Could some teams do with a bit of re-branding?

[Milanista28]

I'd change Essendon FC to James Hird FC.

 

[PumpyChowdown]

Collingwood to rebrand to the Melbourne Magpies. The city is big enough for two teams with the same name, and Collingwood is Melbourne's team of choice.

 

[Sherrinator]

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Looks like gold to me

Gunston must be dehydrated

 

[Sherrinator]

I'd change Essendon FC to James Hird FC.

More like James Turd FC

 

[Sprout]

I know it's a sensitive topic but I really do hope the Bulldogs go back to being Footscray. Embrace the name.

 

[FootyJunkie]

Collingwood to rebrand to the Melbourne Magpies. The city is big enough for two teams with the same name, and Collingwood is Melbourne's team of choice.

Would be pretty arrogant for them to do it and may make some business sense in some regard... but even though the club no longer has a base at Vic Park, Collingwood brand name is still too good to lose. I have to admit... GF Day with the Pies in it... that COOOOOOLIIINGGWOOOOOOD chant is menacing.

AFL would want to protect the Dees with their brand, so doubt it will ever happen.

 

[FootyJunkie]

I know it's a sensitive topic but I really do hope the Bulldogs go back to being Footscray. Embrace the name.

I think in the VFL, they had no choice. Couldn't call yourself the Western Bulldogs when Williamstown and Werribee were already nearby.

 

[JackFlash]

St.Kilda need to re-brand as "The Southern Saints" or "Bayside Saints" and dump St.Kilda. It's meaningless to them now that a return to the Junction Oval has been quashed. They have a great mascot and a great strip, no need to change colours or guernsey's, but if they do indeed return to Moorabbin then take all of Southern Melbourne with them and build on it! Plans are already in place for an $11 million upgrade of Moorabbin as a community facility and home of football in Melbourne’s south-east.
March 11th 2015 : City of Kingston Mayor Geoff Gledhill said St Kilda had held brief talks with the council about whether it would support a decision of the club to return to Linton St.

Gledhill said Kingston would “welcome the Saints back” should they make that call.

He said the council had not yet had talks with either the AFL or the state government about the situation.

But he said any such move would not be to the detriment of the $11m upgrade of the oval as a community facility and home for football in Melbourne’s south east.

 

[00Stinger]

West Horsham Crows

 

[mcgarnacle]

As the title suggests, I think some teams could change their image/name/mascot/brand etc.

Western Bulldogs need it the most. They have done so in the past, changing from Footscray to "Western". The problem with this is... where the hell is Western? ... oh you mean the west suburbs of Melbourne? They want to represent all the western suburbs (hence the prior name change), so why not: West Melbourne? To a lesser extent, change "bulldogs" to just "dogs". That way they broaden their appeal imo, instead of having a fuking bulldog which has stuff-all appeal for christ's sake. West Melbourne Dogs.

This is just for fun:

Country Vic Kangaroos
West Melbourne Dogs
Hawthorn to change brown/yellow to maroon/yellow (which is the way they've gone anyway, might as well change to a true maroon).
Port, drop the teal and just give us light blue.
Eagles, instead of yellow, white and dark blue, just use medium yellow and medium blue.

And I thought I was trying to avoid doing work today.

 

[Riccardo11]

St.Kilda need to re-brand as "The Southern Saints" or "Bayside Saints" and dump St.Kilda. It's meaningless to them now that a return to the Junction Oval has been quashed. They have a great mascot and a great strip, no need to change colours or guernsey's, but if they do indeed return to Moorabbin then take all of Southern Melbourne with them and build on it! Plans are already in place for an $11 million upgrade of Moorabbin as a community facility and home of football in Melbourne’s south-east.
March 11th 2015 : City of Kingston Mayor Geoff Gledhill said St Kilda had held brief talks with the council about whether it would support a decision of the club to return to Linton St.

Gledhill said Kingston would “welcome the Saints back” should they make that call.

He said the council had not yet had talks with either the AFL or the state government about the situation.

But he said any such move would not be to the detriment of the $11m upgrade of the oval as a community facility and home for football in Melbourne’s south east.

Do we really need to go through this again?

 

[Ned_Flanders]

But it's still shows its gold and it's a lot better then this eyesoreView attachment 124334

Ours is only for training, you want to wear that Power Ranger outfit on game day

What is it with hawthorn and jumper designs? It's the only part of your club where they seem to always outdo themselves in terms of own goals

 

[Colonial]

As the title suggests, I think some teams could change their image/name/mascot/brand etc.

Western Bulldogs need it the most. They have done so in the past, changing from Footscray to "Western". The problem with this is... where the hell is Western? ... oh you mean the west suburbs of Melbourne? They want to represent all the western suburbs (hence the prior name change), so why not: West Melbourne? To a lesser extent, change "bulldogs" to just "dogs". That way they broaden their appeal imo, instead of having a fuking bulldog which has stuff-all appeal for christ's sake. West Melbourne Dogs.

This is just for fun:

Country Vic Kangaroos
West Melbourne Dogs
Hawthorn to change brown/yellow to maroon/yellow (which is the way they've gone anyway, might as well change to a true maroon).
Port, drop the teal and just give us light blue.
Eagles, instead of yellow, white and dark blue, just use medium yellow and medium blue.

Should someone who follows Power really be having a go at other teams mascots/branding?

 

[Kram]

'Power' is the only nickname that is comfortably worse than ours.

 

[CrowsBrah]

'Power' is the only nickname that is comfortably worse than ours.

Having a bland empty name like the Giants is worse than having a crap name

'Giants' is the ultimate fail and may even lead to the downfall of that club

 

[Colonial]

Having a bland empty name like the Giants is worse than having a crap name

'Giants' is the ultimate fail and may even lead to the downfall of that club

Really camry.

We like it just fine. Better than the supposed "wolves"

 

[The_Reaper]

Quite a ridiculous restriction actually. Not sure people would confuse the Perth Demons wearing black and red with the Perth Eagles wearing blue and yellow and playing in a different league. Especially considering so many American teams share a location (eg LA Clippers/LA Lakers)

WAFL clubs and WAFL might. And in WA at the time- the WAFL was the big league.

They wanted a team that could draw fans from all of the WAFL

 

[telsor]

Collingwood to rebrand to the Melbourne Magpies. The city is big enough for two teams with the same name, and Collingwood is Melbourne's team of choice.

Nah, if they want the name, they have to take on the deadweight that is MFC.

(Mostly I just want to see eddie sack another premiership coach so nafan doesn't kick him out of bed).

 

[Berny21]

Footscray Boyd..

 

[telsor]

'Power' is the only nickname that is comfortably worse than ours.

I always figure 'the power' and 'the shockers' kinda go together...

 

[Present Not Past]

Any thoughts of St Kilda renaming itself should be terminated with extreme prejudice.

 

[Stromageddon]

Piss off mate

Our colours are brown and gold. We've worn those colours for 100 years.
We don't care if other people don't like our colours. They're OURS.


You wanna talk about "rebranding"?

How about you look in your own backyard and do something about that ridiculous "Power" nickname, logo and crappy song

A grey fist holding a white lightning bolt? WTF????
I never understood why Port chose the nickname "Power" over the "Sharks"

Anyway, there is a whole board dedicated to this shit where Big Footy's budding fashion designers gather to discuss fashions and colour combinations and share make-up tips

Hey, that was one thread

But, yeah, OP, come to the Footy Jumpers and Graphic Design board. We discuss things like this occasionally although generally our discussion is rational.

 

[telsor]

Any thoughts of St Kilda renaming itself should be terminated with extreme prejudice.

Yeah, their finances are so bad, they couldn't afford to reprint the stationary.

 

[Back One Out]

Hey, that was one thread

I never saw it. I was just making a stereotype generalisation about fashion designers

 

[mcgarnacle]

it is a little silly that we have three 'West' teams in the league and no other direction names, but not a fan generally of changing names.

edit: doh, forgot North Melbourne.

North Melbourne is a suburb though.

The others are regions of somewhere - one of Melbourne, the other of sydney (Canberra is a region of sydney to apparently), and one of the country.

Footscray changed their name not necessarily to be inclusive of the entire western suburbs of Melbourne, but due to how underwhelming Footscray looks and sounds as a word. In the age of bullshit marketing in sport, we seem to look to the yanks.

Going by this precedent, we wouldn't be able to handle names such as arsenal, Scampaignerhorpe, etc here.

Edit: good old auto mod, eh?