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Lansdowne naming rights on offer soon

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭remus808


    02 Park wouldn't be such a bad name IMO..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Jackz wrote:


    Yeah. Call it something disposable and temporary. This year the O2 bowl. Next year, the Carphone Warehouse Shed, then the Barry's Tea Chest.

    Only it won't be anything so parochial as either of the latter. it will be some global faceless corporate entity wanting to cash in on international exposure.

    Feck it, what's in a name. I;m going to change my wonderful instantly recognisable as Irish name to something bland and identity-less like the Chinese do.

    From now on I want you all to call me Brad. Or Wayne. Or Fred.

    So you'll never be able to guess at my identity, preferences, religious persuasion, age, country of origin or background.

    Feck it, go the whole hog and just give me a number.

    Yours sincerely

    9541732


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,693 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    Boards.ie Stadium

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32



    Only it won't be anything so parochial as either of the latter. it will be some global faceless corporate entity wanting to cash in on international exposure.

    Feck it, what's in a name. I;m going to change my wonderful instantly recognisable as Irish name to something bland and identity-less like the Chinese do.

    From now on I want you all to call me Brad. Or Wayne. Or Fred.

    So you'll never be able to guess at my identity, preferences, religious persuasion, age, country of origin or background.

    Feck it, go the whole hog and just give me a number.

    Yours sincerely

    9541732
    .......

    Said Snickers man :)


  • Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This year the O2 bowl. Next year, the Carphone Warehouse Shed, then the Barry's Tea Chest.


    Those are great names, nice one Wayne/Brad/Fred!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    It's still a disgrace, no matter what they name it. Surely the government could cough up some more tax and help them avoid such a situation- considering money made in VAT on match days through alcohol sales etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭EdgarAllenPoo


    Curly Wurly Park has a nice ring to it. More seriously my guess is it will be powerade.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 785 ✭✭✭ALH-06


    I didnt even smile at any of the above joke suggestions. Not because they're not funny. Because this whole business makes me sick to the pit of my stomach. I know this has been on the cards for a while, but I'm just gutted. Absolutely gutted.

    Its bad enough for a private club to build a completely new stadium at a new location and call it 'Emirates' or 'Reebok' or some crap like that. But to take the redevelopment of the oldest rugby stadium in the world - a stadium built and financed by two national sporting unions (that exist not for making profit but to promote their respective sports) - and surrender it's name and history to some faceless corporation intent solely on profit and taking advantage of the common sports fan.... Its so disappointing.

    People will say 'Lookit, thats professional sport'... 'Its for the good of the game'.... I know this sounds so preachy etc, but some things must remain sacred. And the heritage of Lansdowne Road has to be one of those things. This is not the way to go. There are other ways of making sport financially feasible - there has to be. I don't mind paying ridiculous prices for tickets / jerseys / dvds etc if thats what needs to be done to keep the sport viable. We're being ripped off everywhere but that doesnt seem to bother me as much. This is completely different. Its disgusting...

    During the recent cricket world cup, water bottles were confiscated off local kids attending the matches as they were drinking what was apparently the wrong brand of water. I read that in the rugby supplement of the Irish Times only today.... Who's the winner here? Its certainly not the sport or its followers...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,481 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    In fairness, regardless of what they rename it, everyone will know it as Lansdowne Road.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭smemon


    surely Guinness is the only option that would keep everyone happy?

    Guinness Park, Guinness Bowl etc..

    We wouldn't complain much because it's kept Irish and kept sort of traditional..

    We were going to have 'Eircom Park' so it's not really a big deal.. changing the name..

    For an existing stadium it's a bad move, but for a new stadium, it's a new start so why not raise a few bob..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    daveirl wrote:
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    Sorry that was a typo, I meant more cash. We seem to have enough of it at the moment, although it's spent so inefficently you would not think it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭Super Sidious


    Leprechaun Park


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭besty


    Guinness is the logical sponsor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭EdgarAllenPoo


    Someone made a logical point on the radio this morning. Lansdowne Road is named after and English aristocrat.

    It doesn't matter what it's called and the same goes for Thomond Park. Everyone outside of the media and tv sports people (who have to call it by whatever new name it gets) will still call it Lansdowne Road.

    I heard a joke on the radio that it could e sponsored by Durex and nicknamed the Impregnable Fortress.


  • Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The same thing happened in Canada, when the Skydome was officially renamed the Rogers Centre. Everyone still calls it the Skydome, so I reckon the same will happen here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭EdgarAllenPoo


    The same thing happened in Canada, when the Skydome was officially renamed the Rogers Centre. Everyone still calls it the Skydome, so I reckon the same will happen here


    There's my point. I actually had no idea they had changed the name, I've never heard it called the Rogers Centre.

    That sounds like something from a Carry On film:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    So, if OmniCorp Stadium is still called Lansdowne Road by everyone anyway, why should it matter that the naming rights are being sold?

    On the front of Herald AM, Mr Angry of Dublin 4 (Ruari Quinn), claimed the sale of naming rights was stripping it of it's heritage. Yes, it was the oldest intl rugby venue in the history of mankind blah blah blah, but it's gone now. What's being built there is a new stadium.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Cillit Bang Stadium


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,798 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Harvey Norman ftw. Imagine that add, with the included line of something about Landsdowne :O


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭EdgarAllenPoo


    Name it after a board game, Buckaroo Park anyone?

    If they can have the cake-tin in Wellington I think we could have Pat the Baker sponsor Lansdowne. I can see it now MegaBite Stadium or Pat's Pan Park.


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