The half-time scoreboard at the Shipton Street End ceased to be in use in 1965, but remained as advertising hoarding.
In 1979 an effigy of a throstle was erected above the half-time scoreboard of the Woodman corner at the Hawthorns, and was returned to the same area of the ground following redevelopment in the early 2000s.
When the two teams departed at half time the scoreboard said 0-0 and the supporters said they were unimpressed.
Dedicated fans spend about as much time scoreboard watching as they do actually watching their own squad play.
As the first half wore on the tide turned on the Swans and they were grateful to make it to half-time with the scoreboard blank.
Lomax kicked his second goal of the afternoon to make it 16-0, but Wakefield needed a moment of magic from Lyne to go into half-time on the scoreboard, the wing covering 80 metres before coasting past Lomax and touching down.
The campaign even extended to the half-time advertisements on the scoreboard, the "adverts" being messages from supporter groups who had paid to display them.
But the full-time scoreboard on Saturday will not show marks for style and, for a pragmatist like Gatland, the scoreline is all that matters.
More misses from Gloucester - this time in the tackle - and it told on the scoreboard at half-time.
Thomas hit the gap from a sublime inside-ball from Billy Twelvetrees and dived over but it was the last time the hosts would trouble the scoreboard before half-time.
Viewers were so engrossed in her trials and tribulations that, after she became entwined in a love triangle with Ken and Mike in 1983, an update was relayed on the scoreboard during half-time at a Manchester United match.
