Watched a recording from SKY of our match last night. No wonder fans without tickets were spitting fire. The angle from the old 'Tesco stand' is appalling, for much of the coverage it looked like we had struggled to get a crowd there. It can't be a major feat of engineering to get that swapped round to give us some credit !?
Please move the camera gantry ! (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Ashdown
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NorthernWisdom
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Then you avoid shots of the Ricoh sponsorship all over that stand...
Cheshire Sky Blue
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Totally agree Ashdown. Every time we are on TV the major feature is the stand with no fans a huge press box and a big wall.
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Huckerby
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100% agree. Think its one of those annoying things that won't happen though
RegTheDonk
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Don't know if this is the same at the Ricoh, but a lot of stadiums used to put in fixed lines from the main camera platforms, making it easier for the broadcasters to plug in their kit to their ob trucks. Perhaps this is also a factor.
NorthernWisdom
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They've got a nice plain wall to focus on there.
No need to cover up the sponsor's name with riffraff.
dongonzalos
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Completely agree people always tell me when they see us on sky that we have no fans.
It needs to be on the opposite end
shmmeee
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What gantry? They were in the middle of blocks of seats! How on earth a stadium that opened less than 10 years ago doesn't have suitable positions for TV cameras I don't know. Never remember that many seats being taken up by cameras before.
Maybe the camera gantries are extra? We seem to have struck the Ryan Air of stadium rental deals.
Maybe the camera gantries are extra? We seem to have struck the Ryan Air of stadium rental deals.
shmmeee
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That's the one, was just across the aisle from me, apparently I got on telly though so not all bad
LilleSkyBlue
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Totally agree with the OP. Tried to show friends how the stadium was packed but all you saw three-quarters of the time was that white wall and empty seats. Not the first time either, it's very frustrating.
shmmeee
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Eh?
They're temporary structures built on top of seats. Surely the cost is the same regardless of where they're put?
TheOldFive
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The whole of that Pharmacy Stand is a nightmare. Some solutions: -
1) Untaken Corporate / Prawn seating to be issued FREE to local children's or old folks homes or other deserving charities. Fill the space.
2) Rip out that ridiculously OTT press area - the hacks coped with some planks on a back row at Sixfields why the hell massively overspec their facilities at the Ricoh? Boils my piss that one most of all.
3) Put the cameras in the Pharmacy stand Directors area and a box (I assume one is held by a non-contributing party like Otium or the Council for their use, they can give it up on TV games).
4) Logo out the back of the Tesco Stand in "Ricoh" if necessary and put flags up - the set up of the flags from that stand at the Olympics was excellent, looked great.
5) Get some innovation in masking the empty seat areas for future games eg in the Telegraph above LL. What about those big shirts that used to be in the centre circle? How about some similarly done classy graphic efforts of great moments in our history, or a mural covering of the Coventry skyline?
6) Speaking more generally about the experience in the ground I'm sure that Mrs Garlick still has lots of ideas harvested from her forums that could be introduced at the Ricoh to enhance the match day experience. Someone ask her. If she's still talking to anyone...
Best of all of course lets sell the bloody place out more often. Don't bother watching footy on TV, save your pennies for going to games eh?
1) Untaken Corporate / Prawn seating to be issued FREE to local children's or old folks homes or other deserving charities. Fill the space.
2) Rip out that ridiculously OTT press area - the hacks coped with some planks on a back row at Sixfields why the hell massively overspec their facilities at the Ricoh? Boils my piss that one most of all.
3) Put the cameras in the Pharmacy stand Directors area and a box (I assume one is held by a non-contributing party like Otium or the Council for their use, they can give it up on TV games).
4) Logo out the back of the Tesco Stand in "Ricoh" if necessary and put flags up - the set up of the flags from that stand at the Olympics was excellent, looked great.
5) Get some innovation in masking the empty seat areas for future games eg in the Telegraph above LL. What about those big shirts that used to be in the centre circle? How about some similarly done classy graphic efforts of great moments in our history, or a mural covering of the Coventry skyline?
6) Speaking more generally about the experience in the ground I'm sure that Mrs Garlick still has lots of ideas harvested from her forums that could be introduced at the Ricoh to enhance the match day experience. Someone ask her. If she's still talking to anyone...
Best of all of course lets sell the bloody place out more often. Don't bother watching footy on TV, save your pennies for going to games eh?
