Stadium renaming.

[windermereROYAL]

Seen a few stories doing the rounds yesterday and today regarding the naming rights to the stadium, the rumour is that the word Madejski has been removed and replaced with select car leasing or an abbreviation of it.
Is this the time for JMs (god) legacy to be removed from our club?

[From Despair To Where?]

Everyone will still just call it the Madejski anyway and if selling the naming rights puts a dent in our seasonal losses then so be it.

[Norfolk Royal]

Everyone will still just call it the Madejski anyway and if selling the naming rights puts a dent in our seasonal losses then so be it.

Really? If the stadium is renamed the commentators, summarisers, reports of the game, will then refer to it as the SCL or even a fuller name rather than the initials. Away fans will then start calling it that, then home fans eventually after several years.

I've no real affinity with the stadium name personally as the Madejski era is long gone but the new name would soon be added to the lexicon, as it were, in my view.

[genome]

The Eric Obinna-Chukwunyelu Arena

[NathStPaul]

The Eric Obinna-Chukwunyelu Arena

You have Eric Obinna-Chukwunyelu on the brain!

[From Despair To Where?]

Everyone will still just call it the Madejski anyway and if selling the naming rights puts a dent in our seasonal losses then so be it.

Really? If the stadium is renamed the commentators, summarisers, reports of the game, will then refer to it as the SCL or even a fuller name rather than the initials. Away fans will then start calling it that, then home fans eventually after several years.

I've no real affinity with the stadium name personally as the Madejski era is long gone but the new name would soon be added to the lexicon, as it were, in my view.

Everyone as in the fans. Who gives a fcuk what commentators call it? I don't know a single person who called Derby's stadium the iPro Stadium. Birmingham's still play at St Andrews. I still call Stoke's the Britannia and everybody knows what I mean.

[genome]

The Eric Obinna-Chukwunyelu Arena

You have Eric Obinna-Chukwunyelu on the brain!

I think his name is on the new shirt somewhere.

[Green]

Everyone will still just call it the Madejski anyway and if selling the naming rights puts a dent in our seasonal losses then so be it.

Really? If the stadium is renamed the commentators, summarisers, reports of the game, will then refer to it as the SCL or even a fuller name rather than the initials. Away fans will then start calling it that, then home fans eventually after several years.

I've no real affinity with the stadium name personally as the Madejski era is long gone but the new name would soon be added to the lexicon, as it were, in my view.

+1, people move on and times change.

Would rather it was named after a previous chairman than a sponsor mind you, but that's progress in football for you.

[Hendo]

The Eric Obinna-Chukwunyelu Arena

You have Eric Obinna-Chukwunyelu on the brain!

Who doesn't?

[Green]

Everyone will still just call it the Madejski anyway and if selling the naming rights puts a dent in our seasonal losses then so be it.

Really? If the stadium is renamed the commentators, summarisers, reports of the game, will then refer to it as the SCL or even a fuller name rather than the initials. Away fans will then start calling it that, then home fans eventually after several years.

I've no real affinity with the stadium name personally as the Madejski era is long gone but the new name would soon be added to the lexicon, as it were, in my view.

Everyone as in the fans. Who gives a fcuk what commentators call it? Everyone I know still calls Derby's stadium Pride Park, Birmingham's St Andrews. I still call Stoke's the Britannia and everybody knows what I mean.

"Everyone I know" is mostly people in your demographic right?

[From Despair To Where?]

I don't just associate with white 50something Reading supporters. Half my neighbours are season ticket holders at different clubs ages ranging from 12 to 80.


I've got no issue with selling the naming rights, although I would prefer if "Madejski" remained part of the name in some form. Would seem a bit churlish to airbrush him completely from the ground in our 150th year.

[muirinho]

Everyone will still just call it the Madejski anyway and if selling the naming rights puts a dent in our seasonal losses then so be it.

Really? If the stadium is renamed the commentators, summarisers, reports of the game, will then refer to it as the SCL or even a fuller name rather than the initials. Away fans will then start calling it that, then home fans eventually after several years.

I've no real affinity with the stadium name personally as the Madejski era is long gone but the new name would soon be added to the lexicon, as it were, in my view.

+1, people move on and times change.

Would rather it was named after a previous chairman than a sponsor mind you, but that's progress in football for you.

Would be nice if they named a stand after JM, and particularly if they don't wait till he's dead to do it. I think after all he's done for the club he deserves a stagger on to the pitch to cut the ribbon and wave at the fans.

But keeping the stadium the Mad Stad in the current environment would be like forgoing shirt sponsorship to use the logo of Launchpad or some similar charity. Nice idea, but not going to happen.

[Hendo]

Yeah, I think renaming the East Stand would be a nice touch if they have sold the naming rights.

[Snowflake Royal]

Everyone will still just call it the Madejski anyway and if selling the naming rights puts a dent in our seasonal losses then so be it.

Really? If the stadium is renamed the commentators, summarisers, reports of the game, will then refer to it as the SCL or even a fuller name rather than the initials. Away fans will then start calling it that, then home fans eventually after several years.

I've no real affinity with the stadium name personally as the Madejski era is long gone but the new name would soon be added to the lexicon, as it were, in my view.

Everyone as in the fans. Who gives a fcuk what commentators call it? I don't know a single person who called Derby's stadium the iPro Stadium. Birmingham's still play at St Andrews. I still call Stoke's the Britannia and everybody knows what I mean.

+1

[Zammo]

When I jump in a cab from Reading Station to a home game I always say to the driver "the real theatre of dreams please". Only once did we get in and not have to explain that we actually wanted to go to the Mad Stad lol. Can't wait to ask to be taken to the Select Car Superbowl

[Linden Jones' Tash]

If we must include a reference to SJM, surely it makes more sense to rename the Hotel Penthouse Suite after him...

The Sir John Madejski Penthouse.

The club has done as much for him as he has done for the club, so not a big fan of naming a stand after him.

[PATRIQT]

Elm Park mattered to me. Madejski Stadium doesn't. To me it's just "the football ground", so who cares. We need the money more than some snowflakes need pleasing.

I would add though that we now need to make the main stand the Sir John Madejski stand. And I still hope to see a statue of Sir John and Sir Steve outside the ground too. Fans could raise a lot of money towards that. Maybe STAR can look at it.

[SCIAG]

Naming a stand after Madejski seems almost insulting. It would be fine if it wasn't supposed to replace the stadium, but otherwise it's a bit like taking away his knighthood and giving him a CBE to make up for it. And surely the West Stand makes more sense than the East?

Think I fall in with FDTW - established names tend to outlast new sponsorship agreements, with the possible exception of Man City who had a terrible name beforehand anyway. Derby's deal lapsed in 2016 and Birmingham have kept "St Andrews" in the name.

[Jackson Corner]

Agree with all the above, I mean what’s QPRs ground called? It’s still Loftus Rd to me. A statue of SJM is a must, he has done more than enough to warrant one.

[3points]

I notice that a new company was registered at Companies House called Select Car Leasing Stadium Limited on 16 June. Looking more into the Select Car Leasing group shows it isn’t that big a company so wonder where the money is coming from for the shirt sponsorship and naming rights?