Wellington Phoenix Creation

I read that there was a shortlist of six team names for the Wellington a-league team and i'm now very curious if anyone has any idea what they were? And if there was other proposed colours etc

and what about a flag

2. Wellington City

3. Wellington Town

4. Wellington Wednesday

5. Wellington Albion

6. Wellington North End

1. Red

2. White

3. Blue

4. Green

5. Orange

6. Purple

Wasnt there a bit of a vote or something from memory?

Someone must be able to dredge it up

Wellington City United New Town?

The Wellington politicians - those early years promised so much and delivered so little.

Wellington Frodo

Wellington Gandalf

Wellington Boromir

Wellinton Gollum

Wellington Orc

Wellington Troll

Wellington Weka Studio (Not 51)

I'll have a dig through the Fever News archive and try to find it.

I hope they didn't do what the Auckland lot did and asked a marketing company.... what would be a good name for our football team? The NZ Knights. OK then cool, I'll pay you your fee.

FC Wellington the favourite
FRED WOODCOCK - The Dominion Post | Monday, 26 March 2007

It appears fans have had enough of "gimmicky" franchise names and prefer a more traditional approach to naming Wellington's A-League football team.


On Saturday, The Dominion Post published the top six choices of owner Terry Serepisos and asked for feedback. More than 50 per cent of responses plumped for "FC Wellington".

The other five names put forward from a selection of more than 250 were Wellington Phoenix, Wellington Wasps, Wellington Centurions, Wellington Thunder and Wellington Crew.

The underlying feeling was that "corny" names such as the Kingz and Knights should be dropped from an official club name, which still left room to develop a nickname, such as Phoenix or Wasps.

"I think FC Wellington would work with the nickname Hornets, like Watford are Watford FC but still have the logo Hornets," wrote Daniel McDonough.

"In addition, you could develop a nickname i.e. Arsenal (the Gunners), Liverpool (the Reds), FC Wellington (the Crazy Gang?)," added Gary Hewson.

Of the other five names, Wellington Phoenix was edging out Wellington Wasps and Wellington Centurions, while Thunder and Crew were proving least popular.

http://sfcu.com.au/smf202/index.php?topic=670.0

The Wellington Crew v The RBB ? 

Wasps is a rugby team; Centurion is a gay sauna off K' Road in Auckland; Thunder is an AC/DC song; and "Crew" would have been the most embarrassing name in the history of embarrassing names. We got by so many thousand miles the best option.

Some horrible suggestions in there. Shame we didn't go with Wellington City FC.

Surprised T didn't insist on Wellington Olympic. Or Hellenic. Or Hellas. Hell Pizza would have liked loved that!

Fixed.

Haha. Beef Wellingtons. Like.

The Dukes of Wellington?

Oh Terry. *sentimental tear*

Repulsae Nescia

'Know not defeat'

Wellington Boots?

Wellington Wellies?

Fixed.

Or the current German coat of arms

I thought they changed the wings because it didn't comply with the regulations that the A-League had back then about logos fitting within a shield.

Wellington Breasts

Wellington Nazis

Wellington John Hawkesbys

At least they choose a bird that can fly, fly away from the flames.

Roar, CCM and Knights didn't have shield shaped logos at the time.