Going on what has already been released in the press, the name of the team is a done deal and the home ground is also a done deal. Keep it inclusive, keep it neutral.įurthermore, I read today that all home games will be played in Tuggeranong at Viking Park, which just further reinforces that this is a Tuggeranong Vikings team and not an inclusive Canberran team. If they weren’t around, we’d all be playing league. The local Canberra rugby community – the players, the volunteers, the supporters – are the backbone of rugby in this town. If you want this Canberran venture to really take off, don’t shun your strongest rugby supporters. Canberra is a small town with very strong loyalties, and my loyalties lie elsewhere. While I respect and even applaud The Viking Group for stepping up to helm the Canberra representative team, I cannot in good conscience follow a team bearing the name, logo and colours of the enemy. But the disparity is real and the resentment is present. Call it envy if you like call it jealousy, even. Tuggeranong continues to have financial strength to build and maintain Canberra’s best rugby facilities, while nearly all other clubs run their operations out of the homes of volunteers and businesses of their generous sponsors. Then there’s the economics side of things. As silly as the Canberra North/South divide often is, you’ll be hard pressed finding a staunch Uni-Norths supporter donning the red and white of the Vikings whether they were called Tuggeranong or Canberra. They could’ve guaranteed the support of every single red-blooded rugby supporter in the capital, but money and power have won over commonsense in this regard.īut it’s not all about the name. Much like Back to the Future, The Beatles and Hypercolor t-shirts, the classics never go out of fashion and are always popular.
They could have brought back the Kookaburras. You are already ostracising the rest of Canberra’s strong rugby community by calling them the Vikings. It’s like forming an ANZAC team to represent the Oceania region and just calling them the Oceania All Blacks, or having a Victorian AFL team to represent all of Victoria and call them the Victorian Magpies. But it's interesting to note that the datable events going on now (Æthelwulf's death, Alfred becoming king, the settlement of Iceland) all happened decades before Rollo came to power in Normandy, and Rollo never sent troops to Scandinavia if he had I suspect the unification of Norway would have happened much sooner as everybody joined together to drive the Frankish bastards back into the North Sea.Administrators of this new team are limiting their potential fan-base by calling the representative team after a local team of the same name. None of the Scandinavian stuff has any historical basis whatsoever (the "sons of Ragnar" are all famous but unrelated Vikings of the 9th century).
So it will be interesting to see what they have in mind for Alfie. The key event of Alfred's life has also already happened, a season or two ago (they're all starting to blur together), when Wessex was the last kingdom left standing and Alfred and his family were driven into the marshes from there, he rallied the survivors and began the reconquest of several of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, which lay the foundation for what would become the Kingdom of England. So I guess they were in a hurry to get to Alfred, which is understandable because his brothers weren't all that interesting (their main claim to fame is allowing the Great Heathen Army to take over much of England, although in the show that already happened), and Alfred after all is called Alfred the Great. He died, and only then did Alfred finally become king.because he was the only one left. He died, and was succeeded by Æthelred (the guy who turned down the throne in this episode), who reigned for five or six years. Then he died and was succeeded by his next brother (also not appearing in the show), who reigned for five years. He was deposed by his eldest surviving son (who doesn't appear in the show), who reigned for about three years. Wow, they're really going off the rails historically! And considering how they've been largely rail-less all along, that's saying something.
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