FogBlueInSanFran
Well-Known Member
How's your reading comprehension?
Nowhere in my comment do I discuss what I think of the badge, I'm touching on whether or not the consultation was genuine or a box ticking exercise designed to give us the impression our voice mattered.
I don't think our input counted for much, the survey was very limited and the new badge was churned out incredibly quickly with no option for a vote on a final design.
I don't think our input counted for nothing, but I think some of you are overestimating how much it counted for.
As to my thoughts about the badge, I'm pretty ambivalent about it. I half expected it to be worse, so I'm happy in that respect. It's about as inoffensive and generic as they could make it though, just a bit 'meh'. I however really don't like the fact there's no inclusion of the words 'football club' or 'FC', and I don't like the amount of Navy accents and the Navy text in it, doesn't look right IMO.
And as to your anecdotes, mine are pretty mixed, as per this forum. Season ticket holder besides me who's been going before I was born really doesn't like it, and we're in full agreement that there should have been a greater involvement of the supporters in the final design, for example a transparent vote on the final design out of a selection of a few.
That'd be real consultation that couldn't be at all accused of being a box ticking exercise, but that isn't what we got.
I'm not up in arms or anything though, just been left a bit disappointed by the whole charade.
I don't really understand the "vote" thing. What if you had disliked all the designs? Would you have voted? Or would you have asked for three additional designs to choose from? What if instead of a majority liking one design out of three, it had been a plurality? What does the club do then? Tweak all three and have a recount? That could go on forever.