Change of name...New Nickname

[HumptyWFC2011]

Humpty here changed my name to "The Guardsman" as I am hoping this could become our new nickname until we maybe get "The Royalists" back. So I am not hiding behind a new name.

 

My highlight of lastnight

 

http://youtu.be/TIBnYMltl0U

Edited September 27, 2011 by The Guardsman

[Don't Blame Me]

My nickname of preference, which is not endorsed by the club or commitee I hasten to add, is The Stags. We have Scotty the Stag in place already and we play at Stag Meadow.

 

<<Pedant mode on>> GuardsMEN, not Guardsman <<Pedant mode off>>

 

[mattwefc]

the stags are AFC totton so thats a no go really! the guardsmen to tie in with the historical nature of the town, why not!!

[sparksy]

Yep Guardsmen is good with me!! Cant have Stags because of the reason Matt has given above!!

[Rother]

I don't think we are likely to be encountering AFC Totton anytime soon.

 

Stags makes absolute sense for the reasons given and I don't think our recent rivalry with one of several teams using that nickname should prevent us taking the obvious / sensible option.

 

Having said that I wouldn't have a problem with The Guardsmen!

[Don't Blame Me]

I read what has been written and I appreciate the "rivalry" with AFC Totten. Taking this as an example, how come both Swindon Town AND Bristol City share the same nickname? IE The Robins. Doesn't do either of them any harm and their rivalry is considerably bigger and longer than what W&E experienced with Totten. Do Windsor have any rivals yet? Molesey perhaps?

 

Frankly, whatever the nickname, I hope to hear it chanted on a terrace near me very soon. In the games that I saw under Windsor & Eton, I never heard mention of "The Royalists". What I did hear was reference to "Royals". Isn't this Reading's nickname?

[HumptyWFC2011]

I put this as a comment on the Maidenhead Advertiser report about the Nickname:

 

The unnofficial nickname by the Barmy Army is "The Guardsman" (Should be men). Supposedly named after the Windsor & Eton Brewery Beer and the Barracks down the road.

 

http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/sport/article-23125-urgent-nickname-needed-at-stag-meadow/

[mattwefc]

it's got nothing to do with a rivalry with totton! the stags refers to totton and people would think of totton if the nickname "stags" appeared in a newspaper headline in the non league paper for example or in online press.

 

i just don't see why we'd want a nickname thats the same as another clubs when we could chose just about anything new! it's an opportunity to create something unique!

[HumptyWFC2011]

Also "The Stags" sounds a bit lame but "The Guardsmen" sounds strong.

[Rother]

Because we play at Stag Meadow and our Mascot is called Scotty The Stag it would seem The Stags is the most appropriate to me.

 

But The Guardsmen is good too.

[Stag Whippet]

I don't think we are likely to be encountering AFC Totton anytime soon.

 

Stags makes absolute sense for the reasons given and I don't think our recent rivalry with one of several teams using that nickname should prevent us taking the obvious / sensible option.

 

Having said that I wouldn't have a problem with The Guardsmen!

 

Here Here !!

 

You cant have that !!

 

No idea why we are the Stags, maybe something to do with the New Forest.

 

Anyways, how it going this season - i still look at your results - sad git that i am.

How are the gates compared to last season ?

What are the propects for this season and next ?

 

Pleasantly surprised with our start, although don't get carried away, but I can see how you were making a good fist of this league in your previous guise. My prediction was 9th, now, maybe a play off place. Pleasingly though, my prediction of bottom to Cirencester looks like a solid bet.

[Rother]

Hey there, good to see you popping in!

 

Well, it's been a bit stop start really - injuries, floodlight failures, not quite gelling....

 

But today, we won 11-0 (!) so things might be coming together. (However Banstead were worse than Bracknell the other year though so we won't be judging the prospects on that game too much.)

 

Gates are well down on last year but that's mainly due to fewer away supporters I feel.

 

Personally I'd imagine we'll finish Top 4 but I'm just happy to have a team to support again and really this season is about getting established, develop the prospects for future revenue generation and run it with a tightly controlled budget really.

 

(Recognise the album cover...?)

[Dick Scratcher]

I'm not keen on "The Guardsmen" as a nickname, not everybody has entirely favourable memories of growing up in a garrison town. Someone on another thread suggested "The Cavaliers", and i'm all in favour of that because i once owned a Cavalier, great car.

 

But it should be remembered that Windsor play in the ancient parish of Spital, and Spital is most famous for being a Leper colony back in the middle ages.

 

Therefore might i suggest "The Lepers" as our new nickname?

[Spital Rover]

Having a lifetime affiliation with Spital, I think Richard's suggestion could stand the test of time, It would certainly turn some heads at the games when the opposition hear Windsor supporters chanting, Lepers, Leperrrs, Leepperrrrs especially if the crowd were ringing bells as well???

[Mrs_Cat]

likewise I too have a lifetime affliation with spital and like "The Lepers" it would certainly be unique!

 

I'm afraifd "the cavaliers" also reminds me of terrible schoolboy football teams and a really ugly car.

 

I'll throw another name into the hat, what about "the forresters".

 

"the story of windsor" book say the following about the leper hospital......

 

"The leper hospital was founded in 1168 and dedicated to St Peter. It's likely that the main buildings were in St Leonards Road. It was expanded about a hundred years later, by being given 120 acres of Windsor Forest. This seems to have been the area between Bolton Road and Stag Meadow.

 

In 1462 Edward IV gave the hospital to Eton College. He goes on to mention some of the meadows becoming brickfields in the nineteenth century, and that there was a mineral water factory on the site of the leper hospital.

Edited October 6, 2011 by Mrs_Cat

[Don't Blame Me]

Lepers, bells and shrouds. I can see it now. Could put a whole new meaning to face painting when we get round to that sort of thing. Whereas my fave is The Stags, I started thinking laterally. What are Stags associated witgh? Hounds. What are hounds? Dogs. So we could be nicknamed The Dogs. The local press would have fun with word association as in "Gone to the Dogs" when we lose. Plus, and best of all, my partner in crime suggested that the team comes out to "Who let the dogs out".

 

I'll get my coat...

[dansilk]

Lepers certainly has novelty value.

And we could have some original songs, too; chants that no one else has ever conceived, or indeed wanted.

 

"We all live in a leper colony, a leper colony, a leper colony"

and

"When we lose we really fall apart, really fall apart, really fall apart..."

(to Yellow Submarine)

 

"Pack up our strikers in a big net bag and score, score, score" (to Pack up your troubles)

 

To "We are Sailing":

We are Windsor, Spital Lepers

Can we beat you, can we please?

Let us score, score some more,

Or we'll give you, our disease"

 

And the team could come on to the pitch to "Bits and Pieces".

 

All thoroughly tasteful, obviously.

 

-- Edit: and won't somebody think of the mascot...

Edited October 6, 2011 by dansilk

[HumptyWFC2011]

The Cavaliers sounds camp.

The Stags is so boring.

The Lepers isn't very PC

 

but "The Guardsmen" sounds stout and true.

[Geggy]

Paul - make sure you don't hold back and say how you see it!

[HumptyWFC2011]

You know me subtle as a flying wooden hammer