The rugby

[Beebo]

The RFU have sold the naming rights for Twickenham to Allianz.
Not a big deal in the scheme of things, but I just can’t see anyone actually calling it anything other than twickenham or HQ.

 

[AndyRM]

The RFU have sold the naming rights for Twickenham to Allianz.
Not a big deal in the scheme of things, but I just can’t see anyone actually calling it anything other than twickenham or HQ.

Nope. The only two stadiums (in England) I can think of off the top of my head that get called their sponsors names are The Emirates and The Etihad.

Depends how strict the sponsors are I suppose. Ashley tried to be with "Sports Direct .com at St James' Park" but everyone laughed at him.

And nobody in their right mind is everything referring to "Billy Bowie Special Projects at Rugby Park", but I think he knows that, and that's why he hasn't plastered his branding all over the stands.

He hasn't even on our awesome monster truck either.

 

[Beebo]

Nope. The only two stadiums (in England) I can think of off the top of my head that get called their sponsors names are The Emirates and The Etihad.

I think you can get away with it on a new stadium like the Etihad and Emirates. As no one has really called it anything else.

No one calls The Oval by its sponsors name of The Kia Oval. And apparently Murrayfield is currently named the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, which just rolls off the tongue.

The sponsors must feel they get some benefit, but I’m not sure what it is.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

So what are fans pet names for their grounds - or opponent's grounds?

Falkirk (the Bairns) refer to the Falkirk Stadium as the Bairnebau. Livingston have The Tony Macaroni Arena, more commonly called the Spaghetti Bowl.

 

[AndyRM]

The Theatre of Pies

 

[Dogtrousers]

Calling the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff "Cardiff Arms Park" is always good for a few "well, actually" responses.

Calling it the Principality Stadium, which I think is its proper name unless it has changed, will do fine I think with most people but I always think of it as the Millennium Stadium. Cos I'm slow on the uptake.

 

[Dogtrousers]

No one calls The Oval by its sponsors name of The Kia Oval.

It's had a number of sponsors names over the years but has always kept "Oval" as part of its name Fosters, AMP, possibly others that I've forgotten.

 

[Alex321]

Calling the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff "Cardiff Arms Park" is always good for a few "well, actually" responses.

Calling it the Principality Stadium, which I think is its proper name unless it has changed, will do fine I think with most people but I always think of it as the Millennium Stadium. Cos I'm slow on the uptake.

I spent the day on a works do in the actual Cardiff Arms Park (next door to the Millennium Stadium of course) in May.

 

[Beebo]

Argentina beat NZ in NZ. 30-38.
That puts the England summer tour into some perspective.

 

[Chromatic]

I bet the All Blacks are hake'ed off ( geddit ??) after being beaten by the Springboks again.

 

[Dave7]

Wembley is better known to Lfc fans as Anfield south (or similar).

 

[Chromatic]

Forward passes and the ignoring thereof pisses me off.

 

[Drago]

SiL's team gave Wellingborough a thrashing yesterday.

 

[Alex321]

Forward passes and the ignoring thereof pisses me off.

Yu have to remember that under current interpretation, the ball can go several yards forward between leaving the hands of the passer and reaching the hands of the receiver, while still not being classed as a forward pass.

If the angle of the passers hands as he releases the ball are such that it is not going forward in relation to him, then that is not a forward pass, even though his momentum means it is moving towards the opposition line.

 

[matticus]

Forward passes and the ignoring thereof pisses me off.

Luckily they are sometimes spotted:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAFb_yWQi4