: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:07 pm  

jeffvickers wrote:

Hull & St Helens don't

Good point well made. lol

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:14 pm  

St Helens have Saints. Hull have FC/Airlie Birds.

My suggestion would be Halifax Hallers, a nod to your history with an abbreviation of the old Thrum Hallers nickname. A look at the Yanks and soccer shows that names don't have to be instantly anthropomorphic to get over with fans. Get your black cat in a top hat and you're away. The Hallers. You heard it here first.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:32 pm  

xLodefx wrote:

They were trying to be different, which it was. But it still sounded lame.

Jumping the gun, but if we did make it into the Super League would we have to come up with a new name?

I always fancied "Halifax bombers" until I realised it would sound a bit like "Halifax bummers" in chants on the terraces.

I thought they used the 'Bombers' moniker at one time , seem to remember a badge with a Halifax bomber depicted on a Sky televised game.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:53 pm  

I think these guys put the possibility of 'Bombers' being used to bed.

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:55 am  

styler wrote:

id prefer if we were still blue sox i loved it

The name "Bluesox" brings back good memories of being in the Superleague and playing the likes of Leeds, St Helens, Wigan and Bradford, instead of trailing up to Barrow, Whitehaven and Batley etc.

I say "bring in back"

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:32 am  

af wrote:

I think these guys put the possibility of 'Bombers' being used to bed.

True, but weren't they from Bradford?

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:57 am  

Brew wrote:

True, but weren't they from Bradford?

I thought it was Dewsbury.

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:28 am  

n beeston in leeds.

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:44 am  

spanishbob wrote:

The name "Bluesox" brings back good memories of being in the Superleague and playing the likes of Leeds, St Helens, Wigan and Bradford, instead of trailing up to Barrow, Whitehaven and Batley etc.

I say "bring in back"

No way, Pedro!

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:47 am  

af wrote:

St Helens have Saints. Hull have FC/Airlie Birds.

My suggestion would be Halifax Hallers, a nod to your history with an abbreviation of the old Thrum Hallers nickname. A look at the Yanks and soccer shows that names don't have to be instantly anthropomorphic to get over with fans. Get your black cat in a top hat and you're away. The Hallers. You heard it here first.

... and we have The Fax! We don't need a stupid name unless the RFL, in it's infinite wisdom, decides to award a franchise point for it which wouldn't surprise me in the least.