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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Apr 2, 2007 9:35:58 GMT 1
Mansfield sing "Come on you yellows"
Their fanzine is called "Follow the yellow brick road"
Their shirt is most definitely a shade of yellow.
Maybe this has more to do with the definition of what "amber" is as a colour.
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Post by another guest on Apr 2, 2007 11:24:15 GMT 1
cheap and nasty badge, suits your club well
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Post by Wannabee Mod on Apr 2, 2007 11:32:24 GMT 1
Perhaps the moderators could inform us how this thread sits in most viewed/commented on the all time lists - related to off field decisions?
As the club is 'monitoring' the developments - (translated as 'We dont know what to do!')
I would imagine it would be high, if not the highest!
Steve W take your head out of the sand, you may be more repsected for it.
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Post by El Huracán!!!! on Apr 2, 2007 11:37:47 GMT 1
I did a quick check and this has by far and away a more voewed thread than ANYTHING in the Archive room.
The neares is the 5000+ views of the Blue and Amber/White Seat issues a few months back...
Then the next nearest is one from a year or so ago about some one throwing a bottle...
If its the all time record i dont know as not all the biggest threads have ever been saved in the arcive room, but i would guess its up there....
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Post by JeefBoner on Apr 2, 2007 12:09:45 GMT 1
Cheap club, cheap logo. LMAO at your incompetent board.
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Post by thepottedshrew on Apr 2, 2007 12:36:48 GMT 1
Incompetent Thats why we have the most efficiantly run club in the division, who will soon be playing in a new stadium owned completly by the club. Pray tell, who do you support?
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Apr 2, 2007 12:48:23 GMT 1
Just wish to be apart of this record breaking thread... The new club crest is terrible and I hoped changed as soon as possible...
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Post by Greg on Apr 2, 2007 12:53:08 GMT 1
Roy Castle would be proud of this record breaking thread To add my 2nd comment: I actually don't mind the new badge. We obviously needed to change it, although it is sad that we are losing the 'Floreat Salopia'
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Post by another guest on Apr 2, 2007 12:58:57 GMT 1
Incompetent Thats why we have the most efficiantly run club in the division, who will soon be playing in a new stadium owned completly by the club. Pray tell, who do you support? would that be efficiently and completely too?
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Post by robshrew1984 on Apr 2, 2007 13:05:30 GMT 1
It looks good, but has no link / meaning / significance to the club.
Nice though.
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Post by thepottedshrew on Apr 2, 2007 13:06:46 GMT 1
Incompetent Thats why we have the most efficiantly run club in the division, who will soon be playing in a new stadium owned completly by the club. Pray tell, who do you support? would that be efficiently and completely too? Maybe! Don't think it detracts from my point though!
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Post by another guest on Apr 2, 2007 13:28:28 GMT 1
would that be efficiently and completely too? Maybe! Don't think it detracts from my point though! Let you off then considering you gave us 4 points this season
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Post by thepottedshrew on Apr 2, 2007 14:02:05 GMT 1
Must be Walsall then! Brizzle Rovers fans will still be nursing their sorrow hangovers after yesterday
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Post by hooverfoxat2 on Apr 2, 2007 14:28:49 GMT 1
I wonder how the logo will 'sit' on replica shirts - there's an awful lot of embroidery work with that bloody lions head and other paraphernalia and I just wonder if the backside of it will chafe the wearers chest. It could prove to be quite uncomfortable to wear as well as looking less than 100%.
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Post by Lions r not us on Apr 2, 2007 14:33:34 GMT 1
More worrying that the badge rubbing chests lol is the thought of a very large Lion Head logo being a feature of the entrance to the new ground. We will be the laughing stock!!
Do us all a favour and scrap the Lion for something more 'STFC'
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Apr 2, 2007 14:38:27 GMT 1
I wonder how the logo will 'sit' on replica shirts - there's an awful lot of embroidery work with that bloody lions head and other paraphernalia and I just wonder if the backside of it will chafe the wearers chest. It could prove to be quite uncomfortable to wear as well as looking less than 100%. I believe it is much easier to heat transfer a circular design rather than the embroidery required for our current crest, especially the "Floreat Salopia" bit. That means the new logo could spell an end to "nipple rub" which must earn it a bit more grace for anyone who plays football
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Post by bristolloggerheads on Apr 2, 2007 15:24:21 GMT 1
... but we cant trademark 3 loggerheads If you can trademark someone else's lion then surely you can stylize the three loggerheads so you can trade mark it? I'm sure the Duke of Suffolk or whoever it was who used the loggerheads in the 14th century won't mind!
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Apr 2, 2007 15:31:00 GMT 1
I wonder how the logo will 'sit' on replica shirts - there's an awful lot of embroidery work with that bloody lions head and other paraphernalia and I just wonder if the backside of it will chafe the wearers chest. It could prove to be quite uncomfortable to wear as well as looking less than 100%. I believe it is much easier to heat transfer a circular design rather than the embroidery required for our current crest, especially the "Floreat Salopia" bit. That means the new logo could spell an end to "nipple rub" which must earn it a bit more grace for anyone who plays football I'm afraid I';m going to have to nominate you as the embroidery expert
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Apr 2, 2007 16:03:49 GMT 1
I'm afraid I';m going to have to nominate you as the embroidery expert Willingly accepted
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Post by Rooster on Apr 2, 2007 16:15:21 GMT 1
If they wanted to keep the lion theme because of the loggerheads why didnt they have a front on lion , i dont really see the need for a lion in a badge for STFC if its not part of the loggerheads just about as much as a shrew haha. Seriously i wouldnt really know where to start if i was to design a new badge, but i still feel i should be entitled to an opinion on this one and mine is .
Idont particularly like it - hate is a strong word i just dont like it, simple as that
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2007 16:18:00 GMT 1
I wonder how the logo will 'sit' on replica shirts - there's an awful lot of embroidery work with that bloody lions head and other paraphernalia and I just wonder if the backside of it will chafe the wearers chest. It could prove to be quite uncomfortable to wear as well as looking less than 100%. The loggerheads badge can chafe like anything when you're wearing one - very nasty. Of course that may be to do with the company that manufactures our current kit!
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Post by Blue_is_the_colour on Apr 2, 2007 16:30:12 GMT 1
The Badge is fine, - the lion in the middle isnt
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Post by Brum Shrew on Apr 2, 2007 16:44:37 GMT 1
... but we cant trademark 3 loggerheads If you can trademark someone else's lion then surely you can stylize the three loggerheads so you can trade mark it? I'm sure the Duke of Suffolk or whoever it was who used the loggerheads in the 14th century won't mind! Exactly. I'd like to know what steps, if any, were taken to negotiate with Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council regarding the usage of the loggerheads. Simply being told "we couldn't do it" isn't enough I'm afraid.
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Post by Informant on Apr 2, 2007 19:59:11 GMT 1
The new badge has been exposed as a rip-off of somebody else's work and should be dumped for that reason alone - well done to those who've spotted it before it's too late.
The artist is probably out there somewhere and will eventually find out and when they do what then?
What's wrong with commissioning something based on the three loggerheads although not a direct copy of what already exists - problem solved surely?
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Post by Indeeeeeeeeed on Apr 2, 2007 21:34:13 GMT 1
Have the club made a comment since this clipart story broke?
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Post by Bilbo on Apr 3, 2007 11:54:09 GMT 1
The badge is awfull. the last time I saw such a s**te lion, he was chucking sweets at kids on the meadow. (Sorry Ron ) Seriously, there could have been a lot more effort put into the new badge, especially as the club thinks it to be such a big issue. I'm wondering if they were given a choice of designs and whether the other choices could have been less tacky.
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Post by Browny on Apr 3, 2007 12:02:06 GMT 1
aye the badge is offensive to the very core of our shrewsbury town beliefs and should be ditched immediately
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Post by der kaiser on Apr 3, 2007 12:46:20 GMT 1
aye the badge is offensive to the very core of our shrewsbury town beliefs and should be ditched immediately Could we have a consistent standpoint Mr Brown. On the one hand you like the badge but for the lion and then on the other it is offensive to the very core of the beleifs of Shrewsbury Town. How is the badge offensive. Is it because the club has dared to change it that upsets you? The only constant in the universe is change.
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Post by SPJim on Apr 3, 2007 18:19:00 GMT 1
I think this info could be found interesting and in my opinion could justify having a lion or a leopard on the 'logo'. From Wikipedia:
"The Leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the four 'big cats' of the genus Panthera. Originally, it was thought that a leopard was a hybrid between a lion and a panther, and the leopard's common name derives from this belief; leo is the Greek and Latin word for lion (Greek leon, ëÝùí) and pard is an old term meaning panther. In fact, a "panther" can be any of several species of large felid."clear some
Heraldry: "The Coat of arms of England: Leopard (heraldry) The lion passant guardant or "leopard" is a frequently used charge in heraldry, most commonly appearing in groups of three. The heraldric leopard lacks spots and sports a mane, making it visually almost identical to the heraldric lion, and the two are often used interchangably. These traditional lion passant guardants appear in the coat of arms of England and many of its former colonies; more modern naturalistic depictions appear in the coat of arms of Benin and other countries, and are more recognizably leopard-like."
Obviously this new 'logo' of ours has come across really cheap to many fans because of the whole 'clip art, pub sign issue' in the centre of it. It' not in my opinion a 'professional job'. I'd have liked to have kept the loggerheads of course, but accept the idea for changing the badge. I like the circle and writing, but not the stfc bit. So maybe we can stick with the lion, just perhaps not this one..?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2007 18:44:54 GMT 1
The roundness and the writing and colours work - it is quite eye catching - although dropping the STFC would probably improve it. I don't have a great problem with a lion - would prefer 3, but one is fine, it's just that this depiction of one looks cheap. The badge has been reminding me of something ever since I saw it, and then I realised what it was........ Link------> Club BadgeWhich proves that a strong round badge with clarity of purpose works.....but it also shows that you can maintain some links with the heritage of where you come from in the badge if you try. Link------> City Coat of ArmsI understand and support the need for a new badge/logo - but I just can't get away from the feeling that the club have come close to getting this right, but not quite close enough.
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