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46584_1279360105.jpg Warrington RLFC: The Wire, NOT Warrington Wolves
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| I love the way the club produced a load of spiel saying the fans wanted a stronger "brand" to identify with. As if any fan has ever asked for that! Fans will have asked for the club to stop trying to sweep our Wire heritage under the carpet and replace it with Wolves. The club have gradually listened on this, hence the recent merchandise incorporating the name, and now this badge.
I also notice WTFC changed their badge a year or two ago and stopped using "The Wire" on that, so I'm guessing WRLFC bought the copyright from them. I might be wrong though.
Either way, the club have acknowledged that the fans have always used Wire(s) and after 18 years it's obvious that isn't going to change, so they've tried to find a way to incorporate both names into an overall rebrand. That's better than nothing.
It's a big improvement from the days of a forlorn club official holding up a piece of cardboard in front of the Fletch at the start of the 1997 season with "Come on you Wolves" written on it, while the entire terrace chanted "WIRES WIRES" back at him. The club probably hoped it would grow, and it hasn't.
I'd still prefer Wolves to go completely, but at least this is something. In all honestly I do think the popularity of Wolfie, especially amongst younger kids they're trying to attract to the club, is the only reason they're keeping it and I can't really argue with that. They could hardly drop the name and keep the mascot (well they could, but it would seem daft) so they've looked for a happy medium.
This rebrand is all about The Wire though and I'm happy with that, despite a badge that looks like my six year old nephew has drawn it.
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Mummy duck is now thoroughly depressed. SHE was the one that was famous for losing five in a row........until the 2011 GF!!!!!: |
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| Positive note on new crest ................. Lots of "old stock" being sold off when the shop gets a makeover this autumn ?
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62369_1439829626.jpg [color=#FFFF00:1d72a5qw]♫[/color:1d72a5qw][color=#0000FF:1d72a5qw]♫[/color:1d72a5qw] [b:1d72a5qw]Come on Wire, [size=80:1d72a5qw]come on Wire,[/size:1d72a5qw] [size=60:1d72a5qw]come on Wire,[/size:1d72a5qw] [size=40:1d72a5qw]Come on...[/size:1d72a5qw][/b:1d72a5qw] [color=#0000FF:1d72a5qw]♫[/color:1d72a5qw][color=#FFFF00:1d72a5qw]♫[/color:1d72a5qw]
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With us being the better side these days, we are licking our lips at inflicting more misery on Wire in the coming derby. I expect a fairly straight forward win.[/quote:1d72a5qw][b:1d72a5qw]Wire 44 - 6 Widnes[/b:1d72a5qw]
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| Quote: mikej "Positive note on new crest ................. Lots of "old stock" being sold off when the shop gets a makeover this autumn ?'"
I had been thinking about this, too. I had thought maybe the club would wait until next season for the new shirts/merch but update the player shirts now. It was surprising to see them still using the old logo on the shirts against Wigwam.
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62513_1315488299.png [color=#0000FF:6eeyneer]ONE[/color:6eeyneer] [color=#FFFF00:6eeyneer]LOVE[/color:6eeyneer]
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| The whole timing is pretty bizarre, would've thought they'd take their time to get it right rather than rush it in mid season, maybe even give fans the option to vote on a few different badges?
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| New crest is fine ,connecting with history and fans and in the end it's only a badge ,let's get positive about the Wire and our future
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38352_1407962301.jpg Packs Win Games
Great Packs Make All Backs Look Class
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| Let's face it, rightly or wrongly, at this time the club really needed a diversion. A pick me up. That's what we got and shows the new publicity machine is up to it
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