USA "what"

[deluded pom?]

This drum roll is doing my head in.

 

[alien]

Pretty sure they were headed for Pioneers..

i think that is the team name when only domestic players are selected

 

[Sinman]

Yeah.. your right... I got that mixed up.. I know they were looking at stars and stripes though.. Canada website has them playing a couple of games against them later in the year.. we will know by then I guess

 

[Rugbyflorida]

I think its been said quite a few times and based off the articles as well The Pioneers is strictly a developmental side....
When they played the Rhinos at the beginning of the year there was maybe one recognizable name that has played any internationals for USA, among some guys the have played overseas but all developmental.
Cant wait to hear what they decide for the actual national team, I too would like to see them keep the tomahawks name just casue it seems weird to change it at this stage, but then again a fresh start would be good to haha so IDK

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

USA Hawks is the winner.

http://www.usarl.com/2015/05/hawks-swoop-in-for-new-usa-national-team-name/

 

[alien]

USA Hawks is the winner.

http://www.usarl.com/2015/05/hawks-swoop-in-for-new-usa-national-team-name/

lol, that wasn't even one of the options we could vote for, but i like it!

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Lame.

 

[gyallop]

that is quiet clever.. If they do restrict heritage players they will be half of the Tomahawks!!
Seriously though why have fan polls if you ignore them. We did it here with the Titans then with the Brisbane Bombers.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

voted starts and stripes, but this is probably better. kangaroos/wallabies, hawks/eagles

 

[Evil Homer]

Hawks is awful, it couldn't be more generic.

 

[alien]

meh, you can't please everybody.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

And people complain about the issues with confusion between league and union...and then use an almost identical symbol to the union team. Except of course it's by far the weaker symbol. Eagles is iconically American, Hawks is not. And hawks are smaller than eagle. It certainly is like roos and wallabies except this time league has the lame, weak, less appropriate one of the two. And, yes, it is generic and unoriginal. Tomahawks was unique, certainly in RL, while I could name heaps of teams called Hawks. It's the kind of nickname you give your local club 30 years ago.

 

[taipan]

If they end up winning a RLWC in years ahead,noone will give a toss,what they are called.Winners is what it's all about.Hawks is a better choice,if you can't use Tomahawks.

Roosters is also really a lame name as are Eels,major catastrophe because of a name:roll: And Rabbits ,brought originally to this country by Poms .

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Those club names all have more meaning behind them. And they're just club names.

 

[taipan]

Those club names all have more meaning behind them. And they're just club names.

They may well have meaning and i don't have a problem with it following the game so long,but to newcomers they could be classified as wimpy.

Clubs have to start somewhere,it's not a big deal.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

This is a national team.

They might as well have called them the wildcats or some other over-used, arbitrary, meaningless name.

They didn't even have the sense to have a tomahawk somewhere in the logo.

 

[Foreign Legion]

Its alright... logo looks like a 6/10, rather have the tomahawk though... could have been worse..

 

[alien]

follow the buzzards

 

[warrior poet]

to me this seems like a compromise name. People seemed to want to keep tomahawks but they couldn't due to copyright or whatever. The usarl would have wanted to separate themselves from the amnrl (who came up with the tomahawks name), so they needed a new name. Having them as the hawks makes it obvious that it is a new team but still has a link to the originals (tomaHAWKS).

I'm not american, so don't have any biased opinion on this, but i would have gone with something completely new (Bison, coyotes, caribou)

 

[byrner]

You cant please everyone. Its a good enough name. I like the logo and it kind of links to the Tomahawks