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New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 12:00
by Jon Palmer
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Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 12:09
by Robin
Glad this has been done quickly like everything at the club at the moment there is real positive momentum which I hope we can ride for some time.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 12:17
by Fuller
Will the Speedy Skips rock the Jonny Rocks ? :lol:

Love it, great stuff !

Well done John Finnigan & our new Chairman.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 12:40
by RegencyCheltenhamSpa
Some money is better than no money though I can’t help but be a bit disappointed after AW bigged up his ability to get a decent ground sponsor.

The net book value of Jonny Rocks assets is £36,577 and in the year 2017-18 they owe creditors £23,445.

Trading deficit of £5,446 for the year 2016-17, leaving reserves of -£5,585.

Either 2017-18 has been a lot better or we can assume they aren’t paying much more for the ground than they were a hoarding.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 13:06
by Nesty
the article mentions Jeff Stelling, he will be sure to come up with an apt pun as he has with Eisa and George Lloyd (knew my father)

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 15:53
by Shade
Jonny Rocks has certainly come a long way, from taking me and my mates home at 3am, telling us...interesting...stories about his nights work to sponsoring a football league stadium.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 18:14
by Nesty
The Rocking Robins

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 19:03
by asl
Could be a lot worse... Remember the Kit Kat Stadium...?

Actually, what am I thinking? You need to go an awful long way to beat The World of Smile Stadium...

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 19:26
by ctfc-fan
Be interested to get an idea of the cost of this sponsorship...

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 20:15
by Jerry St Clair
Fair play to the club for being a bit-tongue-cheek about it too. Guess they wouldn't have got away with being too serious about it but even so, hats off.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 20:35
by Jerry St Clair
ctfc-fan wrote:Be interested to get an idea of the cost of this sponsorship...
Accrington's three year deal with WHAM is worth £200k. Though that is combined ground and shirt sponsorship and is complicated by the fact that the sponsor is also their famously benevolent owner.

Peterborough flogged their naming rights for a reported £500k over multiple seasons. The going rate for a (non-big 6) Premier League stadium sponsorship for a season is reckoned to be around £1.5m.

On that basis, I'd reckon somewhere between £20-40k would be about right for a season of sponsorship of WR.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 30 May 2018, 20:48
by RegencyCheltenhamSpa
Jerry St Clair wrote:
ctfc-fan wrote:Be interested to get an idea of the cost of this sponsorship...
Accrington's three year deal with WHAM is worth £200k. Though that is combined ground and shirt sponsorship and is complicated by the fact that the sponsor is also their famously benevolent owner.

Peterborough flogged their naming rights for a reported £500k over multiple seasons. The going rate for a (non-big 6) Premier League stadium sponsorship for a season is reckoned to be around £1.5m.

On that basis, I'd reckon somewhere between £20-40k would be about right for a season of sponsorship of WR.
See my info provided above. The company on the face of it is not flush with cash so probably not much more than the hoarding they had.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 31 May 2018, 06:04
by Artemis
Who cares how much it is........it's income we wouldn't have without Finner's sterling efforts.
Cheers Finners and supporting cast.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 31 May 2018, 06:43
by ctfc-fan
Artemis wrote:Who cares how much it is........it's income we wouldn't have without Finner's sterling efforts.
Cheers Finners and supporting cast.
Maybe I’m not just trying to be nosey but interested from a potential sponsorship view.....

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 31 May 2018, 09:33
by horlickfanclub
Shame we can't fund calling it the proper name , The Victory Sports Ground .

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 31 May 2018, 09:37
by RegencyCheltenhamSpa
horlickfanclub wrote:Shame we can't fund calling it the proper name , The Victory Sports Ground .
See if Jamie has a bob or two spare.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 31 May 2018, 12:18
by Shade
Do I hear a Crowdfunder klaxon? Raise £50k so that the fans can call the ground The Victory Sports Ground for a season.

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 31 May 2018, 12:51
by shevates
And when i mention where my team plays, its still Whaddon Road, home of the Robins

Re: New name for Whaddon Road

Posted: 04 Jun 2018, 17:14
by goalpost
Shade wrote:Do I hear a Crowdfunder klaxon? Raise £50k so that the fans can call the ground The Victory Sports Ground for a season.
Maybe a Crowdfunder to name the ground ‘Whaddon Road’.