Exactamundo. £100,000 for a big screen and lorry to transport it. Use it at Oakwell 26 (average guess) times a year and if you can hire it out for events. Doncaster races hire one every time, Barnsley college would hire one a couple of times a year, Barnsley council would hire one for the lord mayors parade, for the tour de yorkshire, for the other cycling event they had last year, for the new town centre set up. Alternatively you contact the council about purchasing one together for the club to use on matchdays and to be a permanent installation in the town centre the rest of the time. With the new town centre plans it would be easy to incorporate a big screen somewhere. Or you go down the chesterfield route where you pay far less for the screen and then share revenue with the providing company. Their screen IS profitable right now There are ways to make it work, the question is do those at the club WANT to make it work? As far whoever said nobody new would advertise on it. That is wrong, it is a new advertising source in a medium the club has never attempted to use before so nobody can say that it wouldn't attract new sponsors. In fact a few years ago I looked at the prices charged by other clubs for their advertising packages on their scoreboard and at the prices charged by Burnley (I forget exactly what they were) I could have brought in three new advertisers who currently aren't interested in any static advertisement
You know those tellys under the stands? You know those magic moving pictures that are on them? The big shiny scoreboard could use the same magic moving pictures
