leeslover Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 40 minutes ago, oafc1955 said: Pretty high up company officials to measure up a job don't you think?lol I'd also think it was a bit pricey making several trips to China that must have cost minimum £5k a go and maybe 2 or 3 times that to get better value from £20 odd grand in spends. Whatever happened to the Internet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Another erosion of trust between the club and fans. Many people did not donate because of this very reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc_lover Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Might just be me but when selling sponsorship packages to local, national or even global companies - if we were to say yes your company will have a 4ft wide board which you'll have to have made and sent to us...OR your companies name and logo will do backflips and flash in great big letters on an LED screen right around the pitch - I know what I'd prefer. If it helps us gain more money through sponsorship, looks smart and works ok, then I'm absolutely fine with the money being used for this. The money potentially to be made from it could pay for a better scoreboard than the money raised by us anyway. I completely understand anyone wanting their donations back though as yet again, the board show they cannot be trusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Sinnott Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 18 hours ago, GlossopLatic said: Has anyone every bought anything after consciously noticing an advertising boarding at Boundary Park? Personally I don't think a scoreboard will generate much of a return on investment financially as only 4000 people are seeing it every other week. However people have taken the time to donate and raise money for this and not to deliver or to go and shift the goalposts like this is yet another PR own goal from the club. I got my mum and dad to buy me a Slumberland bed once because they sponsored us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lookersstandandy Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Lee Sinnott said: I got my mum and dad to buy me a Slumberland bed once because they sponsored us... Were you living in a Bovis home at the time? Edited March 29, 2017 by lookersstandandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 16 hours ago, dec666 said: Looks like this is actually going in today... I'm not sure that looks like anything of interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 There are two angles on this. One is the scoreboard. I never quite understood the clamour for such a thing as I can easily count to three and we never score more than that anyway. Equally, I handed over £75 of my hard earned cash for a small piece of cardboard with a photo and Crofty's signature on it. In return I don't think it's unreasonable to expect what was promised. A scoreboard. The other angle is the relationship between the football club and the trust. Simon Brooke strikes me as a decent bloke who's got a bit about him. Yet he seems to be missing invites to board meetings and unable to maintain a dialogue with the owner of the club who's phone number he surely has. Reduced to written communication which elicits no response? That's piss poor from the football club to say the least. It must be bloody tough to represent fans when those in charge ignore you. And for clarity, I'm not having a pop at Simon Brooke. I'd suggest what appears to be underhand behaviour from the club over the scoreboard fund, combined with convenient failure to discuss financials at a board meeting combined with the club taking out chunky loans from Scousers creates a need to start building up that fighting fund. Because it sounds more and more like there is a fight to be had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 48 minutes ago, Lee Sinnott said: I got my mum and dad to buy me a Slumberland bed once because they sponsored us... That was when Latics were sleeping giants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_b_100 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 They look fantastic against the well maintained and painted chaddy roof ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Don't forget this scoreboard fund also contains the last scoreboard fund from when SC 'purchased a large screen with his own money and placed it in storage.' Not sure what happened to that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozman Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I'm sure Corney said that, although it offered a better long term return, the cost of digital perimeter advertising was far higher than a scoreboard. I wonder how the difference is being funded. May be the Chinese guy gave us a discount by way of apology for deciding not to buy the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorvik_latic Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 28 minutes ago, bozman said: I'm sure Corney said that, although it offered a better long term return, the cost of digital perimeter advertising was far higher than a scoreboard. I wonder how the difference is being funded. May be the Chinese guy gave us a discount by way of apology for deciding not to buy the club. Maybe the club will get kick backs if we send anyone their way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdog Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 4 minutes ago, jorvik_latic said: Maybe the club will get kick backs if we send anyone their way. You know I have been thinking about this and like you said previously Jorvik, why install now with only a few games to go? Is the club trying to show it off to potential sponsors for next season? I could be wrong but will it be a first in our division and maybe we are the guinea pig to show it off to ther potential clubs. If it is the latter then I hope any commission is going back to the club and not the person who seem to have brokered the deal. but I could be totally wrong as this is only my brain turning this over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 9 hours ago, leeslover said: I'd also think it was a bit pricey making several trips to China that must have cost minimum £5k a go Why £5k a go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 1 hour ago, HarryBosch said: Why £5k a go? Flights, hotels, internal travel, translators, agents to identify people worth meeting in the first place to set it up... I presume Mr C didn't just get a flight and ask a taxi driver if his cousin makes score boards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie_J Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 3 minutes ago, leeslover said: Flights, hotels, internal travel, translators, agents to identify people worth meeting in the first place to set it up... I presume Mr C didn't just get a flight and ask a taxi driver if his cousin makes score boards How do you know he didn't row there in his own boat, with a tent and sleeping bag and what's to say he doesn't speak Mandarin fluently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitygoo Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Didn't the original crowdfund state that anything monies raised by the new scoreboard would go back to the club? If we get perimeter advertising instead, is this promise maintained? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozman Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 1 hour ago, HarryBosch said: Why £5k a go? It's probably more than that. I don't think Mr. Corney flies in Economy on long haul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarddog73 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 4 hours ago, andy_b_100 said: They look fantastic against the well maintained and painted chaddy roof ? Its sandwiched well sitting on the equally well maintained beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewBlue Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) Someone on Twitter has put a picture up of the electronic boards installed on all but the Main Stand side We shall see what the intentions for them are next home game, I guess Edited March 29, 2017 by NewBlue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarddog73 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Any link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewBlue Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) 6 minutes ago, yarddog73 said: Any link? https://twitter.com/Lomey45/status/847054627497562113 Mods: how do you embed a tweet like dec666 did earlier in the thread? Is it possible on mobile devices? Edited March 29, 2017 by NewBlue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmer1 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Maybe we could finish the stand or even just the tannoy in the unfinished stand after more than several request before we move on to advertising boards! I look forward to the day they inevitably break and turn out to be too expensive to fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I'll see it in action and then demand my refund! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie_J Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 57 minutes ago, NewBlue said: https://twitter.com/Lomey45/status/847054627497562113 Mods: how do you embed a tweet like dec666 did earlier in the thread? Is it possible on mobile devices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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