Lets talk about the white band....

alanmoodysdog

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Love the white band on the Boro top . It should be never tampered with. It should be as sacred as the red colour on the top. it should not have a logo but a red lion and MFC text in the centre. The band should go ALL around the back not just a stripe on the front. Could logos be put on the red part of the stripe?

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Love the white band on the Boro top . It should be never tampered with. It should be as sacred as the red colour on the top. it should not have a logo but a red lion and MFC text below View attachment 5511in the centre. The band should go ALL around the back not just a stripe on the front. Could logos be put on the red part of the stripe?
Therefore a hoop.

I agree but I prefer a black lion, as on the late 70s shirts.
In actuality, I suppose the lion really should be blue...
 
I don't like it as a hoop, I like it as a band.

I also prefer the badge in its current position.
 
A red top top is just a red top. A red top with a white band is a BORO TOP.

Well if Boro are destined always to play in red, then you either have a red shirt, or a red shirt with a hoop or some other device to make it different to loads of other teams in red.

Why not change the whole thing and play in green shirts or purple shirts or black or something else entirely? It seems weird to me that it's acceptable to mess around with the style of the shirt, or whether it has a hoop, red shorts or white, yet suggest changing the colour and people go apoplectic.

Leeds changed colour in the 1960s but the world didn't end.
 
QUOTE="Juninho10, post: 132579, member: 516"]While we're changing colours - let's add 'Ironopolis' on our name

Although Middlesbrough Ironopolis formed as a split from MFC in 1889 - i'm sure they wouldn't mind - all one big happy family[/QUOTE]


I've said this since I first heard of Middlesbrough Ironopolis, I think we'd be perceived as a bigger club if we had that tagged onto our name.
 
Jack Charlton said he introduced the red band so players could see each other better. Others said he was to represent the local steel industry and the white band represented a band of steel in molten red iron. Like the the white cross on the Cornish flag represented a band on tin on black rock. I think the white band is a bit naff, but it does make us distinct and as such I am fine with it. Before the white band we looked too much like Liverpool and Aberdeen strip wise.

I would have liked the area that is now called Middlehaven called Ironopolis. Football wise they were 2 separate and rival clubs. The old club still is present in the working men's club of the same name. Its a bit Victorian and harks back to a bygone era like Cottonopolis for Manchester, not sure about using it for a forward looking football club. Someone might own the name too.
 
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