I was in New Zealand in 2010 ,we were on a trip and the guy running it was called paul a big local lad, after a while he came over looked at my polo shirt and said "hull kingston rovers " i was with an fc fan so with a bit of banter i said "by far the best team in hull" he looked bemused ,i said "hes an hull fc fan "pointing out the lad with me ,still he looked bemused "hull fc " i said again ,he class reply was "oh yes hull city i dont like footbal im a rugby man"

bobness i found the eggheads vid www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmMsD6QJEM4

bobness i found the eggheads vid www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmMsD6QJEM4

There was an episode of Pointless a year or so ago in which a hundred people were asked to name as many Super League clubs as they could.

Hull FC came about sixth in terms of how many people said it, Rovers about 9th. Possibly some people just said Hull and that was counted as Hull FC, I don't know.

If the Hull Kingston Rovers "brand" is more well known then so be it. It's only because of the unsual name and not because of sporting success.

Anyway, lets face it RL in general has far less profile nationally than twenty years ago.

Engelbert Humperdinck - now that's an iconic name.

He's still sh*t mind you.

rlYet he was the first artist to keep the Beatles off number one in 1967. He of the 63 gold and 24 platinum records representing sales of 150 million units.rl

Lots of people would disagree with you!

Owned!

Cheers Grafton you took the words out of my mouth.

Too many are confusing a name with brand.

hkr has a distinctive name. A name which was made a parody of by Mike Yardwood.

A brand is a representation of something. Somewhat would you say the "brand" of hkr represents?

The parody was of Eddie Waring, impressionists use exageration to portray their characters so obviously if it's a Rugby League commentator you would use the most distinctive, recognisable brand name in that sport.

Love this thread, it's starts of my talking about a rovers obsessed hull fan, then all the rovers fans talk about is, the fact that rovers are a bigger brand name than hull because you were once mentioned on eggheads.

Some of you lot are easily pleased.

I could have sworn sir Bob started it about the Rovers brand name, and the title kind of backs this up, but if your ego is in need of a little boost you knock yourself out bud!