Gloucestershire County Cricket Club have recently started a survey to ask it's members about a possible name change. They are proposing dropping Gloucestershire from then name of the T20 squad to a Bristol name!
This cannot be allowed to happen. If it did I can only believe that in time they would also do the same with the one day team as well.
This club is a club for a whole county and not just one city. It has been and should always remain Gloucestershire.
If the name was to change it would only be time before the impact was felt on the Cheltenham Cricket Festival. Fans of Gloucestershire will not turn up to watch a team they have no association with.
Please join me in opposing this change and showing Gloucestershire loves it cricket and we are not willing to let Bristol take it from us!
Updates
November 5, 2015
The feedback I keep getting from across the county makes it clear that we are not the only ones worried about losing our identity. I am currently reaching out to other members to organize how we present our resistance directly to the board. It is exhausting work but we have to keep pushing to ensure this club stays rooted in the entire county.
November 5, 2015
Seeing this level of support reinforces my belief that our county identity is worth the fight. It is exhausting to keep pushing back against those who want to strip away our history but your energy keeps me going.
Reached 100 supporters
November 5, 2015
59 Comments
I supported Gloucestershire from when I was 8 (50 years ago) because I lived there. I continued to follow them when I moved away. Now that I live in Canada, I periodically like to find out how they are doing as it is a trip down memory lane, but if the club ceases to be "Gloucestershire", there will really be nothing to draw me to see how this new club is doing.
Our club's name is Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and there's a clue there: County. The club has members and fans across Gloucestershire and beyond and most of us - including Bristolians - would feel no affiliation to a club called Bristol. If the club does this then it loses many of us, not just for T20 but full stop.
Utterly disgraceful. Most of the support comes from the north of the county. Are they that desperate to attract support from Bristol and to hell with likes of us?
Russell, Grace, Jessop, Graveney, Harvey , Procter et al didn't play for Bristol so let's not go there and leave the tribalism to football please.
The Shire have many followers from my town Swindon, they will have a lot less if they change their name to Bristol ! Gloucestershire forever !
Gloucestershire is so much more than just Bristol.
Won't be the same if it changes keep it the same.
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Gloucestershire County Cricket Club have recently started a survey to ask it's members about a possible name change. They are proposing dropping Gloucestershire from then name of the T20 squad to a Bristol name!
This cannot be allowed to happen. If it did I can only believe that in time they would also do the same with the one day team as well.
This club is a club for a whole county and not just one city. It has been and should always remain Gloucestershire.
If the name was to change it would only be time before the impact was felt on the Cheltenham Cricket Festival. Fans of Gloucestershire will not turn up to watch a team they have no association with.
Please join me in opposing this change and showing Gloucestershire loves it cricket and we are not willing to let Bristol take it from us!
Updates
November 5, 2015
The feedback I keep getting from across the county makes it clear that we are not the only ones worried about losing our identity. I am currently reaching out to other members to organize how we present our resistance directly to the board. It is exhausting work but we have to keep pushing to ensure this club stays rooted in the entire county.
November 5, 2015
Seeing this level of support reinforces my belief that our county identity is worth the fight. It is exhausting to keep pushing back against those who want to strip away our history but your energy keeps me going.
Reached 100 supporters
November 5, 2015
59 Comments
This is such a disappointing idea. Bizarrely, of all the "City" franchises you could propose - Leicester, Derby, Northampton, this is one place where the half the people in the biggest city in the county support another team, Somerset! You ain't going to get them to switch for you!
I supported Gloucestershire from when I was 8 (50 years ago) because I lived there. I continued to follow them when I moved away. Now that I live in Canada, I periodically like to find out how they are doing as it is a trip down memory lane, but if the club ceases to be "Gloucestershire", there will really be nothing to draw me to see how this new club is doing.
Our club's name is Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and there's a clue there: County. The club has members and fans across Gloucestershire and beyond and most of us - including Bristolians - would feel no affiliation to a club called Bristol. If the club does this then it loses many of us, not just for T20 but full stop.
Utterly disgraceful. Most of the support comes from the north of the county. Are they that desperate to attract support from Bristol and to hell with likes of us?
Russell, Grace, Jessop, Graveney, Harvey , Procter et al didn't play for Bristol so let's not go there and leave the tribalism to football please.
The Shire have many followers from my town Swindon, they will have a lot less if they change their name to Bristol ! Gloucestershire forever !
Gloucestershire is so much more than just Bristol.
Won't be the same if it changes keep it the same.
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This is such a disappointing idea. Bizarrely, of all the "City" franchises you could propose - Leicester, Derby, Northampton, this is one place where the half the people in the biggest city in the county support another team, Somerset! You ain't going to get them to switch for you!