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Stadium name

by chestertorkyman » 07 Aug 2017, 21:34

Surely, Toquay and the Plainmoor locality has a deep and long-standing with another name. You must know it!
I still prefer Plainmoor, but if another name is to be chosen, particularly if we move, it has to be the name of the ground in the Babbacombe Model Village. Unless its changed since I went regularly as a boy, then the obvious name is Wombley Stadium. ! QED :clap:

Re: Stadium name

by Fred Perry » 04 Aug 2017, 08:51

jonnyfive wrote: 30 Dec 2012, 12:24 :red: Other teams play vacuous music when they score too. The club tried that but the groundswell of opinion was that it was completely brainless, and summed up all that is wrong with the plastic product that football is becoming.

No KitKat Crescent here, thanks very much!
Most people ( including around 80 % of Liverpool supporters ) have becomevwell p ssed off with English football !.

Souless , in the main , plastic seat stadiums , with , in the main , in the higher divisions , players with VASTLY " over inflated " egos !...

At least it is a startv, that German style safe terracing is coming into many grounds e.g. Shrewsbury Town and " blatant diving " to con the ref , is going to be heavily penalised wirh " player bans " , for a period of time.

ABOUT BLOODY TIME !...

Re: Stadium name

by usagullmichigan » 01 Jan 2013, 01:53

ferrarilover wrote:Stupid boy Chris! Soul selling involves naming the stadium, hence the title of the thread. Other sponsorship is incidental, it goes largely unnoticed, so it's not a problem. Having a ground with a stupid name just gets you laughed at.

Matt.
It's like F1 Matt, it's all about sponsorship. Once upon a time it would have been ridiculous to sponsor a shirt. It's going with the times. Give it time and will be sponsor a corner flag and a blade of grass.

Re: Stadium name

by OllieGull » 01 Jan 2013, 01:06

Good shout in the OP for "The Riviera Stadium" I think it would be a great name, plus it would go hand in hand with "The Bay" being played on the big screen. I can only wish though :-/

Re: Stadium name

by Jerry » 01 Jan 2013, 00:56

ferrarilover wrote: Why make ourselves look dafter than needs be?

Matt.
Do you still have a bright orange car?

As for stadium sponsorship, some work and some don't. As Matt says Dagenham's is an abomination but I don't think anyone at Bolton complains about playing at The Reebok or Arsenal at The Emirates. Although I guess these may be easier to stomach as they were new grounds as opposed to renaming existing stadia.

Personally, as long as we were paid enough I couldn't care less what name the ground is officially known by, as others have stated we will still call it Plainmoor whoever the sonsors might be.

Re: Stadium name

by ferrarilover » 31 Dec 2012, 23:08

I think it's because no one notices the names of other things. I couldn't tell you the official names of any of our stands, but I can tell you the name of the ground. The name of the ground is a key element for a football club. It's a bit like a bloke called Joe Smith living in a house called PhlegmGoblin and driving a car called a PenisEater 1.6, all the while the guy's name is Joe Smith, no one will really notice. As soon as Joe goes to Deed Poll and becomes Louise Smith or Mary Smith or CockSucker Smith or PokerStars.com Smith, then people will sit up and take notice and, largely, take the piss.

Perhaps you're right, perhaps we do get laughed at, but then, the worst thing the fat kid with braces can do is go to the opticians and get a pair of glasses. Why make ourselves look dafter than needs be? What we really need is some local entrepreneur to start a company called Plainmoor PLC and then they can sponsor the ground.

Matt.

Re: Stadium name

by happytorq » 31 Dec 2012, 19:04

ferrarilover wrote:Stupid boy Chris! Soul selling involves naming the stadium, hence the title of the thread. Other sponsorship is incidental, it goes largely unnoticed, so it's not a problem. Having a ground with a stupid name just gets you laughed at.
Of course. It's not as if Torquay United ever gets laughed at for anything, is it? 8/

I just don't see the difference between selling the stadium naming rights, and selling the stand naming rights. Which we've done already.

Re: Stadium name

by ferrarilover » 31 Dec 2012, 18:54

Stupid boy Chris! Soul selling involves naming the stadium, hence the title of the thread. Other sponsorship is incidental, it goes largely unnoticed, so it's not a problem. Having a ground with a stupid name just gets you laughed at.

Matt.

Re: Stadium name

by Dave » 31 Dec 2012, 15:26

Bizzare, strange and a tad hypercritical. We have sponsor on the front of the shirt, last season we had the Eastern Eye on the back of our shirts, this season Marsh Toyota, there is a match sponsor, a match ball sponsor .The players coaching staff heck for all I know even the kit man has a sponsor.

We have a flashy new score board with a range a sponsorship deals, including having your buisness name flashed up every time we score. Yet sell the naming rights to the staduim..oh we cant sell our souls..we already have if thats how you view sponsorship. How else are we going to make money?

Re: Stadium name

by wivelgull » 31 Dec 2012, 15:07

Plainmoor.

Re: Stadium name

by happytorq » 31 Dec 2012, 14:18

usagullmichigan wrote:In 10-15 years time all stadiums will have sponsorship. I am for it. It's money! We have 6000 capacity ground with only 2000 through the gates. We should get a blow up doll company to sponsor the stadium and fill the other 4000 spaces with them.
screw that: let's use them as players. think of the savings.

And they'd still be more effective than Carl Priso ever was.

Re: Stadium name

by usagullmichigan » 31 Dec 2012, 14:08

In 10-15 years time all stadiums will have sponsorship. I am for it. It's money! We have 6000 capacity ground with only 2000 through the gates. We should get a blow up doll company to sponsor the stadium and fill the other 4000 spaces with them.

Re: Stadium name

by Trojan 67 » 31 Dec 2012, 14:07

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Cary Parade, Fleet Street, Abbey Road, Union Street, Market Street, Ellacombe Green, Hoxton Road, Ellacombe School, Hatfield Cross, The Strictly Come Dancing District/Stadium, St.Marychurch, etc . . . . .

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Re: Stadium name

by stefano » 31 Dec 2012, 14:03

happytorq wrote: I've been saying for years that we should sue Motorola for copyright infringement. Our badge must have been around longer than they have - they owe us a fortune!
I would keep quiet about it! Motorola logo 1955. Our logo 1967/68. For the first few years our logo was the other way up than it is now. Meant to depict seagulls apparently although how has always been a bit of a mystery! ;-)

Re: Stadium name

by happytorq » 31 Dec 2012, 13:53

ferrarilover wrote: It's a no from me. Plenty of ways to raise the cash we need, without selling our souls to some local meat merchant or whatever.
Fair enough; presumably you'll also be wanting to give all the money to CityLink builders, remove the logo for the kit, give back all of the matchday sponsorship, ball sponsorship, and replace the advertising hoarding with signs that say "please come to Plainmoor to watch the game, because now we're *really* skint"?

I understand the resistance to selling the stadium naming rights, but you can't bring out the "without selling our souls" argument when that ship sailed decades ago. I don't care if it gets renamed the Embarrassing Venereal Disease Stadium as long as we get some £££ for it. (this would actually work great because when away fans visit they can say that their team is a "goner here". Haha!) The only people who'd call it would be the club in the programme, and the TV people. we'd still call it 'Plainmoor'.
Forest_gull wrote: Pity we never struck up some sponsorship deal with Motorola, as their badge is almost identical to ours. When mates see my TUFC tattoo they always say 'nice Motorola Tattoo' in jest.
I've been saying for years that we should sue them for copyright infringement. Our badge must have been around longer than they have - they owe us a fortune!

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