New Team Names

[RUG13Y]

Having met and corresponded with a guy from the Southhampton Spitfires (playing in Southern England) during the RLWC , I think a team named after Australia's fighting jet - The Wirraway - would be a nice moniker for some team.

What a cool name. Spitfires.

 

[bobmar28]

I hate how they have to copy American themes that have nothing to do with Australia.

The one that annoys me the most is the Titans, I have NFI what it has to do with the CG or Australia when they could've gone with a beach/marine theme. As for the Cowboys, Bushrangers or Marlins would've been so much better and as for the Broncos, surely there are more QLD styled mascots then a horse with an Americanise name.

The Gold Coast team were to be the Dolphins (which would have been perfect) but Redcliffe objected so they became the Titans by popular vote.

 

[bobmar28]

I hate how they have to copy American themes that have nothing to do with Australia.

The one that annoys me the most is the Titans, I have NFI what it has to do with the CG or Australia when they could've gone with a beach/marine theme. As for the Cowboys, Bushrangers or Marlins would've been so much better and as for the Broncos, surely there are more QLD styled mascots then a horse with an Americanise name.

Like Crushers?

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Ive heard this suggested somewhere else...

If we get an Adelaide team "the Southern Light Horsemen", with something like this...

or...

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Ive heard this suggested somewhere else...

If we get an Adelaide team "the Southern Light Horsemen", with something like this...

or...

The Southern Breakers?

 

[The Mad Hatter]

The Southern Breakers?

The Southern Shrikes? [it's the actual bird on the SA flag]…something different…they wear the black and white hoops.

 

[Game_Breaker]

Worst mascot has to be the Rooster

What were they thinking?

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Worst mascot has to be the Rooster

What were they thinking?

Should have been the Sydney Pigeons....

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I once read that Rooster was like 'mobster' or 'gangster' or 'teamster' because Easts had a whole heap of Kangaroos. When contracted, it's 'Roos' and then 'Roo-sters'. How true or correct this is, I don't know.

Norths only became the Bears when they were sponsored by a supermarket and the bear logo was actually the sponsor. Even when the arrangement ended, the bears name had stuck.

I kinda liked the Newtown Bluebags but hard to merchandise that one.

 

[Game_Breaker]

I once read that Rooster was like 'mobster' or 'gangster' or 'teamster' because Easts had a whole heap of Kangaroos. When contracted, it's 'Roos' and then 'Roo-sters'. How true or correct this is, I don't know.

That's makes more sense

I thought they just copied the French since they share the same colours

 

[Loose Cannon]

Anyone notice the names of the last 30 odd years expansion teams.

Steelers
Raiders
Knights
Giants/seagulls/chargers
Broncos
Warriors
Reds
Crushers
Cowboys
Rams
Mariners
Storm
Titans.

Only broncos and Rams with animals names/mascots.
Seagulls by default Second time round due to existing second tier club.
Reds, although representing the kangaroo, with a generic name which could be anything, (like Carlton Blues).

Now we have on the cards Pirates, Bombers, Leprechauns etc.

Are there no marketable animals left? And I am not particularly concerned with geographical significance, just pure brand identity with colours which can be made to work so we don't end up with an orange shark or green and red tiger, for example.

 

[Foreign Legion]

How about... dingos

 

[Loose Cannon]

Dingos I like. In fact Canterbury have the whole dog market sewn up with just one specific breed. Same with the big cats. Okay we have tigers and panthers, and lions is probably out due to the poms, but there is a couple left we could use. There is a whole world full of fierce creatures to market and I hate having all the human logos now, though it seems all the creative geniuses in charge find it easier.

Coming Soon: The Adelaide Insurance Salesmen.

 

[The Great Dane]

Anyone notice the names of the last 30 odd years expansion teams.

Steelers
Raiders
Knights
Giants/seagulls/chargers
Broncos
Warriors
Reds
Crushers
Cowboys
Rams
Mariners
Storm
Titans.

Only broncos and Rams with animals names/mascots.
Seagulls by default Second time round due to existing second tier club.
Reds, although representing the kangaroo, with a generic name which could be anything, (like Carlton Blues).

Now we have on the cards Pirates, Bombers, Leprechauns etc.

Are there no marketable animals left? And I am not particularly concerned with geographical significance, just pure brand identity with colours which can be made to work so we don't end up with an orange shark or green and red tiger, for example.

There're hundreds of thousands of potentially extremely marketable animals left out there, they're just not as mainstream or present in popular culture as for example lions, tigers, bears and eagles.

The Wellington Orcas are a perfect example of a team looking a little outside box when it comes to an animal brand, but as I said before there're hundreds of thousands of others animals that would make incredible sporting brands that have been largely overlooked.

I'll name a few of the top of my head that as far as I know are not in use by any major professional sporting teams and all of which would have distinctive colour schemes. So for example what about teams with names like the Sea Lions, Silverbacks/Gorillas, Hyenas, Bandits (Raccoons), Cockies (Cockatoos), Galahs (different Cockatoos), Gang-Gangs (more Cockatoos), Frills/Frillnecks (Frillneck lizards), Baboons, Olives (Baboons) or even Drills and Mandrills (Baboon-like species of monkey), Simians, Murder (as in a murder of crows) etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

I tried to focus more on Australian animals, but as is obvious in my list above there're plenty of exotic animals that would make great mascots as well, particularly apes and monkeys IMO which seem to have been almost completely overlook as mascots.

Though this is a little off the topic of my post, I think that the Mandrills name is my favorite from the ones I mentioned above, it'd be very left of field (particularly for an Australian team) but Mandrills are animals that would be insanely easy to create a great sporting brand around that would be very memorable and original.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Sorry to steal some of your thunder Dane, I missed your early post. :

 

[bobmar28]

I once read that Rooster was like 'mobster' or 'gangster' or 'teamster' because Easts had a whole heap of Kangaroos. When contracted, it's 'Roos' and then 'Roo-sters'. How true or correct this is, I don't know.

Norths only became the Bears when they were sponsored by a supermarket and the bear logo was actually the sponsor. Even when the arrangement ended, the bears name had stuck.

I kinda liked the Newtown Bluebags but hard to merchandise that one.

Re the Roosters. I've heard it has something to do with the sun rising in the east.....the rooster crows in the morning. Something like that.

 

[The Great Dane]

Sorry to steal some of your thunder Dane, I missed your early post. :

Oh I couldn't care less, in fact I'd completely forgotten about that post and had to go back and find it to see what you were talking about.

BTW what do you think about the Mandrills name, I think I'm on to something there.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Whatever happened to the Adelaide Pandas?

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Re the Roosters. I've heard it has something to do with the sun rising in the east.....the rooster crows in the morning. Something like that.

Sense would dictate - ultimately - that to be the most correct reason for calling them Roosters.

But I also think they were the Roosters before they actually started adopting the Rooster name and on the jersey officially. I'll try and dig up some old books that discussed it. Sean Fagan used to have a lot of info, but I think he took it down because it was being nicked, and these days, seems to do more RU stuff anyway.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Mandrills is different. Right city, right colours it could be marketed well. I personally would prefer the more renowned Gorilla moniker but it definitely has the advantage of being unique.