What badge is best?

[Optimistic Nut]

17 minutes ago, Facundo Ferreyra said:

I'd say there's a reason the current crest has lasted for 33 years and counting while the others all lasted for less than a decade each. 

14 years we had an owner who didn’t give a fuck what it looked like tbf.

[deejeck]

Voted for the Castle Keep badge because I absolutely love it, but I fully agree with most that there is absolutely nothing wrong with our current badge, and there's no real reason to change it.  Gordon McKeag got a lot of things wrong, but implementing the existing club crest is certainly something which he got right.

 

Also, the fact that the mackems plagiarised it when they changed their badge soon after, and thought nobody would notice.

[Gaztoon]

The first is nice... to much red n white like 😁

[Unbelievable]

Castle keep for me, although the colours and font could do with a bit of "freshening up". Love the current one too, but there's a bit too much going on in it for my liking, especially in and around the seahorse bodies. Wouldn't mind that simplified. Also, can anyone explain to me the meaning of the colours of the flag. Why was it changed from the St. George's one on the original one?

[manorpark]

3 minutes ago, Unbelievable said:

Castle keep for me, although the colours and font could do with a bit of "freshening up". Love the current one too, but there's a bit too much going on in it for my liking, especially in and around the seahorse bodies. Wouldn't mind that simplified. Also, can anyone explain to me the meaning of the colours of the flag. Why was it changed from the St. George's one on the original one?

 

The original one is the City Coat of Arms, then and now, nothing has changed on that, see the example below on display at the Civic Centre . . .

 

 

With the agreement of the City, the Club used to use their crest identically, but moved away from that in 1976.

 

In making a unique version of the City Coat of Arms to become our current Club Crest, the City Coat of Arms was re-adopted but simplified and some of the colours were changed for our use, to (I always assumed) a more "NUFC-related" series of colours.

[gazza ladra]

1, 3, 4, 2

 

The red of the original is really nice. Don't care much for current shade of blue.  And red player numbers please

[ponsaelius]

Aye I quite like more red involved in our colour scheme in general. Closer to the actual Coat of Arms.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Wouldn’t mind seeing an away kit with the original crest or something like that. 
 

Man City are doing very interesting things with their kit and merchandise at the moment - the Madchester stuff etc. 

[number37]

I rather loved this prototype from a few years ago. It's funny how something so amazing is almost too easy. 

 

 

 

 

As a slight tweak you could always just change the red/white stripes to black/white that are just above the seahorses' hooves. Maybe use the regular blue scroll for the club name too seeing as it's not the 125 anniversary any more. 

[gjohnson]

Think the sea-horses should go....we're not close enough to the sea for a maritime reference to be particularly relevant now that there's no shipping of coal along the Tyne.

 

I love our current crest, and wouldn't change it, but if we have to then maybe we could have something like the Cityscape goalie top from 96/97

[Kid Icarus]

24 minutes ago, number37 said:

I rather loved this prototype from a few years ago. It's funny how something so amazing is almost too easy. 

 

 

 

 

As a slight tweak you could always just change the red/white stripes to black/white that are just above the seahorses' hooves. Maybe use the regular blue scroll for the club name too seeing as it's not the 125 anniversary any more. 

 

Very similar to a rough design I did when we were coming up with those alternative Newcastle tops a few years back. I love that. I do think the crest could do with an update tbh, but more towards something subtle like this.

[pedro111]

10 minutes ago, gjohnson said:

Think the sea-horses should go....we're not close enough to the sea for a maritime reference to be particularly relevant now that there's no shipping of coal along the Tyne.

 

I love our current crest, and wouldn't change it, but if we have to then maybe we could have something like the Cityscape goalie top from 96/97

 

Really? 

 

 

Edited November 16, 2021 by pedro111

[Foluwashola]

Never seen a seahorse in the Tyne tbf. Or a lion for that matter. 

[gjohnson]

3 minutes ago, pedro111 said:

 

Really? 

 

 

 

Yes really. 

We're not exactly Grimsby,  or even Sunderland where the ground in only 1 or 2 miles from the sea. 

Historically it may have been relevant with coal shipping and ship building but they're long gone. Now Newcastle does not rely on being a coastal city at all

[gjohnson]

2 minutes ago, Foluwashola said:

Never seen a seahorse in the Tyne tbf. Or a lion for that matter. 

Saw a shark in the Tyne once....its on Youtube

[Wilson]

Personally think the nufc one is shite.  Hope they don't change the one we've got really, no need for it at all.  When you think of a list of things that need sorted within the club, this is nowhere near a necessity.

 

[gjohnson]

4 minutes ago, Wilson said:

Personally think the nufc one is shite.  Hope they don't change the one we've got really, no need for it at all.  When you think of a list of things that need sorted within the club, this is nowhere near a necessity.

 

Yep....changing the Crest is bottom of a long list of other priorities.

 

Watch it get changed next week....Charnley logic

[Thomson Mouse]

Current one is good and merges the city and club well, although I wouldn’t be against this one

 

55 minutes ago, number37 said:

I rather loved this prototype from a few years ago. It's funny how something so amazing is almost too easy. 

 

 

 

 

As a slight tweak you could always just change the red/white stripes to black/white that are just above the seahorses' hooves. Maybe use the regular blue scroll for the club name too seeing as it's not the 125 anniversary any more. 

 

[Happinesstan]

20 minutes ago, Foluwashola said:

Never seen a seahorse in the Tyne tbf. Or a lion for that matter. 

They had them in Seaworld [or whatever it's called these days]at Tynemouth.

[number37]

I personally think we'd be in murky waters (pardon the pun) if we sideline our history too much. It's true the Tyne is no longer used for heavy industry as it once was but it still has undeniable resonance, like it's still physically there flowing through the city!

 

On a similar note, I doubt the Manchester shipping canal is used as much as it was historically but still remains visible on the crests of both Manchester clubs. Arsenal have long since moved away from the manufacturing of armaments, they've even relocated from the area of London where this took place but they still have a cannon on their badge. 

[nufcjb]

I used to like that castle keep design before Keith started using it so i fucking hate it now.

[Happinesstan]

I've liked all of our crests. But the current one is classiest. The NUFC football looks shite now, but it looked grand, painted in airfix paint on the flap of your havasack.

[Novocastrian]

1 hour ago, gjohnson said:

Think the sea-horses should go....we're not close enough to the sea for a maritime reference to be particularly relevant now that there's no shipping of coal along the Tyne.

 

I love our current crest, and wouldn't change it, but if we have to then maybe we could have something like the Cityscape goalie top from 96/97

As someone who has sailed up the Tyne on a Royal Navy destroyer I respectfully beg to differ.

[Deuce]

1 hour ago, number37 said:

I rather loved this prototype from a few years ago. It's funny how something so amazing is almost too easy. 

 

 

 

 

As a slight tweak you could always just change the red/white stripes to black/white that are just above the seahorses' hooves. Maybe use the regular blue scroll for the club name too seeing as it's not the 125 anniversary any more. 

I like it, but it’s way too busy from a design and marketing standpoint. Simplicity is king. Our current badge is fine, though I think it could use updating.

 

I voted for the circular castle keep one…give that one a modern tweak and it’s a winner.

 

 

Edited November 16, 2021 by Tomato Deuce

[pedro111]

16 minutes ago, Novocastrian said:

As someone who has sailed up the Tyne on a Royal Navy destroyer I respectfully beg to differ.

 

Exactly. To say Newcastle is not close enough to the sea is just laughable. I'm sure I read once that one particular year in the mid 20th Century, the Tyne shipyards produced more ships than the entirety of the USA. But aye, let's cast our sea connection aside!

 

 

Edited November 16, 2021 by pedro111