Electronic advertising hoardings round the ground

[Guest Portly]

Those flashing electronic advertising boards are so tacky IMO. They are spreading round Premiership grounds like wildfire - I noticed that even Fulham have them in their ramshackle old dump.

 

Who wants to have a distracting barrage of flashing lights when you are trying to watch a football match? They seem to shout "f*** the football! The management of our club are just desperate to make money any way they can."

Edited December 19, 2006 by Portly

[Spike]

something we may have the luxury of saying in a few weeks. I hate them too but if teams rely on their revenues then so be it.

[Maldini]

How much of a difference could they make?

[Guest Portly]

How much of a difference could they make?

 

Presumably they generate more money than ordinary hoardings, but however much it is, I think it's better for the image of the club to avoid them. Rather like Barca refusing to have a sponsor's name on their shirts. I'm sure a 2% cut in players' wages would be more than enough to compensate!

[growler]

I would think they would be a distraction. You're about to shoot, and the sign behind the goal changes. I can see that being an issue for the players.

[Fagan]

i would like to think players are to engrossed in whats going on around them in the game to be put off by an eletronic advertisement

 

to be honest to say thay elec ads in anfield is below us as liverpool fans is way OTT and pretentious.

 

get with the programme is my ethos, go with the flow and embrace technology.

 

im sure back in the 'good old days' they abhored the boards that we see today.

 

But they are meaningless to us as spectators and to the players yet bring invaulable revenue

 

bring em on

 

for example, id like if we had a big screen at anfield, although i cant see any room for it, but in an ideal world i would. they dont put players off and big screens have been around since late 80's early 90's.

 

 

i remember in the world cup in 1990 in rome, they had a big huge screen in the stadium in Rome for the ireland v italy match i was at and that was over 16 years ago, so electronic advertising boards certainly will not bother me.

Edited December 19, 2006 by Fagan

[R A Softlad]

Doesn't bother me too much, they are used to great effect over here in the hockey arenas, however they aren't at pitch level.

 

The only issue I have, and to be honest I have only seen this at Old Toliet (although it may happen elsewhere) is the 'Man U to win 1-0, bet now...' - I think that's bad sportsmanship and poor form.

[Fagan]

Doesn't bother me too much, they are used to great effect over here in the hockey arenas, however they aren't at pitch level.

 

The only issue I have, and to be honest I have only seen this at Old Toliet (although it may happen elsewhere) is the 'Man U to win 1-0, bet now...' - I think that's bad sportsmanship and poor form.

 

 

agree 100% on that last point.

 

i have no problem with them, but its more about how they are used rather than being used per say. in that contect above, its poor form.

[Nebraska Red]

they are the way of the future, together with 100 foot wide jumbo screens at either end of stadiums.

 

the income generated from the moving ads is way more than a fixed ad for Tasker's DIY.

 

with all our games on TV across the globe, we will see ads for all kinds of companies.

 

the New York Yankees are very popular in Japan and they have moving boards that only show ads for japanese companies.

 

as for it being a distraction, I think it is worse when you watch on Tv, than if you are actually at the game.

[Guest Scot]

Not bothered about them to be honest. We have advertising hoardings, have done for as long as I can remember. Whether they keep one message or display a range of different ones strikes me as fairly irrelevant.

[Koogan]

They are really annoying, IMHO. Maybe not so much for the players, but on telly they are really distracting.

 

I remember reading somewhere that we were the last club (or one of the last clubs) to allow advertising inside the ground.

 

I think the hoardings first appeared at Anfield sometime in the mid- seventies. Anyone know the exact date?

[Will]

I find them annoying but I would bet my bottom dollar we get them at the new stadium...

[jon_hall]

Thought they were quite good in Croatia when Neville passed the ball back to Robinson...

[floyd]

 

The only issue I have, and to be honest I have only seen this at Old Toliet (although it may happen elsewhere) is the 'Man U to win 1-0, bet now...' - I think that's bad sportsmanship and poor form.

But true too form, from those sh1thouses.

[JohnnyH]

Who cares? They're just adds. I really feel that some people actually look for things to complain about.

[Buzz]

Never liked them much until the England game where the ball bounced over Robinsons foot. On one replay just as he missed, or ther ball missed him should we say, Borats face appeared appeared behind his goal, with a his wide mouthed smile, in perfect comic timing.

[owenthomas]

The only issue I have, and to be honest I have only seen this at Old Toliet (although it may happen elsewhere) is the 'Man U to win 1-0, bet now...' - I think that's bad sportsmanship and poor form.

yeah, there was an ad flashing up at Fulham last night after they'd taken the lead saying similar (Fulham to win 1-0....)..

[Coyler]

I hate them.

 

Not least because when a player slides off the pitch studs-first into them there's no blue lightning and crackling electrocution. Very poor.

[bazz]

I think they are fine and its basically clubs moving with the times and changes in Technology.

[Frosty Jack]

As long as they only display advertisements for Maynards It'll be fine.

[Armin_Tamzarian]

I really dislike, no detest them. Not because I want to find something to moan about but because I find them distracting. They're designed to be distracting for goodness sake. I'm watching the match and I don't need flashing moving lights in my peripheral vision.

 

Really hope we don't get them at the new ground. You can stick your big screen up your a*** at the same time.

 

[PLY]

I've got to say that I'm a bit of a Luddite when it comes to this. The moving adverts do my t*** in but if we ever get jumbo screens I'll go fkin nuts. They're for Yanks to watch instead of the game , why don't we just stop for an advert evertime the ball goes out of play. I know football is a business but where do we stop?

[Nebraska Red]

I've got to say that I'm a bit of a Luddite when it comes to this. The moving adverts do my t*** in but if we ever get jumbo screens I'll go fkin nuts. They're for Yanks to watch instead of the game , why don't we just stop for an advert evertime the ball goes out of play. I know football is a business but where do we stop?

 

in some parts of the world,they already have ads during the game.

 

Turkish TV uses a split screen to play ads during breaks in play.

 

if it generates income and does not ruin the game, go for it.

[SkippyjonJones]

 

 

The only issue I have, and to be honest I have only seen this at Old Toliet (although it may happen elsewhere) is the 'Man U to win 1-0, bet now...' - I think that's bad sportsmanship and poor form.

 

did it mention the 94th minute as well..

[Bootle Buck]

Ban all advertising hordings and go back to the letters that used to indicate the half time scores.