Do I have to call the 3 Arena, Bord Gais Theatre, Aviva by their sponsors names

Shiraz 4.99

Or am I allowed to call them The Point, Grand Canal & Lansdowne Road.

Why do Croker or Thomond not have sponsors names ?.

"Welcome to the All-Ireland Final here at the Guinness Arena"

Mr. Incognito

If you don't call them by the sponsored name the Black Tie Bord Gas Enforcement Team will come round to your house and beat you with tire irons.

The Backwards Man

Call them whatever you want, I still call eircom the P&T and the electric Ireland bill the light bill.

Oink

Look at it this way. We were supposed to call The Point "the O2". Now it's 3 something. Then what... 4 something? How long do we keep going?

I for one say fook'em. It's the bleedin Point, roight?

Don Kedick

I call it Landsdowne road, don't know much about the other 2 but why does everyone in the media refer to these places as their sponsors name?

Iwasfrozen

I call them by their sponsor names but I'm fastidious like that.

irish_goat

Don Kedick wrote: »

I call it Landsdowne road, don't know much about the other 2 but why does everyone in the media refer to these places as their sponsors name?

The sponsor company might threaten to pull advertising if the media don't play along.

Birneybau

Yes, it's the law :rolleyes:

The_Valeyard

I call them by the old names. Come and get me sponsorship police!!!!!!!!!

Larbre34

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

Or am I allowed to call them The Point, Grand Canal & Lansdowne Road.

Why do Croker or Thomond not have sponsors names ?.

"Welcome to the All-Ireland Final here at the Guinness Arena"

You can do what you like. Personally I use the original names because the sponsors name will always change. The Aviva naming rights are due up in 2020 or so, so that will be a whole new loads of nonsense to get used to.

Thomond Park doesnt have a sponsor name because, rightly, the rugby fans of Limerick / Munster became enraged at the suggestion to sell off a place that means a lot to them. The Munster Branch tried to resurrect the idea again this year, citing revenue issues, and once again they were cut off at the ankles by the supporters.

Lansdowne Road, The Point Depot, The Grand Canal Theatre, Musgrave Park, Ravenhill they shall always remain...

salmocab

The media use the official names because thats what they are called and to use the old name might annoy the owners and deny the media access to players or acts etc. later on. Really its no skin off the medias nose to use the sponsored name, but we of course can use any name we want.

I call places by their names when I want other people to know where I'm talking about.

Otherwise people wouldn't have a clue when I say I'll meet them at that place, beside the thing, with the yoke, y'know the one.

KungPao

Oink wrote: »

Look at it this way. We were supposed to call The Point "the O2". Now it's 3 something. Then what... 4 something? How long do we keep going?

I for one say fook'em. It's the bleedin Point, roight?

The O4 will be next.

Kermit.de.frog

Corporatism is the way to go.

Ruu

Yes, you have to, otherwise you'll be called upon by some burly looking gentlemen who will give you a good seeing to.

KungPao

Sure I still call Ireland "The Free State", not having any of this modern "Ireland" nonsense.

I love when commentators mix up "The Etihad" and "Emirates" stadiums...I'm sure the sponsors love that.

KungPao

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Corporatism is the way to go.

I wonder if we'll do a Robocop and rename Dublin to something like Delta City, run by a mega corporation.

The mad thing is, with menial labour drying up (robots and computers and ****), I see the future being something like that. Regular people getting dirt poor and the suits getting richer and richer and basically owning the system and us.

Those cheesy 80s movies may be more prescient than we realised back then!

Wossack

KungPao wrote: »

I wonder if we'll do a Robocop and rename Dublin to something like Delta City, run by a mega corporation.

The mad thing is, with menial labour drying up (robots and computers and ****), I see the future being something like that. Regular people getting dirt poor and the suits getting richer and richer and basically owning the system and us.

Those cheesy 80s movies may be more prescient than we realised back then!

You will address the arena by its correct name. You have 10 seconds to comply.

SockJudgement

Aren't the original names much nicer anyway! I know if I was visiting Ireland going to the grand canal theatre would sound much nice than someplace I wasn't able to pronounce..... What if Tesco sponsor it next...The Tesco Theatre, I don't think so!

naughtysmurf

3.O2

sabat

Yeah cos 'The Grand Canal Theatre' is so deeply engrained in the national psyche after those long, largely empty 18 months when it went by that name.

salmocab

KungPao wrote: »

I wonder if we'll do a Robocop and rename Dublin to something like Delta City, run by a mega corporation.

The mad thing is, with menial labour drying up (robots and computers and ****), I see the future being something like that. Regular people getting dirt poor and the suits getting richer and richer and basically owning the system and us.

Those cheesy 80s movies may be more prescient than we realised back then!

How did we get to this?

farmchoice

in relation to the gaa its in the rules that you cannot add a sponsors name to a ground that is named after a person, croke park, mc hale park etc. you can however add a sponsors name a ground not named after a person so we have Kingspan Breffni park in cavan for example.

iDave

You call them what you want tbh. Its the media that are obliged to call them after the sponsors names.
I don't like the renaming of existing venues after a company but it does help pay for the redevelopments so its mixed feelings on it.

KungPao

salmocab wrote: »

How did we get to this?

God only knows.

biko

I call them Thunderdome1, Thunderdome2, Thunderdome3, etc

Oink

sabat wrote: »

Yeah cos 'The Grand Canal Theatre' is so deeply engrained in the national psyche after those long, largely empty 18 months when it went by that name.

You cant make me call it the bord gais energy theatre. There. I've already lost 3 weeks of my life just typing that ffs. Sounds like something from zoolander.

Odyssey 2005

Oink wrote: »

Look at it this way. We were supposed to call The Point "the O2". Now it's 3 something. Then what... 4 something? How long do we keep going?

I for one say fook'em. It's the bleedin Point, roight?

And that's the point depot,not the fookin point theatre. Theatre me hole,the theatre of empty credit cards if you ask me.:mad:

Ghost Train

"A return to Westland Row please"

*kicks the ticket machine

Archeron

The_Valeyard wrote: »

I call them by the old names. Come and get me sponsorship police!!!!!!!!!

Bee baw bee baw bee baw.

This siren has been brought to you by johnsons cotton buds.

CrabRevolution

farmchoice wrote: »

in relation to the gaa its in the rules that you cannot add a sponsors name to a ground that is named after a person, croke park, mc hale park etc. you can however add a sponsors name a ground not named after a person so we have Kingspan Breffni park in cavan for example.

Like Elverys MacHale Park?

That said, in the GAA there arent any examples of a stadium being totally renamed as the "The *sponsor* stadium", its always just a sponsors name put on to the existing name. Too much history behind the names.

jonnny68

Oink wrote: »

Look at it this way. We were supposed to call The Point "the O2". Now it's 3 something. Then what... 4 something? How long do we keep going?

I for one say fook'em. It's the bleedin Point, roight?

it's not "roight" it's "RIGHT" bleedin D4 heads,

for the record i always call these places by their true name

Point Depot
Lansdowne Road

and so forth

wendell borton

Don Kedick wrote: »

I call it Landsdowne road, don't know much about the other 2 but why does everyone in the media refer to these places as their sponsors name?

I will never call it by the sponsors name. They took over Hibernian insurance and basically shut it down and moved operations to India with major job losses, pretty insulting to see their name on the national stadium.

Mint Sauce

I still call Lansdowne Road, Lansdowne Road. When they hosted the Europa League a few years ago, due to Corporate and Sponsorship reasons, they were not allowed to call it The Aviva, so they named it The Dublin Arena. I'd say a fair few asking for directions got a blank look that night.

Donkey Oaty

wendell borton wrote: »

pretty insulting to see their name on the national stadium.

Have they taken over the National Stadium as well?

The world's first purpose-built boxing stadium, I'll have ye know.