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| They're all calling DB on Twitter but I like everything to do with the rebrand. He put his money where his mouth is by signing top coaches and players to challenge for top honours so good luck to DB. Centurions is synonymous with relegation and the Championship. The leopards will be in the top 6 playoffs. We'll done Leigh!!! PS: and I bet there will be more top class signings as the season nears.
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| Quote ="WYSIWYG2"They're all calling DB on Twitter but I like everything to do with the rebrand. He put his money where his mouth is by signing top coaches and players to challenge for top honours so good luck to DB. Centurions is synonymous with relegation and the Championship. The leopards will be in the top 6 playoffs. We'll done Leigh!!! PS: and I bet there will be more top class signings as the season nears.'"
The signings you've made today aren't the best. The current ones are going to have to do well to get you in the Play Offs.
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| And is that kit your actual home kit? It's one of the most bizarre shirts there has been. It's definitely not boring. But the traditionalists might hate it I feel? But I guess differentiation from Wigan can only be a good thing.
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| Leigh Leopards are trending at #10 on Twitter in the UK, so it's got us some attention. Not positive attention, but still!
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| Quote ="micktheleyther"I mean... what?
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| Phineas T Barnum is associated (although disputed) with having coined the phrase, 'There is no such thing as bad publicity' and Leigh appear to have attracted a shed load of it today and we have become something of a laughing stock amongst the fans of our rivals
I'm not so sure about about the substance of the saying. I am also pretty sure that Liz Truss would disagree with the phrase.
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This is the presentation (for "Phase 1"icon_wink.gif given today.
It does read like management blurb.
But there is a new website due.
Some of the merch is appealing.
Then you can expect a "throwback"/"retro" cherry & white range at some point too.
It seems Leigh have gone from a lack of communication to an info dump of epic proportions.
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This is the presentation (for "Phase 1"icon_wink.gif given today.
It does read like management blurb.
But there is a new website due.
Some of the merch is appealing.
Then you can expect a "throwback"/"retro" cherry & white range at some point too.
It seems Leigh have gone from a lack of communication to an info dump of epic proportions.
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Presentation looks good, the name will grow (never liked Centurions and kept spelling it with an 'A')
Can understand the reasoning and everything else needed for an A category is being put in place. Hopefully the away kit is Cherry and White hoops.
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Presentation looks good, the name will grow (never liked Centurions and kept spelling it with an 'A')
Can understand the reasoning and everything else needed for an A category is being put in place. Hopefully the away kit is Cherry and White hoops.
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| Quote ="micktheleyther"I'll be more upset if we've ditched Cherry & White for our kit, and it looks like we have.'"
I thought your official colours were red and white not cherry and white?
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| Quote ="Zig"I thought your official colours were red and white not cherry and white?'"
Always been cherry and white in my 50 years of watching the team.
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| No red and white home kit this year
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| Quote ="Dick Jones"No red and white home kit this year'"
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| Would this of happened prior to the IMG introduction to the game , doubtful, but it looks like it has been well planned and not hurriedly thrown together. They have radically changed the identity of the club and all that goes with it. Proof is in the pudding If it works ,but I’ve never seen so much attention towards our club, admittedly not all positive
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| So what is the consensus on here? Is this real? A lot on Twitter are saying it's blatantly not, quoting certain social media not being updated as they have time limits for changes, i.e they wouldn't be able to change it back, so they've not done it on those platforms.
It seems on the edge of believability, could be either.
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| Quote ="Dick Jones"No red and white home kit this year'"
I don't mind the rebrand to Leopards . I can understand the reason for that but you can't change a team's colours and expect the fans to just accept it. We have always been cherry and white and always will be no matter what.
The leopard skin kit just makes me chuckle. We look like a team of 70s porn stars in that get up!! lol
I will just continue to wear my cherry and white shirt and I expect a lot more supporters will be doing. I think DB will have to do a big U-turn on that gaffe.
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| In the end it is just marketing. We are Leigh Rugby League Club. Centurions had been around a while but again was just marketing. Leigh Leopards should land with younger fans. Sure Red and white will appear again. They are trying to change the persecution of the club on and off the field. If we get traction in SL and stay up everyone will get onboard with the rebrand.
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| [i“Je déteste les léopards!” [/i
Seems people are laughing at our rebranding. Bongser is with WYSIWYG that the Centurions suffix was outdated and needed to go, at the naissance of an exciting new era for Leyth.
In The Edge tonight after work and belly aching about it being a slow news day (Liz falling on her gladius was not really news), then the younger Bongsette WhatsApped to ask for thoughts on Leigh Leopards. Initial scurry for gen then a composing of thoughts for the following ramble.
The quotation at the top of said is from Napoleon Bonaparte. 1066 and all that, the standard of the Norman conquerors was [itrois léopards[/i. It continued to be so into the time of Richard, Cœur de lion (Lionheart) and beyond, surviving long enough to reach the badges of English representative sports teams. They were clearly still stylised leopards into the ‘60s. Then they started to ‘morph into lions (perhaps because of “Lionheart”, maybe the “Lion & the Unicorn” rhyme?). Certainly because of dumbing down: it was reported to Bongser in ‘96 that one of the Red Tops (The Sun? - can’t recall) had “helpfully” published the lyrics to a certain Skinner & Baddiel song doing the rounds at the time; it included:
“Three LINES on a shirt…”
Fitting in with OMG bestial proposals? Leopards are smaller than (Swinton) Lions and (Castleford) Tigers, smaller than the, now defunct, (Coventry) Bears and (Leeds) Rhinos. What about “Leigh Leviathans” - bigger than all animals, feared by all humankind and two As in it already so no accidental ones in “Centurians.”
Certain other reports do concern Bongser. A LEOPARD CAN’T CHANGE TO STRIPES!!!
This party will be wearing Cherry & White HOOPS next season!
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| Indeed, the nickname is transitory, we are simply Leigh and with it too goes the names.
We can all play detective. So what if FaceBook means you can't change your name back until after 7 days. The season is still a while away, plenty of time to change it back.
The twitter handle is now @LeighRLFC_
It was previously @LeighCenturions (which, if they are smart that should have registered with a separate email to atleast keep hold of the handle) but it isn't "LeighLeopards"
It's been quite the fortnight for u-turns, and you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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| Can take or leave the new name. Wouldn't have been calling for it but on reflection I have no really strong affinity to the Centurions moniker either. I'm 31 and although I've always loved the club, those years as Centurions have seen basically zero success outside of the Championship.
It feels as a club that we are turning a corner and if we were ever going to rebrand then now is the time.
Far more interested in the team on the pitch than anything else and I am more than happy with the announcements on that front. Ipape, Lam, Hardaker, Ferguson, Asiata and Leutele gives us some serious strike power for the season ahead. Aaron Smith seemingly on board too is an astute signing and shows we aren't just about the flair and fan fare type players. Mellor, Smith, Wardle and Amone are guys that will just get on with the job and deliver consistently good rugby
Not what I thought I'd be saying at the start of the day but... Up the Leopards!
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| Only issue I do have is I don't think we should give up the Cherry and White home kit. Those are the Leigh colours and I would struggle to come to terms with anything else.
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| S'pose it's better than Leigh Lemmings if the marketers/schmarketers are touching themselves over alliteration.
Leyth Lobbygobblers? 
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| Quote ="Deeeekos"https://indd.adobe.com/view/3d3e261d-1fa5-41de-8aee-f89dad654e96'"
I think the growl from the Leopard was sampled from my bathroom sink...
The logo looks somewhat professional, but that kit looks like an absolute joke in all honesty. And part of me thinks that this is actually still a joke for marketing. Alliteration works for teams like Bradford, Wigan and Warrington. Leigh Leopards just doesn't sound right at all.
I think the current logo needed a slight revamp, but it looks quite good as all white on a red background. Rebranding is understandable, I get that, but you just know when something doesn't look or sound right, and I this is one of those times.
I'd suggest the Leigh Radfords, or the Leigh Briers as potentially better names.
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| Mixed feelings for Jack.
There was palpable excitement at the quality of the signings announced. Forget play-off places. First and foremost, is this a team that should comfortably stay up, something we have always failed to do in the SL era. For me, its a resounding yes, we flippin' well will. I cannot wait for the season to start.
Then the re-brand. Yes, its DB's club and yes, he has the final say because its his huge financial investment in the club that has got us to this point but, but, but, the club is nothing without the fans and the dropping of our historic colours has left this lifetime fan feeling very cold indeed.
The cherry and white hoops are my teams colours irrespective of what the team is called. Tradition counts for something, despite what marketing men (and women) will tell you. DB should have sounded out the fans (us) about ditching the team's colours and with it ditching one of the central aspects of the team's heritage.
Remember the huge opposition by Cardiff City FC fans to the re-branding of their club's colours and the ditching of their traditional nickname of the Bluebirds by new owners. The fans felt that they were losing something fundamental about the club they loved. Eventually they got their way after huge and sustained opposition and the error was corrected but it took them years to get the wrong righted.
Fans feel passionate about their club and that's what I feel about my town's rugby team. The identity of that team is the cherry and white hooped shirt. This particular fan feels very cold and unhappy by the loss of the traditional colours. Yesterday, we lost something from the very heart of this great club of ours.
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