- Jul 9, 2010
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I have no idea how the FFA pulled off the Western Sydney Wanderers.Agree with the majority of this. The use of the terms United, City, Rovers, Wanderers are traditionally used to refer to something specific in the clubs or locations history. United teams are traditionally merged entities, thus uniting the location (a reason I like the Macarthur South West Sydney team to use the name as they are uniting multiple federations into a single team). City is for locations that actually reach city status, but doesn't really work in Australia as the majority of the locations out teams would be based are cities. Rovers and Wanderers are for teams that have never had a home ground, Western Sydney Wanderers are ok in this I think as they took the name of a former team and they do represent a large area and have been made to wander in recent times due to the redevelopment of Parramatta Stadium.
It is hard in Australia to find good traditional names for football clubs, mostly because people associate teams here with having nicknames (due to every other sport doing this), plus the want to move away from ethnic based clubs (which I am ok with).
The biggest issue though is this wanting to use a direction in team names. Next year there are going to be two clubs with Western in their name and a possible 3rd the year after. Seriously, there has to be some other options for clubs to use that is not direction based, that is why I really hope the Macarthur South West Sydney team just go with the Macarthur name, but as they are going to conduct fan forums in the Campbelltown, Liverpool and Bankstown areas this may become less likely as more of the areas being consulted is not part of the Macarthur region.
A great simple logo with a monogram that'll stick for decades, a strip their fans wanted, and a great name – Wanderers was the first team to play soccer in Australia and they played in (west?) Sydney. It made sense and it's just tidy.
I reckon 'Rams' is a decent name for Macarthur. Macarthur is a shitty name and too general but throwing in south and west and Sydney is confusing. 'Rams United' or something is a nice enough name. I know they already exist but it seems they're dead set on white and black stripes so it's not like they're using the existing club's full look.