Leigh changing their name? Bored journo doing a rumour?

[Futtocks]

13 hours ago, Davo5 said:

I think the difference is that those NA sporting organisations adopted those names & logos at their inception or shortly afterwards & they are now embedded in their history whereas it’s a relatively new addition over here, Boston Red Sox is a huge brand, Halifax Blue Sox wasn’t quite as successful.

North American sporting organisations, however, can also move to an entirely different city and change nicknames.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/01/27/list-of-major-sports-leagues-franchise-relocations/97125258/ 

[Chrispmartha]

21 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Rhinos is interesting because, objectively, it's a terrible name (and was unpopular when chosen) and a lousy logo but Leeds absolutely embraced everything about it and worked hard to get it accepted to the point where it is inconceivable they could be anything else.

There is no way, none at all, that Degsy will put in the hard yards that Leeds put in to make his leopards name work.

Leeds also kept the traditional playing colours and made sure the history of the club wasn’t lost.

As you say objectively Rhinos is a terrible name but they did an unbelievable job in making it work.

 

What they didn’t do is stick a massive picture of Gary hetheringtons favorite animal on the home shirt.

[Davo5]

Be interesting to see what Leigh’s shirt sales projections are for the upcoming season.

[Mapleyther]

3 minutes ago, Davo5 said:

Be interesting to see what Leigh’s shirt sales projections are for the upcoming season.

I tell you what, last year's kit will be selling for 500 quid a go!

[Davo5]

5 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

North American sporting organisations, however, can also move to an entirely different city and change nicknames.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/01/27/list-of-major-sports-leagues-franchise-relocations/97125258/ 

Very few have changed their ‘nicknames’ in the last 60 years though.

[Harry Stottle]

16 minutes ago, Mapleyther said:

Yeah, his criticism is a bit odd given the proliferation of similar names in Leeds, Cas, Wakefield, just to name a few.  Still Leopards is a terrible name.  Where I currently live is a steel town and they've named their football team Hamilton Forge - it's great because it honours the town's heritage and it tells part of their story.  That's what was needed here, not some generic 'clever' alliteration, but something tribal that local fans can feel a connection to and everyone else respect as part of a genuine identity.  Few other SL clubs have really managed to achieve this, to be fair.

Vossy completly showed his ignorance, he eliminated many brands that have no connection of the towns to their clubs so why pick on Leigh, Wouldn't mind if he could even pronounce what he was trying to say, stupid shackle dragger.

[Harry Stottle]

9 minutes ago, Davo5 said:

Be interesting to see what Leigh’s shirt sales projections are for the upcoming season.

I won't be buying one, I will wear my Cherry and White ones at the games and hopefully see Mr B whilst I have it on.

[RP London]

2 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:

I proudly have a replica shirt that I take on holiday as other clubs Fan's do it us a kind of introduction and gets some good conversation going.

Would I take this new one with me, would I heck, people would think I have just escaped from Ru Paul's Drag Race.

Haha.. fat chance! Even they wouldn't wear it!!

[Davo5]

3 minutes ago, Mapleyther said:

I tell you what, last year's kit will be selling for 500 quid a go!

Maybe Ellis Sports will see an opportunity & release a Leigh retro shirt,often when teams release an awful shirt you can fall back on some decent training gear but in Leigh’s case even that is awful..

[Snowys Backside]

30 minutes ago, Davo5 said:

Be interesting to see what Leigh’s shirt sales projections are for the upcoming season.

Well, I do have 2 hands !!

[Snowys Backside]

Leighs old Nickname was always the 'Comics'.

Even that would have been better with a shirt designed in a bloody clown suit !

We need a Rugby General election to drop all Nicknames and just go back to 'Leigh RLFC'.

[Madrileño]

As rebrands go, this really is up there with Halifax Blue Sox.

 

 

 

 

(Who sometimes played in orange socks)

[Odsal Outlaw]

The more I think about this the more I think it must be an absolute genius bit of marketing for the club and tomorrow they’ll come out and say it’s all a windup. If so, bravo. If not … well!!

[lacuna1]

I need to throw my cat into the ring here, i mean.... hat.

 

This is actually worse than the Mexico 94 world cup goalie top. It's so bad it would make an onion cry. Imagine how the players reacted when they were presented with this. I hate our badge (Wigan) but compared to this, it's small fry. It's beyond belief that somebody could be so stupid. Even Del Boy would refuse to wear it. 

[POR]

The man behind the leopards 

[Tommygilf]

This is proper tin pot dictatorship stuff

[Spidey]

What?

[gingerjon]

1 minute ago, Spidey said:

What?

"I am off my nuts and want to talk about leopards"

[gingerjon]

His bio still says he's CEO of Leigh Centurions by the way.

[Spidey]

1 minute ago, gingerjon said:

His bio still says he's CEO of Leigh Centurions by the way.

So the CEO of nothing?

[gingerjon]

May as well ask this here: a couple of years on, anyone know if Halifax Panthers is sticking as a name?

People using it? Seem like Halifax are always going to be the Panthers now?

I remember being quite cynical about it at the time.

[Mapleyther]

32 minutes ago, Spidey said:

What?

We're getting seriously close to David Icke territory here.

[Colin James]

Has to be a wind up.

"We've changed to leopards 'cos the owner likes leopards" is such ridiculous reasoning it can't possibly be true.

[Chrispmartha]

Its clear from that tweet that he also wrote that guff in the presentation.

[Chrispmartha]

2 minutes ago, Colin James said:

Has to be a wind up.

"We've changed to leopards 'cos the owner likes leopards" is such ridiculous reasoning it can't possibly be true.

I liked the market research they conducted.

Degsy wore a leopard print hoody once and some people liked it.