Talk:Lions (United Rugby Championship)

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Article title[edit]

The Cats and other South African Super 14 teams are franchises, not club. The article's title should be changed. Should it be changed to Cats (Super rugby franchise) like the New Zealand Super 14 teams or Cats (rugby union) like Welsh side Ospreys?

Eastpaw 9.35, 10 July 2006 (UTC+8)

Lions?[edit]

Why did they actually change their name? What was the reason given?

According to the Golden Lions, they conducted "in-depth market research". In other words, it was a branding exercise. Here's my take on the rationale: Before 2005, the two main unions connected with the franchise were the Golden Lions and Free State Cheetahs. The Cats roster drew heavily from both unions, and they split their home games between Johannesburg and Bloemfontein. When the latter team became the core of the new Vodacom Cheetahs franchise, the main reason for using the "Cats" name disappeared. All home games are now in Jo'burg, and a large majority of the players on the Super Rugby side are now drawn from the Golden Lions (although the two other unions associated with the Super Rugby side have feline nicknames, namely Leopards and Pumas). — Dale Arnett 01:40, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jersey[edit]

I'm pretty sure the Lions away jersey is red- could someone change this in the image? ronan.evans 13:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved to Lions (Super Rugby). Jenks24 (talk) 07:46, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lions (rugby union) → Lions (Super rugby franchise) – To anyone in the Northern Hemisphere, Lions (rugby union) means British and Irish Lions. There are also articles at Golden Lions and Rugby Lions. The 2011 move discussion that put the Super rugby franchise to that title took no account of any of these. This page should therefore be moved. I suggest moving back to the former title Lions (Super rugby franchise) which still has lots of inlinks, but some other non-ambiguous title may be preferred for some other reason. Lions (rugby union) should in any case be either a dab or a {{R from incomplete disambiguation}} to Lion (disambiguation)#Sports. jnestorius^(talk) 23:07, 6 August 2012 (UTC) jnestorius^(talk) 23:07, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Survey[edit]

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.

Support. Per nom. Yes, Lions (in rugby) to those of us outside South Africa means British (and Irish) Lions, not some new-fangled "franchise". -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:34, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I agree, this should be a disambiguation page. My personal preference would be to move this page to Lions (Super Rugby) or Lions (Super Rugby team) though, rather than Lions (Super rugby franchise). TheMightyPeanut (talk) 16:16, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support renaming this article to Lions (Super Rugby) and turning this page into a disambiguation page pointing to the various Lions rugby teams. Greenman (talk) 17:40, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Any additional comments:

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