either its done properly or not at all

 

And you only want one because, you'll be able to see from the bush on the hill

 

Alternatively, they could forget about all that match day experience ***** and allow supporters to chat and discuss the game on the terraces like they used to do. And that means gagging that gobshite announcer and turning the deafening fcking tannoy off and allow the crowd to generate it's own atmosphere. A simple, elegant pair of scoreboards will do just fine, one each end.

 

A simple, elegant pair of scoreboards won't bring in hundreds of thousands in advertising revenue though.

 

If they put it in the same place as the one that's up now I'd only be able to see the back of it. the *******s

 

Neither will the one you're on about. The advertising levels at Oakwell are fine as they are, I'm sick to fcking death of ***** everywhere you look. Give football back to the fans, not the vulgar corporate brands.

 

Why don't you think that a video board would generate advertising? I'm pretty certain that I could secure enough scoreboard advertising to raise 100k in 10 years EASILY without any effort at all and i'm even more certain that by charging the right amount and using a proper commercial department then the revenue would be much much higher.

ps, I could raise 100k using local businesses and no corporate brands at all.

1k for 5 30 second adverts per game. Sell 10 of those and that's 30 minutes of advertising on the board: 5 minutes before kick off, 5 at half time, 5 at full time, 5 during the first half, 5 during the second half. Not too intrusive at all. £10k per year advertising generated, £100k over 10 years. Local businesses already pay 2k just for a static ad around the edge of the pitch. I'm offering a video advert for half the price. It'd sell like hot cakes.

Local businesses supporting a local club and making 100k in advertising.

Plus the extra value added to the CK Becket and hayseldens sponsorship deals plus the extra value added to the match sponsorship packages (usually local businesses) and the extra value added to the player sponsorships (again local people).

If you hate the big brand commercialism of the game then look at it another way, 100k+ of LOCAL advertising could be used to offset what we make from the big brand sponsorship around the ground and would enable us to do away with them without losing a penny if thats what we wanted to do.

 

Your figures don't add up - no-one would look at it and it wouldn't be a worthwhile investment. And I don't want it in my eyes. I want to chose what I look at, without cynical w@nkers trying to manipulate where I spend my money, particularly when I'm at football. I said on another thread, if electronic pitchside advertising ever comes to Oakwell that will be me finished with BFC.

 

Think the key point that everyone's missing is that it's the club suggestion we use the money to buy one. If we decide we don't want to, we don't have to. At the end of the day it's our money and it's being donated to the club to do something that we want.

That could be signing a young laiker, buying TVs around the ground etc. Anything. Obviously has to be agreed with the club but a video board is one suggestion. I think it's a good one but it's up to the majority.