Another club is "re-branded"

[Logicalman]

I see myself agreeing with Rhys on this one.

Though I don't agree with this re branding stuff, I tend to accept this is the way all sports are moving ahead in this world, and Football IS the worlds favorite sport, and so dinosaurs like myself, and some others on this MB, might not like it, or agree with it, but we need to learn to accept it, it's just not British, that's all.

[PaulJ123]

I'm a huge cricket and they only use those names for T20 to attempt to get a new image for that side of the sport to try and get a wider audience involved.

Football doesn't need to do this and it is really down to what the owner wants as it is his/her business after all.

[Admin]

The day Fulham F.C are re branded to something like the Fulham Cottagers or Fulham Jaguars is the day I turn my back on football all together.

[Count Flapula]

If we rebrand officially as the Fulham Cottagers there is no point half-arsing it - we may as well go the whole hog , have Billy the Badger put down and appoint George Michael as our new mascot.

[LBNo11]

...The Fulham Thames Siders, The Craven Idols, The Thames-Bankers, The London Riversiders, The Fulham Cottage Piemen, The Craven A-Team, or Jol's choice - The Berba-Toffs...

[cmg]

When you see, for instance, cricket teams called "Northants Steelbacks", then you can't help feeling that substance is being forfeit for the sake of "image".  

"T20" is an OK sort of entertainment, particularly if you are not too keen on cricket. I am sure Northamptonshire's success in this year's competition owes a great deal more to their skills in this particular discipline than it does to the inspiration provided by their nickname.

'Steelbacks' is a particularly pathetic and inept example of a ludicrous trend towards apeing US practice. "Yankees" has historical resonance and "Steelers" has a sound connection with a hard, physical sport and the major steel-production area that hosts the team. "Steelbacks", which is a totaly made up word, is just plain stupid for a cricket team representing the county of Northamptonshire. Sure steel tubes are still produced at Corby, but even then it would still rank well behind Sheffield, Teeside, South Wales, Motherwell and even Scunthorpe in the national consciousness as a steel-producing area. Northamptonshire CCC have never played at Corby and it has no particular connection with cricket. The industry most readily connected with Northampton is shoemaking - so Northants Cobblers would be much more apt.

I've copyrighted "River Cottage Roadkillers".

[gezkc]

If we rebrand officially as the Fulham Cottagers there is no point half-arsing it - we may as well go the whole hog , have Billy the Badger put down and appoint George Michael as our new mascot.

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[Riverside]

How many Cardiff fans are still upset about their rebranding ?
Bluebird championship team or Red Premier League Team ?

[Burt]

Weren't Hull Cityy already nicknamed The Tigers anyway? All they're doing is adding the nickname onto the end of the official name. No different to us being called the Fulham Cottagers or The Arsenal Gunners. If they'd have gone completely out of the blue and called themselves the Hull City VIPERS or BEARS, then there might have been an issue.

This... not so much

They are Hull City AFC, but in their crest have "The Tigers" as their nickname.

There's a pic in the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23629379

[Putney]

How many Cardiff fans are still upset about their rebranding ?
Bluebird championship team or Red Premier League Team ?

A lot, but not enough.

[Vinnieffc]

I'm a huge cricket and they only use those names for T20 to attempt to get a new image for that side of the sport to try and get a wider audience involved.

Football doesn't need to do this and it is really down to what the owner wants as it is his/her business after all.

So it's you responsible for eating my new plants ?

[MikeCdawg]

I'm a huge cricket and they only use those names for T20 to attempt to get a new image for that side of the sport to try and get a wider audience involved.

Football doesn't need to do this and it is really down to what the owner wants as it is his/her business after all.

thought i could hear a lot of chirping on this board....

[alfie]

It deeply saddens me but when will have Fulham Jags to sell our team in the states? I have no idea why Hull think this new branding will help them in any way. Football needs to be very careful. Genesis wrote a song about 'Selling England by the pound'. Let's be careful.

Agree. Our individuality is under threat when we start on shallow imitations of what happens overseas.

When you see, for instance, cricket teams called "Northants Steelbacks", then you can't help feeling that substance is being forfeit for the sake of "image".  

Lack of substance has just got Northants through to T20 finals day

And that says it all. I used to follow cricket both live and on tv and radio. I have no idea what T20 finals day is and I no longer care what Terminator film it comes from. It simply isn't cricket and the Test Matches are the only interest I have.

Without being rude Mr L you continously go on about the boring football served up at Fulham and yet you like a 5 day test match, and nothing can be more boring than that. T20 is fast, entertaining, exciting with nail biting finishes, without the short form cricket would die.

[Lighthouse]

It deeply saddens me but when will have Fulham Jags to sell our team in the states? I have no idea why Hull think this new branding will help them in any way. Football needs to be very careful. Genesis wrote a song about 'Selling England by the pound'. Let's be careful.

Agree. Our individuality is under threat when we start on shallow imitations of what happens overseas.

When you see, for instance, cricket teams called "Northants Steelbacks", then you can't help feeling that substance is being forfeit for the sake of "image".  

Lack of substance has just got Northants through to T20 finals day

And that says it all. I used to follow cricket both live and on tv and radio. I have no idea what T20 finals day is and I no longer care what Terminator film it comes from. It simply isn't cricket and the Test Matches are the only interest I have.

Without being rude Mr L you continously go on about the boring football served up at Fulham and yet you like a 5 day test match, and nothing can be more boring than that. T20 is fast, entertaining, exciting with nail biting finishes, without the short form cricket would die.

:005: Horses for Courses I guess. Sometimes the point of the game of cricket is to keep in and not just hit the ball as hard as you can like a kid. Football the point of the game is to score goals. It is boring not to try and shoot. But I do understand that cricket is trying to make tha game exciting. It just fails for me. Now if Jol could manage a cricket team he could do a good job over a five day test match.

[Buffalo76]

Should be rebranded Hell City Tigers  :yay:

[jarv]

Can't imagine it will do anything for Hull. Question, what is Hull like? The only people I have ever known who have been to Hull, are those from Hull.
Must go one day. Maybe if they stay up, will coincide with a Fulham game.