Lord's to be renamed????!!!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article6920888.ece


Surely not? This includes the stands as well. Can't wait to say goodbye to the Denis Compton stand and sit in the starbucks one instead. In the "Lord'sbroughttoyoubyfacebook.com" stadium. Great. Just great.

Article also says Wembley and Twickenham are going the same way. A worrying trend. Lets hope Mike Ashley isn't involved in any way. Rampant commercialism ruining sport.

Merlin, make yourself useful and get this stopped. There's a good chap.

Cricket will lose its soul if this goes ahead.

Should the Flaming Bails have a whip-round and put in a bid?

The redevelopment is designed to increase seating by about 7,500, create an underground cricket academy, a brasserie and a bigger museum.

Mark Cosgrove will be moving to Middlesex then.

Dello wrote:Should the Flaming Bails have a whip-round and put in a bid?

I'll get onto the Welsh Assembly!

DJ_Smerk wrote:

The redevelopment is designed to increase seating by about 7,500, create an underground cricket academy, a brasserie and a bigger museum.

Mark Cosgrove will be moving to Middlesex then.

Warnie will be coming out of retirement, under the misapprehension that tits are involved.

Keith Bradshaw, MCC chief executive, told The Times that he hoped to sell sponsorship packages to India before exploiting naming rights. He conceded: “That is obviously an option but you reach a point at which you do not want to sell your soul.”

Keith Bradshaw, a new person for FB to despise.

Aye, been hearing rumblings about this sh*t ... and this is what happens when you appoint an Aussie (Bradshaw) trying to run the show. He'll be chasing gay-ball Aussie Rules sponsorship next.

Can't see this slipping past 15,000 members somehow - at least not in the next 20 years - but do think the re-naming of the stands might happen!

The LloydsTSB Pavilion ... the McDonalds Warner .... the Santander Compton ... Northern Rock Edrich ... the mind boggles!

Was a similar stink kicked up when it became the "Fosters Oval"?

JGK wrote:Was a similar stink kicked up when it became the "Fosters Oval"?

Aye, but who cares?
Slurrey scum are fickle b**tards ... they soon dumped Fosters and bedded Brit ...
Watch that space in a year or so's time ...

Lord's TSB would probably be the least bad name. But that's like saying chlamydia is the least bad STD.

It'd be cool if there was a Health Action Network Society (HANS) stand.

Or if the sportswear firm Head sponsored a stand.

I see what you're doing.

WHAT IF THERE WAS A "SITTINGONABUSANDANOLDLADYTOTTERSONANDIMTHEREFOREFORCEDTO" STAND?!!

The ironically-named Asian removal firm "Pack-I".

Won't it always be known as Lords anyway? A bit like every fan goes to the Oval still?

Quite like the revamped stands though.

Sylvain Di.

He could probably afford to sponsor a stand.

They've flat out rejected any such possibility.

It's an interesting point about the Oval - I wonder how valuable naming rights are when no-one pays a blind bit of attention to the official name?

'They' tried to rename the Sheffield Shield here. That never really worked.

lardbucket wrote:'They' tried to rename the Sheffield Shield here. That never really worked.

WTF is the Sheffield Shield?

Bradshaw was on BBC Breakfast 'News' poo-pooing the idea and some bollocks about who considers that as a realistic idea had Peter Pan floating in his head.

Which I thought was highlu homophobic...

As an aside BBC Breakfast News is f*cking sh*t.

The redevelopment is designed to increase seating by about 7,500, create an underground cricket academy, a brasserie and a bigger museum.

WTF is underground cricket?

Merlin wrote:Aye, been hearing rumblings about this sh*t ... and this is what happens when you appoint an Aussie (Bradshaw) trying to run the show. He'll be chasing gay-ball Aussie Rules sponsorship next.

Can't see this slipping past 15,000 members somehow - at least not in the next 20 years - but do think the re-naming of the stands might happen!

The LloydsTSB Pavilion ... the McDonalds Warner .... the Santander Compton ... Northern Rock Edrich ... the mind boggles!

Yeah, whatever you say Merls. I mean the Aussies have sold off heaps of corporate sponsorships to rename Test grounds. The MCG is now called The MCG, The SCG is now called the SCG, The Gabba is now called The Gabba, Adelaide Oval is called Adelaide Oval, The WACA is called The WACA, Bellerive is called Bellerive.

Good point Zat...

And it's interesting all the attention that's paid to a name change rather than the (good) idea of increasing the grounds capacity to something that is bordering on reasonable.

Merlin wrote:Aye, been hearing rumblings about this sh*t ... and this is what happens when you appoint an Aussie (Bradshaw) trying to run the show. He'll be chasing gay-ball Aussie Rules sponsorship next. Can't see this slipping past 15,000 members somehow - at least not in the next 20 years - but do think the re-naming of the stands might happen!

Simple, don't wake them up

Could Tiger contribute to one of the stands?