It is just a badge, so I cant understand why you need to defend the club against folk who just don`t like what been offered up as a replacement. If fans hadn`t complained or moaned, as you put it, in the past then some of the changes already implemented wouldn`t have taken place. TVs, scoreboard and beer int Ponty to name a few. Change is wanted but not change for change sake without a better alternative being provided that`s my opinion.
To be more of a community club "stronger together" and all that we could have had a competition where the fans can create a new club crest rather than paying a Leeds company to do it for us, who will then put our money we've paid them towards continuing to sponsor an Huddersfield Town stand. Or we could have just picked a local tarn company to do the job Fantastic Media are doing in the first place.
I think this is exactly the point selby. Rather than allowing fans to put forward ideas for what they want incorporated on the badge or allow fans to put forward their own suggestions and designs for what the badge should be they have instead paid a leeds based company with no connections to the club at all to design just 4 very similar designs and said 'these are the 4, like them or lump them'. There is absolutely no diversity at all in the designs, no originality and they are not in keeping with what I have heard people suggest for years as what they want for the badge. So no it isn't about people putting a better one forward because there is no option at all for that, it is about people saying these 4 designs are ****. We're all for change but we want change for the better, not change for the worse.
Like many others I applaud the Club's efforts to create a recognisable new emblem/logo for the club, but I can't help thinking they've missed a trick in the way they've gone about it. What I would have liked them to do was to hold an open competition, giving not only pro designers but also fans a chance to have a go - we've already seen some designs on here that in my opinion are way ahead of the official offerings - and then have the entries shortlisted for a fans vote. Probably a bit too democratic.