royboy
Dave Mangnall
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Post by royboy on Oct 11, 2010 17:59:08 GMT
Football club logos should be circular - like Sheffield United's - great badge!
The current QPR crest - which looks like it was created by a child doodling - will forever be synonymous with Briatore who probably scribbled it out absentmindedly between far eastern car crashes. Had he spent more than 5 seconds on the design he could have crafted an image of a W12 boutique restaurant with a revolving door surrounded by a cluster of excluded and bewildered fans and strapped with the motto "Novus mensis, novus procurator"
Me - I love the style, simplicity and clarity of the black art deco football which adorns my avatar opposite - but I would make it blue..
It was OK on the hooped shield too...
And the centenary circular logo was just fine
Let's let Bernie and Flavio leave with some dignity and after a while reintroduce the proper badge - no big fanfare..
And maybe we can have our black cat back too...
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Post by Markqpr on Oct 11, 2010 18:38:31 GMT
The current QPR crest - which looks like it was created by a child doodling - will forever be synonymous with Briatore who probably scribbled it out absentmindedly between far eastern car crashes. Had he spent more than 5 seconds on the design he could have crafted an image of a W12 boutique restaurant with a revolving door surrounded by a cluster of excluded and bewildered fans and strapped with the motto "Novus mensis, novus procurator" Agree with everything apart from your motto. Tumidus mentis, atrox procurator. Much more fitting. |
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Post by saphilip on Oct 11, 2010 18:58:14 GMT
How much did it cost QPR to change the crest? Whatever it was it wasn't cheap and that is the problem.
Besides the sheer tackiness of the crest, what I really hated about it was that it highlighted all that was wrong with the Briatire reign - i.e. wrong priorities.
At the end of the 2008 season it was obvious that QPR needed to spend money on the pitch and first class defender & striker should have been top of the priority list - hell, I could see it from my nice home in Jo'burg.
So what did the regime do? Well they didn't spend it on players (unless you consider mediocre Italian midfielders and a host of loan players as good buys) but they were more than willing to spend a lot of money on a pretentious new crest, that in my opinion had nothing to do with the average QPR fan, and spend additional money to launch it.
And for what? I didn't think there was nothing wrong with the old crest, in fact I liked it, but even if I didn't like it surely changing the crest (along with a new light fitting in the boardroom) should have been at the bottom of the spending priority list?
That single launch convinced me there and then that these guys had got it ar.se about face, and that they were never going to get it right. And I was right - you see it is the small things that give the best indication of people's true intentions.
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 12, 2010 8:18:57 GMT
No contest! 
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Post by Lonegunmen on Oct 12, 2010 10:22:32 GMT
I was 5 months old!
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 12, 2010 10:25:12 GMT
And if math is correct (no guarantee!): For the price of ONE programme today, you could buy180 programmes back then.
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Post by bp on Oct 12, 2010 10:46:09 GMT
Markqpr in your strap line the old 'hammersmith' badge has the wings/plumes around the edges and a helmet and castle top centre. Is that a bastardisation of yours or an actual badge???
Its frightening similar on its exterior to our current blemish.
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Post by Markqpr on Oct 12, 2010 11:01:02 GMT
Markqpr in your strap line the old 'hammersmith' badge has the wings/plumes around the edges and a helmet and castle top centre. Is that a bastardisation of yours or an actual badge??? Its frightening similar on its exterior to our current blemish. It's an actual badge, printed on a poster of club badges, from the club shop. I've retouched it to clean it up and replaced the motto of 'Spectemur Agendo' (Let us be judged by our actions) to Queen's Park Rangers in the bottom ribbon. It precedes the simple horseshoe badge on the front of the programme above as it is the official crest of the borough of Hammersmith, originally granted on on December 23, 1897. The emblems on the shield are from the arms of two benefactors to the borough. The cross-crosslets represent Edward Latymer, who, in 1626 left money in his will for the education of poor boys. The horseshoes represent Sir Nicholas Crisp (1598-1665), who contributed bricks and funds for the parish church. The scallop denoted George Pring who projected the Old Bridge, but died before it was finished. The hammers refer to the name.  Info courtesy: www.ngw.nl/It's certainly not a 'bastardisation' of the current design and I believe it to be the original inspiration for the current version. |
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Post by bp on Oct 12, 2010 12:24:40 GMT
It's certainly not a 'bastardisation' of the current design and I believe it to be the original inspiration for the current version. Cheers Mark, My question answered, so much as I dislike the new badge, it at least does have roots within us. Still think this is something to be looked at as and when. |
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