by bigreddog » Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:02 pm
Whether simple, fussy or over-complicated all club crests need to say something fundamental about the club that it represents. I think ours does exactly what it says on the tin: we are Morecambe, we're known as the shrimps (unless you work for the BBC and couldn't be arsed trying to distinguish us from "the shrimpers") and so we have a badge with a very good looking shrimp (which couldn't have been easy) and our name on it, simples.
I've been lucky enough to see the draft designs before we arrived at what we have today, make no mistake there has been a lot of hard work and soul searching done by the design team and the board of directors, and having seen the early ideas, I for one believe they've gone for the best design.
My congratulations to all involved, this could have been the easiest thing to get wrong, and although there are a lot of people making their thoughts known right now in a less than positive sense, I think they'll come to like the new badge. There will of course be others who don't like change of any sort, dont like modernity, don't like anything progressive. That I'm afraid is just proof positive, like it were needed, that Morecambe Football Club is light years ahead of Morecambe. But that's because Morecambe needs to catch up, I hope and pray it will in time to provide the next generation of shrimps fans a decent place to live, and to work.