Curtains Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 1st of January back to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal is a Ram Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester40 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Been a lot worse names for grounds but glad we are going back to Pride Park. Boring question I know, but I just dont understand how clubs get the general media to agree/collude with the name change? Obviously the local press and club officials have to use the new name...but personally I have never said I'm 'going to the Ipro'. It's always been Pride Park. Not even done out of some protest...that's what it's called...and most fans whether local or just generally are the same. So why do the national press agree on 1st Jan (or whatever) to just change the name in the full knowledge no-one really calls it that and in 2years it will revert anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtains Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 17 minutes ago, Chester40 said: Been a lot worse names for grounds but glad we are going back to Pride Park. Boring question I know, but I just dont understand how clubs get the general media to agree/collude with the name change? Obviously the local press and club officials have to use the new name...but personally I have never said I'm 'going to the Ipro'. It's always been Pride Park. Not even done out of some protest...that's what it's called...and most fans whether local or just generally are the same. So why do the national press agree on 1st Jan (or whatever) to just change the name in the full knowledge no-one really calls it that and in 2years it will revert anyway? Never ever wanted the Stadium name to change from Pride Park. Peter Gadsby and Lionel Pickering along with a lot of others built it thankfully for us Derby fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagerbob Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I quite liked the name "The Ipro" to be fair. Bit catchier than pride park. I await the next name with baited breath. Dont expect it to stay as PPS for too long. edit: For the record I did start referring to it as the ipro amounst friends and work colleagues, as they did. I might call it PPS in a forum post or text message or something, but never referred to it as Pride Park Stadium in spoken language, and Pride Park to me, is the whole area which the PPS is built on. The Velodrome, football stadium, Roundhouse, numerous hotels, software AG, City Point housing, thats all Pride Park to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDCAR Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 6 minutes ago, jagerbob said: edit: For the record I did start referring to it as the ipro amounst friends and work colleagues, as they did. I might call it PPS in a forum post or text message or something, but never referred to it as Pride Park Stadium in spoken language, and Pride Park to me, is the whole area which the PPS is built on. The Velodrome, football stadium, Roundhouse, numerous hotels, software AG, City Point housing, thats all Pride Park to me. True story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Breaking news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtains Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 The Stadium was the start of Pride Park. Bob Laxton was the main instigator in allowing it to happen. Thanks Bob mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Key Club King Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 It's changing officially on 1/1/17 for commercial reasons. iPro are currently receiving free advertising as they are not paying us anymore. iPro can no longer pay their bills for their huge sponsorship deals (ours being the largest) on account of nobody buying their overpriced and ineffective sports drink, so they have transferred the brand over to a different holding company to continue their desperate attempt to sell more than a couple of bottles leaving us and many others out of pocket. Would be very interested to know how much money we actually received from them, if any. Think iPro have been very clever in doing this which allowed them to overpay for blanket sponsorship, though they are obviously not clever enough to manufacture a drinkable product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 About time too, hope we stick with PP now and not sell our souls again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duracell Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Wish it was originally called something better, with a nod to the past. The Baseball Stadium or something like that. But Pride Park is definitely a better name than the iPro. Or the City Ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Call what they like if it means prices don't go up (optimistic) i have always called pride park anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oodledoodle Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 10 minutes ago, Duracell said: Wish it was originally called something better, with a nod to the past. The Baseball Stadium or something like that. But Pride Park is definitely a better name than the iPro. Or the City Ground. Bloody modernists. New racecourse is clearly the only option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammieib Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 A simple credit check on Ipro three years ago or whenever it was told you they didn't have the capital. I did the check, looks like our CEO didn't. (Tongue in cheek, of course he did, took a risk and got it wrong). First bad decision Rush made in my opinion. I don't mind a commercial sponsorship worth £700k a year but something which changes a culture must be correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollycutts1982 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 1 hour ago, rammieib said: A simple credit check on Ipro three years ago or whenever it was told you they didn't have the capital. I did the check, looks like our CEO didn't. (Tongue in cheek, of course he did, took a risk and got it wrong). First bad decision Rush made in my opinion. I don't mind a commercial sponsorship worth £700k a year but something which changes a culture must be correct. Well we didn't lose anything as there weren't any naming rights prior to the iPro deal unless i'm missing something, agreed though glad its back to Pride Park. With the going back theme, first SM and now this maybe we should bring Clod back, a quick search reveals, rather surprisingly, that he is a free agent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Does this mean that the players can stop drinking that piss watter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 I'm sure the next sponsor will be found and we'll be playing at the something or other next season - probably hoping for a better price if we're in the top flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G STAR RAM Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 16 hours ago, The Key Club King said: It's changing officially on 1/1/17 for commercial reasons. iPro are currently receiving free advertising as they are not paying us anymore. iPro can no longer pay their bills for their huge sponsorship deals (ours being the largest) on account of nobody buying their overpriced and ineffective sports drink, so they have transferred the brand over to a different holding company to continue their desperate attempt to sell more than a couple of bottles leaving us and many others out of pocket. Would be very interested to know how much money we actually received from them, if any. Think iPro have been very clever in doing this which allowed them to overpay for blanket sponsorship, though they are obviously not clever enough to manufacture a drinkable product. Hopefully you have evidence to back up claims like this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G STAR RAM Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 16 hours ago, rammieib said: A simple credit check on Ipro three years ago or whenever it was told you they didn't have the capital. I did the check, looks like our CEO didn't. (Tongue in cheek, of course he did, took a risk and got it wrong). First bad decision Rush made in my opinion. I don't mind a commercial sponsorship worth £700k a year but something which changes a culture must be correct. I imagine a credit check on Derby County at the time would have shown a company in a very poor financial position, hence the need to try out such deals. As another poster points out we've lost nothing in the deal (hopefully). I actually think it was an admirable risk, giving a start up a shot at it, also who knows, the deal may have been front loaded making it an even more attractive proposition although I accept that this is unlikely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wixman1884 Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 On 12/28/2016 at 14:00, curtains said: 1st of January back to normal. I vote we call it the 'curtains coliseum' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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