Engraved Granite Slabs for the Amex..launched today

[clippedgull]

BHA BE PART OF IT

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

Says product not available when I try and order one.

 

[clippedgull]

Says product not available when I try and order one.

Yeah, same here

Big piece in the Argus this morning saying today is launch day.

I might try again later this morning.

 

[smiler]

What are the dimensions?

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

Yeah, same here

Big piece in the Argus this morning saying today is launch day.

I might try again later this morning.

maybe it's after 9.00, or summint. We're too keen!

 

[strings]

This looks like a fantastic scheme. I'll have to persuade somebody to get me one for Christmas! (it seems wrong to buy one for myself!)

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

I'm having one, and buying one for my Pilarse supporting Son, just to wind him up!

 

[Everest]

This looks like a fantastic scheme. I'll have to persuade somebody to get me one for Christmas! (it seems wrong to buy one for myself!)

My wife has already said she'd buy me one. I didn't even ask.

Result.

 

[magoo]

you can't say much with 16 characters over 2 lines.

 

[brunswick]

stupid idea making money out of "fanatic" deluded "belonging and association" to the club.

so having your name in concrete near the ground does what exactly to the scores of games / enjoyment of games / other?

bha are turning into a business - using a bank as a ground sponser, selling slabs of concrete - alas, it is a sign of the times - and im going off football - season long loans, £30m games, foreign investors la la la.... its nonsense.

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

stupid idea making money out of "fanatic" deluded "belonging and association" to the club.

so having your name in concrete near the ground does what exactly to the scores of games / enjoyment of games / other?

bha are turning into a business - using a bank as a ground sponser, selling slabs of concrete - alas, it is a sign of the times - and im going off football - season long loans, £30m games, foreign investors la la la.... its nonsense.

Shall I put you down as a maybe?

 

[The Merry Prankster]

If they didn't there would be no BHA but you could always support the Ned Ludd XI.

 

[Giraffe]

Good to see they listened about the price £116 is a huge amount.

 

[Brovion]

stupid idea making money out of "fanatic" deluded "belonging and association" to the club.

so having your name in concrete near the ground does what exactly to the scores of games / enjoyment of games / other?

bha are turning into a business - using a bank as a ground sponser, selling slabs of concrete - alas, it is a sign of the times - and im going off football - season long loans, £30m games, foreign investors la la la.... its nonsense.

I have an element of sympathy with your view - but football has been a 'business' ever since the 19th century when clubs first started needing to generate income in order to pay players. Everything that's happened since then is just building on that beginning.

 

[Helen Chamberlains Quim]

you can't say much with 16 characters over 2 lines.

16 per line, 2 lines

HCQ

 

[trueblue]

stupid idea making money out of "fanatic" deluded "belonging and association" to the club.

so having your name in concrete near the ground does what exactly to the scores of games / enjoyment of games / other?

bha are turning into a business - using a bank as a ground sponser, selling slabs of concrete - alas, it is a sign of the times - and im going off football - season long loans, £30m games, foreign investors la la la.... its nonsense.

I know you're being deliberately provocative - or at least I assume you are - but on a serious point, for anyone who's lost someone who will never get to see the team play at Falmer but used to go to the Goldstone regularly, it's a good way to remember them at the Amex. A link to the past, which is what so much of following a club for a lifetime is really about.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

my Pilarse supporting Son

*ghasp*

 

[SurreySeagulls]

I shall be purchasing one in momory of my father who will never see Falmer apart from above

 

[Was not Was]

It's all very well, but ...

... Arsenal have just launched the Fanshare scheme. This won't give fans collectively any substantial influence, though holders will be able to attend the AGM, I think.

http://www.arsenalfanshare.com/

This seems a much more genuine way of 'involving' fans who are prepared to put in a 'large-christmas-present' size chunk of cash.

 

[Tooting Gull]

My honest view is that in general it is a slightly tacky money-making avenue which panders to many aspects of superfan-dom, but it's not the first in football, and won't be the last.

The best/only reason for using this I can see is the memorial angle. Personally (and it is a personal thing, clearly) it's not the way I would want to remember a loved one, but then again I don't have recently deceased relatives who were devoted to the Albion. It's not hurting me or anyone else, so if that's appropriate for others, I don't really see the problem.