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Stuck for a Super League team to support? Look no further than the logos, ranked from best to worst for your convenience.
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Unless you happen to hail from the north of England or the south of France, choosing a Super League team to support can be a neverending nightmare of bewilderment and regret.
Conventional wisdom would suggest you choose the team with the best or coolest players, but players come and go. A couple of years and you could be stuck supporting the worst team of unlovable idiots rugby league has ever seen. Another train of thought would suggest choosing the team with the most exciting playing style, but just like players, coaches are little more than dust in the wind in the great scheme of things.
The secret to choosing a Super League team is simple, and it’s been hiding in plain sight the whole time. It’s the logo. In a world of constant changes, a logo is one of the few things you can rely on. A logo will last decades, sometimes even centuries.
And the Super League is home to some of the best logos in professional sport. Its foundation in 1996 – replacing the old Rugby Football League Championship – provided England’s ancient rugby league clubs with the perfect opportunity to break the shackles of tradition in favour of a beautiful 1990s design aesthetic.
Here are all 12 Super League team logos, loosely ranked from best to worst based on how they’d look printed on the front of an otherwise plain white t-shirt.
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1. Catalans Dragons
The only French side in the competition, the Dragons logo looks like it belongs to a karate club more than a rugby league club – this is surely the highest praise any logo can get.
Choose this club if you like: Martial arts; hard fantasy novels
2. Castleford Tigers
The circular majesty of the Castleford Tigers logo is as close to sports design perfection as any logo in the world. Almost too good as a t-shirt design; could be mistaken for high-end streetwear.
Choose this club if you like: High-end fashion; big cats
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3. Wigan Warriors
From a distance Wigan’s logo looks old-fashioned and boring, but closer inspection reveals it to be an intricate and beautiful work of art, depicting a nonchalant King holding a miniature lion.
Choose this club if you like: Magical realism; primary colours
4. Salford Red Devils
Red Devils is one of the best team names in Super League, but having a likeness of Satan himself as their club logo truly takes things to the next level. Very scary and extremely cool.
Choose this club if you like: Satanic worship; occult rituals
5. Leeds Rhinos
The rhinoceros is frequently and unfairly overlooked when it comes to animal-inspired sports team names. Full credit to Leeds for thinking outside the square, and full credit for following through with this sick logo.
Choose this club if you like: Rare animals; 90s slacker aesthetic
6. Widnes Vikings
Remarkably minimalist and subtle for a sports logo, if you wore this on a t-shirt most people would be none the wiser that it had anything to do with rugby league. Hard to say if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Choose this club if you like: Minimalism; Norse legends
7. Huddersfield Giants
Where Widnes have gone for subtlety, Huddersfield Giants’ logo screams rugby league. Specifically, it screams “THE BIRTHPLACE OF RUGBY LEAGUE”. A great, ugly logo.
Choose this club if you like: Historical boasts; ironic t-shirts
8. Warrington Wolves
Wolves have the newest logo in Super League, unveiled in 2015. It’s good – ‘The Wire’ is a wonderfully oblique nickname – but nowhere near as good as their previous logo, which featured one of sport’s all-time scariest wolves.
Choose this club if you like: Wolf iconography; mysterious slogans
9. Wakefield Wildcats
The Wakefield Wildcats cat, captured mid-hiss, is one of the angriest and best sporting cats. The rest of the logo makes it look a bit like a kind of cheap regional lager. Pint of Wildcat please!
Choose this club if you like: Lager; pints thereof
=10. Hull KR / Hull FC
Impossible to separate the two Hull clubs, who confusingly have near-identical logos. Both feature a simple triple-crown motif – take your pick between the gold crowns of FC or the white-on-red of KR.
Choose this club if you like: Simplicity; crowns
12. St Helens Saints
St Helens are one of the most consistently successful clubs in the Super League, but they have easily had the worst logo since they plonked their old interwoven ‘SH’ logo inside a crest designed on MS Paint in 2010.
Choose this club if you like: Winning; not caring about design
Comments on RugbyPass
Best thing the Welsh clubs could do is apply to join Gallagher prem surely be more exciting matches for there support than they have now.
2 Go to commentsRugbyPass writers are useless! you guys should get a real job because you all suck at writing about rugby!!!
8 Go to commentslooking forward to RWC2027 …. Boks on mission impossible for the Three-in-a-row, ABs to prove they being on par, France wishing to crown the “DuPont-era”, Ireland knocking on the Semi-Door ….. until then we’ll probably have to deal with Weird Ben’s fantasy-RWC23 (fun fact is, the drivel always creates a flooding of comments) …..
221 Go to commentsBen Smith you really make some good points in this article, the Springboks were not close to perfect and good still beat the All Blacks, imagine if they were as good as they were against France what a hiding the All Blacks would have gotten… maybe another Twickenham drubbing
221 Go to commentsIt is a good argument to keep the Rebels for one more year but also isnt this just opening the door as well for keeping them beyond 2025. If they can create some sort of financial stability in the next year and if their performances lift as they have this season then how would RA even cull them after that? It might be the most cost effective decision at this stage and perhaps many people are guilty of keeping relationships going because of the cost to decouple but then again when does that ever work out well?
21 Go to commentsDear Ben Smith you are a genius! God please become the next all blacks coach that can take on the mighty BOKS. Your rugby acumen is second to none - imagine your dads sperm bounced as unfortunately as that oval ball did….we would not be blessed with your presence. Just as the all blacks were missing a man you too are missing a chromosome for 80% of your life, so your insights are not only profound but ring true from your own experiences. Just as the TMO interfered with citing an illegal pass I am sure your local authorities interfere with your illegal passes you make on women - How dare they!!! God forbid that rugby be officiated fairly. You are the right man for the job. Next all blacks coach is here ladies and gentlemen Miss Ben Smith (He/She/They/IT)
221 Go to commentsHuge engine this guy and great to see him back ..The amount of clean outs he does at the ruck are ridiculous !!
3 Go to commentsThe level of desperation in this article is just embarrassing.
221 Go to commentsSome silly trolling in the comments.
9 Go to commentsEverywhere you turn some irish journo is advocating Ireland as the greatest, reasoning that the wc is a 4 year cycle event so, they say wc doesn’t matter it’s the rugby in between that should account for the accolade. If there was no wc then some substance could be gained, however in my opinion the moment that defined Ireland’s fate against the abs was 37 phases of repeated head bashing against a brick wall. If a change in strategy or a tinker with the game plan was executed then things could've been vastly different. And to point a finger the let down was in the hands of the number 10.
65 Go to commentsI have heard it asked if RA is essentially one of the part owners and I suppose therefor should be on the other side of these two parties. If they purchased the rebels and guaranteed them, and are responsible enough they incur Rebels penalties, where is this line drawn? Seems rough to have to pay a penalty for something were your involvement sees you on the side of the conned party, the creditors. If the Rebels directors themselves have given the club their money, 6mil worth right, why aren’t they also listed as sitting with RA and the Tax office? And the legal threat was either way, new Rebels or defunct, I can’t see how RA assume the threat was less likely enough to warrant comment about it in this article. Surely RA ignore that and only worry about whether they can defend it or not, which they have reported as being comfortable with. So in effect wouldn’t it be more accurate to say there is no further legal threat (or worry) in denying the deal. Unless the directors have reneged on that. > Returns of a Japanese team or even Argentinean side, the Jaguares, were said to be on the cards, as were the ideas of standing up brand new teams in Hawaii or even Los Angeles – crazy ideas that seemingly forgot the time zone issues often cited as a turn-off for viewers when the competition contained teams from South Africa. Those timezones are great for SR and are what will probably be needed to unlock its future (cant see it remaining without _atleast _help from Aus), day games here are night games on the West Coast of america, were potential viewers triple, win win. With one of the best and easiest ways to unlock that being to play games or a host a team there. Less good the further across Aus you get though. Jaguares wouldn’t be the same Jaguares, but I still would think it’s better having them than keeping the Rebels. The other options aren’t really realistic 25’ options, no. From reading this authors last article I think if the new board can get the investment they seem to be confident in, you keeping them simply for the amount of money they’ll be investing in the game. Then ditch them later if they’re not good enough without such a high budget. Use them to get Jaguares reintergration stronger, with more key players on board, and have success drive success.
21 Go to commentsYeah, and ours is waaay bigger than yours. Just as you's get a semi…oh hold on that never happens
65 Go to commentsLove watching
1 Go to commentsThe Melbourne Rebels lineout is a complete disaster so not surprisingly a kiwi coach of the Wallabies hires the worst lineout coach in the country and a foreigner to boot. No surprises whatsoever here…….
6 Go to commentsThank your for wasting 2 minutes of my life Daniel. There is a useful message in there somewhere but your delivery sucks.
8 Go to commentsBen Smith, you are cry baby
221 Go to commentsSux that homophobia is still a thing though. I wonder how many players who could have become legends never kept playing rugby because they felt unwelcome.
8 Go to commentsCrazy he’s only 28, feel like he’s been around forever - don’t mind the move, safe pair of hands and creates depth in a thin position for ABs. Hopefully aides Kemara’s growth also without thrusting too much responsibility on him
1 Go to commentsMen should show strength and be mean, but they should be able to show emotion to those close yo them in certain times, birth of your child, death of family, proud moment. This article is stupid
8 Go to commentsWhat a weak article…absolute drivel and clickbait, well done. Will stick to rugby365 thanks
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