What is the big deal with these advertising signs?
Posted on September 7th, 2010 | 178 Comments |
There seems to be a movement that is dead set against them, which is fine as everyone has their own opinion and that, but I honestly don’t see what all the fuss is about.
The NUST, True Faith and a number of other sites are gearing up their own various bits and bobs to raise objections to it, including giving everyone the link so thay can make an objection to the planning application themselves. The theory being that the more people that object to the planning proposal, then the greater the chance of the proposals being rejected. In the interests of balance, you can e-mail any objections you may have to planning.control@newcastle.gov.uk.
Now I have done the balanced bit and got it out of the way I can put my opinion across. As I alluded to earlier, I just don’t see the problem with these new signs. To me they are a way of the club making money, extra money, which given the financial straits we find ourselves in at the moment would surely be very welcome.
The club is now striving to be self-sufficient, Mike Ashley has told us that. So why not try and improve the scope of income coming into the club? I know people will say they are ugly, unsightly or whatever, but are they really? I’ll admit that they aren’t the prettiest things around, but how many advertising boards do you actually notice whilst going about your daily business? Do you notice the advertising billboards that are on the corner of Strawberry Place currently? I bet the answer to both of those is no, correct?
As one of our regular ‘bloggers, Stuart79 said, thirty or so years ago people baulked at the idea of having advertising on football shirts. The fuss calmed down and now it is part of the football shirt culture, in fact a team looks strange when they don’t have one. Why has it become a part of football nowadays? Quite simple really – Money.
I just don’t get the problem. I mean surely people can’t complain about the club trying to make more money, especially given the fact that it is being made to run within itself? If it benefits the club in the long-term, and I stress the long-term, by earning the club more money then I can’t see the problem with it in all honesty.
I can understand people being worried about how these new signs will obstruct the view of the ground as people approach it, but I honestly don’t think it will be as bad as some people are making out. Again I refer you back to the signs on Strawberry Place currently, just how much offence do they cause? They weren’t always there remember!
People can make their own minds up, and I’m not here to preach like other sites are trying to do. These are just my thoughts on the sign situation. I just feel that this is an issue that is getting whipped up to be something that it isn’t, ie, a major problem.
The reality is that this is just a storm in a teacup!
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The fanzines and NUST are just stirring up trouble because it’s Ashley who’s come up with the idea – It’s sad as fck!
On one hand they complain that the club don’t spend enough money on new players and on the other hand they complain when the club try to do something about it. JOKE!
They either want a self financing club or they don’t. If they don’t, then we’ll end up with one man owning the club causing trouble with every decision he makes(Ring any bells?) if they do, then it’s ideas like this that will help us compete in the future.
Which do they want it?
Utter fckin morans, the lot of em!