tomsdubs Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 If the board decided to rename the stadium for sponsorship rights? News just broke that Man City are changing to the 'Etihad Stadium' for 10 years. I pray our board never do this as i can't stand it, taking all the soul out of a club. What does everyone else think? Call me a traditionalist but i can't stand this current culture in football with money being thrown at everything. The romance of football is under threat to me and i believe it is already dead in the top flight. I don't want to feel like i'm attending a corporate event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derby Loyal Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Wouldn't bother me in the slightest. If we were still at the Baseball Ground I would have an issue with it but adding a company name to Pride Park would take nothing away from the ground at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastKentRam Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Pride Park's a **** name but i wouldnt want it changed after it being in place so long. If we were moving into a new ground tomorrow i wouldnt be too fussed, better than giving it a **** name like Pride Park, at least we make some money out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I'd welcome a name change but not a sponsored name change, I cringe that our stadium is called pride park, but it's better than a sponsored name. Leicester changing their stadium name to the shitty wok is probably the only thing we can throw back at them for the up and coming season, so i'm holding on to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky-27 Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Pride park has been a bit of an embarrassing name recently but nooo wouldn't like a name change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsdubs Posted July 8, 2011 Author Share Posted July 8, 2011 I don't think PP is that bad? :confused: To late to change it now anyway, do Toyota pay us an annual fee for the naming of the main stand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsbottom Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I'm quite fond of Pride Park as a name, not as unique as The Baseball Ground but a lot better than The Emerites, or The Kong Pow Chicken Stadium. Then again if it allowed us to be able to spend the kind of money Fester have splashed around this summer I don't think too many people would complain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_ram Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 If there's more income to the club then I'm not bothered, if it was renaming the baseball ground I would be bothered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I'd be open to the idea depending on the company. The Pringles Stadium Andrex Stadium Weetabix Arena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Given the choice of watching **** football in a stadium called Pride Park, or having xxxmillion a year invested into a team that might produce good football in a stadium called say the Yahoo stadium, I would go for the latter every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezner Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Change it now for me. Don't like the name Pride Park,talk about setting yourself up for a fall(Pride Dark anyone:rolleyes:) Get some money in, Hasbro Arena sounds good to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramblur Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I'd be open to the idea depending on the company. The Pringles Stadium Andrex Stadium Weetabix Arena Franchise Farm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 As long as it's better than Emmerdale Farm I'd be up for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 For me Pride Park is a lot better than many other stadiums out there. But if we get 5 million every year to spend I can watch games at say Toblerone Arena, no sweat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Ram Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I wouldn't welcome a name change at all, while pride park may be an awful name it is our stadiums name, to call it after a product or a company would really annoy me and make me think again about is this the price of success? I would rather rot with my club in the second division than have my stadium called the yahoo arena in the top flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.shilton Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 It's all just a scam to give the teams more money to spend on wages when the new legislation comes in about the amount of your revenue you are allowed to spend. If they really think that teams are going to spend less when it is this easy to get around the rules then they are even more foolish than I thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi1Kenobi0 Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I've never had that affinity with the Pride Park name as I did the BBG. Seeing as we have a flatpack stadium I wouldn't have a problem with naming rights. The thing is they tend to be long term details and as we are a Champ team at the moment would not get much value. Best to consider when/if we get back to the Prem and sponsors approach us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyRam! Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 No thanks pride park has been all i've ever known so after like 10 years of it i dont want change :L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 I think that Lionel and his team did a very clever thing with the naming of the stadium, Pride Park was the name of the whole development, when the area was a wasteland, so, it was always a sponsered name......a pretty crappy one at that too. Personally they can call it whatever they like, it is a souless, plastic, flat packed place anyway, it holds very little affection in my heart, and I would much rather have the money to spend on a couple of signings and have it called whatever they feel like than have it called Pride Park and be scrambling around in the lower half of division 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadbelly Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 I wouldn't welcome a name change at all, while pride park may be an awful name it is our stadiums name, to call it after a product or a company would really annoy me and make me think again about is this the price of success? I would rather rot with my club in the second division than have my stadium called the yahoo arena in the top flight. C'mon YR, read this again and tell me you actually believe it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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