New score board

Genuinely no. They tried putting Northampton's team on and the writing was tiny, far too small to read. In fact so small that unless you worked out that it appeared at the sane time they read the team out you honestly would not be able to tell that it was the starting 11 that was written on the board.
For the Barnsley team they changed to a display of a photo of each player one at a time with a red swirl animation in the background of it but the board or software really couldn't handle the animation and it kept stuttering and juddering and buffering

 

I think they can forget making any revenue from it. the nearest person must be 100 yards or so away from it and the videos are like watching a flea circus with a new breakdancing routine. It took me 5 min to work out the score digits, they are smaller than on the old board. However i would think the saving grace is that it could be expanded instead of replaced. So its a no from me.

 

Heard a lot of negative comments about it but i quite like it. But lets face it, whats the point in going to the match if all your going to do is watch the big screen?

I could see the score clearly enough; that will do me! well done to Mr Cryne for sorting a new one.

 

Was it before the game that you heard negative comments? Is when it was struggling to show the team and videos etc or was it during the match that you heard the negative comments when it was showing the score and clock?

 

You have just written Cryne's response to the next Q&A. "I told you we wouldn't make much revenue..." Aye we won't, folk won't advertise on it because they cant see the advert. Its built using little squares, lets hope he comes to his senses and buys another few rows and a new structure for it.

 

I have 1 gripe and i had it with the old scoreboard aswell. Why does the timer simply stop at 45 and 90 minutes, instead of carrying on so you know how much injury time has been played. Surely its not hard to program it to do this. Or program it to run for another 30 minutes in the case of extra time. There must be 1 person working at oakwell who knows how to read the manual.

 

To be honest it was during the match, but hey-ho we do like to have a good moan at anything down at Oakwell dont we!

 

I've always thought clubs are not allowed to show how much extra time has been played as I've seen clocks stop at 45 and 90 at other grounds too. Perhaps it's to keep pressure off the ref?

 

You could well be right mate, it certainly seems plausible. Still boils my **** though

 

Did they bring back showing latest scores?

 

That's exactly why. Scoreboards are not allowed to show debatable decisions or 'that shows the match officials in a bad light's because it could influence the way they referee the rest of the game, it's the same reason with the clock. They can't show it because if a referee signals 3 minutes extra time and is still playing after 6 minutes the players and fans will be on his back.

It's stupid really as fans have access to watches anyway and to be perfectly honest if the referee is being fair and only playing what the rules say he should add on then he has nothing to worry about, it only becomes an issue when a referee signals a minimum of 3 minutes and the clock is showing 98 minutes and he's still letting them play on. If that's the case he deserves all the criticism that comes his way (unless of course something has happened since the board went up to justify the time in which case again what has he got to worry about?)

 

This is what you see after a goal. Scowen is the only player allowed to score because he's the only one that fits without cutting his head off.

 

They can't, you can't read any team names on it. Not joking dreamy, they wrote the subs list for Northampton on it so 7 words and not one person near me could make out a single word on it.

They had the sponsors logos on it as well. Just one sponsor on the screen at a time, nothing else on the screen, and you couldn't read them. One was burrows with some writing under it but God knows what it said, one was ck beckets but I'm unsure whether the tagline 'supporting sport in the community' was included or not because of the size. Another was the investment room. I know it said the investment room because I managed to match the colours up to another advertising board at the ground but on the scoreboard all I could make out was the squiggle room. It had 3 words on the board and one of them I couldn't read.

******* pathetic to be honest

 

Any stuttering animation etc is down to the hardware running it, which could be something as simple as a cheap laptop so that's easy enough to rectify, definitely needs to be bigger though, I'm sure even the club will be thinking that. From the images of those blokes fitting it though it does look like a modular system so I'd image it could be made larger if they wanted, but you'd have to maintain the same aspect ratio which would probably mean an entire new supporting structure, now we've allegedly banked £7m, leave that one to display the time and score, and put two more between the Ponte and West and the opposite corner, might stop the wind coming in as much.


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I agree, I was sat in family area and only heard positive comments about it.

 

I hope not. Annoying tw@ts behind us insist on reading the Premier League scores out loud - I like to watch MOTD without knowing the scores.

 

Besides the directors box you're probably the closest to it!

 

Scoreboard would be better then because it's easy not to look at that then it is to shut out noise from behind you Wouldn't matter so much if internet wifi at Oakwell was good enough so using your phone didn't take too long when you want to ideally watch the game. Flashing every score from a league in one go for say five seconds every 10 minutes or so would be easier. But then i'm surprised it took so long for a new scoreboard only for it to be smaller than alot of fans living room TVs.