Gordon EF Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Awful, cynical stuff from Shettleston. Do they think loads of folk from around Glasgow will come and support them due to the name? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bestsinceslicebread Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 16 minutes ago, Gordon EF said: Awful, cynical stuff from Shettleston. Do they think loads of folk from around Glasgow will come and support them due to the name? lol, well it worked for Glasgow Prestwick I'm not in the know but think that's why the name change 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 15 minutes ago, Bestsinceslicebread said: lol, well it worked for Glasgow Prestwick I'm not in the know but think that's why the name change That at least makes some sense. It let's people know know that you can use Prestwick for flying into Glasgow for folk who wouldn't otherwise realise. I seriously doubt there's anyone sitting around Glasgow thinking "I'd love a team to support. If only there was one that shows me it represents the whole of Glasgow in the name. Ah... Glasgow United. This is the team for me." 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) I can see why they've done it - there's a lot of teams whose names don't really reflect their catchment area and are a wee bit limiting. We're one of them...going by where most of our support comes from, our catchment is a huge chunk of the north west of the city from the centre out to maybe Milngavie that includes the whole west end of Glasgow, but the name of the club only reflects part of that area. In this case though they've chosen such a bland, generic name it could ultimately work against them...IMO they'd have been better rebranding to something with a bit of soul that reflects their place in the community of the east end of the city where there always historically has been a lot of local pride. Something as simple as Glasgow East End would have sufficed. Edited May 5, 2021 by Hillonearth 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutankhamen Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, Hillonearth said: I can see why they've done it - there's a lot of teams whose names don't really reflect their catchment area and are a wee bit limiting. We're one of them...going by where most of our support comes from, our catchment is a huge chunk of the north west of the city from the centre out to maybe Milngavie that includes the whole west end of Glasgow, but the name of the club only reflects part of that area. In this case though they've chosen such a bland, generic name it could ultimately work against them...IMO they'd have been better rebranding to something with a bit of soul that reflects their place in the community of the east end of the city where there always historically has been a lot of local pride. Something as simple as Glasgow East End would have sufficed. Doubt it would any loss to the average ex Junior team to rebrand. A crowd to most of them was/is on a good day a 100 punters. Less family and friends it's a loss making exercise regarding gate money. Rebrand/don't rebrand, doubt it would make any difference unless a sugar daddy appeared. As for the catchment area gig, only thing i can think of one thing to get noticed would be a winning team. For example, Maryhill would need to reach the Lowland League to get any serious recognition. And oh into the Big Scottish. Maryhill v Partick Thistle anyone. Edited May 5, 2021 by Tutankhamen f**k the SFA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 18 minutes ago, Tutankhamen said: Doubt it would any loss to the average ex Junior team to rebrand. A crowd to most of them was/is on a good day a 100 punters. Less family and friends it's a loss making exercise regarding gate money. Rebrand/don't rebrand, doubt it would make any difference unless a sugar daddy appeared. As for the catchment area gig, only thing i can think of one thing to get noticed would be a winning team. For example, Maryhill would need to reach the Lowland League to get any serious recognition. And oh into the Big Scottish. Maryhill v Partick Thistle anyone. You're right - if a team simply changes its name it'll have very little effect in the grand scheme of things, and so many clubs seem to be locked into archaic ways of getting their name out there...next to no online presence, relying on A4 sheets of paper blutacked up in a handful of local pubs advertising forthcoming games and subsequently wondering why it's only the same old faces that show up every fortnight. It says a lot that I lived just off Byres Road for about six years before I even knew Lochburn Park existed...hopefully we've got a bit better at making ourselves known since then. Specifically with the Town, changing the name to a Glasgow-wide one is unlikely to encourage many people to start going from the southside or wherever...the bulk of their support will probably still come from the wider east end and I'd have thought it would have been better to reflect that in any new name rather than the painfully vanilla one they've chosen. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutankhamen Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 17 hours ago, Hillonearth said: You're right - if a team simply changes its name it'll have very little effect in the grand scheme of things, and so many clubs seem to be locked into archaic ways of getting their name out there...next to no online presence, relying on A4 sheets of paper blutacked up in a handful of local pubs advertising forthcoming games and subsequently wondering why it's only the same old faces that show up every fortnight. It says a lot that I lived just off Byres Road for about six years before I even knew Lochburn Park existed...hopefully we've got a bit better at making ourselves known since then. Specifically with the Town, changing the name to a Glasgow-wide one is unlikely to encourage many people to start going from the southside or wherever...the bulk of their support will probably still come from the wider east end and I'd have thought it would have been better to reflect that in any new name rather than the painfully vanilla one they've chosen. Btw, do Broomhill still claim to be a Glasgow team? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 18 hours ago, Tutankhamen said: Doubt it would any loss to the average ex Junior team to rebrand. A crowd to most of them was/is on a good day a 100 punters. Less family and friends it's a loss making exercise regarding gate money. Rebrand/don't rebrand, doubt it would make any difference unless a sugar daddy appeared. As for the catchment area gig, only thing i can think of one thing to get noticed would be a winning team. For example, Maryhill would need to reach the Lowland League to get any serious recognition. And oh into the Big Scottish. Maryhill v Partick Thistle anyone. If it is true that the re-brand is tied in to the sale of the current ground for £3.5 million you'd hope that the cost of building the new ground would leave a decent size pot for creating a good team on the park. Maybe they're ambitious and could have a workable plan. Only time will tell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 54 minutes ago, Tutankhamen said: Btw, do Broomhill still claim to be a Glasgow team? BSC have been saying all season that it would be their last at Alloa. If that's correct they'd surely be looking to join their hundreds of other players, youths, kids, etc back in Glasgow for next season. I wondered if they'd made an arrangement to ground share. Maybe with Queens Park? Just a guess. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 2 hours ago, andrew21 said: On a podcast last week George Fraser said they aren't near getting back to Glasgow. Disappointing for them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnieman Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Just now, Ironside8 said: Welcome to the all new pyramid that sucks the heart and soul out of non league football where teams abandon history and tradition for absolute nonsense like this. What was wrong with the Gaswork ID? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lokloyal Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Yes got to agree.A famous name like Shettleston being discarded for a bland unidentifiable club name to achieve what? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Pennel Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Erm,..£3.5 million back for Mr. Kelly maybe ?... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latapythelegend Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 12 hours ago, Ironside8 said: Welcome to the all new pyramid that sucks the heart and soul out of non league football where teams abandon history and tradition for absolute nonsense like this. Hiya Gasworks, Hiya pal! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyro Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 13 hours ago, Burnieman said: What was wrong with the Gaswork ID? Got his baws kicked for some dodgy comments made on the Stenhousemuir thread. Disgusting little creature that he is 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanner Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 On 05/05/2021 at 11:52, craigkillie said: Absolutely rotten stuff. A name full of history and with a clear sense of location replaced by the most generic thing possible. yep. piss poor. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 21 hours ago, Burnieman said: What was wrong with the Gaswork ID? I dunno - imagine abandoning the history and tradition of being named after a famous Junior venue in favour of a bland, generic reference to a 1960s detective show. I blame the pyramid. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted May 7, 2021 Author Share Posted May 7, 2021 Assume the social club will be pan bread? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santheman Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 29 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: Assume the social club will be pan bread? Hope not It's the only place I've ever had a dance and a snog off a pensioner (she was quite nice looking tbf) during half time refreshments. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 53 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: Assume the social club will be pan bread? Aren't they already separated from each other? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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