[ageinghoody]

Laughed out loud while reading Robert Kitson's column in today's Guardian!

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/ ... ope-future

The whole article has much food for thought, for those who haven't the time or patience for all of it, the sentence that nearly made me spray my coffee was:-
If Sale want more regular fans, for example, they might find it helps to start thinking less like Sharks and more like the Irlam Globetrotters.

Meadowlark Morozov perhaps? Or does that just date me?

[Lord Elpus]

If Sale want regular fans they should give out free bottles of syrup of figs.

As for a re-brand how about Dumplington Desperadoes or Barton Boffers?

[Ulsterlad]

Laughed out loud while reading Robert Kitson's column in today's Guardian!

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/ ... ope-future

The whole article has much food for thought, for those who haven't the time or patience for all of it, the sentence that nearly made me spray my coffee was:-
If Sale want more regular fans, for example, they might find it helps to start thinking less like Sharks and more like the Irlam Globetrotters.

Meadowlark Morozov perhaps? Or does that just date me?

Stupid comment! Rightly binned as some mad man!

Is there something in it though? When did English RU teams need some sort of a mascot to become part of their official name?

Sale Sharks, Exeter Chiefs, Tigers, Bears, etc.

Those Irish teams doing well are just that - ULSTER. LEINSTER, MUNSTER etc.

[iBozz]

I think the suffix in Club names are rather pathetic and make Clubs sound like American Nail Varnish Drying teams.

SFC have started calling themselves The Dogs (or the dogs, depending on who is writing the reports) for goodness sake. For over 150 years we’ve been Sale FC so why the need for a meaningless suffix which as no relevance to SFC or Heywood Road?

B’ah, humbug!

[eBike]

Good grief ! SIGH

"Baldrick, there's only one thing wrong with this plan........."

[Olyy]

Honestly amazed to see people taking a pretty clear joke seriously.

Have a mince pie, ffs

[ageinghoody]

I'm more puzzled by why the tread was resurrected after a month.

[SaleFC]

I think the suffix in Club names are rather pathetic and make Clubs sound like American Nail Varnish Drying teams.

SFC have started calling themselves The Dogs (or the dogs, depending on who is writing the reports) for goodness sake. For over 150 years we’ve been Sale FC so why the need for a meaningless suffix which as no relevance to SFC or Heywood Road?

B’ah, humbug!

Sigh, if you had paid attention, this moniker has been around for about 5 years. Hence, Tricky the Mutt. It's a nickname bestowed upon the team , by the players themselves. It may have no relevance to you personally, but to the players it does. Also, we've not changed the name of the team, they're still Sale FC Rugby.

[iBozz]

Not paying attention was my best subject at school, according to my School Reports!

“Have started” was a perhaps a somewhat slipshod way of saying it and I didn’t mean it in the sense of “within the last five minutes”, rather in the context of a Club over 150 years old. This slipshod writing brings me to the other common theme of my School Reports - “Must try harder”.

I still don’t like it, though. Nor do I like Sharks.

But each to their own.