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As of next season :D

No more Intel/Nationwide/Kingswood, etc................

fair enough.

brilliant decision to honour a legend at last

Ben will be upset, but as he won't be up for another few hours, it won't really matter.....

Ace. Lets all move there.

Top decision, a true legend.

great decision!!

well done the Board ... oh its so refreshing saying things like that!!

they really are doing a good job tho

Great honour for a true legend :D

His family are on the Junior Robins trip to Brighton today.

3rd Generation of Rogers support for the family.

Now thats what i call support!!

YAY

That is all

ACE  :D

Great decision by the board, and should prove to be a real crowd pleaser.

Rogers seems like such a top bloke, always has time for anything STFC related, and was a true legend when he played here. I've read the auto-biography, great read for Town fans by the way.

Fuck, I asked for it to be called the Fred Elliot stand after another town legend.  Fair enough, I am sure Andy won't mind taking second prize!

that is fantastic. i'm very chuffed with that!

Brilliant....also going to get involved with the matchday scene as well i think....can anyone remember the match v Rotherham when he came back to Swindon......it was obvius he was nearly finished yet still he managed to score in our 1,1 draw.

cunts.

Also, I guess I'm pretty predictable.

They should use white and red seats to make an image of his face in the stand.

Now that would be impressive.

If I keep my current seat I will be sat on top of his head.

Great decision. This board have done no wrong in my eyes yet. I'd also like to see John Trollope involved as a club amabassador also.

I agree Lebowski, do what Preston have done with the Tom Finney stand, it looks very impressive.

Now that would be a fitting tribute to "The Don".

Its still a great accolade to DR and very fitting, well done Mr Fitton, I take my hat off to you.

Better still, how about a montage covering the whole stand of Don tearing apart the Arsenal defence at Wembley?

Excellent decision by the board.  The club is finding its heart again.

Hmmm....without the stand being named after a sponsor how much money are we missing out on?

Is it alot, or will we still get sponsorship and it'll be called the the betfair don rogers stand or something?

Yep, fair play to naming it the Don Rogers Stand. I'm all for that. The club still has the option of inserting a sponsor's name if necessary.

So, this begs the question, what about the other stands then?

I would go for:
John Trollope
Lou Macari
Danny Williams

Can't they sponsor the town end stand instead?

They've already got someone sponosring the town end don't they? What does that big purple sign say on the roof?

C&D recruitment

Thats right. Im guessing you can't get another company to sponsor the arkells, so that just leaves the stratton bank open to a name change

If we managed to fill in some of the empty pitch-side advertising hoardings then this would more than off-set the £20k a year we're no longer getting from Kingswood.

Plus, we'd have new shirt sponsors anyway.

What about Harry Morris? Do we have any tributes for him? (I can't think of any at the mo) Along with Fleming and Rogers he was one of the greats for Swindon.

I'm on about next season and a higher profile sponsor.

Bit like when the Adver sponsored it, used to be called the Swindon (Evening?) Advertiser town end, do that bit with a higher profile name.

Just not the Floors 2 Go stand  :roll:

Aren't some of the VIP boxes named after those people?

Ah right i get ya. Why not just get some uber big company to sponsor the whole ground instead. Surely that would get us more money

Dont work with old grounds.

I know people who will still call it the Intel next season.  :soapy tit wank:

Fantastic gesture. Hopefully this board can make this club an entity worth playing for again. Not a piece or bog roll for the misuse of players/agents/dodgy racing people/property developers.

The romance around STFC has been pretty much rock bottom since the McMahon era.

You're bang on about that and actually for that reason it can be a bit of a win-win. The club gets a truckload of cash in return for some notional naming rights and spends the rest of the period of the deal vainly insisting the grounds now called the "Hypermart MegaDeal Stadium" while no-one else takes any notice and carries on calling it the County Ground. The tradition remains intact but the club still benefits

The Four stands should be named:-

The Billie Piper Stand
The Diana Dors Stand
The Melinda Messenger Stand
The Longest Serving Player Stand

All of them named after Trollopes.

You could get a job at Dunwoody hatching wishful thinking plans of how to rip money men off with plans like that.

Lets face it if you and me know that 'the Reebok' works and 'the Matchroom stadium' doesnt, then some marketing bloke with an MA at Cambridge on 90k a year might realise it as well.

OK, so it was a stupid ill-thought out post but that's a bit bloody harsh :D

My favourite is the 96.6 TFM Darlington Arena. Just rolls off the tongue.

The stadium name ever ahs to be Gaylord Entertainment Centre home of Nashville in the NHL