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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 10:56:05 GMT
Its a shocking name for a football ground. Its so cold, its chilling! The fact that people think its ok is very depressing too. Shows how low we have sunk in our thinking. Coates can call it what the fuck he wants, after everything he has done for this club.
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Post by block22stokie on Apr 21, 2016 10:56:14 GMT
Any chance we might move the away fans into the new corner instead of giving them the prime, influential seats, right next to the tunnel? Exactly. It's now or never. There wil be some disruption/re-numbering of seats etc. while the building work goes on, so why not say that Away fans will get the corner + (what is currently) Block 35 and 36 if needed. Fans currently in those blocks get first shout at a seat move to the blocks by the tunnel. Sorted. They aren't going to move the away fans next to the family stand are they
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Post by metalhead on Apr 21, 2016 10:57:40 GMT
it'll always be the Brit in my eyes.
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Post by FullerMagic on Apr 21, 2016 10:58:07 GMT
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Post by cozmick on Apr 21, 2016 10:58:37 GMT
Yeeeeeeeeesssssss!
Gonna take a few years to get used to the name though.
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Post by thebet365 on Apr 21, 2016 10:58:42 GMT
Any chance we might move the away fans into the new corner instead of giving them the prime, influential seats, right next to the tunnel? Exactly. It's now or never. There wil be some disruption/re-numbering of seats etc. while the building work goes on, so why not say that Away fans will get the corner + (what is currently) Block 35 and 36 if needed. Fans currently in those blocks get first shout at a seat move to the blocks by the tunnel. Sorted. You want to put the away fans right next to all the kids and families without any segregation ? And how are the police gonna get fans in n out of the stadium safely when some of the more naughtier teams are in town ? Move the tunnel not the away fans.
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Post by ElworthPotter on Apr 21, 2016 11:00:26 GMT
I get the reasoning behind it but it's awfully generic, should be called the Bet365 bear pit Britannia was a sponsorship deal but it still felt right, Bet365 stadium just seems out of place The Bet365 Bear Pit would be a ridiculous name for the ground considering we very rarely create a Bear Pit atmosphere anymore
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Post by timbo1988 on Apr 21, 2016 11:01:16 GMT
Exactly. It's now or never. There wil be some disruption/re-numbering of seats etc. while the building work goes on, so why not say that Away fans will get the corner + (what is currently) Block 35 and 36 if needed. Fans currently in those blocks get first shout at a seat move to the blocks by the tunnel. Sorted. They aren't going to move the away fans next to the family stand are they Why would we want to move the away fans? I can't see the appeal of where they sit. Yes they are next to the tunnel but the view isn't that great from there. The Main stand is also next to the tunnel but that is usually the least populated area of the ground.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 21, 2016 11:01:50 GMT
The Bet 365 Britannia would have worked, giving prominence to Bet 365 but retaining the Britannia name it has had since it was built. Pity. Some people have short memories as regards the scoreboard corner. When planning permission was granted and the plans were revealed, it was said that the Family area would be moved sideways so that the 1,800 seats in the new corner would be part of the family area. This would free up more non family seats in the DPD stand. I presume that is still the plan as they haven't said anything to the contrary in today's announcement. EDIT: Even if they changed the plan to move the Family area to the new corner, I can't see them putting the away fans in the new corner for two reasons. 1. they would try to avoid having the away fans next to the family area 2. The new corner holds only 1,800 and the away clubs who take the larger allocation would be entitled to 3,000 so that would mean extending the away area round into the south stand anyway - thus creating another segregation problem.
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Post by cozmick on Apr 21, 2016 11:01:52 GMT
I question the need to increase capacity what with all these whining bitches moaning about how shit the manager and team are. As these fucktards won't be turning up, surely we should be looking at reducing the capacity? They need to fill the corner in to cater for your big fat head. Fuck me. I've never known a "fan" to be so fucking hostile towards people with a different opinion.
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Post by mrred on Apr 21, 2016 11:02:26 GMT
Mixed feelings on the ground renaming....thats all I can say really. Just happy where my team are and how far weve come. We have a fantastic owner who actually gives back to the fans. "Going watch Stoke" will always be "going watch Stoke". Its still The Bear Pit. Same bricks and mortar. Great news bout the corner being filled in. Long overdue Do you honestly refer to the Brit as 'The Bear Pit' or 'a Bear Pit'? It's about as much as a bear pit as fucking Wigan. Anyway, terrible name, to be expected. As for the expansion- about time really. Good to have something in writing from our very own Snake oil merchant. No mention of dates or time scales though?
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Post by adiebunn on Apr 21, 2016 11:02:40 GMT
Still be a cold breeze passing through where I sit Always thought that they should have kept the name Victoria in it somewhere. The Bet365 Victoria Stadium would mean the sponsor gets their advertising and the fans can still have a proper name ??
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Post by mrred on Apr 21, 2016 11:05:59 GMT
Still be a cold breeze passing through where I sit Always thought that they should have kept the name Victoria in it somewhere. The Bet365 Victoria Stadium would mean the sponsor gets their advertising and the fans can still have a proper name ?? Do you think fans opinions matter to the people making multi million pound deals?
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Post by bojanwonder on Apr 21, 2016 11:06:04 GMT
Uky, Uky, Uky, Uky, Ukyestoney. Get in my son! All those letter's you sent. They have finally crumbled. Well done! It's like Andy DuFresne getting the library in Shawshank!
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Post by heworksardtho on Apr 21, 2016 11:07:41 GMT
Bet nobody would have guessed that it was going to be called that I wonder what the odds would have been , should of been called The Durex Arena
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 11:08:39 GMT
Whilst the builders are in be good to extend the DPD Stand concourse out slightly to create more room, and maybe move that Godforsaken cage/no mans land around by the South Stand and landscape it and make a bit more aesthetically pleasing. The days of the away fans having to be caged in are long gone, segregate by all means but doesn't need to look like a Death Row prison wing...... Stoke being Stoke the expansion probably means we're nailed on for relegation next season now. (he says only half jokingly!!)
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Post by that's our Ric on Apr 21, 2016 11:11:35 GMT
Great news about the corner, though we'll likely have the same sell-out problems for 2016/17 now - shame it could not have been fitted in this summer. Re Stadium naming, was bound to happen, not much room for sentiment in the modern game Up the Mighty Potters
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Post by kentpotter on Apr 21, 2016 11:13:19 GMT
Wow! Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning? Because Britannia Stadium isn't corporate at all? Of course it is, but in your hurry to appear witty and clever you've missed the point haven't you; corporate it might be, but it had other patriotic and historical qualities that bet365 Stadium just doesn't. And it could be shortened like we did at the Victoria Ground, can't see "Just off down bet duck" catching on can you?
Oh, and it should be a ground, not a stadium or an arena!
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Post by JoeinOz on Apr 21, 2016 11:13:22 GMT
So now it's Bet 365 stadium does Ray Winstone have to do the tannoy announcements?
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Post by liathroid on Apr 21, 2016 11:13:44 GMT
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Post by Olgrligm on Apr 21, 2016 11:24:00 GMT
Good.
However, because I can't be doing with stadium names changing (Man City still play at the CoMS so far as I'm concerned, and Arsenal at Ashburton Grove), it's still the Britannia Stadium.
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Post by flinteastwood on Apr 21, 2016 11:24:15 GMT
Now we've sold our soul with a shit stadium name the money from it best be used for hughes to seriously upgrade the team.
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Post by muglump on Apr 21, 2016 11:24:32 GMT
Yeeeeeeeeesssssss! Gonna take a few years to get used to the name though. Just ignore it everyone will still Call it the britannia, including away fans. It could have been worse if we were still sponsored by broxap street furniture!
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 21, 2016 11:29:06 GMT
I question the need to increase capacity what with all these whining bitches moaning about how shit the manager and team are. As these fucktards won't be turning up, surely we should be looking at reducing the capacity? They need to fill the corner in to cater for your big fat head. Fuck me. I've never known a "fan" to be so fucking hostile towards people with a different opinion. I'm hostile to hypocrisy not opinion.
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Post by StokieSC on Apr 21, 2016 11:31:39 GMT
It's better than The Lindley Catering Stadium I suppose.
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Post by lagwafis on Apr 21, 2016 11:32:23 GMT
There was a PDF released a few years back which showed plans for the scoreboard to be moved to the North West corner, below.
<brand name> + stadium is par for the course and has been for a long time (Etihad Stadium, Emirates Stadium, iPro Stadium, King Power Stadium, John Smiths Stadium, Macron Stadium etc.) I'm not surprised or too fussed to be honest. People can and will still call it the Brit if they want.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 11:33:05 GMT
On my god thats just a horrible name. Im sure Denise Coates will be behind that Selling our souls to the devil. At least we arent owned by Tampax I suppose No but maybe we wouldn't leak so many goals if we were
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 11:37:33 GMT
Delighted to hear about the corner finally getting done ( about bloody time!)
I cant read the link to the article above - I'm at work (on my lunch)and the firewall is blocking it
disappointed about the new name though - pure 'corporate' true - whereas even, whilst the present one was too,
'The Britannia Stadium' always had a bit of extra class about it - I felt
something we will lose
(And, Everytime I go into the Co operative bank branch thesedays - in Warrington, to update my Brittannia 'Save and Support' account, they always suggest moving
it over into a new CO -OP account and closing it - I refuse and I always counter with this :
'There's only one bloody constant in Banking - and that's me' - - hell will freeze open before I close my Save and Support SIMPLY BECAUSE
YOU WANT ME TOO ! ( bastards!) - makes em have to leave all the old fashioned book updating machinery cluttering up their nice corporate desks too --- pisser !
As regards the score board - will surely be re-located in the gap adjacent to the main stand
I'm delighted if it is - I'll be able to see it better from Where I sit in block 29
can imagine moving that and all the cable re-routing will cost a pretty penny tho
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Post by wearepremierleague on Apr 21, 2016 11:38:03 GMT
Who cares about the stadium? 30m is 30m, Britannia weren't going to pay us anything and the more money that comes in- the better players we buy and the cheaper tickets get. Can't have everything
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Post by blooter on Apr 21, 2016 11:38:16 GMT
Whilst the builders are in be good to extend the DPD Stand concourse out slightly to create more room, and maybe move that Godforsaken cage/no mans land around by the South Stand and landscape it and make a bit more aesthetically pleasing. The days of the away fans having to be caged in are long gone, segregate by all means but doesn't need to look like a Death Row prison wing...... Stoke being Stoke the expansion probably means we're nailed on for relegation next season now. (he says only half jokingly!!) As much as I hate Liverpool they have an excellent "fans food n drink village" behind the away end where fans mix happily chatting away with their burgers n beer and a live band on up the corner. It it would be a great idea for that wasteland Behind the South Stand
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