Dylan
First team substitute
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Favourite CUFC player: Dion Dublin
Favourite CUFC match: CUFC v AFC Halifax 04.05.14
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Post by Dylan on Jun 1, 2023 8:14:58 GMT
Just completed the excellent survey. Was that tongue in cheek as all it really asked is what CUFC means to me - a lot. And do I want the badge changed. It’s like asking if I want to change my car, yes if I can have/afford a Lambo, but no if it’s a 10 year old Ford Fiesta. Can’t see how this survey will canvas any realistic opinion either way. 🤷 Seemed thorough to me and, delightfully, included a 'come and get me' plea for coconuts to feature on the new badge.
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Post by madmarvin on Jun 1, 2023 8:31:18 GMT
I've completed the survey. Personally I felt it asked all the right questions.
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Post by Andrewlang on Jun 1, 2023 9:17:24 GMT
It was a good supporter survey overall I thought even though I'm not sure how relevent some of the questions were to a potential new badge.
Anyway, I voted not to change.
Andrew
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Wingco's Boy
Reserve team substitute
Posts: 2,114
Favourite CUFC player: Dion Dublin
Favourite CUFC match: Newcastle FAC 3rd round 2022
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Post by Wingco's Boy on Jun 1, 2023 9:20:02 GMT
I agree. It is a good survey. I voted for change as I think the present badge is too simplistic and doesn’t really reference the city (battlements?). As far as other badges that I like, I suggested Sheffield United. It isn’t too crowded, yet manages to reference the city’s history with the crossed blades, Yorkshire with the white rose and the date of the club’s founding.
A bunch of non-U’s supporting mates alerted me to this, as they all received it. A legacy of our trip to Forest Green Relegated in December, when even though I bought all the tickets I had to assign their individual email addresses. Bloody silly. Cue “amusing” comments such as “it’s missing nts”.
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Post by cufctheparrot on Jun 1, 2023 9:25:48 GMT
Was that tongue in cheek as all it really asked is what CUFC means to me - a lot. And do I want the badge changed. It’s like asking if I want to change my car, yes if I can have/afford a Lambo, but no if it’s a 10 year old Ford Fiesta. Can’t see how this survey will canvas any realistic opinion either way. 🤷 Seemed thorough to me and, delightfully, included a 'come and get me' plea for coconuts to feature on the new badge. OK its the club 'song' but why would we want coconuts on the club badge, do they grow here? Unless the Crop Science Centre has discovered a way of growing coconuts in the Cambridgeshire climate then it's a big no from me.
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Post by Emperor Delbert Gradius on Jun 1, 2023 9:28:42 GMT
Moose eating a coconut donning a crucifix please.
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jwills61
Youth team star
Up The U's
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Post by jwills61 on Jun 1, 2023 10:03:16 GMT
Thought that was well done tbf - asked the right questions.
My main requests are that it isn’t a horrible circle one like Stevenage or a cheap looking stick-on minimalist one like Lincoln.
Blend in a bit of the city’s history and get United in Endeavour in there and job’s a goodun.
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shubs
Reserve team substitute
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Post by shubs on Jun 1, 2023 10:39:46 GMT
Any badge representing culture in our beautiful city should feature the magnificent Colonel Fudpuckers (Mill Road) and the Rajbelash (Hills Road). Both now gone but not forgotten.
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Post by hoolaohanrahanrahan on Jun 1, 2023 11:02:53 GMT
Not received a survey, but please please please no roundel.
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nutsaboutamber
Reserve team regular
Posts: 3,901
Favourite CUFC player: Brian Greenhalgh
Favourite CUFC match: Maidstone(a) at Dartford, playoff semi final 2nd leg, 16 May 1990
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Post by nutsaboutamber on Jun 1, 2023 11:48:16 GMT
1. Year of foundation - 1912. 2. Some depiction of the Great Bridge(aka Magdalene) please as a nick from the City coat of arms. 3. Naturally a bit of water. And a ball, a little one. Not the current bulbous one. 4. A bow to our foundation involving the Abbey/St Andrew's Church. How about St A? 5. And as important as the foregoing, the return please of United in Endeavour. As testament to all those fans in the 50s and 60s who gave their time freely to help build the project which became CUFC, Football League members in 1970.
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Post by squeeze. on Jun 1, 2023 11:55:39 GMT
City architecture did make me laugh. Presumably it means the old stuff not the car park at Addenbrookes that looks like a cheese grater, the monstrosity on the corner of Hills and Cherry Hinton road or any of the visually awful new towns springing up in our suburbs.
Honestly though never going to be something that pleases everybody is there?
Let’s see what they come up with.
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nutsaboutamber
Reserve team regular
Posts: 3,901
Favourite CUFC player: Brian Greenhalgh
Favourite CUFC match: Maidstone(a) at Dartford, playoff semi final 2nd leg, 16 May 1990
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Post by nutsaboutamber on Jun 1, 2023 11:59:11 GMT
🤷 Seemed thorough to me and, delightfully, included a 'come and get me' plea for coconuts to feature on the new badge. OK its the club 'song' but why would we want coconuts on the club badge, do they grow here? Unless the Crop Science Centre has discovered a way of growing coconuts in the Cambridgeshire climate then it's a big no from me. You're right, it shouldn't. Dylan's winding us up because he enjoys a Bounty at half time.
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Post by Emperor Delbert Gradius on Jun 1, 2023 12:23:34 GMT
Look no further than Sheffield Wednesday. Awfully boring clip art 1980’s badge that was a victim of constant refinement into an abstract blue owl and white background. Looked like an NHS logo.
They replaced it with something that is both historically traditional and vibrantly modern. I don’t know why, but it totally changes the way I think about that club. I respect them more because they have a nice badge.
We could do it too.
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rozza1
Reserve team regular
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Post by rozza1 on Jun 1, 2023 13:15:36 GMT
Look no further than Sheffield Wednesday. Awfully boring clip art 1980’s badge that was a victim of constant refinement into an abstract blue owl and white background. Looked like an NHS logo. They replaced it with something that is both historically traditional and vibrantly modern. I don’t know why, but it totally changes the way I think about that club. I respect them more because they have a nice badge. We could do it too. Aston Villa have updated their badge. Supposed to be a homage to one of their older badges, however feel like it just looks like the copy and paste modern format so many clubs are going for. Very similar to Chelsea's now too. Personally always liked Villa's badge. I feel like there's this attitude from the higher ups in football that they constantly have to change things. What happened to "if it ain't broke don't fix it"?
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Post by Emperor Delbert Gradius on Jun 1, 2023 14:19:09 GMT
Look no further than Sheffield Wednesday. Awfully boring clip art 1980’s badge that was a victim of constant refinement into an abstract blue owl and white background. Looked like an NHS logo. They replaced it with something that is both historically traditional and vibrantly modern. I don’t know why, but it totally changes the way I think about that club. I respect them more because they have a nice badge. We could do it too. Aston Villa have updated their badge. Supposed to be a homage to one of their older badges, however feel like it just looks like the copy and paste modern format so many clubs are going for. Very similar to Chelsea's now too. Personally always liked Villa's badge. I feel like there's this attitude from the higher ups in football that they constantly have to change things. What happened to "if it ain't broke don't fix it"? Football crests have always changed and will always change. Remarkably both examples, Chelsea and Villa, have had the same crests for the best part of 20 years. Quite a long time. Villa’s is OK. Chelsea’s is crap. We’ve had a crap one for the best part of 40 years. I don’t want some modern Cheltenham Town style rubbish. But if we are offered something in the same vein as Sheff W I would be happy. The likelihood of that happening however is very low, so it's more likely if we do change it it will be some vague reimagination of the current badge, which I am fine with.
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