It can be seen from the official website news item about the events at the weekend that we no longer have a club called St Helens Rugby League Football Club.

We are now officially "Saints RL". Interesting, potentially controversial and totally and utterly out of left field.

You are generally quite a bright spark, but the answer for your question isn't yes or no, it's for or against! I'm for it, FYI

Saints RL will be a promotional tool, we'll always be St Helens RLFC,as I think you know.

NO!!!!!!!

Thanks for the correctional input. I am suffering from the heat.

Well I'm suffering from beer input, what did you think of 3D mate?

Didn't watch it in 3d unfortunately.

I Like the new logo the "new" name its clean simple and i think all of the RL world know us as Saints, as I have said, when im off to a game i dont say "I am watching St Helens RLFC play" , "I am off to Saints" , simple,
New Logo , New Image , New Stadium. (hey ill have to copyright that ive used it three times today)

Not sure about Saints RL to be honest but it does allow us to widen our net to be a north west rl team.

certainly not a massive fan of the new badge.

WHY mix the current badge with a v & a shield & some text

The V should always be on the shirt for me doesn`t need to be part of the badge.

The current badge is fine just tweak it.

If they wanted to replace it on the cheap could have easily had a fans comp.

Its not a name change, we are still St.Helens rugby football club.

From a branding point of view, the town can say St.Helens home of the legendary Saints.

Listen to the radio and they dont talk about St.Helens they always say Saints, similarly fans from all clubs talk about Saints, not st.helens.

Even when mocking us they use Stains which is a play on the word Saints.

Are they mocking me centurion.

Clubs have to move on and as long as were not branded with anything other than the Saints then so be it?

Sorry, it's a no from me .....
it will shortly be the northwest saints ...as there is already a northants saints and a southampton saints, both the tv and newspapers reporters will start to use the alternative through laziness....why give it to them on a plate

Saints RL just sounds cheap. Like they have sat down and gone "We can rebuild him, we have the resources, we just don't want to spend a lot of money."

Market everything as the Saints, we all use the term. If I say "I'm going Saints tonight" most people will know what I mean. But marketing as Saints RL, well, no. It doesn't work.

Nationally, maybe, but why not be St Helens RL? Let people develop the affection to "Saints" like we all have.

Who cares?

It's still same club.

[iAll changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another[/i Anotle France

St Helens RL on that badge would definitely be better

I'm sorry but this is utter rubbish. Of course that is what you say but I say "I am going to watch City", many say they are going to watch United. However, there is no bugger in the entire world who would be happy if the clubs changed their names to United Football Club and City Football Club and dropped the name of Manchester from the official title.

You can't just strip the name of the town from the club. How would Wigan fans feel if they were to be now simply known as Warriors RLFC?

Bulldogs RLFC was tacky in the extreme, the fans woke up and now they have the Canterbury title back.

Does anyone outside of RL have a clue where Crusaders RL come from? How does that enhance their marketing?

At the end of the day, look at the RU Super 14s. Does anyone know where these Cheetahs, Gorillas and Leopards come from? Unless you follow the sport, you don't.

If I wear a St. Helens shirt, Hamish from the Hebrides would know that I supported the Rugby League team from the town of St. Helens. If he saw Saints RL one, for all he knew it could be St. Ives, St. Annes or St. Oliver Plunketts! It would be a loss of cultural identity and a major kick in the teeth for all those that are proud to be associated with their hometown of St. Helens.

Anyway, as it happens, I do believe the club will be marketing themselves as Saints but will still be St. Helens RLFC Limited so there is no official title change anyway, but I just wanted to make my point clear! l

Well said Sir.

For me it will always br St.Helens RLFC,I know the majority of people when refering to us call us Saints(myself included) but as a proud Sintelliner it will always be St.Helens RLFC.

Of course it would make it easier to move the franchise to another town or city if such a move was ever required.




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You can't have one without the other.

Of course you can.

Just wait till tomorrow when you go to touchlines and there is a plastecine model of Bootle, with 'Saints RL' new ground embedded into the community.

I support St Helens RLFC who happen to be nicknamed The Saints. If that goes I suspect after 35 years so will I.

Well said sir,exactly my thoughts as well.