Club Emblem

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3 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Thought you'd be leading the charge campaigning for the flaming Demon rpfc 😉

 

[Sir Why You Little 37,446]

12 hours ago, 58er said:

Outdated and the second is Not even  our real colours. Navy blue more than some royal style is our colours.

And haven’t we won the 2021 flag with this newer emblem. 

Let's worry about what happens on the field and matters like this can be addressed when we are 17 flags atop the premiership race. 

Changing emblems like flags always indicates a lack  of self confidence IMO as the real issue is changing our style out on the ground and winning.

That makes a greater Football Club with continuity and confidence not tinkering at the edges. 

 

This has got nothing to do with onfield matters. 
A Club Emblem/Logo is all about getting young kids on board 

We have a large void to fill in that respect, which all started back in the mid 60’s when Television started to show Saturday Replays in Prime Time. Sadly this coincided with our fall down the ladder, which meant The MFC were very rarely on and when we were on, it was usually a heavy loss. The result being Kids followed other teams

It wasn’t cool to be a Melbourne Supporter…

The problem still exists, we have to grow our Membership and the lifeblood of that is Young Kids 

So an Emblem that they want to identify with and wear, is very important. 
 

I don’t mind our current logo, it’s ok, but i do think it is a little bland

I think a Demon with a Trident is needed with Flames too….!!
 

[BAMF 4,477]

I would love to see a Japanese demon style. Like the one I've just changed my profile picture to.

[whatwhat say what 23,795]

8 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

This has got nothing to do with onfield matters. 
A Club Emblem/Logo is all about getting young kids on board 

no it's not

a club emblem / logo is about standard and consistent branding to be instantly recognisable and associated with the product as it is

simple and direct works, and not changing it willynilly all the time too

the 'demon spirit' stuff has enough frills around it to supposedly be appealing but personally i think the notion of our emblem having any effect whatsoever on our appeal to younger generations is a complete misnomer

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26 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

no it's not

a club emblem / logo is about standard and consistent branding to be instantly recognisable and associated with the product as it is

simple and direct works, and not changing it willynilly all the time too

the 'demon spirit' stuff has enough frills around it to supposedly be appealing but personally i think the notion of our emblem having any effect whatsoever on our appeal to younger generations is a complete misnomer

Well that just means we disagree 

we need to engage the younger generations 

An Emblem can do that, as long as the product on the field is winning 

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 11,054]

57 minutes ago, rpfc said:

 

Lol  Just a hunch!

Why stop at 70 pages though!

 

...WHY?  Indeed 

Edited March 1 by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

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32 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Well that just means we disagree 

we'll never get this thread to 70 pages with that sort of attitude

LIFT @Sir Why You Little

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the only decent demon caricatures i've seen were all done by weg.   the rest ... meh

[Sir Why You Little 37,446]

32 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

the only decent demon caricatures i've seen were all done by weg.   the rest ... meh

The ‘64 Weg should be hung in the Louvre. It’s a work of absolute genius!

Edited March 1 by Sir Why You Little

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I definitely think for new fans, whether they are young kids growing up with footy or adults new to the game for whatever reason; logos, colours, jumpers are all pretty influential.

If anyone has ever watched a “New to AFL” YouTube video, it’s pretty much the first criteria potential support is based on. 

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It would make sense to have a flag somewhere in our emblem. A high flying one. Since that's what our song says.

[Ethan Tremblay 31,379]

20 hours ago, Roger Mellie said:

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This one on merchandise, especially on caps and polo shirts, looks the best. People who don’t even follow the MBL wear the “NY” caps and shirts (NY Yankees) because it’s seen as a brand. We should be attempting to create the same. 

[DEE fence 5,051]

Just saying, that yes the CS logo was a mess, but it did one thing I loved - claiming the Eureka southern cross, which I thought was a brilliant idea as no other club has and I think the cross is an awesome logo and would quite happily claim it for the football club and get it away from the CFMEU, right wing crazies, and anyone else who didn’t understand that it was about a fair go, justice and equality. Anyway soap box broken now, and yes overall it was too messy bar that one good idea.

[BringBackTheDemon 146]

Hard to believe a guy with the username "BringBackTheDemon" wants the Demon back I know, but:

The current logo is a blatant rip off of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Yankees.

Cameron Schwab's monstrosity was a blatant rip off of Liverpool.

The Flamehead logo is original and epic. Bring it back full time. 

I will say the current logo is better than "Demon Spirit" though, so unbelievably cringe. You've stuck with this for years now (why??) yet "Give em Hell" only lasted 1 season and that brought us a premiership and is far better for marketing.

 

Edited March 1 by BringBackTheDemon

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1 hour ago, BringBackTheDemon said:

Hard to believe a guy with the username "BringBackTheDemon" wants the Demon back I know, but:

The current logo is a blatant rip off of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Yankees.

Cameron Schwab's monstrosity was a blatant rip off of Liverpool.

The Flamehead logo is original and epic. Bring it back full time. 

I will say the current logo is better than "Demon Spirit" though, so unbelievably cringe. You've stuck with this for years now (why??) yet "Give em Hell" only lasted 1 season and that brought us a premiership and is far better for marketing.

 

‘Blatant rip off’

What can one do with a logo that some club somewhere hasn’t already done?

Any logo will be a ‘blatant rip off of something else’ so that shouldn’t be a determining factor at all.

[BringBackTheDemon 146]

21 minutes ago, rpfc said:

‘Blatant rip off’

What can one do with a logo that some club somewhere hasn’t already done?

Any logo will be a ‘blatant rip off of something else’ so that shouldn’t be a determining factor at all.

My point was the late 90s-2000s logo was original which made it awesome. 

[Ethan Tremblay 31,379]

2 hours ago, BringBackTheDemon said:

Hard to believe a guy with the username "BringBackTheDemon" wants the Demon back I know, but:

The current logo is a blatant rip off of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Yankees.

Cameron Schwab's monstrosity was a blatant rip off of Liverpool.

The Flamehead logo is original and epic. Bring it back full time. 

I will say the current logo is better than "Demon Spirit" though, so unbelievably cringe. You've stuck with this for years now (why??) yet "Give em Hell" only lasted 1 season and that brought us a premiership and is far better for marketing.

 

Except we pre-date the Yankees and Mets and so does that specific logo (overlapped MFC initials).

Edited March 1 by Ethan Tremblay

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5 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Except we pre-date the Yankees and Nets and so does that specific logo (overlapped MFC)

did the baggers have that overlapping letters logo before we did?

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5 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

This one on merchandise, especially on caps and polo shirts, looks the best. People who don’t even follow the MBL wear the “NY” caps and shirts (NY Yankees) because it’s seen as a brand. We should be attempting to create the same. 

Agreed. That looks so much better on the hats than the full emblem. 

[BringBackTheDemon 146]

53 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Except we pre-date the Yankees and Mets and so does that specific logo (overlapped MFC initials).

A quick google search and I dont think we pre date the Yankees using the overlapping initials at all, the Yankees first used it in 1909. Happy to be corrected. 

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1 hour ago, BringBackTheDemon said:

A quick google search and I dont think we pre date the Yankees using the overlapping initials at all, the Yankees first used it in 1909. Happy to be corrected. 

Carlton also introduced the “CFC” initials logo to their jumper in 1909 (was used prior to this, just not on their jumper). I found evidence of us using the MFC initials in 1897. But I do acknowledge that the style of logo is synonymous with the New York teams mentioned. I just think it looks good on our merchandise, and branding is super important.

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Everyone’s a designer.

[BringBackTheDemon 146]

2 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Carlton also introduced the “CFC” initials logo to their jumper in 1909 (was used prior to this, just not on their jumper). I found evidence of us using the MFC initials in 1897. But I do acknowledge that the style of logo is synonymous with the New York teams mentioned. I just think it looks good on our merchandise, and branding is super important.

Can you link me to where you found us using it in 1897 please? I struggled to find any early emblems for us, interested to see the old ones. 

[Roger Mellie 4,205]

4 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Except we pre-date the Yankees and Mets and so does that specific logo (overlapped MFC initials).

 

4 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

did the baggers have that overlapping letters logo before we did?

 

3 hours ago, BringBackTheDemon said:

A quick google search and I dont think we pre date the Yankees using the overlapping initials at all, the Yankees first used it in 1909. Happy to be corrected. 

 

2 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Carlton also introduced the “CFC” initials logo to their jumper in 1909 (was used prior to this, just not on their jumper). I found evidence of us using the MFC initials in 1897. But I do acknowledge that the style of logo is synonymous with the New York teams mentioned. I just think it looks good on our merchandise, and branding is super important.

 

6 minutes ago, BringBackTheDemon said:

Can you link me to where you found us using it in 1897 please? I struggled to find any early emblems for us, interested to see the old ones. 

@Supermercado may be able to shed some light on this!

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On 01/03/2025 at 07:29, Roger Mellie said:

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I reckon this looks great but unfortunately every time I look at it it also makes me think of Carlton…..this is not good☹️