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For the last ten years or so the NRL club Canterbury-Bankstown has been known simply as the Bulldogs but it has been announced today that they will revert back to the full name with the nickname remaining but obviously de-emphasised.
I don't know about the rest of you but it's often annoyed me when watching national sports show over the years, to hear the "Bulldogs" word pop up and then find they're talking about the NRL club. Very often its involved thuggish behaviour from their fans, salary cap cheating from the administration or indiscretions (to put it mildly) from their players.
I think this is all good news for our club, not only will it help avoid confusion in a lot of cases where they will be referred to just as Canterbury but I think it will strengthen us nationally as the BULLDOG brand and one that has less untarnished connotations caused by that club. Hard to quantify to what extent I know but I think there's got to be some benefit even though they are in another state and in another code.
Canterbury only adopted the Bulldog name in the late 70s, at least half a century after we did and it's far more part of our heritage than theirs; so its good from that perspective as well.
I'm not interested in hearing about the let's go back to Footscray name argument (that will never happen) but would interested to know people's thoughts on the implications for us.
I don't know about the rest of you but it's often annoyed me when watching national sports show over the years, to hear the "Bulldogs" word pop up and then find they're talking about the NRL club. Very often its involved thuggish behaviour from their fans, salary cap cheating from the administration or indiscretions (to put it mildly) from their players.
I think this is all good news for our club, not only will it help avoid confusion in a lot of cases where they will be referred to just as Canterbury but I think it will strengthen us nationally as the BULLDOG brand and one that has less untarnished connotations caused by that club. Hard to quantify to what extent I know but I think there's got to be some benefit even though they are in another state and in another code.
Canterbury only adopted the Bulldog name in the late 70s, at least half a century after we did and it's far more part of our heritage than theirs; so its good from that perspective as well.
I'm not interested in hearing about the let's go back to Footscray name argument (that will never happen) but would interested to know people's thoughts on the implications for us.
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