Dear Wigan RLFC. Whose idea was it to give RL clubs disneyfied names? Warriors is not the worst of them but some are just moronic e.g. Huddersfield Giants! do me a favour! Some teams have gone back to their original names e.g. Wakefield Trinity, Hull FC, Featherstone Rovers and Halifax. Some never had them in the first place e.g. St.Helens, Workington Town, Hull KR. The disneyfied names seem to be a PR/Marketing manager's wet dream! Can't we go back to the original names so that Sky don't f*ck everything up.

In an ideal world, probably, yes, but the sport has far more serious issues in front of it now.

Dear moto748, what do you think the serious issues are that RL faces now?

Appointing a new controlling body that actually works. Rearranging the current competition so that it actually makes sense. Halting the player drain to the NRL and RU. Getting a much improved TV deal. Improving crowds across the board. Marketing itself to a world that barely even knows it exists anymore. Persuading Australia that the international game is worth it. Improving our coaching standards dramatically. Sorting out the Salary Cap once and for all, so that it doesn't just reward mediocrity and punish excellence ... Plenty to be going on with there, I reckon.

The lack of a reserves fixture list is hurting the game massively.

Huge black hole in youth development and nutrtuting injured players back

You spell out quite a list but what about the detail. Are we going to have a Sky/Murdoch driven competition were Wigan, Warrington, St.Helens, Leeds and Hull play each other every week and to hell with everybody else! What about promotion/relegation to SL as a path for other teams? or will it become a closed shop just for the elite!

Quality over quantity wins it for me.

In your world (wherever that might be) it seems we should prevent progress and limit quality in order to sustain mediocrity. Quality should never be stifled and if all you’re worried about is names, I’d say you understand very little about rugby league in this county. The list above is an accurate summary of serious issues that need to be addressed. Add to that I’m 47 years old and I’ve never seen us win a test competition involving Australia! Issues indeed that are far more pressing than worrying about team names.

This jerkoff is placing the same question on other forums just to get a rise, ignore the troll

Well, you have posted on the Wigan board, we traditionally know nothing about RL, and all about cheating, ask anybody...

It must be half term.

I am not only concerned about names. The names are just a manifestation of what I think is wrong. I don't support any particular club (there are none where I live!) but I do support RL. A few weeks ago I went to the Thursday evening game Widnes v Hull (Widnes were well beaten) I joined the 3000 there in a stadium two/thirds empty, I felt I was at a funeral! I don't think the fact we have not beaten Australia in a Test series would have had impact on the attendance. But the game was being televised that evening live by Sky and for whose benefit? England (soccer) have not won the world cup since 1966 but it does not stop city, united and Liverpool et.al. having full houses most home games.

But your opening statement was this.... Names.... Brief mention of Sky..

Cruncher gave you a full and fair list of things that need addressing...

You've answered your own question as to why it's done, PR/Marketing. That along creating an individual identity. You only have look at some of the teams that have it, Leeds, Wigan, Hudds, Bradford all have recognised football clubs in the top flights whereas the likes of Saints and Wakefield don't.

These names don't seem to be an issue for the likes of NRL or NFL and other American sports. If you don't have Giants, Yankees, Mets, Rangers, Knicks, Red Bulls then whats to make those sporting clubs of New York individual, should they all be called New York and nothing else.