New name for Tri-Nations competition

[waratahjesus]

Nah, Tri Nations is infinitely better.

It at the least signifies it's a tournament played amongst 3 nations.

The Rugby Championship is the laziest, and most insignificant generic title of any major sporting event EVER.

So knowing the number of teams playing is a far greater marketing tool than knowing the sport?

 

[light]

The Tri-Nations + 1 or Champions Cup.

I like it.

 

[Slim 293]

So knowing the number of teams playing is a far greater marketing tool than knowing the sport?

No wonder you like patty McCabe so much, prefer simple things.

6. Play the ball not the man

I don't get the sudden hostility, or the long bow drawn with the McCabe comment, but...

Give yourself an uppercut.

And if people don't know what the sport being played is then I would suggest 'simple' is not quite the word...

 

[What2040]

Southern 4 Nations

 

[waratahjesus]

Give yourself an uppercut.

And if you don't know what the sport being played is then I would suggest 'simple' is not quite the word...

I put it to you that to draw in an audience that some people might not know by the name "Tri Nations" what they would be watching. The naming of a competition has more to do with sponsors and the general public than those already watching.

 

[Brumbies Guy]

Hopefully next they create a Southern Hemisphere Cup with the remaining SH teams and include the winner as the 5th team on a promotion/relegation system.. Then they can rebrand fully to have it as a true Southern Hemisphere Rugby Championship.

 

[Karl]

The Southern Rugby Champions Cup

or

Southern Epic Rugby Cup

They're the best

 

[Schadenfreude]

The "Rugby Is More Interesting If You Use Your Backline Tournament"

 

[matty_k]

Let's get Apple to sponsor it and it can be called

Southern International Rugby Invitational

I couldn't think of a better word for the second I

 

[Bowside]

The league 4 nations ceases to exist next year anyway.

4 Nations would have been my pick. Or southern nations cup.

I hope the logo is better than the piece of shit superugby one.

 

[Jnor]

Can't believe people got paid for coming up with that name. Good to see their 1st worry was that it fit with what sponsors wanted rather than something to inspire the fans. Don't see how the name "The <insert sponsors name> Four Nations" would have been that bad. I suppose it's to make sure that if the name is shortened it will be to The Castrol Championship (or other sponsor) rather than people saying Four Nations. Would be similar to how people will more often say the Heineken Cup as opposed to the European Cup.

Also I guess it saves them a fee if at some point another Southern Hemisphere team was added. I magine the cost if they had gone with 4 nations and had to get another group of consultants in to rename it again would be huge. There was probably more money spent on the renaming exercise than some tier 2 or 3 national unions have as their yearly budget.

Wouldn't be surprised if in the near future one of the major competitions had it's emblem changed to the bean stalk that is expected grow from the magic beans they bought from some consultants.

The bit in bold. I'm sure that's why they've gone with the most generic name they could have come up with so that whoever the naming rights sposor is becomes the colloquial name for the series.

 

[Hardtackle]

Nah, Tri Nations is infinitely better.

It at the least signifies it's a tournament played amongst 3 nations.

The Rugby Championship is the laziest, and most insignificant generic title of any major sporting event EVER.

Apart from say The Championships. Being the tennis played yearly at Wimbledon.

 

[Slim 293]

Apart from say The Championships. Being the tennis played yearly at Wimbledon.

But it's generally referred to as Wimbledon...

 

[Hardtackle]

Except by the traditionalists. The Rugby Championships and The Championships are on a par with The World Series of Baseball played by yank teams only. It's a wank. If it's not for all countries/players then it's a wank. The poms can sort of get away with it because it was named in 1877 when it probably was the fair dinkum world tennis championships - so fair enough to call it The Championships.

 

[Swat]

The biggest sports marketing name-f#ck since the Sheffield Shield became the Pura Milk Cup...

 

[waratahjesus]

The biggest sports marketing name-f#ck since the Sheffield Shield became the Pura Milk Cup...

How is it a f@#k up at all, there is no tradition in it at all. It's just a generic name that allows growth and sponsorship in it. It's boring but it hardly shits on tradition or rugby at all.

Man there is some over reaction to this, who really cares?

 

[Slim 293]

Except by the traditionalists. The Rugby Championships and The Championships are on a par with The World Series of Baseball played by yank teams only. It's a wank. If it's not for all countries/players then it's a wank. The poms can sort of get away with it because it was named in 1877 when it probably was the fair dinkum world tennis championships - so fair enough to call it The Championships.

But those two events are at least the biggest achievements in those sports...

 

[Swat]

How is it a f@#k up at all, there is no tradition in it at all. It's just a generic name that allows growth and sponsorship in it. It's boring but it hardly shits on tradition or rugby at all.

Man there is some over reaction to this, who really cares?

I care, especially when our sport is always battling against other football codes, we need to be smart with our sport. Give people what they want rather than sponsors. I would have easily accepted the Four Nations or Quad-Nations but no. They come up with this weak-as-piss effort.... I'm sorry, tradition or not there's a difference between a generic name and one as pretentious in it's simplicity as The Rugby Championship.

 

[waratahjesus]

TRC - the rugby championship
AFL - Australian football league
NRL - national rugby league
A-league - Australian league

It really isn't that bad

 

[Hardtackle]

Or Lang Park became Suncorp etc etc etc. Losing traditional names etc is the price we have to pay for the increasing professionalisation of sport. If we don't pay all our best players would be in the Heinekan Cup etc. What pisses me off more is that you can only get test match rugby on free to air TV - in QLD at least. I hope that changes one day as the rise in popularity would strengthen our game and allow it to compete on a level playing field with league and rules. But I digress.......