When Sarries moved in we had one attached to the portacabin that sat on the old Family Terrace. It was a luminous green affair but did the job adequately keeping score and time in a functional sort of way.
It got replaced by the Disabled Enclosure scoreboard which must be one of the most shy and retiring scoreboards in the country. Its not really apparent that its anything at all until you realise the bit in the middle is keeping the time. I quite liked it really as it seemed such a low tech affair. I wondered if someone was actually turning a dial in the enclosure to make it change. Presumably not as if that had been the case it wouldn't have started going wrong so frequently. So we purchased two new bright clocks with a 1980's digital watch type font to compensate for its mistakes. We must have got these very cheaply as they only seemed to work for one or two games before their light was permanently extinguished.
We gave up on the disabled enclosure keeping the score around the same time although the Home and Away signs can still be seen. On Saturday we unveiled a new sponsored scoreboard with scrolling text but there were several immediate problems, the major one being you needed fantastic eyesight to read the score. But even if you could it kept getting it wrong. For a while we were 2 up when officially we'd only scored 1. When Cleverley did make it two the scoreboard seemed to optimistically think we'd scored 20. After a while it seemed to give up completely on keeping the score but managed to do the time okay.
Today, I can exclusively reveal that we have purchased another scoreboard and it should be in place for the Scunny game. Here it is just before being packaged up to be shipped off to the Vic.Jimmy and Vince must have typed keyword 'scoreboard' into eBay without quite realising that in this particular case size really does matter. At least its unlikely to go wrong, and the only problem will be if either side manages to score 10 or more...
