As I am one of many (I think) that don't particularly like our club badge, I was just thinking that the club should change it for our centenary year and instead of The Town's Club have Never Say Die included in it instead.

Good idea? Bad idea?

a return to the old Hart image in the triangle would be the one for me like. but defo a change from the current badge would be a plus

the more traditional the better for me like

Ive gotten used to the wheel,but I think replacing the towns club with never say die is a great idea

what about those who have already got the ships wheel tatoo'ed?

erm....shame on them for picking our crappest badge to get a tattoo of???

I think it looks absolutely terrible and always has.

It's the only thing wrong with the club at the moment.

If you look at any other club in the league, I can't think of any that have such a naff badge.

I know it was designed by a junior school kid and you can tell. I think the centenary season would be a superb time to change it.

For starters, it's not really obvious it's a ship steering wheel. Cartwheel? Spider's web? Then there is the crap seventies black and white football in the middle.

And what about that awful eighties joined-up handwriting font saying 'the town's club'?

If you haven't guessed I feel quite strongly about it. The thing is, it's like a company logo, and it doesn't project the professional image the club has. No offence to the lass who designed it like.

If you think of some clubs, they have 'classic' simple designs that have looked decent for years. Forest and Oxford spring to mind, but even fancy crests like Newcastle's or Sunderland's look proper. Ours looks like an emblem off a cheapo kid's 'happy bag' you'd get on a school trip round the marina. Saying that, I still proudly wear several items of clothing with it on. It could be so much better though.

I would favour a circular or triangular logo, definitely incorporate 'Never Say Die' (maybe in Latin to give it a 'historic' feel?), and something to do with hanging the monkey, like Rovers rugby club crest used to have (they may still, haven't seen it for a while).

It should be minimalist so it can silhouette, and so that kids can easily copy it onto their schoolbooks/desks too!

It's rubbish. It was chosen by a committee, including a councillor I believe. ......... It's said a camel was a horse designed by a committee...that badge is a camel .....!!

the Hart has always been at the "heart" of the club's logo traditionally. The new logo was all due to this Marina/new maritime image the town was trying to project, so obviously the Councillor would have been pushing for the ship's wheel design and could have been easily able to "influence" other committee members. I was dismayed when the hart was ditched. The Marina itself has a huge statue of a hart as a primary focal point!!!

The new crest could have meaningful Hartlepool symbols, maybe a shield divided up into four with each quadrant containing a Hartlepool symbol appropriate to Pools.
Stoke/ Port Vale both adopt this theme, as do Sunderland and I like their club crests as a result - they actually give a FEELING for the club they are supposed to represent.

Four symbols (not the Led Zep album btw) could be a way forward.

Hanging monkey
Leaping hart
Football-related symbol
Picture of Brian Honour's face??

gets my vote

gets my vote too!

that could go on the away shirt

You've got me thinking now (which ia a rare event in itself)

howay man - a knocky up like i did before of your stag in triangle

never say die on and the yrs

fookin mint n that

How about a collage of the previous badges in a shield format: so 4 squares with the ships wheel, the triangle, the 70's circular one and an older one.

NSD has to be in their as a scroll. Preferably in Latin so
"Nunquam Narro Intereo"

I like it

I know i prattle on about writing books - not as much as i used to - but title of history is to now be NSD

what else could it be?

My source within the club has given me the first draft of a new badge for the centenary. What do you reckon?

Not forgetting this bloke:

NO SHIPS WHEEL....but apart from that. a real one and a piss take one for here. suggestions for inclusion please.

I reckon it would be good to go back to a stylised/simplified hart like we had in the late 70's maybe not in a triangle, but something straightforward like that would be good.

I've just noticed that the hart on my badge has more of a look of a cow on his way to a reindeer fancy dress party, still the Greggs pasty looks good enough to pacify even the pikeiest of toddlers.

Katcha, is the crest on the front of your book the first one used by Pools? maybe we should go back to that if it is, at least for the next couple of years....

I actually liked the badge that Garry Gibson changed it to in the early 1990s (I think it was)

you can't have a pastie on it, certain supporters will be ripping them off kids backs to eat after they had eaten theirs...!!!

"At no time I tell I perish"

hmm?

something to do with being a grass, I think. With its associated consequences

Depends how you conjugate it, its pretty much the same thing.


At no time / never
I tell / say
I perish / die

Romanes eunt domus. - People called Romanes they go the house?

I think that Never Say Die would look better in English - Translation into Latin of a phrase that has only been associated with Pools since 73(?) might look a tad pretentious.

Especially if the badge has also got a pasty and a burnt out car on it!!!!!

Now write it out 100 times or I'll cut your balls off.

A brick
A bolt
a bar
a cup

Invariably fall down, not up...

And if a work you drop a spanner
It travels in a downward manner
And from this fact it's very plain
All other objects do the same..................

Whatever happened to Public Service Broadcasts.

Now we get some bewer getting run over in the pub, by bloke who's only had ONE pint and a sip of his second, thereby rendering him within the drink drive limit.

Bring back Isaac Newton!!

time you were back home mate ????

Petunia: Oh, I have enjoyed our country walk.
Joe: Yes, we've come a long way, Petunia.

[He throws a stone.]

Joe: Look, you can see our tracks right across that yellow cornfield.
Petunia: Oh yes. It's ever so nice in this field, but I'm glad those cows have gone.

Joe: Aye, they've taken themselves off for a walk down t'road. Look, through that gate I opened. The one marked "PRIVATE".

Petunia: Oh yes.

Joe: He throws another stone. She is looking back over the wall. Sounds of a dog barking and sheep baa-ing can be heard.

Petunia: Our little Bingo's having a lovely time playing with those sheep. The exercise'll do him good.
Joe throws yet another stone. The sound of breaking glass is heard.

Joe: He-hey! I've hit that bottle, Petunia. It's smashed up a treat!
Petunia: [Sarcastically] Very clever.
Joe: You know, there's a farmer down there with a purple face.
Cut to shot of angry farmer.
Petunia: I expect it's all that sun and the open air life, Jo.
The farmer jumps around in anger.
Joe: Now he's doing one of those country dances.
Petunia: Well I don't think he looks very friendly.
Jo: Maybe you're right. Though it can't be anything we've done.
Petunia: No, but I won't stay where I'm not wanted. Come on, Jo!

Farmer: When folk come out to the country, why oh why don't they follow the Country Code?