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during saturday's game i managed to find the time to notice that the club had removed the "e-on" (fa cup sponsor) adverts from behind the goals, but hadn't bothered clustering the remaining hoardings back up together as they were previously, so we now have big empty un-populated advertising hoardings behind each goal.

pure laziness.

but on the bright side, the areas around the corner flags are now very well marketed.

I was thinking it might be nice to put our money where our mouth is and have a TEF advertising hoarding if the deal goes through.Unless they are silly money then fuck it. :D

we're talking £'000s here.

pitch side adverts are worth more to the club than shirt sponsorship.

fuck it then :mrgreen:

Im gonna do some company ones I think

I'm sure given time to asses the club then the marketing dept will be strengthend considerably by Fitton & Co as this is one area that we have been consistently crap in getting sponsorship etc

I suspect that Sarah will be left on her own though for a while as I would have thought Ben Lambert will be on the dole queue come Tuesday !!!

thats said the empty ones that are scattered everywhere are worth fuck all at the moment.

it was £250 a half season a few years back I thought?

maybe. not anymore it isn't.

but, for example, you can pay and have the club sort out the actual hoarding, or pay less and provide it yourself.

will they put up anything if someone pays for it?

like a glad to see you go Mike & Co one? would that be put up?

I think they should get rid of the hoardings and dig an enormous deep moat around the pitch. Now it may sound silly, but players will fall in alot, which will be fun and in the summer, you could watch the football aboard a lilo. Could also provide extra revenue during the close season.

   I'm liking this idea....could be a bit like the pools they had in the West Indies for the cricket world cup.

   Could be linked in with the plan to restore the Wilts and Berks canal, and be used as a mooring for narrow boats.

   Had Killer Kilcline still been playing he could have lived at the CG rather than Lechlade.

Blighty's a bit cold for Lilo's for that though surely.

In the winter we could plan Ice skateing attacks on the away fans 8)

Would the moat be heated?

   Yep....could be used for speed skating.  One Wilf O'Reilly..........

See, the opportunities are endless. We could even have the Wildcats vs STFC.

Reg, you're on to something there. Boats could motor through during the match. For a fee of course.

Perhaps they could get a mooring season ticket? They could then come out on deck to watch the game, or watch from inside if it's cold, perhaps even sell their gypsy wares to the fans if we get too close. Kind of like a pitch side market.

Now you're talking - put me down for a mooring season ticket and I'll promise not to hoist the mainsail during the match

 Perhaps the whole CG area could be turned into a mini Venice......

  Fred Elliot could become Doge...and the women could follow classic Venetian fashion of teh 17th century of exposed breasts.

 We could then get a shot at revenge on Venezia for our 1-0 defeat away to them in the 94 Anglo italian, when travel by boat to the match was the only way of getting to the game.

I loved the way on Saturday that the Coca-Cola signs were covered by the Kingswood boards behind both goals. So during the game a bloke with a drill actually started swapping them around, took 5 blokes to do it mind. It was possibly the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen and shows how useless the sales & marketing manager is that he has 2 weeks to sort the boards and doesn't even do it.