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Anyone know what they are planning to show on the screen? I hope it is more than just advertising

Porn I expect, ( Bu#s & T#ts,& Gay Boys In Bondage ) or highlights of Exeter & Plymouth games. [/quote]

I thought watching Highlights of Plymuff and Excretian matches was Porn. It's their own form of sado masochism.

NickGull wrote:Hopefully something good;

- team lineups before KO
- time, score etc during play
- highlights at half time, etc

Maybe even replays but thats probably too much to ask for.

Very unlikely we will be able to do that but minimum the first two I would hope.

Hopefully something good;

- team lineups before KO
- time, score etc during play
- highlights at half time, etc

Maybe even replays but thats probably too much to ask for.

Richinns wrote:Anyone know what they are planning to show on the screen? I hope it is more than just advertising.

Porn I expect, ( Bu#s & T#ts,& Gay Boys In Bondage ) or highlights of Exeter & Plymouth games.

Anyone know what they are planning to show on the screen? I hope it is more than just advertising.

The screen is going in and work is due to start shortly.

..Coming to a ground near you this Christmas!

http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... 55754.aspx

Something else that'll make the City apes jealous when they visit(along with sanitary toilets, a stadium that isn't about to collapse, and a very good football team!)

I cannot remember a period when TUFC released such a constant stream of good news. Without being the least bit gloomy, enjoy it peeps, because nothing lasts forever. I truly hope the public vote with their feet next season, and show their appreciation for the ambition and commitment shown by our board.

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"forthcoming big screen"

royalgull wrote:big screen is a load of bollocks anyway. Up to now we've been able to keep score and time ok, also heard the half time scores without issue. Excessive cost for absolutely no point.

different in sports like Basketball when 100 plays 95 but in football they are a waste of time.

Oh. Forgive me. I thought it was a great big square thing. Does that mean it's a revolutionary spherical thing with hair all over it

royalgull wrote:big screen is a load of bollocks anyway. Up to now we've been able to keep score and time ok, also heard the half time scores without issue. Excessive cost for absolutely no point.

different in sports like Basketball when 100 plays 95 but in football they are a waste of time.

Stupid boy, Pike!

It's naff all to do with us, the supporters, and has everything to do with being able to sell advertising. It's just a revenue stream, as well as being able to show replays of incidents and other things which we can't do.

Matt.

After having a conversation about this a while back with someone who worked in the "Big Screen Business" as he once put it, it was quite interesting how quick money can be made back. These figures are from 3 or 4 years back and have probably changed since then (lowered, at least)

A screen can cost anywhere between about £10,000 up to around £1,000,000 - depending on screen size, resolution and whether it was HD. (I guess now it would be 3D) Supposedly, anything over about £200,000 usually ends up going to Dubai or Las Vegas, rarely many other places.

He wouldn't tell me how much individual screens cost, but supposedly the Wembley ones paid for themselves within 5 England home games (About a year at a guess). Big Premiership clubs can earn the money back in around 6 months and smaller clubs like us are likely to take between a year and two years.

royalgull wrote:big screen is a load of bollocks anyway. Up to now we've been able to keep score and time ok, also heard the half time scores without issue. Excessive cost for absolutely no point.

different in sports like Basketball when 100 plays 95 but in football they are a waste of time.

From the quotes i've heard, the benefits of the screen are more around sponsorship and advertising revenue rather than for the supporters.

big screen is a load of bollocks anyway. Up to now we've been able to keep score and time ok, also heard the half time scores without issue. Excessive cost for absolutely no point.

different in sports like Basketball when 100 plays 95 but in football they are a waste of time.

So basically, we are allowed to demolish and rebuild an entire stand which involves several tonnes of concrete, steel and paperwork which is, at it's minimum, no more than 10 metres away from fans, probably less, but can we plug in what is effectively an outdoor TV? Hell no, you could kill people with that!

I'd love to see the amount of forms that a Health & Safety Inspector has to sign when he starts a new job, ironically it would probably cause another health and safety hazard when 25 trees are chopped down to print his contract onto.