Crest Review

[Rico]

Maybe they've gone back to the drawing board? Or maybe they've just thought fuck it, we'll go back to the round badge.

[Louzie0]

Disappointed that the cricket bat 🏏 and football combo ( imagine ⚽️ instead of the red ball) never made the last 3. Framed in the gas lamp with a star and lion’s mane above. Like in the Nativity plays.

It acknowledged the 4 cricket players who met under the gas lamp and had to pretend they were forming a football club as it was November and the police didn’t believe their story of why the heavy kitbags were there...

Riffing off this, I reckon this should be our badge



It's pretty much got the whole lot in there:

- A gas lamp to do that bit of the creation myth
- Star inside the lamp to indicate that we won the European Cup at some point, but also that it's a gas lamp
- A cricket bat (originally cricketers) and a football (became a football club)
- A claret & blue Scottish lion.  This represents George Ramsay, which is why it's holding an OS map of Birmingham because it's looking for Calthorpe FC but ended up in B6
- All within a brown oval representing a rugby ball because we played the first half of our first game under rugby rules according to popular belief/myth.
- Also we were originally meant to play in chocolate & blue so it kind of works on that level too


 I'm not a designer so someone with more skills in that area than me would need to do the finer work to make it look good, but you get the idea.

I love this, algy.
Also CD’s suggestion about inverting the cross 👍

I’d quite like a pyramid and 🤠 to represent our current owners - too much?

[Smirker]

Would have settled for this.



About as good as it can get for a modern round badge.

No, needs three colours, for me.

Don't think we're getting three colours. And tbh that's a very small thing to have to compromise. It's got our colours, a claret, correctly positioned lion, the full name and it doesn't have the star. I think it is as good as we could get really, if we are having a round badge, which is what it will be by the sounds of it.

I think I will put you down as a 'yes, you've nailed it Smirker'.

[KRS]

I would like to see that design with the golden text and two golden circle boundaries.

[Lastfootstamper]

Not a fan. Makes me imagine something an 80s mod would have as a patch on the arm of their fishtail parka.

[Drummond]

Thought the final designs were supposed to be released yesterday?

Or today was the word.

Everybody knows that bird is the word.

[Smirker]

I would like to see that design with the golden text and two golden circle boundaries.

[Smirker]

Thicker boundary:

[Rory]

I would like to see that design with the golden text and two golden circle boundaries.

Yes, you've nailed it Smirker 😉

[KRS]

Much better. Doesn’t need the outside blue circle or the thicker gold circle.

If the lion was flipped to face the other way, then it’d be very close to the descriptions I’ve read of the new circle design.

[cdbearsfan]

Vote Smirker!

[eamonn]

Yes, you may smirk away, Smirker! You've done it!

[Axl Rose]

I would like to see that design with the golden text and two golden circle boundaries.

Yes, you've nailed it Smirker 😉

Smirker, nice one matey!

[dave.woodhall]

Nice design but all that claret might look lost on a shirt.

[Steve67]

I would like to see that design with the golden text and two golden circle boundaries.

Yes, you've nailed it Smirker 😉

Smirker, nice one matey!

Really like that design. Gets my vote.