Roosters name improvement

[LJC]

Gday fellow Roosters fans,
Wondering if you would like our name to reflect more on our great club's past. I suggest we go by the name of: East Sydney Roosters.
This name strengthens ties with the past eg: East and also better informs of our locality with maintaining the "Sydney" part.
I've heard suggestions about reverting back to Eastern Suburbs but this is counterproductive as the competition is in Australasia nowadays, and locality recognition is much better seved by having "East Sydney Roosters" .To be honest, I cringe when I hear our club referred to as the "Sydney Roosters". It's not an apt description and does lead to confusion from new fans to the game.

 

[H.H]

Gday fellow Roosters fans,
Wondering if you would like our name to reflect more on our great club's past. I suggest we go by the name of: East Sydney Roosters.
This name strengthens ties with the past eg: East and also better informs of our locality with maintaining the "Sydney" part.
I've heard suggestions about reverting back to Eastern Suburbs but this is counterproductive as the competition is in Australasia nowadays, and locality recognition is much better seved by having "East Sydney Roosters" .To be honest, I cringe when I hear our club referred to as the "Sydney Roosters". It's not an apt description and does lead to confusion from new fans to the game.

I can live with it. I still call the Easts anyway, so this will make it official again.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Just Easts.

 

[LJC]

Ofcourse the team will be referred to as Easts in a general sense. I am suggesting a formalising of the club name as a whole, so it will convey both its history and its locality. This is achieved by East Sydney Roosters as distinct from Sydney Roosters which is very misleading.

 

[Monk]

I could live with East Sydney.

 

[redandgreenduck]

Gday fellow Roosters fans,
Wondering if you would like our name to reflect more on our great club's past. I suggest we go by the name of: East Sydney Roosters.
This name strengthens ties with the past eg: East and also better informs of our locality with maintaining the "Sydney" part.
I've heard suggestions about reverting back to Eastern Suburbs but this is counterproductive as the competition is in Australasia nowadays, and locality recognition is much better seved by having "East Sydney Roosters" .To be honest, I cringe when I hear our club referred to as the "Sydney Roosters". It's not an apt description and does lead to confusion from new fans to the game.

Most Roosters fans I know love "c**ks"....people identify with that symbol on your jersey...a real part of your history and heritage...yes Eastern Sydney c**ks will be the name and image your supporters will love to embrace.

 

[Cliffhanger]

East Sydney Roosters sounds lame. Eastern Suburbs Roosters is better.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Most Roosters fans I know love "c**ks"....people identify with that symbol on your jersey...a real part of your history and heritage...yes Eastern Sydney c**ks will be the name and image your supporters will love to embrace.

Lol spending this fortnight's pension on the video Ezy internet.

 

[Foreign Legion]

How about eastern suburbs roosters, and at the bottom of the logo we could have a motto 'the pride of Sydney'...Problem solved

 

[Valheru]

How about the Eastern Sydney gutless wonders? That would be apt for this season.

 

[LJC]

East Sydney Roosters is logical and does include the heritage and locality more accurately. I am amazed at some of the comments wanting Eastern Suburubs! If it were purely a Sydney competition , Yes! But no, it is now an Australasian competition so the use of East & Sydney is a perfect fit. East Sydney Roosters can be an easy fix for alot of confusion that particularly new followers of the game come across. ie: Their are 8 other Sydney based clubs and they have their unique name location identity. whereas the "Sydney" Roosters tends to assume all of Sydney, where in fact it is East Sydney! At the moment is a vague description of the club and hopefully someone in power can see the light and move forward. I reiterate it is now an Australasian competition not Sydney based!

 

[Cliffhanger]

Ahem West Tigers.

Eastern Suburbs sounds better and is our original name, f**k everything else.

 

[Bulldog Force]

 

[sretsoor]

Their are 8 other Sydney based clubs and they have their unique name location identity.

Yup. That's our junior clubs lololol

 

[LJC]

The West Tigers example is an example of the mess the Super League merging did. I actually think it would have been better as the Balmain-Campbelltown Tigers? But anyway, I think my point about the NRL being an Australasian competition is being missed. Surely East Sydney Roosters makes much more sense nowadays? Imagine if someone starting following rugby league in West Australia and seen Eastern Suburbs. They would wonder where the Eastern Suburbs is? Is it Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne etc. I hope we do get some genuine thoughts and avoid making this error in the naming of our club. In an Australasian competition using the name East Sydney Roosters makes alot of sense!

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

The same point would apply to Balmain-Campbeltown and every team besides Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and South Sydney.

 

[1974-75]

LJC I agree with you 100% - Brisbane, Melbourne, Newcastle, etc. are stand alone city clubs and can use their city names for that reason. We (Roosters) are NOT representing Sydney as a whole. People just don't seem to get it.

EAST SYDNEY Roosters is the best name we can give ourselves, the way the NRL is currently formatted. It's a good compromise: "East" for locality and tradition - and "Sydney" for national identity.

By the way, I think Balmain Magpies would've been a better name..

 

[LJC]

"Tonearm.."Your quote:"The same point would apply to Balmain-Campbeltown and every team besides Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and South Sydney."

In this respect you underestimate the historical significance and universal recognition of the Sydney based clubs. Their years of existence and recognition make it feasible for their identity to have far greater reach than new or expansion name clubs. Essentially they are the essence from which the NRL has expanded. You do not tamper with such traditions and recogniition as you undo the many years of familiarity that goes with such names.
For instance the name change of the Western Reds to West Coast Pirates doesn't erode past support as the expansion club does not have the history behind it. West Coast Pirates is a improvement on a less established and poor club name.
The East Sydney Roosters suggestion is an improvement which reinforces the club's history and locality.

 

[Lambretta]

http://forums.leagueunlimited.com/showthread.php?t=406782

See thread ^

East Sydney as our name - Roosters as our nickname

 

[LJC]

I'm glad to see that we are getting some positive responses for East Sydney Roosters. Now the challenge is to get our club to work towards this very sensible name improvement!
Easier said than done!