Feeling sad as Panther score board comes down

[griffo346]

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Very sad day in Panther town

 

[soc123_au]

That sucks. It was the best scoreboard in the NRL by a mile.

 

[Big Mick]

It's a bloody relic.

Time to move on from it.

Here's hoping they replace it with something cool though

 

[Blues Riff]

Not happy with that. There's gotta be room for it somewhere.

 

[murraymob]

has the club said anything about it going or being repaired or even what is happening with it

 

[Port Panther]

Scrap metal is what I heard.

 

[Big Mick]

Scrap metal is what I heard.

Hmmm don't like that. Would be cool if they donated it to a local sports ground for A-Grade footy or something.

 

[Blues Riff]

Make it part of the fence. It doesn't have to work.

 

[franklin2323]

Make it part of the fence. It doesn't have to work.

Yep the fence inbetween the training field on the stadium perfect spot for it. Short of that at the academy field... A shame it's a classic

 

[murraymob]

the club would have been better served putting out a news notice just letting people know of the plans .When i say that i dont mean asking if they can just keeping fans up to date
If scrapping it why not cut up section and auction it off .Money to charity

 

[franklin2323]

Yep. Especially as last week many people went to the game would of been nice to know that was it for it. Panthers on the Prowl could of got the money

 

[Blues Riff]

I guess it's all part of making the place "unrecognizable", as Gus put it
Anyone seen any other signs of the makeover?
I'm guessing the stadium will be draped with HUGE banners.

 

[franklin2323]

I guess it's all part of making the place "unrecognizable", as Gus put it
Anyone seen any other signs of the makeover?
I'm guessing the stadium will be draped with HUGE banners.

Well the screen replacing the scoreboard is huge. Sponsored as is the other one.

 

[GongPanther]

And two new big TV's at each end of the ground.

 

[mxlegend99]

According to gameday information, there will be a 48sqm screen, and a 43sqm screen installed throughout the season.

Not sure what that equates to in inches. I hit a few tv size calculator sites and my best guess is a screen roughly 5.2m wide by 2.97m high, and in typical tv sizes around 235 inches. But I wouldn't be too confident in that. Couldn't find a single site to work backwards from square metres.

Was hoping for something more like the one the Cowboys NFL team has:

 

[MaxPower]

8m x 6m = 48sqm

 

[mxlegend99]

A high definition tv should have a 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratio though. That's 4:3 resolution, would be losing a lot of detail on the sides of the screen or have massive black bars at the top and bottom.

 

[MaxPower]

I'm not saying those are the dimensions, just demonstrating how big 48 sqm actually is. As you can see, it is much larger than 5.2m x 2.97m.

EDIT: 16:9 would be something like 9.25 x 5.2

 

[franklin2323]

Safe to say with all the changes we won't get games shifted to Homebush... So that's a positive to come out of this

 

[darkbloom]

Safe to say with all the changes we won't get games shifted to Homebush... So that's a positive to come out of this

Why games go to home bush when on average Penrith Stadium fills to about 50% capacity? At least for the last few years.