Swinton havent played in that town since 1992 so its a bit different to changing the name of a towns club.

If people genuinely believe that a name is more important than the club then good luck.

They don't play in Swinton, so if anything the Swinton name is the bit that does not hold true. Basically Swinton the club is on life support and you could call the Manchester club a successor club or the birth of a new club.



But if they keep their name but lose everything else how does that benefit them?



Other clubs have changed their name before now, manningham changed its name and its sport.



Or chorley to Blackpool panthers.



Even the northern Union changed the sports entire name.



Its a different thing to compare a stable club like Warrington, that have a stable fan base and suggests changing their name or moving location.

When you've got over a century of history, the name IS the club. Sale RU don't play in Sale, and probably have a far higher percentage of their regular home crowd that don't live in the town whose name they bear than any RL club does. They tried a Manchester rebrand a few years ago, but reverted back to Sale because ultimately that is who they are, regardless of where they play or where their fans are drawn from. Swinton are Swinton and that's that.

Swinton directors should have learnt off Salford when koukash tried the same thing 2 years back.Koukash had to leave after fans abuse when he wanted to change Salfords name

Well the fans can do what they want now they have chased away the only fan putting money in to the club.

I'm sure them fans who chased away the chairman will dig into their own pockets to make up the shortfall that the chairman was putting in before.

RL Supporters: "The game needs better marketing!"

Swinton Board: "OK, we're going to reposition the club and work hard to make it appeal to new markets that don't necessarily identify with Swinton"

RL Supporters: "No, not like that. We meant put some posters in the bus station or something."

I enjoyed that, real rollercoaster

Us older one's remember the days when more or less had posters in their windows advertising the next home games.

In many ways I hope Swindon fold now, and the fans all like 500 of them have no club anymore. It's the whole bexit attitude that sums up this country, people cannot accept change and the world is not the same as in 1970.

If someone wants to start a club in a new town do it. Don’t steel the resources of an existing club, move them, disregard their history and expect all of the existing fan base to be happy about it.

Firstly, that's not what Swinton were doing. They were simply 'rebranding' as part of an attempt to make them relevant to an audience that doesn't necessarily identify with Swinton.



Secondly, the response from the existing fan base sums up so much that is wrong with many attitudes in the game. There's a sense that many would prefer to be "king of the rubble" than be a smaller part of something much bigger. And for what? A sense of nostalgia? People shouldn't cling to history because they are afraid of the future.