Have just heard that Cunninghame orienteering club is no more. What a shame I no longer have to listen to Pyrat's oh so amusing insertion of a T into the name.
Don't worry folks AYROC (Ayrshire Orienteering Club)has risen from the ashes phoenix like.
I think it makes a lot of sense. In the old days the club grew in what was then called Cunninghame, now North Ayrshire though I do believe the historical name for Ayrshire is Cunninghame. A lot of people now have no idea where cunninghame is and when they tried to get funding from south Ayrshire council they had some difficulties because of the name. Though It's a pity we won't be able to have the fox as our symbol (Cunning - get it).
It raises an interesting point though, clubs with outdated, or stupid names. We participate in a minority sport and I really think we need club names that people who don't orienteer will understand and associate with a specific place without explaination.
When I have seen orienteering results in the paper the reporter (usually Bill Melville - sadly not a part of the AYROC revolution) has to change the club name to a place name. Can we expect the public to take names like Octavian Droobers seriously. No offence to OD, I'm sure there is a very clever and good reason behind the name, but to the public (and me) it's baffling. I have absolutely no idea where the club is based.
So lets have some nominations for the silliest club names in Britain.
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I think it would be a very sad day when clubs have to change some of the more interesting names. We at Harlequins are very proud of our identity and the name doesn't seem to have done a certain rugby club any harm - there are football club's whose names bear little relation to their location - except in some obscure histroical context like Arsenal - and those that do have names based on location almost inevitably revert to nicknames that don't "The Blades" "The Sadlers" "The Canaries" etc.
Hard to know what we could call Harlequins "All the way from north Birmingham down to Hereford Orienteering club" Doesn't quite have the same ring to it
Oh and another point - you now sound an awful lot like Aire Orienteering Club! Just a little Shire different
For the purposes of publicity and funding the Malvern initiative later this year - we simply created a division MADO (Malvern and District Orienteers) which allows us to invite orienteers from other clubs to join in without compromising their club identity.
Hard to know what we could call Harlequins "All the way from north Birmingham down to Hereford Orienteering club" Doesn't quite have the same ring to it
Oh and another point - you now sound an awful lot like Aire Orienteering Club! Just a little Shire different
For the purposes of publicity and funding the Malvern initiative later this year - we simply created a division MADO (Malvern and District Orienteers) which allows us to invite orienteers from other clubs to join in without compromising their club identity.
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i think harlequins can get away with it. some just cant though. if this sport is going to attract attention from a greater audience, a good start would be to get rid of the names that sound like bloody ramblers clubs, like essex stragglers and octavian droobers. they just dont dont speak to a wider audience.
and as for ayr souding like aire, u obviously aint been to ayr, eh mucker?
and as for ayr souding like aire, u obviously aint been to ayr, eh mucker?
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imagine the scottish equivalent of scarborough or something like that, full of people who are kinda like weegies, but with even less class or style.
my friend has a scrapbook of headlines from the ayrshire post, and i swear to god, one of the them says "woman lost car keys".
i cant remember any more but every one was a gem.
im now preparing for the ayrshire backlash.
my friend has a scrapbook of headlines from the ayrshire post, and i swear to god, one of the them says "woman lost car keys".
i cant remember any more but every one was a gem.
im now preparing for the ayrshire backlash.
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interesting to note.
Due to orienteers inhabiting a miniscule amount of the population, and the population being spread over a HUGE area, there is talk amongst my club 'Nillumbik Emus OC', of removing the word Nillumbik, as it refers to an area north of Melbourne where traditionally the majority of club members have hailed from.
The Reason for this is that it puts off newcomers from other areas of Melbourne who are more inclined to join a club which is less location specific.
And of course, if the club were only to gain members from the Nillumbik Shire, we would probably cease to exist.
Due to orienteers inhabiting a miniscule amount of the population, and the population being spread over a HUGE area, there is talk amongst my club 'Nillumbik Emus OC', of removing the word Nillumbik, as it refers to an area north of Melbourne where traditionally the majority of club members have hailed from.
The Reason for this is that it puts off newcomers from other areas of Melbourne who are more inclined to join a club which is less location specific.
And of course, if the club were only to gain members from the Nillumbik Shire, we would probably cease to exist.
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Woman walks into a butcher's shop, somewhere in Scotland.
Its a cold day and the butcher is stood by the fire.
The woman peruses the meats on display and then turns to the butcher and asks;
" Is that Your Ayrshire bacon ?"
"No" says the butcher
"Ah'm just warming ma Haunds"
Its a cold day and the butcher is stood by the fire.
The woman peruses the meats on display and then turns to the butcher and asks;
" Is that Your Ayrshire bacon ?"
"No" says the butcher
"Ah'm just warming ma Haunds"
If you could run forever ......
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Mrs H. wrote:Hard to know what we could call Harlequins "All the way from north Birmingham down to Hereford Orienteering club" Doesn't quite have the same ring to it
Oh and another point - you now sound an awful lot like Aire Orienteering Club!
There's no such thing as Aire Orienteering Club. We are actually called Airienteers - which tries but fails to tell anybody where we come from or what we do. Because of this the club has a subtitle - 'The orienteering club for Airedale and Wharfedale'.
Just calling ourselves Aire Orienteering Club in the first place would have been so much simpler. The abbreviation Aire makes more sense than the club name. And as somebody at work once pointed out to me, Airienteers sound like some sort of white supremacist organisation.
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Neil M35 wrote:[There's no such thing as Aire Orienteering Club. We are actually called Airienteers - which tries but fails to tell anybody where we come from or what we do.
So, nothing at all to do with orienteering by helicopters then ?
But didn't I hear a commentator say " and heres Aire flying down to the finish"
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I the Midlands you've got to know the region to locate the club. Wrekin is a big hill near Telford.
Walton in WCH is a small area of Stafford where the club hailed from. Octavian Droobers refers to King Henry VIII School where it started. POTOC refers to the potteries, even the defunct WYE referred to the river, so Harlequins are not alone in using clear regional definition. It would be incredibly hard to make club names relate to their areas so Joe Public can relate to them because they usually cover an area that is not defined by County or town or city.
We do of course have COBOC. Cit of Birmingham. But is that confined to the 'City of B'ham'????
Hocolite
Walton in WCH is a small area of Stafford where the club hailed from. Octavian Droobers refers to King Henry VIII School where it started. POTOC refers to the potteries, even the defunct WYE referred to the river, so Harlequins are not alone in using clear regional definition. It would be incredibly hard to make club names relate to their areas so Joe Public can relate to them because they usually cover an area that is not defined by County or town or city.
We do of course have COBOC. Cit of Birmingham. But is that confined to the 'City of B'ham'????
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You can't get more obvious than Southdowns Orienteers although my favorite have to be my old adopted club SOFA (Shedfield Orienteers and Footslogging Association), footslogging?!?!?! The logo says it all, an orienteering dude carrying a pint of beer!
But seriously I think that the more unusual club names give the sport a bit of character.
But seriously I think that the more unusual club names give the sport a bit of character.
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Suffolk...is quite simple, although we have members in Essex and Northumberland
Actually, we'd have probably merged with SOS years ago if they didn't have such a stupid name
Shame about Cunninghame..I'd only just discovered them whilst browsing the Nopesport links page and thought Mrs PFB might like to join them as it was her maiden name.
Actually, we'd have probably merged with SOS years ago if they didn't have such a stupid name
Shame about Cunninghame..I'd only just discovered them whilst browsing the Nopesport links page and thought Mrs PFB might like to join them as it was her maiden name.
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Running clubs, canoe clubs, triathlon clubs... they all have names that have the same sort of problem regarding place of creation. All clubs have a similar identity crisis. I don't think we need to worry too much about the location being defined in the name. People will join their closest club regardless of the name, unless they perceive another as being better!
The important part of the name is Orienteer(s)(ing). WFO, SO are good labels. AIRE and CLARO don't tell me orienteering.
The extension OC isn't helpful either. The word Club is so sixties/seventies. If we want to do the job right we should choose something that is "xxxxx" Orienteers. Just a thought! Bingley Harriers tells you a lot about that club!
The important part of the name is Orienteer(s)(ing). WFO, SO are good labels. AIRE and CLARO don't tell me orienteering.
The extension OC isn't helpful either. The word Club is so sixties/seventies. If we want to do the job right we should choose something that is "xxxxx" Orienteers. Just a thought! Bingley Harriers tells you a lot about that club!
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