Association Egg Ball.

We could corner the whole egg market. The leagues would be sponsored by Egg. Half time eggnog instead of a cup of tea. A good eggzample of an eggstremely marketable concept i feel.

Depends which part of Australia. IIRC, in the AFL strongholds, "football" is AFL, and "league" is RL.


I doubt Super League would work. Again, it would still confuse people. There are other Super Leagues in different sports. It's not the name of a sport, it's the name of a competition.
Not to mention in Australia, it's a bit of a sore subject!

I just wish that when we split (or even later) we had named/renamed it "Professional rugby" which would have made a clear distinction between us and Union. I think that the "professional" term would definitely have created a more positive perception/position for our sport to non-fans if this name had been embedded, because you would normally think of the professional version of something as being the "better" version, especially in sport.

Sport was seen differently back then. Being professional was seen negatively by the middle and upper classes. Highlighting this fact more would have made no difference.

I wish when we split we had replaced the word "rugby" altogether. At the end of the day, "Rugby" is just named after the place it was invented and codified. It was "Rugby rules" football.
We should have been "Northern rules" football really, and just dropped the "Rugby" part altogether. It wasn't necessary to keep. NRFU wasn't helpful at the time. When we changed to RFL decades later, we could have had a completely different name.

I just think the term "rugby" is completely unnecessary and confusing, especially for new fans, and the sooner we come up with a suitable alternative/informal/nickname then we will struggle to garner any serious media attention other than the "lesser cousin" of union.

What has 'Super' got to do with this discussion - that's the name of the league, not the sport

How is "uber mega rugby" one step away from "Super League"?

It's at least five steps away. You'd have to drop two words and introduce three more. Five steps. Five steps that will never happen as well.

All in all, a rather ridiculous comment to make.

Union and league are both rugby, which is more formally a family of sports called rugby football. If union wants to be simply "rugby" then league should take on "rugby football."

I never get why Union clubs have a 'Director of Rugby' Surely it should be 'Director of Football'?

Codes of football usually take their name from where they are from ... so we'd be left with Northern Rules Football, or the set of rules in which they play, so League Rules Football.

If it were to be named after the place from it originated, it would not be called Northern Rules.

The sport would be called "Huddersfield".

Combatball
Carnageball
Slaughterball
Awesomeball

Battletron.

Halves are renamed First and Second Skirmish.

Game doesn't stop until only one man remains.

Alive.

LEAGUE

Campsport

Players play in tight shorts. The ball is renamed the bigball. We replace the commentators with people affecting speech from 1970s bawdy carry on films. The referee is a lady whose top inexplicably keeps coming off.

I like it.

I can see support for this. Surely 'Touch ball' would be more apt.

When this came up a number of years ago, the best suggestion I saw was 'League Rules Football.'

Taking that a step further it would in practice become known as 'League Rules' and if LRF had as its stapline 'League Rules'! So you would always see "League Rules. League Rules'! How about that for positive branding?

Not just in union.

Hull FC have Shaun McRae as Director of Rugby. You'd think that (with the name "FC"icon_wink.gif we'd be championing that "Director of Football" title!

It's name after "where" it's from. Doesn't have to be the town.
Australian.
Gaelic.
American.

So you'd most likely go with Northern for Rugby League (as we were the Northern Union). The rules were made by a meeting of Northern clubs, unlike Rugby, where it was codified in Rugby school exclusively and went from there.

The trouble with anything with Northern in the title is it just plays to the stereotype. Northern game for northerners. Now I love the north, I'm not ashamed of it I think it's brilliant but we're trying to expand here and show people we are for everyone.

So Brawlball it is.

Ripyourfuggingheadoff ball

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting we should call it that. I'm saying it should have been called that to begin with rather than "rugby".
Wasn't Australian Rules originally called Melbourne Rules? If we'd have started as Northern Rules, we might have adjusted as time went on (well we probably would have, we did start off as Northern RFU).

I actually think "League Rules Football" makes more sense than Rugby League Football.
I just think if you take the word "rugby" away, we will stop being referred to in the media as "the other rugby" and start being talked about as something separate.

I agree with that. We should have changed it from the off and a lot of current problems wouldn't exist.

To Titanball.

Maybe we should be more mathematical.

Prolate-Spheroidball.