A new name for Plaunmorr?

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » 17 Jul 2014, 19:29

Looking it up, it seems that deals last anywhere between 3 and 21 years. I'm not sentimental when it comes to this sort of thing, whoever injects the most money and helps keep the club going/the club to grow is the right choice. A football club in Torquay, with Torquay in the name, that provides something to the community is all that's important to me.

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » 17 Jul 2014, 19:50

madgull wrote: Oh God, don't. This is exactly what I'm dreading, some embarrassing attempt at being a member of the post-modern, social media gang. Why not #[email protected] Stadium?

The Thatcher's Stadium or The Thatcher's Cider Stadium both have a pleasant ring

What I'm trying to fathom is how they can retain the word Plainmoor with a sponsors name.

ferrarilover · Post by **ferrarilover** » 17 Jul 2014, 19:59

lucy6lucy wrote:If we did sell our grounds name, would it be a contract, so after say 3 seasons of being mod-dec windows.com, after this time could we re-vert to plainmoor , with no strings attached ?

Yes, it would be a contract. As to the specifics of that contract, who knows? It's extremely unlikely that we'd sell the naming rights rather than leasing them. What happens when "Dirty Pat" wants to call it the "Pat's knocking shop arena"? Maybe, just maybe, if someone offered us £25m to purchase the naming rights, we'd take the chance, but in the real world, no chance.

Matt.

hector · Post by **hector** » 17 Jul 2014, 21:04

It will always just be Plainmoor, whatever anyone wants to put in front of the name. Let them. It will make no difference.

MellowYellow · Post by **MellowYellow** » 17 Jul 2014, 22:45

Reminder of a few recent stadiums to change their names

ETIHAD STADIUM
Originally the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Cityâ€™s home was rebranded in July in a 10-year deal that included shirt sponsorship and could be worth up to £100 million.

CORAL WINDOW STADIUM
Valley Parade, historic home of Bradford City, has been through a number of guises. The Pulse Radio, Bradford and Bingley, and Intersonic stadiums have come and gone. Itâ€™s been the Coral Windows Stadium since 2007.

MATCHROOM STADIUM
Brisbane Road, homely base of Leyton Orient, received a make-over from owner Barry Hearn, who bestowed the name of his sports-promotion company on it.

ABBEY BUSINESS STADIUM
Whaddon Road was synonymous with Cheltenham Town, until a deal with local business Abbey Business Equipment in 2009. The fans still call it Whaddon Road, though.

KITKAT CRESCENT
A year after relegation from the Football League, York City supporters had to swallow the indignity of historic Bootham Crescent being renamed in a five-year deal with NestlÃ©. York now have Bootham back but remain in the Conference.

KlinK · Post by **KlinK** » 17 Jul 2014, 22:58

Sorry again to post on the wrong thread but again site access is a real problem. I log in but every time I try to post the site tells me I have to log in. The site continues to switch between the full and mobile version and basically intermittantly the site takes and age to respond. Although things seemed to improve when I first posted onn this subject things have never really been sorted out and appear to be getting worse again. I would hope things would get sorted as I would wish this site to remain my first point of contact when loooking for information and discussion on TUFC.

tomogull · Post by **tomogull** » 17 Jul 2014, 23:20

MellowYellow wrote:Reminder of a few recent stadiums to change their names
KITKAT CRESCENT
A year after relegation from the Football League, York City supporters had to swallow the indignity of historic Bootham Crescent being renamed in a five-year deal with NestlÃ©. York now have Bootham back but remain in the Conference.

Interesting list of change names MellowYellow but just one little correction - York City are in Div 2. It's us in the Conference ........

torkie_buoy · Post by **torkie_buoy** » 18 Jul 2014, 00:18

Some of the Torquay clubs would make good names (not that it'd ever happen) imagine 'Enigma Stadium' or 'Park Lane', or if you're feeling exotic, 'Mambo Arena'

Glostergull · Post by **Glostergull** » 18 Jul 2014, 02:19

MellowYellow wrote:Reminder of a few recent stadiums to change their names

ETIHAD STADIUM
Originally the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Cityâ€™s home was rebranded in July in a 10-year deal that included shirt sponsorship and could be worth up to £100 million.

CORAL WINDOW STADIUM
Valley Parade, historic home of Bradford City, has been through a number of guises. The Pulse Radio, Bradford and Bingley, and Intersonic stadiums have come and gone. Itâ€™s been the Coral Windows Stadium since 2007.

MATCHROOM STADIUM
Brisbane Road, homely base of Leyton Orient, received a make-over from owner Barry Hearn, who bestowed the name of his sports-promotion company on it.

ABBEY BUSINESS STADIUM
Whaddon Road was synonymous with Cheltenham Town, until a deal with local business Abbey Business Equipment in 2009. The fans still call it Whaddon Road, though.

KITKAT CRESCENT
A year after relegation from the Football League, York City supporters had to swallow the indignity of historic Bootham Crescent being renamed in a five-year deal with NestlÃ©. York now have Bootham back but remain in the Conference.

You may have missed it but we played them last year in league two and we went down. they didnt. Unless it was all a bad dream. and they went down and we didnt.

and where did the thread get the name pluanmorr. i see no evidence that anyone has mentioned that name or ever would.

:slap:

hector · Post by **hector** » 18 Jul 2014, 06:15

Glostergull wrote:

You may have missed it but we played them last year in league two and we went down. they didnt. Unless it was all a bad dream. and they went down and we didnt.

and where did the thread get the name pluanmorr. i see no evidence that anyone has mentioned that name or ever would. :slap:

Strongly suspect it was a typo.

gullintwoplaces · Post by **gullintwoplaces** » 18 Jul 2014, 06:48

Indeed a typo by me. As I get older my accuracy at putting my fingers onto a keypad has diminished. I can hold a glass of booze without spilling it though. And I can pee into a small space without wetting the floor.

Behind-the-Gulls · Post by **Behind-the-Gulls** » 18 Jul 2014, 08:50

ferrarilover wrote:What I'd hate is some local no mark company to get it. I won't mind if it's the Toyota stadium or the Tag Heuer Arena, but the Mike's Pizza Palace stadium will just be awful.

Matt.

The Pound shops(or is it 96p shops) are trading particularly well in Torquay at the moment-better hope they aren't interested!

PhilGull · Post by **PhilGull** » 18 Jul 2014, 09:30

lucy6lucy wrote:If we did sell our grounds name, would it be a contract, so after say 3 seasons of being mod-dec windows.com, after this time could we re-vert to plainmoor , with no strings attached ?

I think that's what others have done, Hudderfield's Galpharm Stadium is now the John Smith's Stadium, Bolton's Rebbok Stadium is now Macron Stadium and York City's Kit Kat Crescent is now back to being Bootham Crescent.
It's just a Sponsorship contract like any other.

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