The club has changed its name

[Dave Naylor]

The Club has changed its name to Oldham RLFC 1876 Ltd

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Edited October 26, 2023 by Dave Naylor
Erroneous brackets removed, hate those guys.

[herbie]

Love it

Well done Bill! 

[Steve the Roughyed]

Excellent.  Spot on.

[Anita Bath]

1876? Mere ‘johnny ###### latelys’…….Hornets already had years of top class rugby behind them before you juniors put your toe in the water.

But enjoy the sesquicentennial (thats latin for a long time) celebrations….should you make it!  We might have to give it a miss…we will be busy planning our Bicentenary.

[Roughyed Rats]

Quite right too. Well done.

[sheddingswasus]

Great decision. The clubs name now reflects its true history 

[OL14.yeds]

Good stuff. There has been a clear effort to move away from the identity of the “new” club and it being only 25 years old. 
 

I wonder if they’re considering changing the crest and losing the shield design, which looks poor on shirts and merchandise in my opinion.

[Dave Naylor]

2 hours ago, OL14.yeds said:

I wonder if they’re considering changing the crest and losing the shield design, which looks poor on shirts and merchandise in my opinion.

As far as I know, I don't think there's an appetite for that at the moment.  At least it's not a priority.

I hate the blummin' rubbish (expletives resisted) shield thing.  It looks like a Sheriff's badge that fell off a nine-year-old's Aldi birthday card. 

Before it was introduced I was asked for my thoughts on what a new badge/logo should look like.  So I spilled out my thoughts in a document and the last line read something like:

"If you take the existing heraldic crest and simply plonk it on a shield with the words Oldham RLFC underneath it, I'll be the first in the line to campaign for it to be changed"

True to my word I've beaten the drum to get rid of it ever since.  

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

I get the change, and it's welcome, however surely to fully recognise the club's history, maybe "Oldham Football Club 1876 ltd" would be more in line with old club? Just a thought!

[OLDHAM1876]

At the forum last night bill quinn gave his reasons why the name change and I for one was very happy with the response it shows the board have total respect for the past and present, that goes for all connected with our great club,