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New Back Of Short Sponsor and Floodlight Provider Maxamaze

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  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,291
    edited June 11
    I’ll be back.. of shorts?

  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,231
    Hopefully better bloody sound system you can’t understand anything that is said pitch side 

  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,170
    Yes….all well and good…but can they fix the fan’s WiFi!?
  • StrikerFirmani
    StrikerFirmani Posts: 2,742
    Not just a brighter Valley, seems they’re going to light up our lives as well. 
    Have they been introduced to Golfie yet ? 
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,728
    New lights = good

    Talk of 'light shows' = bad

    That's my take. 
    I don't understand why floodlight companies think they need to be part of the occasion. Your job is to light the pitch, nothing more. 
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,728
    edited June 12
  • jose
    jose Posts: 622
    It could be like that ABBA Voyage show where they project Mark Kinsella, Eddie Firmani, Jorge Costa, and Darren Bent onto the pitch and we win the game.
  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 1,770
    A shining example of a bit of good business
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    Shortastic!

    Signings?
  • aitchyaddick
    aitchyaddick Posts: 200
    Perhaps they could do something about the wi-fi system as well.
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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,807
    Find the in stadium wifi thing a bit of a thing of the past, better 5G connectivity should be way forward
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,056
    Rothko said:
    Find the in stadium wifi thing a bit of a thing of the past, better 5G connectivity should be way forward
    Whatever they do they need to increase connectivity somehow!
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    It wouldn’t surprise me if they had other plans for the lights other than football. Boxing or concerts perhaps?
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,056
    _MrDick said:
    It wouldn’t surprise me if they had other plans for the lights other than football. Boxing or concerts perhaps?
    Given the residents reaction to the fan zone I can’t imagine the uproar to concerts. Boxing seems more likely to me, think The Den hosted some recently? 
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,343
    fenaddick said:
    _MrDick said:
    It wouldn’t surprise me if they had other plans for the lights other than football. Boxing or concerts perhaps?
    Given the residents reaction to the fan zone I can’t imagine the uproar to concerts. Boxing seems more likely to me, think The Den hosted some recently? 
    Was the last time they hosted Boxing there in 1994?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    JohnnyH2 said:
    fenaddick said:
    _MrDick said:
    It wouldn’t surprise me if they had other plans for the lights other than football. Boxing or concerts perhaps?
    Given the residents reaction to the fan zone I can’t imagine the uproar to concerts. Boxing seems more likely to me, think The Den hosted some recently? 
    Was the last time they hosted Boxing there in 1994?
    Every home match.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    edited June 12
    So light show capability and enhanced PA maybe?

    I see no problem with fancy lights at all as all adds to the atmosphere. It certainly can’t detract. 

    Got to be good news. 
    Unless Doris on the 7th floor of Valiant House complains about being blinded around 7:40 every month or so and completely ruining her ability to watch EastEnders
  • Sheepie1985
    Sheepie1985 Posts: 480
    We better be decent in the new season as counting how many flood lights were out while we were shite was the only thing that kept me amused during the winter games.

    All in all though, glad the club's investing in new lighting. It's a fantastic sign of the commitment from the board to be spending more to improve things. 
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,186
    We better be decent in the new season as counting how many flood lights were out while we were shite was the only thing that kept me amused during the winter games.

    All in all though, glad the club's investing in new lighting. It's a fantastic sign of the commitment from the board to be spending more to improve things. 
    I'm guessing the new lighting isn't being paid for by the club. It's a free installation as part of the sponsorship deal.
  • Sheepie1985
    Sheepie1985 Posts: 480
    We better be decent in the new season as counting how many flood lights were out while we were shite was the only thing that kept me amused during the winter games.

    All in all though, glad the club's investing in new lighting. It's a fantastic sign of the commitment from the board to be spending more to improve things. 
    I'm guessing the new lighting isn't being paid for by the club. It's a free installation as part of the sponsorship deal.
    Smart move in that case!
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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    We better be decent in the new season as counting how many flood lights were out while we were shite was the only thing that kept me amused during the winter games.

    All in all though, glad the club's investing in new lighting. It's a fantastic sign of the commitment from the board to be spending more to improve things. 
    I'm guessing the new lighting isn't being paid for by the club. It's a free installation as part of the sponsorship deal.
    Subsidised rather than free I would guess - the value to them of their sponsorship is unlikely to be the entire cost of replacing a football stadium's lighting.

  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,807
    bobmunro said:
    We better be decent in the new season as counting how many flood lights were out while we were shite was the only thing that kept me amused during the winter games.

    All in all though, glad the club's investing in new lighting. It's a fantastic sign of the commitment from the board to be spending more to improve things. 
    I'm guessing the new lighting isn't being paid for by the club. It's a free installation as part of the sponsorship deal.
    Subsidised rather than free I would guess - the value to them of their sponsorship is unlikely to be the entire cost of replacing a football stadium's lighting.

    Yeah, a full premier league set up costs north of million, so this won’t be as expensive; but not the price of a back of short sponsorship 
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 582
    edited June 12
    Has anyone mentioned the problem with the wifi/sound?
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,127
    gringo said:
    Has anyone mentioned the problem with the wifi/sound?
    Sadly a premier league team would choose between two or three seriously good companies based on their installs at other stadia for a complete PAVA replacement whereas a freshly promoted to the championship club might put out a rushed tender to pick the cheapest local sparky to do it for them….
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,890
    edited June 12
    We better be decent in the new season as counting how many flood lights were out while we were shite was the only thing that kept me amused during the winter games.

    All in all though, glad the club's investing in new lighting. It's a fantastic sign of the commitment from the board to be spending more to improve things. 
    It is good but not let’s not get too carried away. 

    @sw@Swisdom said the requirements are higher in this division so it’s arguably the ‘cost of doing business’ and why we get more central income. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,792
    CafcWest said:
    Yes….all well and good…but can they fix the fan’s WiFi!?
    If it was only one fan wanted to use it, it wouldn’t be a problem.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    It’s not a case of “commitment to investment”. It’s a case of having to do it.

    there are grants available from the EFL to help with the cost but you were restricted to “preferred suppliers” and the grant was only available if you could prove you had 10 years of agreed tenancy agreements on the ground.  Somewhere we were failing when I was looking into this. 
  • ArmchairAddick
    ArmchairAddick Posts: 417
    fenaddick said:
    Rothko said:
    Find the in stadium wifi thing a bit of a thing of the past, better 5G connectivity should be way forward
    Whatever they do they need to increase connectivity somehow!
    That many people all trying to use it to stream Facebook videos and upload pictures etc at the same time takes some SERIOUS bandwidth.  The cost of that vs how often it actually gets used (180 minutes a week tops) is in no way ever going to be financially worth it.  5G is still limited by the frequency range it uses, bearing in mind towers local to each other have to use different bits of the range to avoid colliding with each other.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    This Bulb has stood the test of time. Taken from the original floodlights, at the Valley. They're welcome to borrow it if it helps :-)


    So it was you up the floodlight in 1984 (last game). 🤣