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What are you going to call the new stadium?

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  • #62
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    robinph wrote: »
    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?


    The Emirates is in North London, home to The Arsenal, when we moved stadiums, always said I would call the stadium the New Highbury or Ashburton Grove, but that didn't last long,now I call it The Emirates, dare say that will be the same for most people with Lansdowne road after a bit.


  • #63
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    The Emirates is in North London, home to The Arsenal, when we moved stadiums, always said I would call the stadium the New Highbury or Ashburton Grove, but that didn't last long,now I call it The Emirates, dare say that will be the same for most people with Lansdowne road after a bit.

    The same way most people call the Point, the 02. It's a sad, but true fact.


    I'm just glad that people still know that a fiver means five squid.


  • #64
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    enda mashyte.


  • #65
    lugha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    The same way most people call the Point, the 02. It's a sad, but true fact.
    Nothing sad about it. The name Aviva will of course take (sentiment aside, Lansdowne Road is seriously unimaginative). Which is just as well or Joe Public would be ponying up this sponsership money, one way or another.


  • #66
    Doc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    The fact is anytime there is a game on in it on TV it will be called the Aviva by the commentators because they will have to. So sooner or later it will catch on although as it is still on Lansdowne road most people who went to games at the old stadium will probably keep calling it Lansdowne.


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  • #67
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    As the stadium is near me, the locals still call it the Lansdowne Road stadium. I think people easily taken in by consumerism will call it the Aviva stadium just like those call the Point the O2.


  • #68
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Up your Aviva!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHr9O30Q0nY


  • #69
    robinph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,146 ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Doc wrote: »
    The fact is anytime there is a game on in it on TV it will be called the Aviva by the commentators because they will have to. So sooner or later it will catch on although as it is still on Lansdowne road most people who went to games at the old stadium will probably keep calling it Lansdowne.

    That is why people will start calling it something different, because broadcasters have to call it by the sponsors name. It doesn't always work though. Just off the top of my head, there are a few rugby competitions that are named after sponsors, the ones named after a beer brand do seem to still be called by that name by the man in the street, the one named after a bank doesn't though.


  • #70
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    adrian280582 wrote: »
    Lansdowne Road......If I hear anybody call it anything else I shoot them


    BANG



    GOT YOU FIRST
    Aviva Aviva Aviva Aviva


  • #71
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    The three reasons the name change might fail:

    1) The stadium was built on the exact same site as the previous Lansdowne Road stadium. This is important in terms of identity. Most of these branded stadia that exist today are all-new buildings built in different parts of the various cities in question. Even Arsenals Emirates stadium for example might have been built only a few hundred yards away from Highbury but none the less it was still "somewhere else" and that helped the name to catch on. Aviva is built almost exactly on the same footprint as the previous place so they're going to have trouble disassociating themselves from the previous stadium.

    2) (More or less) the same sort of people will be coming to Aviva who went Lansdowne. The reason the O2 name caught on so easily over "The Point" is because you didn't have the exact same large group of people visiting it several times a year building up a loyality to the venue and it's associated history.

    3) There is a road called Lansdowne Road that runs right by the ground. Cardiff Arms Park may have been changed to Millenium Stadium fairly easily but I'd wager if you had to walk down "Cardiff Arms Park Road" everytime you wanted to visit the Millenium Stadium then the new name for that ground wouldn't have stuck so easily.

    That said tho. I unfortunately believe this new name is gonna catch on thanks to media saturation and five years from now the name "Lansdowne Road" (and its associated history) might be nothing but a distant memory.


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  • #72
    robinph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,146 ✭✭✭✭robinph


    bonerm wrote: »
    Cardiff Arms Park may have been changed to Millenium Stadium fairly easily but I'd wager if you had to walk down "Cardiff Arms Park Road" everytime you wanted to visit the Millenium Stadium then the new name for that ground wouldn't have stuck so easily.

    Didn't they keep the Arms Park half under one side of the new one for smaller games.


  • #73
    CoalBucket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 971 ✭✭✭CoalBucket


    The other stadium that isn't Croke Park :)


  • #74
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    bijapos wrote: »
    THE STADIUM OF ZOD!!

    fixed that for you.


  • #75
    ocokev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭ocokev


    Call it "The Its not Croke Park Stadium but we still could only build 3 sides of it and leave one end looking rubbish like Croke Park"


  • #76
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    ocokev wrote: »
    Call it "The Its not Croke Park Stadium but we still could only build 3 sides of it and leave one end looking rubbish like Croke Park"

    They don't have enough room at the back to do that, plus why get rid of one of the best terraces in Europe?


  • #77
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    General Zod wrote: »
    fixed that for you.

    Whens your Birthday

    http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://www.chestert-shirtprinter.co.uk/images/t-shirt-wholesale/Cool%2520t-shirts/Cool%2520Ts%2520large/Zod---Football-top.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.chestert-shirtprinter.co.uk/t-shirt%2520pages/Zod%2520No1%2520T-shirt.htm&usg=__POWJ2eo_6WC_ESiSvSi67SnJUZg=&h=394&w=564&sz=37&hl=en&start=63&sig2=2TaK7jL-MG3PIk9nNqZilA&itbs=1&tbnid=hYTBq55rX1CEFM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3DZod%26start%3D54%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=8-7GS7KnMKHi8gTy25ToCg


  • #78
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    General Zod wrote: »
    They don't have enough room at the back to do that, plus why get rid of one of the best terraces in Europe?

    I love the idea of a "best terrace" to begin with. It like having an accolade for "best minidisc player".


  • #79
    Doc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    bonerm wrote: »
    I love the idea of a "best terrace" to begin with. It like having an accolade for "best minidisc player".

    No its more like best place to see a game cheaply.


  • #80
    Pyridine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Pyridine


    I'll call it by the name of the Dart station just like the Point with the Luas!!

    That or maybe I'll call it Lansdowne Aviva just like the company used to be Hibernian aviva!!


  • #81
    Lux23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    Lansdowne Road


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  • #82
    Dionysus
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    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.

    Aviva. I'm going to call it the Aviva Stadium, after a 21st-century capitalist, just as 'Lansdowne Road Stadium' was named after an 18th/19th-century capitalist, William Petty-FitzMaurice (1737-1805), 1st Marquess of Lansdowne and 2nd Earl of Shelburne, from whom came Lansdowne Road and Shelbourne Road.

    Capitalists don't usually become romantic with age, and neither do the names they leave behind.


  • #83
    robinph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,146 ✭✭✭✭robinph


    The names that the guy from the 1700's gave us have stuck around for a bit longer than I'd expect the name of Insurance Stadium to remain in existence.


  • #84
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    The Bedpan Stadium

    aviva.jpg
    bedpan.jpg


  • #85
    dave 27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,238 ✭✭✭dave 27


    Either the toilet seat or the Sh!tter

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    images%3Fq%3Dtoilet%2Bseat%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1

    how about CACCA-POOPOO-PEEPY-SHIRE?



  • #86
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Considering the inclement weather we often get in this country it's a pity they didn't fit the new stadium with a retractable roof.


  • #87
    recyclops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,750 ✭✭✭recyclops


    How long did aviva buy the naming rights for exactly, can it be changed the same way the JJB was changed in england, if it can then they will have a problem getting people to switch it from lansdowne to the aviva with a fair few people myself included


  • #88
    kpbdublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭kpbdublin


    Everyone MUST continue to call it Lansdowne Road. Everybody on boards should agree to that from this day forth.
    Posters who call it A***A should be banned.
    It will be interesting to see if the media supinely dubs it Aviva. I'd rather see it called the NAMA stadium or the Quinn Insurance bowl than that


  • #89
    toiletduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    ocokev wrote: »
    Call it "The Its not Croke Park Stadium but we still could only build 3 sides of it and leave one end looking rubbish like Croke Park"

    Are yis still jealous?! :pac:


  • #90
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    toiletduck wrote: »
    Are yis still jealous?! :pac:

    With that username you must be a Cleaner at the New Stadium


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  • #91
    toiletduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    Yeah, myself and this poster.


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