Bees promoted! - Football league renamed
Well kind of promoted - it's just been announced that the Football League's three divisions are being renamed next season as The Championship, League One and League Two. Promotion without kicking a ball!
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Lokster
Man on a Mission
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Is it me or is this just another piece of cocaine induced marketing madness?
THE CHAMPIONSHIP [or should that be the COCA-COLA CHAMPIONSHIP]
I can smell the quality from here. How much did the Football League spend on marketing consultancies, design consultancies and the rest of the parasites before alighting on this? :mad1:
Is it me or is this just another piece of cocaine induced marketing madness?
THE CHAMPIONSHIP [or should that be the COCA-COLA CHAMPIONSHIP]
I can smell the quality from here. How much did the Football League spend on marketing consultancies, design consultancies and the rest of the parasites before alighting on this? :mad1:
Wee Dave
Freak
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What a load of utterly unnecessary corporate b***ocks.
What a load of utterly unnecessary corporate b***ocks.
Carri Bee Un
The Most Esteemed and Very Reverend
'Ayes B
Well-known member
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This could be really positive news for Brentford and all football league clubs.
When we won the old third division championship we were promoted to the first division and it created a real buzz.
There are a lot of people, who haven't entertained the notion of watching Brentford just becuase the they assume that the quality of second division football is second rate. Well know in their blinkered minds they might think that League One football is First Rate
When we won the old third division championship we were promoted to the first division and it created a real buzz.
There are a lot of people, who haven't entertained the notion of watching Brentford just becuase the they assume that the quality of second division football is second rate. Well know in their blinkered minds they might think that League One football is First Rate
Alex
VAR review advisor
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[QUOTE='Ayes B]Well know in their blinkered minds they might think that League One football is First Rate [/QUOTE]
As long as they forget about The Premiership and The Championship.... I'm sure they will. I can here it now "Brentford playing in LEAGUE ONE, they must be better than Arsenal!"
As long as they forget about The Premiership and The Championship.... I'm sure they will. I can here it now "Brentford playing in LEAGUE ONE, they must be better than Arsenal!"
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Is it pos a more sinister move to differentiate between the 2nd 'tier' and the rest ? So that they get greater levels of corporate sponsorship and we get less as the rebranding to 'The Championship" will appeal to the marketing types more ?
Loud and Proud
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FarnhamBee
Official Brentford Pictures
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Just who do they think they're fooling with this? 
Even my 8 year-old said "What's the point of that? It's just rubbish!"
Even my 8 year-old said "What's the point of that? It's just rubbish!"
Carri Bee Un
The Most Esteemed and Very Reverend
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Pure ****. People who work in marketing, particularly the ****ers responsible for this should all **** off and die, and if they have any shame at all they should do it painfully.
Championship? It's a ****ing joke. Does anyone know if there's one particular **** who's responsible? Someone I can personally blame for this ridiculous bullshit.
Championship? It's a ****ing joke. Does anyone know if there's one particular **** who's responsible? Someone I can personally blame for this ridiculous bullshit.
FarnhamBee
Official Brentford Pictures
Carri Bee Un
The Most Esteemed and Very Reverend
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FarnhamBee said:
Sorry I should have been clearer. I was sitting on the fence a bit there.
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David Sheepshanks, that nob end of Ipswich, thought it was a good idea.... so its down to him........... i dont care, he should of said its sh*t. Its HIS FAULT.
DAVID SHEEPSHANKS.
DAVID SHEEPSHANKS.
DAVID SHEEPSHANKS
DAVID SHEEPSHANKS.
DAVID SHEEPSHANKS.
DAVID SHEEPSHANKS
BoroBee
That's Mr.Puss to you pal
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Completely agree :yes: The most ridiculous thing I've heard in ages!
Wee Dave said:
Completely agree :yes: The most ridiculous thing I've heard in ages!
Carri Bee Un
The Most Esteemed and Very Reverend
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then David Sheepspanks is a **** of the very highest order.
Idaho Bee
Well-known member
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Actually, I think its a good idea. (ducks for cover).
It's been way overdue for the Nationwide League to stand up for itself, and differentiate itself from the Premiership.
It's got a good product and needs to get the message out that it isn't only about the Premiership.
This is a good start, in my humble opinion.
It's been way overdue for the Nationwide League to stand up for itself, and differentiate itself from the Premiership.
It's got a good product and needs to get the message out that it isn't only about the Premiership.
This is a good start, in my humble opinion.
Carri Bee Un
The Most Esteemed and Very Reverend
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Nope, you're horribly mistaken. You've made an error in your thinking and are entirely incorrect.
JBN
In Training
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Plus a few choice quotes from Carri Bee Un just about sums it up.
If it ain't broken don't fix it. They seem to have taken a success and totally f*cked it.
Lokster said:
Plus a few choice quotes from Carri Bee Un just about sums it up.
If it ain't broken don't fix it. They seem to have taken a success and totally f*cked it.
WarrenBee
Well-known member
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What a complete load of bollox.The Government are trying to encourage young people to lead a healthier life,so who do the football league jump in to bed with?You couldn't make it up.
bearbee
the one in the corner
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We'd be better off just calling them Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4. And the Conference may as well be renamed Division 5 or something, seeing as over half of the teams in it are full-time now.
It just seems like a silly way to try to convince people that Brentford v Wrexham or Crewe v Burnley is a glamorous thing or something. People will go to watch a Football League game if they want to watch their local team, rebranding the league and giving it a flashy logo won't make a lot of difference.
It just seems like a silly way to try to convince people that Brentford v Wrexham or Crewe v Burnley is a glamorous thing or something. People will go to watch a Football League game if they want to watch their local team, rebranding the league and giving it a flashy logo won't make a lot of difference.
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Well its not so long ago that the division we're in now was Div 3, then it was Div 2 and now its League One.
If we carry on like this, we'll be in Europe without being promoted.....
Barmy idea by marketing nobs who dont understand the game.
**** off out of our sport the lot of you.
If we carry on like this, we'll be in Europe without being promoted.....
Barmy idea by marketing nobs who dont understand the game.
**** off out of our sport the lot of you.
Heston Bee
Leptokurtic Distribution
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Why not go the whole way and rename all the leagues:
1. Premiership
2. Championship
3. Sinking Ship
4. Receivership
Anything below this can be known by the user-friendly:
"Total and utter cack football with no commercial viability nor interest to anyone, ever" There's no point differentiating between the different leagues at this level, because they're all the same standard of crap.
This should help make clear to everyone in the country that football outside of the top division is pointless.
1. Premiership
2. Championship
3. Sinking Ship
4. Receivership
Anything below this can be known by the user-friendly:
"Total and utter cack football with no commercial viability nor interest to anyone, ever" There's no point differentiating between the different leagues at this level, because they're all the same standard of crap.
This should help make clear to everyone in the country that football outside of the top division is pointless.
Idaho Bee
Well-known member
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Carri Bee Un said:
I refer you to your avatar Carrie Bee Un. rofl
JBN
In Training
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Football does not need remarketing or a poncy 'fresh approach'.
JBN
In Training
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WarrenBee said:
Don't they also have a deal with Mac Ds?
Perhaps they scrap oranges at half time and chew on a deep fried mars bar.
Boston Bee
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This is absolutely the first thing I think of/worry about. Now that they've differentiated themselves from that silly old "league" below them, will the boys in the "Championship" (gag) now pull up the rope ladder, as the Premiershite did 12 years ago?!? Don't you doubt it. Shameless, selfish b*stards.
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:mad2:
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Chiswick bee
Member
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the last time the league was restructed though, the bees went up as champions!!
damm, need to put that bet on now!! the bookies are even on the run now!
damm, need to put that bet on now!! the bookies are even on the run now!
longdistancebee
Active member
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It could be worse. We could be in the SPL (or not, as Partick found out).
King Bee
Former BU board member, working in pharma land
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Carri Bee Un said:
I think Idaho is right to a certain extent. I suspect Coca Cola insisted upon it. You can imagine the information memoranda winging its way over to Atlanta and landing in the CEO's lap to which he replies "Football Division One? I thought we waz gettin' Beckham - this ain't goiner look pretty with ou'll investors, let's come up with a new name - The Championship."
Phone call to the FA: "We will give you £X millions if you rename the divisions,"
etc. etc.
Lokster
Man on a Mission
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No, I think it's a way for the Division formally known as One to distance itself from the rest of the League. They get to be called The Championship and who's for betting that five years from now when they quietly tip-toe off into the sunset with Rupert Murdoch and a seperate television deal, it becomes the FA Championship? 
Leaving behind almost all the smaller, less fashionable, less television friendly clubs as they keep running desperately to escape the trenches of the football league for the promised land of the Premiership.
My prediction: ten years from now...maybe less:
THE FA BARCLAYCARD PREMIERSHIP
THE FA CARLING CHAMPIONSHIP
League One, or League Division Three as used to be
League Two, or League Division Four as used to be
League Three, the Conference Division One
League Four, the Conference Division Two
I know I am being slightly paranoid about this, but... :mad1:
Leaving behind almost all the smaller, less fashionable, less television friendly clubs as they keep running desperately to escape the trenches of the football league for the promised land of the Premiership.
My prediction: ten years from now...maybe less:
THE FA BARCLAYCARD PREMIERSHIP
THE FA CARLING CHAMPIONSHIP
League One, or League Division Three as used to be
League Two, or League Division Four as used to be
League Three, the Conference Division One
League Four, the Conference Division Two
I know I am being slightly paranoid about this, but... :mad1:
JBN
In Training
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I'm suprised the Premiership haven't commented, after all the nteams in the Premiership play to win the championship title don't they?
Carri Bee Un
The Most Esteemed and Very Reverend
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King Bee said:
Hmm, I think Mr Idaho Bee liked the idea rather than thought it was thrust upon the poor wee dears in the league by the nasty coca cola men.
I've been considering it, weighing up the alternatives, looking at both sides of the picture.
I'm afraid that it's still very very wrong.
1 It's quite simply embarrassing marketing yanqui bullshit. Rotherham V Preston in the championship. Who's being fooled there? "well I wouldn't normally travel all the way to Sunderland for a tuesday night game, but **** me it's for the championship is it? Well then **** it let's hire a coach."
2 As many have mentioned above, there's a feel to it that they're cutting away the second division. 'Raft of the Medusa' springs to mind as I am feeling poncey.
3. just why why why **** with it, it sets a precedent. If we let Yanqui bullshit in without a fight it won't be long before we're talking about our Upfield Kicking Goal Blocker, Defensive Line Shielders and Onrushing Yard Stealing Net Burglars and whether we'll get relegated to the League of Heroes.
Just please please **** off with this b***ocks.
And for good measure a quote from Mr Bill Hicks.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no ****ing joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are ****ed and you are ****ing us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your ****ing soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, ****ing hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil ****ing makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean."
JBN
In Training
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It is a crap idea, an americanisation of the league, next season we might as well go the whole hog and convert the Premiership to the World Series and then the Championship will come into its own.
For the sake of your sanity, Mr Carri Bee Un, please lie down in a dark room until the season starts, this thread is doing your blood presure no good at all.
For the sake of your sanity, Mr Carri Bee Un, please lie down in a dark room until the season starts, this thread is doing your blood presure no good at all.
JBN
In Training
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GABS said:
It seems likely that this is the real agenda here. Also there is a big difference between being in different divisions of the same league, and being in different leagues, as implied by these new names. It's deeply depressing that those
who run the Football League are still so contemptuous of their own history.
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At least we're in the First Divison for once. It's a shame about the lack of consultation of fans. Not bothered either way about it.
I can hardly see the 'Football League Championship' teams getting their own deal, the football isn't good enough and there's enough in the Premiership for Sky to show for the forseeable future especially as the sh*t teams raise their standards.
I can hardly see the 'Football League Championship' teams getting their own deal, the football isn't good enough and there's enough in the Premiership for Sky to show for the forseeable future especially as the sh*t teams raise their standards.
oliem2000
Member
longdistancebee
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Dont forget that Div 1 is populated by herberts who think that just because their poncey little pikey club was lucky enough to get promoted, they (very mistakenly) believe that they are Premiership in all but name. That is why Wolves and Leicester came straight back down. As will Norwich, West Brom and Palace. I know that this is totally f*cking irrelevant but its ten to ten and I've a bottle of cold Chardonnay inside me (its what us marketing types do....!). TTFN.