Agreed Andy.. silly gimmicks Just get on yer feet and open yer gobs to get behind em. Hold a bit of plastic up.. then sit back down quite for half n hour and they think they've done there bit
Well a lot of people liked it and the two things are not mutually exclusive. At least for anyone with more than a couple of lonely brain cells
Think it depends on the angle, pitch level and at one end .... a bit meh! but I suspect from the gantry where TV cameras are on the halfway line it looked really good. Agree some sort of signal cue over P.A. or time to hold them up printed on the cards might help in future.