2017 Jerseys, Logos, Sponsor Discussion

[GAZF]

Anyone else seen the brand 47 fan apparel?
Love the roosters stuff:

Looking forward to seeing what else comes out.

 

[Henson Park Hornets]

I like we've kept our traditional red band but geez ten sponsors on it? we've turned into a formula 1 team!

You're not a SL club any more!!!! #WelcomeToSpotland

 

[Henson Park Hornets]

My issue with the Wakey kit is that it they've never had a red home shirt before. I get that it's one of their main colours but their home shirt should be white.

As I'm old, I also like the fact they've dropped the Wildcats name, was a mouthful at the best of times.

 

[GAZF]

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....onfirms-wildcats-name-to-be-dropped-1-7926880

Wakefield Wildcats: Chairman confirms Wildcats name to be dropped

PETER SMITH
06:00
Tuesday 24 May 2016

THE WILDCATS’ days are numbered as Wakefield Trinity get set for a revival.

The Wildcats suffix, introduced when Wakefield Trinity joined Super League in 1999, will be dropped from the end of this season, chairman Michael Carter has confirmed.

The team played as Wakefield Trinity in their Dacia Magic Weekend win over Catalans Dragons two days ago. Carter said: “It isn’t finalised yet, but I think from next year we will just be Wakefield Trinity.”

Explaining the change, Carter said: “We have got a fantastic heritage within this club and I don’t think we have made the most of it. In the 1960s we were a fantastic club, winning Championships and Challenge Cups. We have the world record points scorer associated with Wakefield Trinity and I don’t care who comes along, they will never beat Neil Fox’s record.

“So for me, it is Wakefield Trinity. I have always referred to it as Wakefield Trinity and I think the older generation of our fanbase love the fact it’s Wakefield Trinity. Go anywhere in the world and it’s either ‘where’s that’? Or, ‘oh yes, Wakefield Trinity’.”

The club have not carried out market research, but Carter said: “It’s a bit of a gut feeling. I get fans saying to me ‘we need to drop the Wildcats’. I think that’s generally the reaction we’ve had when we’ve been talking to people. I just think if you are talking about Wakefield as a rugby league club it will be forever known as Wakefield Trinity and we need to get back to that.”

Carter is confident the change will not deter the club’s younger supporters, who have only known the Wildcats name.

He added: “The plan is we will have a Wildcats junior section, so there’s still something for the kids. They love [mascot] Daddy Cool and we definitely won’t be losing him! He is a fantastic character and we will probably still have a Wildcats brand and image for the younger kids, but for the grown ups among us, it will be back to Wakefield Trinity.”

The team will be known as Wakefield Trinity Wildcats for Friday’s trip to Salford Red Devils, but there is a possibility the traditional name could be used for the final third of the season.

Sunday’s win left Wakefield sixth in First Utility Super League and Carter is confident about the future.

He said: “I think in the next couple of weeks we will probably have another couple signed up for next year, which will take us to 25 or 26 players for 2017 already.

“We are probably only looking at two or maybe three more new faces during the off-season, which is a massive change from where we’ve been over the past two years.”

Its bizarre to make this kind of change mid-season, even if its just the name and not the logos/uniforms/etc...

I guess its not entirely unprecedented though. Team USA switched uniforms mid-game in the 1994 Junior Goodwill games.

 

[Timmah]

That article was written in May and I don't think they followed through with the alterations til post-season (apart from Magic Weekend)

 

[Henson Park Hornets]

That article was written in May and I don't think they followed through with the alterations til post-season (apart from Magic Weekend)

From memory I think you're right - their Magic Weekend shirt had the revised Wildcat-less branding.

 

[Foreign Legion]

My issue with the Wakey kit is that it they've never had a red home shirt before. I get that it's one of their main colours but their home shirt should be white.

As I'm old, I also like the fact they've dropped the Wildcats name, was a mouthful at the best of times.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Anyone else seen the brand 47 fan apparel?
Love the roosters stuff:

f**king finally (i said we should do this back in 2013. not bragging or anything but i think i might be psychic)...

The best advertising the NRL can get is regular people walking down the street wearing NRL gear. The problem up until now has been that merch has exclusively been jerseys, beanies and scarves. Problem with that is Sydney and Brisbane weather means scarves and beanies are impossible to wear and Jerseys just make you look like a bogan.

Beach gear is exactly what the NRL need to get into and it is depressing that it has taken this long to figure that out...

 

[_Johnsy]

Looking forward to seeing what else comes out.

Got a couple of their "clean up" caps, got the dragons one last week. They're great caps, some of the 47 brand suff looks the goods. I'd love to get my hands on a Newtown version, won't happen though.

 

[TIGER14]

Tigers Nines

 

[Saint Doc]

Bit boring but fine

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Bit boring but fine

Yep, fix up the angle of the V and this would be a decent Alternate, while the Alternate would make for a much better 9s jumper...

 

[Henson Park Hornets]

I'm 99% sure that's their 2002 away shirt. ORS is a site where anyone can list pics so often the years and/or the styles aren't correct.

Below is their home shirt in action vs Wigan:

 

[GAZF]

Tigers Nines

Most interestingly, the jersey will be paired with orange shorts. A first for an NRL team?

 

[ed-grimley]

Yep, fix up the angle of the V and this would be a decent Alternate, while the Alternate would make for a much better 9s jumper...[/QUOTE]
Makes sense.

 

[ed-grimley]

I'm 99% sure that's their 2002 away shirt. ORS is a site where anyone can list pics so often the years and/or the styles aren't correct.

Below is their home shirt in action vs Wigan:

That's like the traditional England jersey? They should tidy it up and reuse it rather than the jerseys they use now - England that is.

 

[GAZF]

That's like the traditional England jersey? They should tidy it up and reuse it rather than the jerseys they use now - England that is.

*Great Britain

 

[ed-grimley]

*Great Britain

OK

 

[meltiger]

Bit boring but fine

That shot has the design looking quite faded. The member email has it much more darker.

I like it, apart from the shorts

 

[GAZF]

Speaking of which, why do RL clubs in the UK love adopting the national team kits? I was doing a concept for England RL and wanted to distinguish them from RU. Maybe red hoops like in the past? Nope, Wigan uses them. White with a red V? St. Helens.