Seeing as the Hull owner has applied to change their name to Hull Tigers, would you be happy if Watford changed to Watford Hornets?
If we're going to change our name, we should pull a fast one and make it the Walford Hornets instead. We could get a shirt deal from Eastenders and increase our worldwide marketing potential. At the same time, we could rename the stadium to the Queen Vic on a lucrative stadium sponsorship contract.
If you're considering history we should be called the Brewers or the blues and offer free beer at half time.:drinking: We should be called Happy Egg FC and have done with it.:deeney:
Whether people love it or hate it, it is following a trend, Ice Hockey, Rugby league & union, cricket, world wide for T20. Its only a matter of time before clubs use an addition to their name to capture a growing marketing audiance an dcash in on new merchandise and advertising. The bloke at Hull just happens to be the fore runner and ahead of the game
It's funny you say this. My Dad has a few watford tattoos and on his left shoulder he has WATFORD but due to the style of writing it looks like Walford. He gets a fair bit of stick about it!
Don't really care as long as Watford is in the title somewhere. We're a club with great community links and we shouldn't distance ourselves from that. Watford Pastamongers would be ok.:italian:
No matter what owners or the FA think up, fans will stil dictate which name is actually used (Wolves, Toon, Spurs, Baggies, Tykes etc etc) Even non-fans of a club can give a nickname that sticks (Scum)
We haven't quite worked this out properly in the England though. Warwickshire CC have announced they will be Birmingham Bears in the 20/20 this years. Hasn't gone down too well with the fan base to say the least! We haven't got town or city on the end of our name so I think Hornets would be an excellent idea. Once we get the new ground built in St Albans and can finally move onto a better middle-class form of supporter base (very obviously why we are only building a new temporary stand) , I feel the name Watford Hornets would have excellent marketing possibilities with the local cash rich population in the St Albans area. This would be real progress for the club and I am sure would mean we could a market to all of the potential Arsenal fans who have been on the waiting list for season tickets at Ashburton Grove for years. Being on a far better train line as well would mean we could market more to businesses in London and get vital income by having more executive boxes
Good line by Jim White in the Telegraph today about how even from a 'commercial perspective', surely you want to keep the core support rather than try and entice someone who might follow a team on TV just because it is named after an animal!
Abstaining as no middle option for 'it doesn't really matter as it won't change what I call them, what other people call us or how I view the club. Also the owners saved the club so I might let them have this one favour.' ****ing Dull fans. Though let's be honest, if the Pozzo's said we were to be called the Watford Hornets, the the WST would have a field day. All that media coverage. Lovely jubbly.
[video=youtube;tgS1RFk1cU8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgS1RFk1cU8[/video] No thread on Hull would be complete...
NOBODY should mess with the name and heritage of a professional football club .. That's why we play in blue and are called The Brewers - - oh, hang on..
well now that the Queer Pork Raiders are moving to a big stadium and will soon be Old-Oak Ham we had better act fast .... I always fancied us as "the crazy gang" as nobody else is using it right now and if you zoom out on google earth we are really quite close to Wimbledon when viewed from outer space ... well much nearer than MK Dons are anyway.
