adopted a name that clearly marked their loyalties.

ok,thanks

I think the biggest problem there was trying to find a picture of a Northern for the club badge. Or in slightly less cryptic terms, Bulls was a far more easy name to work with for the marketing team.

I don't call a single club by their 'new' nicknames, and I only started watching in 2001! Shows how crap they are really. Unless we're counting 'Saints' as a nickname, rather than the obvious shorthand for St Helens. I use Wire too.

They aren't there for your benefit. You were, presumably, going to RL games before SL.

The nicknames, logos, mascots etc are for the benefit of small children and journos.

No, like I said, I only started watching in 2001. I was 6 when SL was introduced so would have been a little difficult to be going to games before that xD

Bulls
Cas
Catalans
Crusaders
Dobbins (no apologies, I'm sure they will respond accordingly)
Hudds
Hull
Pies (not in an offensive way)
Quins
Salford
Saints
Wakey
Whinos (juvenile I am fully aware)
Wire

Or other names if we have just lost

I'm only 20 and started watching RL in 1999 but always refer to clubs by their 'proper' name i.e. the name of the place (apart from Quins although still sometimes say London) or a shortened form like 'Hudds', 'Cas.' etc. Occasionally use traditional nicknames like 'Wire' and refer to Saints as 'Saints' bcause it's shorter and more convenient. I would never want us to adopt it in the club's title or to be anything other than St Helens RLFC. I rarely ever use the tacky Americanised nicknames. Maybe it's because Saints never adopted one so I never bother with them but I am quite a traditionalist when it comes to this, one of the things I do actually admire of the round-ball game is the continuing with historic club identities and not adopting modern rootless nicknames. I can understand that some people can identify with these brand names but it will never be as significant as the club's 'real' names to me.

I used to like that big Shark that featured on the back of the Hull jerseys when superleague started in the late 1990's

Or was it on the front?


I can't remember now

shark on the front, shark tail on the back, still have the shirt

Quote ="number 6"shark on the front, shark tail on the back, still have the shirt'" Ahhhh right I can't see it on this site, was it a 'change' strip? www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t21.html Edit... or was it the 1998 home shirt? I didn't think it had that design on it though....

Quote ="number 6"shark on the front, shark tail on the back, still have the shirt'" Ahhhh right I can't see it on this site, was it a 'change' strip? www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t21.html Edit... or was it the 1998 home shirt? I didn't think it had that design on it though....

Or simply Sh1te

Quote ="PHIPPS"Ahhhh right I can't see it on this site, was it a 'change' strip? www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t21.html Edit... or was it the 1998 home shirt? I didn't think it had that design on it though....'" If memory serves they had the same design more or less for both home & away shirts. The home one been mainly white with the odd hoop I think - but with the massive shark design blazoned across the lower middle of the shirt (turquoise colour). The away one was dark blue?

Quote ="PHIPPS"Ahhhh right I can't see it on this site, was it a 'change' strip? www.oldrugbyshirts.com/en/teams/ ... s-t21.html Edit... or was it the 1998 home shirt? I didn't think it had that design on it though....'" If memory serves they had the same design more or less for both home & away shirts. The home one been mainly white with the odd hoop I think - but with the massive shark design blazoned across the lower middle of the shirt (turquoise colour). The away one was dark blue?

I don't really remember much about them, only the big turquoise Shark.

I want one

pah .... and you claimed not to be a Hull fan

I remember seeing them on sale in a sports shop in Beverley whenever it was that they were the Hull playing shirts and I picked one up, looked at it, thought shall I, shan't I....yes maybe I will... no maybe I won't..and then put it back.

I'm sure one will turn up on eBay sometime though

Quote this and we can get a full list of nicknames, original and new, and the one that is the more popular.

i'll start

Warrington - Wire - Wolves = Wire

Only because Loiners makes you sound like a slab of dead meat.

Under Mc Dermott however maybe that nickname should make a comeback

The joke going round at the time Leeds became the Rhinos was that the name fitted well, because they're slow and fat and soon to be extinct.

That's a bit harsh on Keef

Wigan - Riversiders (colliers even older) - Warriors.

Quote ="PHIPPS"I don't really remember much about them, only the big turquoise Shark. I want one'" Our 1997 away shirt that, promotion season. This one here was our 1998 away shirt: cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hull-FC-Hull-Shar ... 45f96258df

Quote ="PHIPPS"I don't really remember much about them, only the big turquoise Shark. I want one'" Our 1997 away shirt that, promotion season. This one here was our 1998 away shirt: cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hull-FC-Hull-Shar ... 45f96258df

always will be fartown for me.. i must be an old bugger lol

and yes i do know i have giants in my user name, but i call our team fartown.. rather then giants

Quote ="Dnats Ynnepeerht"Our 1997 away shirt that, promotion season. This one here was our 1998 away shirt: cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hull-FC-Hull-Shar ... 45f96258df'" Yes 1997 sounds about right. Have you got a photo of one??? Not overly keen on that eBay one it looks like it's straight out of an American Ice Hockey game

Quote ="Dnats Ynnepeerht"Our 1997 away shirt that, promotion season. This one here was our 1998 away shirt: cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hull-FC-Hull-Shar ... 45f96258df'" Yes 1997 sounds about right. Have you got a photo of one??? Not overly keen on that eBay one it looks like it's straight out of an American Ice Hockey game