Stadium name to be change to highest bidder

[Forbury Lion]

If we take the subject header at face value it has already been decided, The stadium will be called highest bidder stadium.

[anR]

Surely it's about time Mad magazine sponsored a football stadium?

[LumpWarden]

Wonder whether the stadium will now also change it's name to 'Royal Elm Park' - thereby using the stadium name to advertise the associated conferencing facilities etc?

[ZacNaloen]

Wonder whether the stadium will now also change it's name to 'Royal Elm Park' - thereby using the stadium name to advertise the associated conferencing facilities etc?

IN.

[genome]

When REP was announced, I thought it was referring to the stadium name. I'd be totally in for that but it I thought the idea was to sell naming rights to a brand or such like.

[Philly Flyer]

Just got back from the ground having seen the plans and talked to the (very helpful) representatives of the architects and engineers. According to one of the people I spoke to the conference facility will be called "The International", the entire development (including the housing) will be called "Royal Elm Park" & the ground will be the Mad Stad until someone comes up with a deal to rename it. Unlikely therefore that the ground and the conference centre will have the same name.

[CountryRoyal]

I'd imagine they'd keep it as it is until we got to the prem or if not, as long as possible.

[West Stand Man]

Apropos of nothing to do with RFC, but Stoke are renaming their stadium. Apparently being called after a defunct building society is naff!

[The Sum of the Parts]

Apropos of nothing to do with RFC, but Stoke are renaming their stadium. Apparently being called after a defunct building society is naff!

Just another way that Peter Coates, owner of Bet365 and Stoke, can funnel money to the football club without falling foul of FFP regulations.

Stoke make a loss and bet365 make a massive (taxable) profit, so the more of Bet365's profits he can channel across to a loss-making part of his business group, the less tax the profitable one has to pay.

[Jackson Corner]

Apropos of nothing to do with RFC, but Stoke are renaming their stadium. Apparently being called after a defunct building society is naff!

Just another way that Peter Coates, owner of Bet365 and Stoke, can funnel money to the football club without falling foul of FFP regulations.

Stoke make a loss and bet365 make a massive (taxable) profit, so the more of Bet365's profits he can channel across to a loss-making part of his business group, the less tax the profitable one has to pay.

Lucky cnuts wish it was us. If they get away with it good luck to them.

[elrey]

I've always supported the idea of a joint statue of Coppell and Madejski arm in arm

Coppell? Seriously?

144 years of history and you want a statue of a bloke who recently spent just 5 1/2 years at the club in which he oversaw us both promoted & relegated?

You mean the only guy to have ever kept us in the Premier League in our one season where we finished the highest we've ever finished in our history?

Sure, why not, a statue and something else.

[The Sum of the Parts]

I'm not saying a Coppell and Madejski statue would be a good idea, but if for some reason it did come to pass, this absolutely has to be the model for it:

[bobby1413]

The fact we don't already have a statue or some sort of stand name after Coppell is a oxf*rd travesty

[Maneki Neko]

When REP was announced, I thought it was referring to the stadium name. I'd be totally in for that but it I thought the idea was to sell naming rights to a brand or such like.

I would begrudgingly accept royal elm park sponsored by Grundon, or summat

[Maneki Neko]

I'm not saying a Coppell and Madejski statue would be a good idea, but if for some reason it did come to pass, this absolutely has to be the model for it:

that would be great
seems a shame to have them sharing a statue though

how about that one outside the east stand, with individual statues elsewhere



this post caused me to look for steve Coppell promotion pics on google, and I now feel all nostalgic and sad and happy

[Kuhl_Runnings]

The DJ Megaparty Hallowed Turf

[Kuhl_Runnings]

Or how about Golden Gaytime Gate

[One8Seven1*]

"Reading Football Club's Madejski Stadium is to have its name changed, its owner has confirmed.
Lady Sasima Srivikorn told BBC Radio Berkshire she is in talks with several different companies to bring more sponsorship money to the club.
It has been called the Madejski Stadium, named after co-chairman Sir John Madejski, since it opened in 1998.
Lady Sasima said selling the name was an easy way to raise income, especially as the club was "moving up".
Reading are currently 13th in the Championship but have had several recent spells in the Premier League.
"I know to have the naming right on the stadium can fetch quite a lot of money," she said.
"There are many companies that would like to have that naming right, so that is one way of making the money come in.""

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-34127367

8 months on and...

[Elm Park Kid]

I'm sure they said at the time that they would only rename the stadium once we got back into the Premier League and they could get a decent long term deal out of it.

So, Mad Stad it is then . . . . . . .

[One8Seven1*]

I'm sure they said at the time that they would only rename the stadium once we got back into the Premier League and they could get a decent long term deal out of it.

So, Mad Stad it is then . . . . . . .

I don't recall that at all, and cannot find a quote either. Pg1 is a good start.