Eden Park

Godder

@Tim Lancaster Park at Jade Stadium doesn't work for you?

Was the other way round at Lancaster Park i.e. Jade Stadium at Lancaster Park. Commentators tried just calling it Lancaster Park at first, but got pulled into line by someone over it (for the obvious commercial reasons of not giving sponsors their money's worth) and it just became Jade Stadium over time.

booboo

I'd accept ASB Eden Park.

Not ASB Stadium.

Hooroo

@Tim said in Eden Park:

I will ban anyone who refers to Eden Park as anything other than Eden Park.

Who calls the Wellington Stadium anything but the Cake Tin? It will always and only be Eden Park

taniwharugby

@Hooroo I thought someone on here told us a while back people in Wellington dont call it the caketin?

Which basically meant most people do call it the Caketin

booboo

@taniwharugby @Hooroo yeah Wellingtonians get precious about 'The Stadium'.

Hooroo

@taniwharugby said in Eden Park:

@Hooroo I thought someone on here told us a while back people in Wellington dont call it the caketin?

Morons will always have a voice...

Machpants

@booboo said in Eden Park:

@taniwharugby @Hooroo yeah Wellingtonians get precious about 'The Stadium'.

None of the guys I know from there call it anything but the cake tin

Kiwiwomble

always regret Forsyth Barr never picked up a proper nickname, sometimes the Glasshouse..or even just steal Carisbrook seeing as the old one doesn't exist anymore

MN5

@Machpants said in Eden Park:

@booboo said in Eden Park:

@taniwharugby @Hooroo yeah Wellingtonians get precious about 'The Stadium'.

None of the guys I know from there call it anything but the cake tin

Everyone I know calls it the stadium.

We’re not very creative down these here parts

Yeetyaah

@Kiwiwomble I've heard people up north refer to the stadium as a whole as the zoo, always annoys me.

Kiap

@Kiwiwomble said in Eden Park:

always regret Forsyth Barr never picked up a proper nickname, sometimes the Glasshouse..or even just steal Carisbrook seeing as the old one doesn't exist anymore

I thought it was now the House of Pane . . .

(adapted from the older House of Pain)

Kiwiwomble

hadn't heard that one...might be too clever for some

Nepia

I don’t understand why sponsors don’t want to attach their name to the current name - ASB Eden Park is much better than ASB Stadium and ASB get the same recognition - plus the kudos of the Fern.

Just like NPC, shouldn’t be ITM Cup, should be ITM NPC.

Bovidae

@Nepia Now Mitre 10 will be pissed off at you!

Nepia

@Bovidae said in Eden Park:

@Nepia Now Mitre 10 will be pissed off at you!

See, if they’d retained the name NPC I’d be more inclined to remember which building supplies company was the current sponsor!

I look forward to the Bunnings NPC in the future.

Kiwiwomble

@Nepia agreed, it makes it seem like a different competition rather than just a sponsor change

Snowy

Cardiff is still the Arms Park to me. Twickenham could be KFC stadium but it would still be Twickenham. Lancaster Park would be the same had it not been ruined.

I do hope that ASB would keep Eden Park though. ASB Eden Park works just fine for me. Otherwise you end up with ASB stadium at Eden Park like Pricipality stadium at Cardiff Arms Park.

WillieTheWaiter

Seems strange that a trust that has been putting their hand out for years cause they're ALWAYS in the shit financially have never sold the naming rights.. such a simple income stream.. what's their excuse?!

Kirwan

@WillieTheWaiter said in Eden Park:

Seems strange that a trust that has been putting their hand out for years cause they're ALWAYS in the shit financially have never sold the naming rights.. such a simple income stream.. what's their excuse?!

Same reason we don’t put ADIDAS strips on an All Black jersey

Hooroo

@Kirwan said in Eden Park:

@WillieTheWaiter said in Eden Park:

Seems strange that a trust that has been putting their hand out for years cause they're ALWAYS in the shit financially have never sold the naming rights.. such a simple income stream.. what's their excuse?!

Same reason we don’t put ADIDAS strips on an All Black jersey

But is it though? I get the ADIDAS thing on the AB brand but is that the case of a park? Because of the "brand"?

The Silver Fern

Eden Park