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By Ian Rowden, 12 Oct 2009 The Crowd is a Roar Guru

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So it’s been just over a week since we joined the conversation on our new club, the Sydney Rovers FC. What a fantastic week it’s been. We’ve heard the good, the bad and the ugly, which is exactly the way it should be.

We’ve been following the conversations but figured, given our own time constraints, we would weigh in from time to time, not every day.

There seem to be a couple of questions hanging out there that we think we can answer:

1) Our Name.
Anytime you create a name you invite multiple responses. We want to thank all of you who have given us your view. However, we have decided that we’re not going to be known as a club with a non-football related name.

So those of you who want us called The Octopuses, The Buffalos, The Rhinos, The Metros, The Kickers, The Strikers….. blah, blah, blah. Sorry to disappoint you, but we are going to stick to our strategy of remaining traditional.

Over the past few days, the name Sydney Rovers FC has begun to take hold. The media has been overwhelmingly positive, and while not everyone ever agrees totally with a name, initially we’ve had enough feedback to tell us we’re on the right track.

2) The Stars
The idea behind them is really simple. The star on the left represents the Southern sky, the star in the middle represents the Western sky, and the star on the right represents the Northern sky.

Nothing more, nothing less.

It’s not a hybrid version of the Southern Cross, nor is it a constellation of any sort. It’s just three stars representing the broader north, west and south of our city.

3) The Colours
Red, white and black. Yep as strange as it may seem, we think it’s nice to have a subtle link to the great clubs of the past, like Western Suburbs and Blacktown City, who also carried these colours in one combination or another.

We also know from a commercial point of view, these three colours are a very powerful palette combination.

We are moving forward to look at how we will commercialize our look. We want to thank all you guys who have suggested various strip options to us.

In the coming months, we’ll continue to refine our thinking and we’ll let you know where we end up.

So the journey has started, and we have many decisions to take in the coming months. From time to time, we’ll check back in and let you know the progress we are making.

We said from the outset we wanted to build a club that was inclusive, and by that, we mean we want it to be a club for every football fan in Sydney. To this point we know we have to be prepared to listen and learn as we go.

And we intend to live up to this fact.

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