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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 26, 2016 22:18:47 GMT 1
As it's been eight hours and you've had no likes, I think I'll dare put my head above the parapet. I've never really liked our manufactured nickname, simply "Town" has always been good enough for me. The whole idea of a marketing man more interested in Rugby Union (FFS not even league) creating our nickname, unfortunately sticks in my throat a little. Whilst some "Terriers" are appealing the Yorkshire Terrier seems a little yappy rat of a dog that seems more readily associated with elderly women than the beautiful game. Sorry Up The Town. PS Just for clarity, I should state I quite like Terry The Terrier (except when he looks like a fox - not that really looks like a yappy rat). I'd certainly buy the bloke inside a beer. It's not like we went against the grain, just about every club in the country has a nickname.. I meant in comparison to other nicknames I love ours.. The Brewers, Robins, Millers, Peacocks, Canaries, Royals, etc, don't cut it for me. Atleased we can build an identity around ours They were old established club nicknames - ours was a cheap marketing ploy.
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Post by runner76 on Oct 26, 2016 22:34:22 GMT 1
First billionaire to buy us will change it no doubt.......
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Post by Made In Yorkshire on Oct 26, 2016 23:32:01 GMT 1
I've only ever been bitten by one dog.
Yes, you guessed and it was the sneakiest attack imaginable. Little sod snuck up behind after I'd previously and successfully stared it off and got me right on the ankle. Hurt like **** it did.
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Post by gledholt terrier on Oct 27, 2016 7:02:11 GMT 1
It's not like we went against the grain, just about every club in the country has a nickname.. I meant in comparison to other nicknames I love ours.. The Brewers, Robins, Millers, Peacocks, Canaries, Royals, etc, don't cut it for me. Atleased we can build an identity around ours They were old established club nicknames - ours was a cheap marketing ploy. Despite it being adopted in 1969, peak Mad Men era, this was late sixties Huddersfield not Madison Avenue. Cheap, I'll give you - it was announced, after the season started, on about page 7 of the programme without much fanfare and the only discernible difference was the old red terrier badge which looked like it had been badly drawn by Bill Brook's (then) 9 year old son James - a lad I went to school with. Ploy, I can't give you - they just weren't that cynical and club merchandise was pretty non existent anyway. Personally, I've always liked it (but whereas you would have been a sulky, rebellious teenager Richard, I was a bright eyed 9 year old untouched by cynicism yet). It has certainly lasted the test of time - 47 years on, it's the basis of our new found "identity". Ooh to be.......
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Post by Bassingham Terrier on Oct 27, 2016 8:47:13 GMT 1
Orient's a good one. Started out as Orient, then became Clapton Orient but changed again to Leyton Orient because there already was another club called Clapton. How many knew that? Incidentally, Clapton was yet another club to tumble out of the Football League. They were there in the early 1920s as my PINNACE CARDS site shows. My PINNACE CARDS SITE link
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 27, 2016 10:43:40 GMT 1
They were old established club nicknames - ours was a cheap marketing ploy. Despite it being adopted in 1969, peak Mad Men era, this was late sixties Huddersfield not Madison Avenue. Cheap, I'll give you - it was announced, after the season started, on about page 7 of the programme without much fanfare and the only discernible difference was the old red terrier badge which looked like it had been badly drawn by Bill Brook's (then) 9 year old son James - a lad I went to school with. Ploy, I can't give you - they just weren't that cynical and club merchandise was pretty non existent anyway. Personally, I've always liked it (but whereas you would have been a sulky, rebellious teenager Richard, I was a bright eyed 9 year old untouched by cynicism yet). It has certainly lasted the test of time - 47 years on, it's the basis of our new found "identity". Ooh to be....... As I recall it was supposed to bring us in to the "modern era"! We didn't have a nickname whereas most clubs did. I was really wholeheartedly against it at the time because my aunty had a pretty one with a bow, but which tried to shag my leg every time I visited, and smelled badly due to the problems of having too much hair round its bum. I like Wagner's take on it - though its taken nigh on 50 years for it to have any meaning to me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 10:52:41 GMT 1
I've only ever been bitten by one dog. Yes, you guessed and it was the sneakiest attack imaginable. Little sod snuck up behind after I'd previously and successfully stared it off and got me right on the ankle. Hurt like **** it did. I got bit by a dog when I was a kid. It's lived with me ever since. Although nowadays, I call her the wife.
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Post by runner76 on Oct 27, 2016 11:10:10 GMT 1
Despite it being adopted in 1969, peak Mad Men era, this was late sixties Huddersfield not Madison Avenue. Cheap, I'll give you - it was announced, after the season started, on about page 7 of the programme without much fanfare and the only discernible difference was the old red terrier badge which looked like it had been badly drawn by Bill Brook's (then) 9 year old son James - a lad I went to school with. Ploy, I can't give you - they just weren't that cynical and club merchandise was pretty non existent anyway. Personally, I've always liked it (but whereas you would have been a sulky, rebellious teenager Richard, I was a bright eyed 9 year old untouched by cynicism yet). It has certainly lasted the test of time - 47 years on, it's the basis of our new found "identity". Ooh to be....... As I recall it was supposed to bring us in to the "modern era"! We didn't have a nickname whereas most clubs did. I was really wholeheartedly against it at the time because my aunty had a pretty one with a bow, but which tried to shag my leg every time I visited, and smelled badly due to the problems of having too much hair round its bum. I like Wagner's take on it - though its taken nigh on 50 years for it to have any meaning to me. ....lucky Wagner isn't building the team identity on the traits of your aunties Terrier..............
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Post by ram on Oct 28, 2016 10:13:53 GMT 1
Walthamstow Avenue..My dad played for them!
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Post by Malvern Tom (WAHLS) on Oct 28, 2016 10:26:19 GMT 1
Hartlepools United, Clapton Orient/Orient, Leicester Fosse Leeds Tossers
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