: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:07 pm  

clockwork mouse wrote:

Think it was to do with the Halifax Bomber spreading love and good cheer all over the fatherland.

As opposed to Vikings, Crusaders and Centurions?

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:11 pm  

Glenn Morangie wrote:

Surely it should be York not Widnes Vikings or Leigh Centurions.

Well it would make sense not to call a team from York "Widnes Vikings" or "Leigh Centurions", yes!

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:12 pm  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Well it would make sense not to call a team from York "Widnes Vikings" or "Leigh Centurions", yes!

OMG did you really post that.?

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:19 pm  

GT wrote:

You mean apart from the fact that we've always been the Red Devils?

I was gonna say, Les Diables Rouge is something United stole from Salford.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:19 pm  

Leaguefan wrote:

Same as an Airlie Bird?

Isn't it obvious? It's a bird from Airlie!


Any pictures of a Fartown?!

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:23 pm  

clockwork mouse wrote:

Didn't Halifax originally want the name Bombers ,but were refused as it was thought "insensitive" ?

Think it was discussed but with "Super League Europe" beena big thing at the time the possibility of a SL Side springing up in Munich or wherever, they didn't want something that could offend later on,

Halifax had nothing to do with Halifax Bombers during the war anyhow,

Halifax Harriers was also mooted, but thats the name of the Local Running Club.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:01 pm  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Red Devils? Man Utd.

Learn your history

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:04 pm  

Ski wrote:

Learn your history

There are plenty, plenty of poster on these boards who could do with heeding this advice.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:19 pm  

Shall I pass comment on birds from Hull?

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:20 pm  

Ski wrote:

Learn your history

I know my history, thank you very much. You have missed the point.

It's not a case of who had it first. When you say "Red Devils" in that area or in sport in the UK, who do people think of generally? You are trying to increase your brand awareness by competing against the biggest sports club in the world, and the alternative name thought of (the Reds) competes with the most successful English football team (who are also pretty local).