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Walsall ground becomes Poundland Bescot Stadium in new partnership

clive
clive Posts: 19,442
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Walsall Football Club's ground will become the Poundland Bescot Stadium, after a new partnership was agreed with the discount retailer.

The club had revealed its partnership with Banks's, which had held the first sponsorship of the ground since 2007, would finish at the end of this season.

West Midlands-based Poundland will also feature on the Saddlers' two-tier stand and be the shirt sponsor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-61248516

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,019
    Another one to add to the list of headlines best read in a Black Country accent.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    Buy a player from Walsall and you can officially say you are shopping in Poundland 🤣🤣
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
    Oh dear
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    edited April 2022
    Selhurst Park has been the unofficial Poundland stadium for years.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    It’ll need quite a few coppers on duty for the Poundland Stadium.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,592
    paulie8290 said:
    Buy a player from Walsall and you can officially say you are shopping in Poundland 🤣🤣
    Go get Liam Kinsella.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,994
    Could you imagine the outrage if we had the Poundland Valley!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,211
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Could you imagine the outrage if we had the Poundland Valley!
    Yes 

    "Why aren't we sponsored by Harrods?  Mumford out!"
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,592
    edited April 2022



    I would rather buy something from Poundland than a copy of the sun.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,215
    Well Done Walsall. Getting Poundland on board is one way of breaking even! 
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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    edited April 2022
    thai malaysia addick said:
    It’ll need quite a few coppers on duty for the Poundland Stadium.
    Nah they'll just put up those stickers of a policeman to put people off causing trouble.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,024
    Poundland could sponsor The Valley, the ground would always be known as that regardless of who the sponsors are.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,800
    Good proper, go fuck yourselves, tweet there
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,976
    Rothko said:
    Good proper, go fuck yourselves, tweet there
    Indeed!

    as much as it’s full of strange folk, the success of Poundland and places like that say more about life in general in this country right now.  As much as I wouldn’t like it at The Valley I love that tweet.  
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,846
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Could you imagine the outrage if we had the Poundland Valley!
    What about the 50million Poundland Valley?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    edited April 2022
    Walsall always seem like a decent club to me, standing a bit like Leyton Orient for their region.
    If their sponsor is Poundland then good for them. I will have more positive vibes next time I’m in Poundland Lewisham.
    Their real problem for me is the nickname ‘saddlers’ because saddles are (always?) made from slaughtered animals which does not seem right if you’re a vegetarian.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    I think that’s a fantastic sponsorship from a Poundland perspective. Sponsoring a no frills community club is bang on brand for them - and that tweet (which will have been pre planned and scripted) is superb.

    Big well done to the commercial teams behind that because it will be a massive success.

    Put it this way - anyone that shops / would shop in Poundland won’t be put off by it, and if anything they will spread the appeal of their brand to a wider audience.

    Love it.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,036
    seth plum said:
    Walsall always seem like a decent club to me, standing a bit like Leyton Orient for their region.
    If their sponsor is Poundland then good for them. I will have more positive vibes next time I’m in Poundland Lewisham.
    Their real problem for me is the nickname ‘saddlers’ because saddles are (always?) made from slaughtered animals which does not seem right if you’re a vegetarian.
    You can get vegan cycle saddles Seth. 😎
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    iainment said:
    seth plum said:
    Walsall always seem like a decent club to me, standing a bit like Leyton Orient for their region.
    If their sponsor is Poundland then good for them. I will have more positive vibes next time I’m in Poundland Lewisham.
    Their real problem for me is the nickname ‘saddlers’ because saddles are (always?) made from slaughtered animals which does not seem right if you’re a vegetarian.
    You can get vegan cycle saddles Seth. 😎
    This is probably the most important post of the day.
    So Walsall could well be interpreted as a club that stands for Vegan Saddles.

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    Vegaddles
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  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,217
    Are you Snoop Dogg?

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