RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 3:10 pm  

Dear Wakefield Trinity RLFC,

It really pleases me to see a RL club revert back to its more tradition name rather than the Sky/Murdoch driven disneyfication of club names. I just wish more RL clubs would follow suit!

Re: RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 3:20 pm  

Harlequin wrote:

Dear Wakefield Trinity RLFC,

It really pleases me to see a RL club revert back to its more tradition name rather than the Sky/Murdoch driven disneyfication of club names. I just wish more RL clubs would follow suit!

One of the best decisions made by the club in recent years .
We are the famous Wakefield Trinity

Up the Trin

Re: RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 3:38 pm  

I didn't really mind the ones I grew up with, well before SL of course.
Mansfield Marksman, Rochdale Hornets, Sheffield Eagles, they all sound right to me because that's all I ever knew them as.
All the new ones forced upon us in the SL era just seem 5h1te.
Doubtless there are fans that have known little else and don't find them as ridiculous as I do...I dunno.

Re: RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 6:26 pm  

My admiration for St Helens for not succumbing to these ridiculous handles in the first place. Hull soon realised that the "Sharks" tag didn't quite suit them. Or did they drop the name after that phony merger? Mind you their current "FC" suffix seems a bit superfluous as "City" and "KIngstone Rovers" already had their own identities.
By the way, who actually was the culprit who lumbered us with the "Wildcats" moniker??????. Did it go out to fans in the form of a competition? I can't remember.

Re: RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 7:01 pm  

Redscat wrote:

My admiration for St Helens for not succumbing to these ridiculous handles in the first place. Hull soon realised that the "Sharks" tag didn't quite suit them. Or did they drop the name after that phony merger? Mind you their current "FC" suffix seems a bit superfluous as "City" and "KIngstone Rovers" already had their own identities.
By the way, who actually was the culprit who lumbered us with the "Wildcats" moniker??????. Did it go out to fans in the form of a competition? I can't remember.

Yes in the Ted era it picked out in a fans competition I remember them getting quite excited about it.

Re: RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 7:16 pm  

The real culprit here is Maurice Lindsay. He decreed that all clubs must have stupid names (although he probably didn't phrase it quite like that). Initially, St Helens and Wakefield both refused, on the basis that they already had an obvious nickname. To their credit St Helens stuck to their guns, but somewhere along the line Wakefield were persuaded to make the change. I wonder what threat he came up with?

Re: RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 7:28 pm  

The Cube wrote:

. I wonder what threat he came up with?

Probably that Super League would make our lives a misery whilst ever we are members, Cube

Re: RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 8:14 pm  

My recollection is that if we wanted to go up, we had to have it. As it was tied in with a more exciting future, there wasn't the problem. As time went on, however, it became clumsy.

Some have worked. Rhinos and Bulls both seem to have gelled, along with Warrington Wolves and Cas Tigers. Not so sure about Warriors and Vikings.

Hull FC were right to go back to it, as that was their name before the Sharks. It might not be needed, because of KR and City, but then again, we don't strictly need the Trinity any more.

Re: RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 9:46 pm  

Slugger McBatt wrote:

we don't strictly need the Trinity any more.

ya think ?

In terms of identifying the city in which we play, maybe not.
But Wakefield on its own is neither the traditional name we're supposed to be returning to, nor a means to identify the club.
It has to be Wakefield Trinity, or it may as well be Calder, Wildcats or anything, doesn't really matter its busted without it.

Re: RL names. : Sun Apr 01, 2018 10:36 pm  

The crests and names are the biggest identity a club can have, I always liked Saints emblem with the stick man with a ball tucked under his arm but apparently they had to give this up due to copyright issues and if they wanted to carry on using it, it would have cost a lot of money.