One of my earliest memories of NP was the Captain Morgan Rum on the Bob Bank roof.
I seem to remember it even got painted over once but reappeared?
For the oldies. When did it first appear? Did we get decent money for it. Must have been there years.
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One of my earliest memories of NP was the Captain Morgan Rum on the Bob Bank roof.
I seem to remember it even got painted over once but reappeared?
For the oldies. When did it first appear? Did we get decent money for it. Must have been there years.
Knowing our club, the chairman probably got given a bottle.
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Originally Posted by bobh
Pretty sure it was there in the late 60sQuote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
41 years according to this: https://www.urban75.org/blog/the-41-...-park-cardiff/Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
1960 then. And so Captain Morgan Rum became forever associated with the ground, with the advert remaining on the roof from 1960 to 2001 – a total of 41 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by JumpersforGoalposts
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Originally Posted by JumpersforGoalposts
Captain Morgan was from Llanrumney
Ball Road boy.Quote:
Originally Posted by insider
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Originally Posted by splott parker
Didn't they finally change the logo to Brace's bread, or am I imagining that?
Is that Ron Springett?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
I think the story behind this picture has been previously discussed on this MB in some detail.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Apparently, it was Gordon Banks for England.
In the article linked above it says that the Captain Morgan advert was finally painted over in 2001, firstly by Hyper Value and then Braces Bread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
It was ironic that although the original sign was painted over, the wording could still be seen through this, so Captain Morgan Rum enjoyed many more years of free advertising!
Advertising intrigues me, it obviously works because it’s a massive industry but I wonder how many bottles or shots of Captain Morgan’s rum were sold on the strength of that advert? “I’m going to buy a bottle of that because it’s on the Bob Bank roof”, was this a phrase heard regularly in the off licences of South Wales?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
My old man was a steward at Ninian Park and he used to drink it, so it must have worked!Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
In later years always found in Hyper Value with a loaf of Braces in the basket:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
I think it's more subliminal than that. While perusing bottles of rum you might choose Captain Morgan's because you recognise the name without realising it or consciously thinking "I saw it on the Bob Bank roof"Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
As I said, it obviously works. Wonder if sales have gone down since what was in fact a bloodless rebrand of the famous roof. Not one march, no pro Morgan chants etc. City fans quite weak over that debacle!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardM
He was a Llanrumney Hall boy.
Knowing his connection with Cardiff if I do buy a Rum it would have to be a Captain Morgan.
It's a product that was launched in 1944 by a Canadian company and now owned by Diageo, one of the largest drinks conglomerates in the world. It doesn't really have any connection with the eponymous swashbuckler from the 17th century. You have been seduced by a brand name.Quote:
Originally Posted by insider
No, I don't you are - there was a Brace's Bread advert on one of the rooves at Ninian Park and I'm pretty sure it was the Bob Bank. The old Captain Morgan Rum advert was one of the things I was fascinated by when I first started going to games - it was there for donkeys years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
“The right run for today’s taste”.
I must have spent ages subliminally absorbing that. And I never drink it or have seen anyone drink it.
Still, it must have been a good investment for them as it was there for years.
(the Lamb’s Navy rum ads also left an impression on me but for entirely different reasons…. :-/ )
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Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
I don't drink rum but if I had to buy a bottle I would get a Captain Morgan's because it was on our roof.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Who got up there to put the ads there? Was it loads of scaffolding or did they jump up on the back wall and shimmy up the steel stanchions? Was Tuerto involved when he was on the books down there? Sort of finding out if the lads were any good in the air.
Did our younger fans swerve Poundland and Warburton’s for the same reason?Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Morris
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Originally Posted by splott parker
Sky hooks
Actually Brace's is my bread of choice. The blue loaf. Medium sliced. Subliminally it worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
I said younger fans Michael!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Morris
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Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Every supermarket of any size throughout the United States has Captain Morgan rum in the alcohol section. And, on recent trips to coastal and lakeside towns I have seen very colourful, piratey statues of the grand old Llanrumney boy.
That roof was full of Asbestos, although the club would have had a go at getting us young un's to climb up and give it a lick of paint. We actually did painting jobs when i was there. Couple of afternoons per week during pre season we would have to help Wayne Nash (Who was newly appointed groundsman back then, think he came in from Ebbw Vale rugby club) The White wash walls around the pitch and the tunnel and glossing the cross bar on the crush barriers on the Bob Bank. My dedicated job was Away changing room, the only perk was a few floating sandwiches and the odd can of Harp Lager left astray by the players of the opposition. I had to mop, sort the toilets and rinse out the bath. Horrible job, Although Ray Wilkins dropped me a tenner after a pre season friendly against Qpr.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Just got a glimpse of the iconic roof on the build up to Scotland v Switzerland.