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| Quote Towns88="Towns88"When did the Tiger thing start & why?'"
I can remember Cas having a tiger incorperated into the club badge way back around 1991. |
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| Quote Towns88="Towns88"When did the Tiger thing start & why?'"
Well before Super League. And because we play in black and amber (and sometimes white) (traditionally in hoops). |
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People at work, who take an interest in RL, refer to Huddersfield as Giants. And I do say Bulls, though not exclusively!
And I never call Wigan, 'Warriors' or Warrington 'Wolves'.
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All though I'm glad we kept the traditional Kingston Rovers I have grown accustomed to some clubs nicknames now although I hardly ever refer to teams by them, I don't think they are ridiculous.
I think Blue Sox and Sharks were Shiite though.
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| Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Hull Kingston Australians has a nice ring to it
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Whereas Harlequins is a rather long winded way of saying Clowns.  |
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Just on a side note, when I see mates out of town many will say oh did you watch the wolves last week so in some ways it must have worked
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| Quote GIANT DAZ="GIANT DAZ"I'm an old fogey then cos its Fartown, Wire, Trin, etc to me .....although i do refer to Fartown as Giants too i dont often refer to the other clubs by their new nicknames'"
Your forum name, avatar, and signature, would disagree with you  |
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| Quote EL CAMO="EL CAMO"All though I'm glad we kept the traditional Kingston Rovers I have grown accustomed to some clubs nicknames now although I hardly ever refer to teams by them, I don't think they are ridiculous.
I think Blue Sox and Sharks were Shiite though.'"
I've never quite understood why Sharks is seen this way. Blue Sox goes without saying and Barracudas was dreadful (but not as bad as Arena 84). But Hull Sharks? Hull is a port after all. |
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| Quote craigizzard="craigizzard"Rhinos is a bloody ridiculous name, but somehow it's done a good job of sticking so a fogey like me will just shrug their shoulders and consider that very few seem get poor by underestimating the taste of the general public.
The thing about nicknames in US sports is that the nicknames almost always had some sort of geographical or cultural connection to the city or franchise involved (Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins, Steelers, Patriots, Celtics, Saints, Yankees, Orioles and so on). Obviously the RL marketeers who think they're copying the Americans instead prefer random out-of-context animal generators.'"
The other thing is that the Yanks don't have an obsession with alliteration. With RL, particularly the further down you get, it seems just a case of picking a big animal or synonym for "Warrior" that begins with the same letter as the town / district name. |
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| Quote Bobbin' Along="Bobbin' Along"Whereas Harlequins is a rather long winded way of saying Clowns.
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Halequins are actually the spirits of mischief in some book or play i cant remember the name of. but i know its true.
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| Quote craigizzard="craigizzard"To be fair, there are some farms around Bradford. There isn't even a zoo in Leeds.'"
i mean a 'proper' bull  not just a male cow of some puny agricultural breed |
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Here's how I refer to teams in conversation
Leeds
Bulls
Cas
Wakey
Wigan
Saints
Salford
Crusaders (sometimes celtic oops)
Quins
Warrington
Giants
Catalans (with "s"icon_wink.gif
Hull
Hull KR
So thats 2 nicknames I use plus saints
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not just a male cow of some puny agricultural breed 
