Comments on: Millennium Stadium to be renamed “The Principality Stadium”

By: Banastre

Banastre — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:37:25 +0000

Had to laugh when I saw the headline wales main stadium renamed the Principality? Geddit?

By: Nervousbutquietlyoptomisticwelshman

Nervousbutquietlyoptomisticwelshman — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:38:44 +0000

Enoch is in to cheer everybody up, Yey.

By: dingdongdenny

dingdongdenny — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:26:00 +0000

Can’t put plastic chairs down there – they’ll melt just like the roof.

DDD

By: brighty

brighty — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:24:00 +0000

The AVIVA is that one where on matchdays they have to pop down to the garden centre to borrow some plastic chairs to put down the unfinished end.

By: dingdongdenny

dingdongdenny — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:16:36 +0000

Where the hell is the aVIVA? I’ve never been – I still go to Lansdowne Road.
Seemingly Anne Summers is in negotiations to rename it when it cums up for renewal. Whores IRFU…………
It’s funny when people force names on places they never seem right – Derry – Free Derry – Londonderry- best not go there. Beautiful day here in the Republic hope it’s good in the Principality.

As you know – your friend and lover of all things welsh

DDD

By: brighty

brighty — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:56:55 +0000

Ha, it’s a good point Staggy and I have been having a few discussions on Twitter about the unfortunate name. No doubt it’ll get misread as “The Stadium Of The Principality” by some. Most don’t mean any harm, they just genuinely think we are a principality and most will never have heard of this building society (does it even operate outside Wales?).

It’s ~£1.5m a year we didn’t have before so it’s better than nothing but from what I’ve heard it doesn’t seem to be a very competitive deal. Murrayfield is more like £4m a year. However – I agree with you, the whole thing seems odd and I can’t believe anyone pays any money to do this to established stadiums. I agree it can work if they’re new (the Aviva is always the Aviva to me) but I forget myself that the Arms Park is now the BT Sport Arms Park and I’m there most weeks.

By: Prophet Enoch

Prophet Enoch — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:49:28 +0000

Whatever it is called it still contains ‘Gareth’s Gap’ as 1 part of the ground has 2 tiers and not 3 after Cardiff RFC refused to allow part of their stand to be rebuilt and incorporated into the new stadium.

By: Staggy

Staggy — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:47:19 +0000

I’m sorry Brighty but I did laugh when I saw this headline, based on the lecture that you gave me a few years ago about not calling Wales a Principality! I might not be able to keep a straight face when I go there in October.

On a slightly more serious note, it really annoys me when they change the names of stadiums, although I accept that they get a shed load of cash for doing it. The only time it really works is when it’s a new stadium, as otherwise everyone except the media just call it by its old name anyway. I also think there was more style in the older names – Cardiff Arms Park, Parc des Princes, etc. Probably will always be the Millennium Stadium to me, but having said that, the new name could be worse, looking at a couple of the examples above.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:32:40 +0000

Ok ignorance is a bit strong, the point im trying to make is that the people who care about the place still have a strong emotive attachment to the name Bombay and reject the name Mumbai

By: Blub

Blub — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:09:38 +0000

Leon, why does calling Mumbai, Mumbai suggest ignorance?

By: TonyTaff

TonyTaff — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:43:43 +0000

Even when the National Stadium was the ground next door, anything behind the Gwyn Nichols gates was Cardiff Arms Park, mun!

By: Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:32:40 +0000

Lol I’ll have to call it millennium stadium cos I’m now sure how to pronounce the other and keep a straight face