I agree with Jools on this, we do need to move on as stripes can be slightly dull however i do think we have the best Colours in Sport, so use them to full the stands. Take Brisbane in Oz for example, look at their Home and Away shirts here, www.newrugbykits.com/2012/01/new ... 12-strips/ They are the same kit designs however the colours are just reversed, now imagine the stands if everyone had either a home or away shirt on, it would be a mass of claret and gold! Another point is do we need a HOME and AWAY shirt, lets not have a official primary shirt just go with what the other teams will be wearing, therefore this would maximise the amount of sales, rather than selling more home shirts rather than away shirts etc. The focus should be the colours not the design in my opinion.

I agree with Jools on this, we do need to move on as stripes can be slightly dull however i do think we have the best Colours in Sport, so use them to full the stands. Take Brisbane in Oz for example, look at their Home and Away shirts here, www.newrugbykits.com/2012/01/new ... 12-strips/ They are the same kit designs however the colours are just reversed, now imagine the stands if everyone had either a home or away shirt on, it would be a mass of claret and gold! Another point is do we need a HOME and AWAY shirt, lets not have a official primary shirt just go with what the other teams will be wearing, therefore this would maximise the amount of sales, rather than selling more home shirts rather than away shirts etc. The focus should be the colours not the design in my opinion.

Yes town have changed- and before during and after those changes the size of the support base stayed much the same- that's the key issue. They haven't had to work as hard to begin an entire fan base. Giants had to start from a few hundred! Now maybe the marketing guys messed up by the way they originally went about it and should have stuck with tradition- maybe they wanted to move away from the association with failure. Maybe the success of bullmania was a reason to make the change I don't know the reasoning but its done. Maybe a way forward is to use the team of all talents etc as a way to inspire the new generation- maybe they feel it wouldn't work- as I say there are more qualified people than me doing the marketing. I love the clubs history and traditional - my kids couldn't give a toss -even though they love the giants.

We never have been Fartown - it was/is the club's nickname



and i will always call em Fartown before Giants ..

We could be called bradford bulls but we would still be known as fartown, thats how i first knew about the club,as fartown, in fact it took me a while to realise that huddersfield rlfc and fartown were the same thing!

A lot of neutral rl fans who are not recent converts still refer to us as fartown. Its nothing to do with where we used to play its what our club has been known as for over 100 years

I would suggest that the demographic of our fan base is made up by - 'diehards' (supporters throughout the dark days!) - 'newbies' and 'returnees'

I went through a period of total dispair, wherby I could no longer face the prospect of standing alongside another 3 or 4 hundred supporters knowing full well that we were going to get trounced.

The day fially dawned when I was standing with my father-in-law in the paddock and looking at the front row packing down for a scrum and thinking ' They have bigger beer bellies than Doug!'



So I class myself as a returnee, but having seen the great days when we were unbeatable I can justifiably be very proud of the heritage of the club and wear my claret and gold hoops with as much pride.

Sometimes there were more on t`pitch Keefie (yer coward!!

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But glad yer came back fella!!

--we were feeling somewhat isolated!!