Do you call venues by their sponsored name?

Daegerty · 15-04-2011 07:08PM #1

Do you call the Point the Ohtue? Landsdowne road the Aviva?

I think it's all silliness tbh. If O2 bought every last music venue in the country and Aviva bought every grass field I'd still be a Meteor customer and my car would still be insured with AXA because they so happen to be the cheapest for me.

I also don't feel like an old fogey for calling it by it's old name, who knows in a few years these companies will rebrand themselves, go bust or not bother renewing their naming rights so the old name is likely to stick around a lot longer.

Dravokivich · 15-04-2011 07:11PM

If they were sponsored by "atari jagaur" I'd call'em that...

Azureus · 15-04-2011 07:11PM

I call them o2 the Point half the time and the o2 the other half, not intentionally.

The Aviva stadium I call the Aviva, took me a few months but just slipped into my vocab.

Opal fruits will ALWAYS be opal fruits though

RichieC · 15-04-2011 07:11PM

I try not too.

AnonoBoy · 15-04-2011 07:14PM

I felt the same when the Lansdowne Corporation took over the old Kicky Pitch up there in Dublin 4.

I swore it'd always be the Kicky Pitch to me but here I am calling it Landsowne like a sap.

Captain Darling · 15-04-2011 07:17PM

Yeah, i do.

Woohooo. Post count +1.

Horsefumbler · 15-04-2011 07:20PM

meteor = teenager network

admiralofthefleet · 15-04-2011 07:22PM

yeah i always do, landsdowne road, the point, pubs that changed names

15-04-2011 07:24PM

I call them by their old names.

And it's still opal fruits, not starburst!

Mint Sauce · 15-04-2011 07:28PM

No I call them by the proper name. Its going to get confusing though next month for the Europa Final at Lansdowne Rd, as due to sponsorship/corporate rules it cant be called the Aviva for the night, so for some really bizare reason they are calling it the Dublin Arena.

pow wow · 15-04-2011 07:36PM

Sponsored name as I'm not from Dublin or into sport so I have no clue what they were called before.

yeahimhere · 15-04-2011 07:37PM

I try to make a point of using their old names but slip up every once in a while and kick myself!

Whatever about a completely new venue taking on a sponsorship name, venues that have been around for years and have history shouldn't go down the sponsorship route. I know it brings in extra cash but I think it's just forgetting about it's history and cheap.

It also removes the venues identity, the amount of times something has been on in the "O2" and it turns out to be in London rather than Dublin.

yeahimhere · 15-04-2011 07:40PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

yeah i always do, landsdowne road, the point, pubs that changed names

There's a pub under St. Stephan's Green in Dublin that has undergone a million name changes over the years. Forget the first name I first knew it as, then it was Down Under, then Major Tom's, then Down Under at Major Tom's then a few others which I didn't keep up with. Passed by it the other day and it had another new name since I saw it last!

15-04-2011 07:46PM

yeahimhere wrote: »

There's a pub under St. Stephan's Green in Dublin that has undergone a million name changes over the years. Forget the first name I first knew it as, then it was Down Under, then Major Tom's, then Down Under at Major Tom's then a few others which I didn't keep up with. Passed by it the other day and it had another new name since I saw it last!

Harry's on the green - and they're doing a much better job than the old crowd! It changed ownership a number of times.

TheIrishGrover · 15-04-2011 08:06PM

Jesus no, I call them by their old names. Landsdown and the point depot for me. It's gas to see the Luas with "The Point" on it instead of the O2. Was bringing my niece to the point to see JLS (Thankfully I didn't have to go in) and she asked "Is the point near the O2?".

Saila · 15-04-2011 08:24PM

its always been lansdown to me, but this thread just reminded me it changed name

It will always be known as lansdown to me, so if you say "I was blah blah aviva" you will always get this

RachaelVO · 15-04-2011 09:16PM

The point is still the fecking point... END OF!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lando Griffin · 15-04-2011 10:04PM

The shop im my local village changed its name from the family name to Centra. I still call it by the family name and its a great laugh when you say you are going to "Family name shop" and all the non natives would go "there are two shops?"

Aoifey! · 15-04-2011 10:42PM

I always say the O2 without even thinking. But Landsdowne road and the Aviva is 50/50. So many people just say the 02 and the Aviva that it's easier just to say it sometimes.

upandcumming · 16-04-2011 12:29AM

The Point isn't the Point as it is called the o2. And it is a new building. Same goes for the Aviva.

RachaelVO · 16-04-2011 12:30AM

upandcumming wrote: »

The Point isn't the Point as it is called the o2. And it is a new building. Same goes for the Aviva.

And Pedantic Pat has entered the building!!!!

Zebra3 · 16-04-2011 12:38AM

Still always use the names The Point and Lansdowne.

The odd time I use terms like Post & Telegraph too. :pac:

admiralofthefleet · 16-04-2011 12:40AM

yeahimhere wrote: »

There's a pub under St. Stephan's Green in Dublin that has undergone a million name changes over the years. Forget the first name I first knew it as, then it was Down Under, then Major Tom's, then Down Under at Major Tom's then a few others which I didn't keep up with. Passed by it the other day and it had another new name since I saw it last!

yeah there is a pub in edenmore that changed its name to the edenmore house around 1994 but its still known by everyone as eugenes.

OPENROAD · 16-04-2011 12:41AM

I still call the 02 The Millennium Dome.

That said I call Arsenals ground The Emirates, for a brief time it was called Ashburton Grove.

RachaelVO · 16-04-2011 12:41AM

Zebra3 wrote: »

The odd time I use terms like Post & Telegraph too. :pac:

Ah now... you're just taking the p1ss with that one... or are you?:pac:

Oranage2 · 16-04-2011 12:42AM

Yep i call things by the new names -

- Aviva
- O2
- The Trafford Bowl

bonerm · 16-04-2011 12:46AM

Still call them "The Point" and esp "Lansdowne Road".

Also how come "Atari Panther" never gets much of a mention?

mikemac · 16-04-2011 12:49AM

Might head over to sportsdirect.com@StJames'Park to catch a game

upandcumming · 16-04-2011 12:50AM

RachaelVO wrote: »

And Pedantic Pat has entered the building!!!!

More of a Correct Conor.

Zebra3 · 16-04-2011 12:52AM

RachaelVO wrote: »

Ah now... you're just taking the p1ss with that one... or are you?:pac:

No, though I only use in front of people young enough that would be left totally confused by it.

Hilarious making it in reference to broadband.

"Me broadband is f*cked".

"Get on to the Department of Posts & Telegraph then".

"Ya wha'?"

mikemac · 16-04-2011 12:55AM

Sure lots still say Bord Failte and it changed its name to Failte Ireland years and years ago

Go to Galway and get a taxi to the "old RTC". And that name changed to GMIT in 1998

People are slow to change I guess

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