Holte End to be renamed?

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

I don't see Liverpool renaming the Kop which is more famous than the Holte End.

And it wouldn't make a significant difference anyway.

Our revenue would still be at the level of Everton and not Liverpool.

100% against.

[ChicagoLion]

So you could focus on the business of playing attractive and successful football to encourage more people to turn up and spend money or just sell the soul of the club for some fast bucks.

We are looking more and more like a sick dog that should be taken behind the barn and shot.

[mike]

On a sponsorship basis, whilst distasteful, it would make some kind of financial sense. As a one off, it would just be selling our soul for a quick few quid that we'd soon forget we ever had.

[dave.woodhall]

So you could focus on the business of playing attractive and successful football to encourage more people to turn up and spend money or just sell the soul of the club for some fast bucks.

We are looking more and more like a sick dog that should be taken behind the barn and shot.

Because we're possibly looking at ways of increasing income, the same as all clubs do. No over-reaction there at all.

[Drummond]

So it changes name every x years, the point is the same, over time people will stop calling it what it used to be. It doesn't matter if the name on it is commercial or not. A generation never knew it as the Witton Lane Stand so they don't call it that. If this sponsorship stuff happens then a generation will grow up never knowing it as The Holte End. Which is why i'm against it, but i'm not going to pretend that over time the new name won't be used more and more.

And how much value does this naming right have for whoever decides that their name rather than the Holte End will be the first new name? Not enough to make a difference in the grand scheme, is my bet.

Which begs the question (again), what's the point of doing it in the first place? Especially against the backdrop of the considerable amount of TV money coming in to the club.

It's free money, why would anyone turn it down?

[Proposition Joe]

Firstly, whenever a headline reads as a question, the answer is "no". The article mixes fact with speculation.

Secondly, despite that, I can see us kicking off the second halves of matches in the future attacking the Patel's Newsagents stand....

[Dave Cooper please]

How about investing in the team and finishing a bit higher up the table. Isn't it circa £2.5m a place ?

Isn't this a way of raising money so they can invest in the team?

[Witton Warrior]

How about investing in the team and finishing a bit higher up the table. Isn't it circa £2.5m a place ?

Isn't this a way of raising money so they can invest in the team?

Randy wants his money back - maybe lowers our sale price?

[richtheholtender]

Not for me. The £ will only be used to buy a couple of crap middling players who help us finish 12/13th, so what's the point?

This.

[not3bad]

Not for me. The £ will only be used to buy a couple of crap middling players who help us finish 12/13th, so what's the point?

This.

Better to finish 12/13th than 19th/20th.

[cdward]

I see that LA Galaxy play their home matches at the Stub Hub Center.

Maybe we could have the Holte End sponsored and renamed the Taco Bell End.

[Chris Harte]

So it changes name every x years, the point is the same, over time people will stop calling it what it used to be. It doesn't matter if the name on it is commercial or not. A generation never knew it as the Witton Lane Stand so they don't call it that. If this sponsorship stuff happens then a generation will grow up never knowing it as The Holte End. Which is why i'm against it, but i'm not going to pretend that over time the new name won't be used more and more.

And how much value does this naming right have for whoever decides that their name rather than the Holte End will be the first new name? Not enough to make a difference in the grand scheme, is my bet.

Which begs the question (again), what's the point of doing it in the first place? Especially against the backdrop of the considerable amount of TV money coming in to the club.

It's free money, why would anyone turn it down?

Don't kid yourself that it is free money. I wouldn't see it as free money, selling the name of the Holte.

Really, if the club were going to do something like this then they might as well go the whole hog and just sell naming rights to Villa Park. But then, as a less and less high profile club in the Premier League I doubt we'd get enough money to make a significant difference.

Has the club spent all of the TV money, BTW? Because I don't see it being spent on players.

[aj2k77]

Not for me. The £ will only be used to buy a couple of crap middling players who help us finish 12/13th, so what's the point?

This.

Better to finish 12/13th than 19th/20th.

Or we could employ a better manager who can work with what we have and finisher higher anyway without losing another piece of our club.

[aj2k77]

So it changes name every x years, the point is the same, over time people will stop calling it what it used to be. It doesn't matter if the name on it is commercial or not. A generation never knew it as the Witton Lane Stand so they don't call it that. If this sponsorship stuff happens then a generation will grow up never knowing it as The Holte End. Which is why i'm against it, but i'm not going to pretend that over time the new name won't be used more and more.

And how much value does this naming right have for whoever decides that their name rather than the Holte End will be the first new name? Not enough to make a difference in the grand scheme, is my bet.

Which begs the question (again), what's the point of doing it in the first place? Especially against the backdrop of the considerable amount of TV money coming in to the club.

It's free money, why would anyone turn it down?

Don't kid yourself that it is free money. I wouldn't see it as free money, selling the name of the Holte.

Really, if the club were going to do something like this then they might as well go the whole hog and just sell naming rights to Villa Park. But then, as a less and less high profile club in the Premier League I doubt we'd get enough money to make a significant difference.

Has the club spent all of the TV money, BTW? Because I don't see it being spent on players.

From everything I've read the club will make a small profit last season so this season we'd also make a profit.

[N'ZMAV]

It depends on what brand or name takes the Holte End...