What are you going to call the new stadium?

silverharp

Are you going to try stick with Lansdowne Road for as long as you can? The O2 caught on very quickly but it is a catchy name. Aviva on the other hand is a very bland corporate name.

genericguy

John. John's a nice name.

stovelid

Eggball cunt-dome has a nice ring to it.

Prof.Badass

smelly slimey poo poo face!!!

wait.... what?

Bonkers_xOx

Kevin.

Stephen Gately

I've started an online petition to have the stadium named after me.

damoz

The new stadium.

entropi

Well it didn't just go and change location, think I'll keep calling it Lansdowne Road:p

stovelid

Stephen Gately wrote: »

I've started an online petition to have the stadium named after me.

Dead duck tbh.

My name is URL

Armitage Bowl.. coz it looks like a giant toilet

TheZohanS

Lansdowne Road will always be Lansdowne Road.

Feck Aviva.

SV

It shall be called Stephen.

Dunjohn

We'll see what happens when it actually gets up and running and the Aviva media blast begins its attempt to change our minds through sheer exposure. Right now, I still think "Lansdowne Road" but Aviva aren't just going to sit back and hope for the best. That's the whole point, right?

Geddit?

Point?

wicklowwonder

Stephen Gately wrote: »

I've started an online petition to have the stadium named after me.

thats queer funny

s_carnage

Silverharp2 wrote: »

Are you going to try stick with Lansdowne Road for as long as you can? The O2 caught on very quickly but it is a catchy name. Aviva on the other hand is a very bland corporate name.

I think Aviva is a much more catchier name than O2. I've already started calling it that.

PCPhoto

why not call it ... "the old lansdowne"

Dunjohn

s_carnage wrote: »

I think Aviva is a much more catchier name than O2. I've already started calling it that.

Wait... You're calling the O2 that?

Good idea, actually. Me too, now.

Bonito

Lansdowne. I don't care how much money some bollox multi national company put in to it. They didn't do me any favours when I was renewing insurance so I wont be doing them any favours when tourists ask; "Ver khan ve finz ze Abiba stazium?"

rossie1977

as much as people say they loath corporate named stadiums, they tend to catch on fast

emirates, allianz arena, reebok, o2, walkers stadium, Britannia

this time next year everyone will be calling the place the aviva

Cookie_Monster

The stadium on Lansdowne road named after that multinational Insurance company.

whadabouchasir

Bonito wrote: »

Lansdowne. I don't care how much money some bollox multi national company put in to it.

I don't get why exactly they pspent €50 million on naming a stadium after them.Are people really going to take out a policy with them just because they have a stadium named after them.I'd be more tempted to take out a policy with them if they decided to give €50 off to the next 1 million policies they sell.

bonerm

It'd be one of the best things I see all year if the Irish public soundly reject the "Aviva" slave-name and instead persist on calling it"Lansdowne Road" for the duration of their sponsorship. Can't see it happening tho. Plus it's going to be tough because once the the final lick of paint is put on the place the media are going to be bombarding us with "Aviva Stadium this and Aviva Stadium that".

If you don't want to call it Lansdowne then I'd be equally happy if you chose to call it the "ToiletBowl". It looks like one after all.

NothingMan

I for one welcome this new wave of corporate naming conventions and hope to see more in the near future. Such as Tampax Theatre and Senekot Stadium. Really appeal to what people want.

Pherekydes

Master of Nothing wrote: »

Well it didn't just go and change location, think I'll keep calling it Lansdowne Road:p

Yeah, I drove past it the other day. I'll continue to call it by its location. I also call the Point the Point and Sellafield is still Windscale.

Sometimes I'll refer to it as 'the Cathedral of Southside Sport', depending on who I want to irk.

yuloni

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robinph

rossie1977 wrote: »

as much as people say they loath corporate named stadiums, they tend to catch on fast

emirates, allianz arena, reebok, o2, walkers stadium, Britannia

this time next year everyone will be calling the place the aviva

No idea where any of them are despite occasionally hearing the names, although I'd assume that the Walkers one is in Leicester.

massdebater

Pherekydes wrote: »

Yeah, I drove past it the other day. I'll continue to call it by its location. I also call the Point the Point and Sellafield is still Windscale.

Do you still pay for things with shillings and listen to the wireless? (me too! )

So what if they're paying €50 million for the rights for it? I couldn't care less, it's not my money.

The Aviva's definately gonna catch on. I'm calling it the Aviva already.

dvpower

Master of Nothing wrote: »

Well it didn't just go and change location, think I'll keep calling it Lansdowne Road:p

Too right. It'll be a cold day in hell before I refer to the Jones Road Sportsground as Croke Park.

knird evol

Everyone should call it the Quinn stadium.
Bit of reverse psychology for the marketeers.
Your move boys.

The_Kew_Tour

Lansdowne Road......If I hear anybody call it anything else I shoot them

IvySlayer

I walked by it only last week, it's looking well!

Aviva is quite a nice name. I call it both.

Jimmy Jazz

"The Landsdowne Multidome".

Really trips off the tongue: "Hey Jimmy, you coming down the landsdowne multidome later?" "Nah international friendlies are overpriced something awful. Bloody FAI..."

Fago!

God's cereal bowl

Or just Lansdowne as I always have.

WalterMitty

"A-Viagra Stadium" as it's some errection.

JerryHandbag

Aviva me hole....

I'm gonna call it Wolfgang Twinklebottom III

Pherekydes

rossie1977 wrote: »

as much as people say they loath corporate named stadiums, they tend to catch on fast

emirates, allianz arena, reebok, o2, walkers stadium, Britannia

this time next year everyone will be calling the place the aviva

To be fair, those examples you gave are all new stadia on new sites. Landsdowne road is built on the same site.

orourkeda

The kip where the sh*tebags play

Rookster

Banana Republic Stadium
Nama Stadium
Child Abuse Stadium
Political Corruption Stadium
Sleaze Stadium
Bertie Balls-up Stadium


Just catching the mood.

InReality

If they paid had for the whole thing then fair enough. But they only paid about 10% of the cost.

problemchimp

The Stephen Gately arena, or just Stephen.

grenache

I still call Harry Crosbie's old place The Point and will continue to call the new stadium Lansdowne Road. I'm so glad that the Munster branch of the IRFU didn't whore Thomond Park out to the evils of consumerism like has happened with the other two venues.

Mint Sauce

The 'Henry Wallace Doveton Dunlop' Stadium

nucking futs

I call things by what they are, not what I want them to be, so it'll be the Aviva Stadium for me

robinph

nucking futs wrote: »

I call things by what they are, not what I want them to be, so it'll be the Aviva Stadium for me

Nope, that is what someone else has paid a load of cash to have written on the side of it temporarily for a few years until someone else comes along and pays a bit more to have their brand written on the side. What it is, is a stadium on Lansdowne Road.

bonerm

The Hibernian Insurance Money-pit.

ScumLord

I like the name Henry, I plan to draw a big face on it and sit outside talking to it while listening to the theme tune for Tomas the tank engine.

nucking futs

robinph wrote: »

Nope, that is what someone else has paid a load of cash to have written on the side of it temporarily for a few years until someone else comes along and pays a bit more to have their brand written on the side. What it is, is a stadium on Lansdowne Road.

No, it's a stadium on Lansdowne Road that will be called the Aviva Stadium until they stop sponsoring it, at which point I'll be calling it whatever it is then. As has already been mentioned, it hasn't done the Britannia or Emirates Stadiums any harm

massdebater

Apparently, Jonathan Ross only goes to rugby matches to play pranks on people.

He loves Twickenham

orourkeda

The Jimmy Big B*llocks Arena

robinph

nucking futs wrote: »

No, it's a stadium on Lansdowne Road that will be called the Aviva Stadium until they stop sponsoring it, at which point I'll be calling it whatever it is then. As has already been mentioned, it hasn't done the Britannia or Emirates Stadiums any harm

It will always be a stadium on Lansdowne Road though, so why call it after a sponsor when that could change yearly. No idea what or where the Britannia or Emirate are, although I have heard of the Emirates I guess that means either the Britannia sponsors a rubbish team or they just got a new deal recently.

Where is the O2?

nucking futs

robinph wrote: »

It will always be a stadium on Lansdowne Road though, so why call it after a sponsor when that could change yearly.

Because they paid for it and frankly it could be called the McDonalds-Burger King-Superquinn-Stupid Flanders Stadium for all I care, if that's what it's called, that's what I'll call it

No idea what or where the Britannia or Emirate are, although I have heard of the Emirates I guess that means either the Britannia sponsors a rubbish team or they just got a new deal recently.

The Emirates Stadium is where Arsenal play football, and the Britannia Stadium is where Stoke City play, and they are not a rubbish team and the sponsorship is not recent. The point I'm trying to make is that companies sponsoring stadiums doesn't hurt anyone, it's just a name, so I don't understand why people make such a big deal about it.

Where is the O2?

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but both of them are called The O2