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sorry if this is a little deep for a first post but this has been really bugging me

over the past few years quite a lot of clubs have reverted to using more "traditional" badges on there club shirt (Barnsley, Sunderland,Spurs..sort of, Chelsea etc)

anyway in my humble opinion our current badge is utter cack its early 90's bollocks and is in no-way related to any part of the town in anyway and looks shit

does anyone else feel the same way? probably not but i felt i needed to get my point across cant we have something a bit more in touch with what swindon is....... a railway town and have the town crest as our badge or at leats something a little better than a shit diamond

opinions?
Anthony

Are you old enough to know of our previous badge?

Most folk want to revert to the traditional club badge as used up to about 1990(?)

Weird to think that this is now 16 years ago  :o

I would imagine this could prove somewhat uncomfortable for the players....

:mrgreen:

i do know of all our previous badges the worse possibly being the cack that is the big S & T arrow concoction

How's it going chief, welcome to the forum and all...

I think there’s quite a few that would agree with you perhaps with the exception of those that have inked it indefinitely upon themselves.

Mark Devlin spoke about the club badge at a fans forum quite a while back and said that there would be no plans to change the current design until or if we move to a new stadium.  The theory being that a new stadium will bring a new start, with a new image etc etc and that would be the right time to introduce a new club crest or badge.

not any more

i dont see what is wrong with the current one tbh

what so the mechanics institue, the outlet village don't exist?

I agree especially about the badgers!!

No I agree with this, the current emblem is a blot on the CG landscape.   I should imagine a re-brand of the STFC costs money, as it would with any other company so it's probably not on the agenda just yet.

Agree with the sentiments as well but as Jan says, re bradning costs a small fortune.  Just imagine all the places a logo is currently placed.

yeh i can understand this side of it but i believe its something the club should look into in the future

The club is clearly waiting until we move out of town before we rebrand the team name and logo, ala Franchise.

When did Franchise rebrand?

Jesus, they've only been around a week and they want to rebrand themselves? What are they, corporate franchise monkeys?

 :)

its a shopping centre!!! a crap reject outlet.
and
we dont even have a train yard here anymore.

oh and the mechanics ins :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

whilst i don't particularly dislike the current logo, i'd much rather see the old railway logo or just the simple ST logo.

i think devlin's right about leaving it until we either get a new stadium or redevelop the county ground, new beginnings and all that.

mate swindon is definately a railway town even if its not now it was at one point  i dont think many towns still have train yards as there not needed in this day, the foundations of this town were built on steam railway engines and without them we would be a sorry shithole like Milton Keynes with no real heritage and just an overflow from big citites which we are nit because we have our own identity

we should be different and not have a badge.or have a different one every week

I'm sure we've had this thread before, but it was a 1st post so I'll let you off :wink:

Any new badge should incorporate the image of modern Swindon, no recfect the past.

Therefore the new badge should incorporate Shops, Offices, Single mums and town centre brawls. possibly even cannabis "factories"

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/landofbo/badgeartkit.jpg

dint say we wernt
just said we aint n e more.
 :-))(

 Its an interesting point,  the identity thing being particularly relevant...unfortunately SBC has adopted a policy of trying to stamp out all aspects of Swindon's heritage and turn us into a Milton Keynes clone...unfortunately they can't even get this completely right as MK has manged to get itself an exciting football stadium.

 STFC is a last bastion of cultural heritage....we've very nearly gone to the wall in the last couple of years.....as Piemonte says, to reflect the current themes, its no good harking back to the railway age....the current badge does in fact represent in some way one of the better phases of our history, so should stay for now.

The ST and arrow was my favourite...

i have a modernised version of the old badge on my computer, not sure where it comes from but it would be perfect for our badge now.

Let's have a look then!

Agreed!

I personally like the arrow one, for some reason!
I think we should be different and just have

SWINDON TOWN F.C.

written across   :D

Not in red obviously....that would be stupid

Our badge isnt just a random diamond.
Its a robin
Turn it 90 degrees.
The circle is the head, the lines are the legs.
The S obviously represents Swindon
A robin due to out nickname being the The Robins.

Whats happened to Rockin' Robin this season?

Died of bird flu

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

He was meant to be at the Barnet game but I haven't seen him...

Perhaps HE was in the plane crash?

Perhaps HE is Mark Devlin?!  :shock:

it must have already been seen, can't even remember where i got it from. its obviously exactly the same but looks a bit more professional done than the old old style.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f40/stevecollins_5/8132720774417140a33492.jpg

looks slightly different to this...http://www.thetownend.com/forum/images/avatars/gallery/Misc/stfc_old_logo.jpg

I must say I like the modern one!

Johno will cry if they change it to anything that complicated...at school he ALWAYS used to draw the badge on pretty much anything in sight!

i believe that modernised version was done by hong kong red, who used to frequent the adver board. he was supposed to be designing a new badge but disappeared...

I actually prefer the old one

The solution? Get a local firm to come in a pay for the rebranding under the guise of/as part of a larger sponsorship deal and I'm sure it's do-able. Imagine the positive PR it would generate for such a firm, especially given the clubs current high-profile management.

I'm all for it. Bring back the crest. I loved that train!

Your just nit picking you know exactly what he means.A badge should represent a towns history and this town has a Railway history.Or perhaps you would prefer a badge with something this town is now famous for?.erm Roundabouts...

or Turkish people....or Poles!

this is actually really nice i like it

He's out in America coaching at the moment, he said he'd miss the first 2-3 home games.

tell him not to come back he could be bad luck

Yes, and i have a lucky shirt for home matches :roll:

Personally, i always had a soft spot for the ST arrow version...when I was 13 I met a girl at Butlins who supported West Ham. On the last night I gave her my ST pin badge in an effort to get inside her knickers...didn't work...regretted it ever since  :(

Bless  :(

I hate that ST badge more than our current one. Like the old one best

I know, i loved that badge. Frigid Bitch!

what were you both trying it on with her?

Who said anything about me being there?  :?

sense of humour transplant needed urgent  :wink:

http://www.blackberrywallpapers.com/images/autobot.jpg

That should be our badge. Our nickname should be 'The Autobots'

The current badge was designed to represent a fresh start at the club.
After the bad press due to the financial irregularities thing, STFC decided to 're-brand' the club, and signal a new dawn.
We wont go back to the previous one for these reasons.
The current one is very good, and has stood the test of time (albeit only 14 or so years).
Anyway, hello everyone. Nice to meet you all, and im sure some will be 'absolutely delighted' to see me posting on here!! :wink:  :soapy tit wank:  :soapy tit wank:

signalled a new dawn which was the worst time in the clubs history, were now at the end of that 'worst period'....the exact reason we should go back to the old one.

Huh? We're in the bottom tier of the footy league, let's get out first. How can you say 14 years ago was the worst time in the cub's history, it was the best time for many

Oh dear!!!!!! :-))(
We were 'demoted' back in 1990 for financial irregularities.
When Hoddle came in, we changed the logo to signal a 'fresh start', and gained Premiership status 2 seasons later.
Regardless of the piss poor teams we have had representing us over the past few years, we have never needed a clean slate as much as we did after the heartbreak of demotion!

because it was the only time for many....obviously we were in the premier league but since then its all been shit.

i supose its what a badge means to you personally and to me it represents the club in administration, in debt, ricky hunt and all that shit unfortunately...others may see it representing our premiership season.

And a div 2 title. not the best achievments but we haven't done anything in the last 5 years, let alone 2 to warrant the 'new era' label

All i would say is if we were to change the crest, i dont think it would be appropriate to go back to the one from the Macari/Hillier days.

However.........We did win the League Cup wearing the traditional one.

 No we didn't.

Another club shop rip off then!!

When was the ST one introduced? 70s I assumed..

  The ST was introduced, I think at the start of 72/73....Dave Mackay era...we went to black shorts and a classic 70's collared shirt....the logo was introduced in the middle of the shirt just under the v of the collar.

 Before that shirts had alway been plain, apart from a couple of seasons around the early 60's when a form of club crest was on a large white patch.

that was the badge at the time but badges wernt on the kits.

it was me actually - will repost it when I get time. a bit busy at the moment...

I would like to see a coat of arms type badge like Shity's.

Here is the coat of arms for Swindon Borough.....

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/coat.jpg

Another varriation of it......

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/coat3.jpg

Bristol coat of Arms....

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/coat1.jpg

And Bristol City FC Badge....

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/coat2.jpg


Basically the same but they've incorparated Bristol City FC at the bottom.

We should avoid copying anything that brissol have done :|

I think a coat of arms looks classy.

SWINDON CITY FC..........................................

citys is just a tacky version, which ours would end up looking like no doubt. our old badge is far classier.

Ok fair enough have a kebab shop and a prossie on the badge then  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

 Don't see any of Dex's ancestors locked up in shackles on that Bristhole badge....

but they do have a koala on top of the crest tho...  :shock:  :soapy tit wank:

this is the one I did ages ago, never did get round to finishing it. the banner bit at the bottom needs changing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/legodcuervo/mc_STFCnew.jpg
[lo-res]

that used to be my old avatar - thief!

looks cool....i think the idea of a new badge is goood cause the one we got now is a tad tacky.

on citys badge whatever is behind the actual badge seems to be sticking his middle finger up?

thats just what it needs to be really. just with 'Salubritas et Industria' at the bottom. it is utter class showing some heritige of the town and club. it really does piss all over the current one.

Could you get these made somehow?  Then we could use it as our unofficial badge, I'd buy a Town top and get one of these stitched over the 90's design.

im sure you could get patches done if thats what you mean, might look a bit shit if you done that though.

Not if you get someone to do it properly.  Agreed if I tried to do it, it'd look shit!

Maybe the club should sell shirts with a strip of velcro where the badge should be. Chuck in a pack of all town's badges to date, with the appropriate anti-velcro strip on the reverse, and hey presto, everybodys happy!

I'd prefer a bit of zip action. Velcro would chafe. :oops: