naming falmer

[Kukev31]

Sadly I can only see it being named after whoever pays the most money for it.

If it does have to be sponsored, I can't remember which club it was but they allowed local businesses to pay a small fee to be put in a raffle, and then the winner had a stand named after them for a year.

 

[Trigger]

Stadium Of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

 

[dougdeep]

They could charge up to a million for the naming rights.

 

[Buzzer]

Or, combining a couple of ideas on here:

The PHOENIX KNIGHT stadium.

Tooting Gull - take a bow, son.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Or, combining a couple of ideas on here:

The PHOENIX KNIGHT stadium.

We could get Peter Kaye to open it and everything...!

 

[tedebear]

I'd go for the "no bats were harmed in the building of this stadium" Stadium...

failing that (due to the inability of ticketmaster to fit it on the tickets) lets just call it "Waterhall"...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

They could charge up to a million for the naming rights.

Just a million?

The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, future home of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, has been given that name in a deal funded by Barclays Bank that guarantees income of $20 million a year for at least 20 years, totalling $400 million.

That's our very own UK-based Barclays Bank.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

That would be why they offer me something like 0.01% interest

I shall be leaving them shortly!

 

[supaseagull]

The Microsoft Stadium!

 

[blue'n'white]

I can't think of any other club so associated with its county than Brighton. It has fans from all corners of Sussex, the club song is the county song, the stadium is for all of us stubborn Sussexians (-ers) who bloody well refused to let it die. Brighton IS the Sussex club.

I think the Sussex stadium would be fantastic.

Agree entirely

 

[Statto]

The amex arena

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

L&G are more likely than amex


it may not even be a local company

 

[Frutos]

The Microsoft Stadium!

Would only lead to problems with the windows.

 

[tedebear]

Wouldn't it have already been named to be honest? Surely a lot of the backing would have been discussed under toadstools in the dead of winter...no point in going through all the years of pain if we didn't have any finances in place?

 

[cannedheat]

Can you see it from the Downs Stadium.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I suspect the name will be sold to some corporate nonentity (like Bolton's Reebok or Arse's Emirates) for financial reasons, but I would still like to see some continuity with our "glorious" past. However if we call it the New Goldstone or anything like that, won't we have to shift the actual stone from Hove Park? That could be a bit of a problem.

It needs something with proper local connections, and not some feeble imitation name like Sunderlands "Stadium of Light" which is simply a sad plagarism of Benfica.

The Southdown Ground?
The Stone of Gold?
KnightintoDay?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

For those who are unaware of the history of the glorious name

The Goldstone

Near Hove stands a very large block of stone called The Goldstone (TQ287060), which gives its name to an area known as Goldstone Bottom as well as the now destroyed Goldstone football stadium. The stone is roughly 13½ feet long, 9 feet high, 5½ feet wide and estimated to weigh about 20 tons. Surrounding this large stone are a group of much smaller stones arranged in a circle around it. These stones and the Goldstone itself are formed of a sandstone/flint conglomerate, but neither the Goldstone or the circle are in their original positions (Toms 1932 p.725).

The Goldstone itself once stood to the South-West (TQ285059), just South-East of the present A270/A203 crossroads. The view in Fig. 1 is of the stone on open downland dated roughly between 1820-1830 (Martin 1931 p.152). In 1833, Farmer Rigden, who held the land as part of Goldstone Farm, decided to remove the stone as visitors were damaging crops when visiting it, so he dug a large hole and buried it (Middleton 1979 p.29. In 1900 however, the stone was found, brought to the surface and re-erected in the same manner that it stood before but 300 yards away, in what is now the corner of Hove Park.

The stones currently arranged around The Goldstone came from a spot further north in Hove Park (roughly TQ288066). Fig. 2 shows a view of these stones around 1828, when they were arranged around a pond (Toms 1927 p.532). The group of stones on the left next to the shepherd seem to have been arranged standing instead of laying about in a haphazard manner. This group of stones was removed for farming purposes around 1847. Some of the stones were buried in the pond which was filled in at the same time (Toms 1932 p.726). The stones in the pond were exhumed in 1906 and arranged around the Goldstone in its present position. This was done by a Mr. W Hollamby with the help of named Terry who had helped bury the stone in the first place (Martin 1920 p.105). One author suggests that the stones around the Goldstone are formed of stones from no less than two stone circles (Evans 1935 p.60)

Such an impressive local feature as the Goldstone in bound to attract folklore. On an 1858 map of Brighton, the stone is named as "Godstone". This name may have come about because one side of the stone has the form of a human face. Figs. 3 & 4 show a view of the face on the stone along with a sketch of the same view. The feature is purely natural, there is no sign of carving (Toms 1932 p.728). As to where the stone came from, folklore also has the answer. The stone was thrown to its present position by the Devil when he was excavating Devil's Dyke to let in the sea through the Downs and drown the population of the weald (Wales 1992 p.63). Finally, the stone is popularly known as the site of a Druidic Gorsedd, but this is probably just modern fancy. A sign next to the Goldstone tells us that it is a "Tolmen or holy stone of the Druids"! Though it is debatable whether ancient druids use the site, more modern druids certainly have. On the 3rd June 1929, an oak tree was planted near the stone to commemorate the King's recovery, also to commemorate the 1000th night of the Ames Lodge and the 100th chapter of the Brighton & Hove Royal Arch (Ancient Order of Druids). The ceremony and a banquet afterwards was attended by many important figures in Druidism of the time (Holden 12/12) and a plaque was placed nearby to commemorate the occasion (Ashton 1980 p.17).
http://www2.prestel.co.uk/aspen/sussex/stones.html#sites2

 

[Brightonfan1983]

The fight for years has been for "Falmer" - it's the name everyone in the country is aware of. Having said that, I wouldn't mind if some big corporation wanted to name one of the stands. But it's Falmer for me.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

The Stadium of Hen.

 

[bhaexpress]

I can't think of any other club so associated with its county than Brighton. It has fans from all corners of Sussex, the club song is the county song, the stadium is for all of us stubborn Sussexians (-ers) who bloody well refused to let it die. Brighton IS the Sussex club.

I think the Sussex stadium would be fantastic.

That would be my choice too.