At Our Place

Unfortunately I am no longer able to make tonight's event - I was booked in, but it sadly wasn't going to work out for me with work and getting to the stadium, so I had to hand back my place so someone else could go. If there's anyone else who is able to make notes for me, I would most appreciate it.

 

The forum has started. In attendance is Janmaat, Javi, Duxbury & Foster.

 

Going the change the club badge in 2020!!

They want it to reflect the hornet and are welcome to designs from fans. This is because of global branding. Fans were confused with the hornet's nickname and a hart (moose) on the badge.

 

Thanks for reporting.

 

Maybe we could appease all fans with a bit of traditional and new design

 

Janmaat to be injured over the course of the evening....

 

There's only one badge for the job

 

Good work. Keep the updates coming if you can HB1.

 

Pathetic

 

Ben is chatty. Talking about how good Javi is (which is just as well seeing as he's within earshot). They find out the team only on Saturday afternoon. Janmaat says the medical team is much better now (than it was last season).

Foster is lavishing praise on Penaranda and Quina. He calls them exceptional talents. He went on to say Cucho will be a world beater!!

There's a question about Holebas. Ben says he's a lovely bloke but just miserable (old git).

Anyone thinking Javi is placid, think again. He gets angry, especially at half time.

Janmaat says he doesn't read the forum, however he likes HB1

They both say Gino is a friendly guy, but they don't really interact too much with him.

 

Here is what I am going to submit. Took me some time but it was worth the hours on end because I have ultimately designed a masterpiece that is simple, globally marketable and most importantly, it will terrify the opposition when they see it on our kit. Mon the feckin Hoooorneeetsssss

 

I notice Bristol City are also looking at changing their badge for next season and have sent a survey out to fans recently.

 

Personally speaking I absolutely despise the idea that the club badge could be replaced by an image of a Wasp/Hornet. Too stupidly American for a start & has no relationship with the history of the Town, save colour of the kit.

Prefer the current badge all day long. If it aint broke etc.

Don't mind a very subtle change of the current badge, but they must leave the triangle type shape & the Hart alone. Perhaps just a more aggressive looking Hart.

 

Maybe an actual hart instead of a cartoon moose?

 

As long as the badge change doesn’t go the same way as Leeds’ efforts I’ll be quite pleased.

 

Penaranda has signed a new 5 year deal! He also now has all the relevant paperwork and can now play for WFC.

https://twitter.com/WatfordFC/status/1065346302664421376

https://twitter.com/WatfordFC/status/1065346601198264320

 

Let me be the first to say: Boo!

 

Here's a good place to see much of what's gone on; https://twitter.com/hornetsnestwfc/status/1065325529975480320

 

The club badge is fine, **** off. Whats next will Z Cars get replaced by Koldplay?

 

Spot on, KD.

This is not how you get great or good or even adequate design.

Write a clear brief & choose the best designer you can afford.

Not some CarlosKickaBalls botcher.

 

Do not discredit the artist that is CarlosKickaBalls. Insulting to the club imo

 

The fans will never agree to changing the badge. It’s been the emlbem for 40 whole years. If Gino does, the fans will just start calling Watford the Moose’s.

A more fitting image would be one of two smashed blokes, or women, having a punch up outside Kudos or whatever it’s called now.

 

In fact maybe we should change it to a ref holding up a red card to one of our players and awarding the other team a penalty. That’ll really piss off the bods at the premier league.

 

A clearly identifiable Holebas & Callum Wilson would be perfect.

 

For old times sake, I would like us to go back to being called The Brewers, and have a good old fashioned frothing pint as an emblem on our badge.

 

So with Gino clearly favouring yellow and black as the club colours, if he followed your idea is the masterplan to turn us into Burton Albion?

 

It's called a pentagon.

 

Branding = blanding.
Surely, the oddity of the nickname versus the badge helps to make the club's backstory more interesting. By 'fans' I assume they mean, in this case, casual South Korean viewers, etc. I'm told they have very good internet and therefore Google in S Korea, if someone is that interested.
I can see it now: In an effort to get it right WFC employ a PR firm who specialise in rebranding. They only want the best, but what are the criteria for judging this?
The power-casual-dressing-skinny-flatwhite-capucino-sipping-heavy-framed-glasses-applemac-wielding 'team' will go away for a suitably impressive long length of time and make up two figures: An eye-wateringly large fee and a projection that what they are about to unveil will add 0.573% to WFC's global revenue, IF the badge is tied-in with a complete overhaul of the brand. Thus a name-change is part of the package and so is a stadium name-change and yet another club-colours overhaul.
Since the number of Far-Eastern, American, South-American, Russian etc etc teenagers colossally outnumbers those who have spent goodly proportions of their lives actually going to games don't expect sophistication:
How about 'Watford Hornets' (you know, like those Northern Rugby League clubs), a sub-manga-inspired badge (sorry, logo); the re-introduction of red into the colours so as to facilitate the ground becoming the MacDonaldsHealthfoods Megadome.
Personally I favour Consiglia, or maybe something similar to Aviva, given the former has an 'l' in it (think of the Eastern market).

HAVING RANTED ALL THAT...... I think the badge is pretty crap - but wouldn't be if they had got the stag right in the first place, plus it's not really been around all that long.

Must-win game. End of.

 

Ah yes, since Ind Coope took over Benskins, I suppose that must be the way forward.
In all seriousness though, I am glad that Gino favours yellow and black. With minimal red.

 

It looks like it should be for an "Egg Chasing" club to me.

 

A more aggressive Hart (or Stag) would be good, and maybe the nickname should be changed to "The Harts" or "The Stags"

 

Current badge is crap. Has no relation to the rest of the club colours. Get rid.

As I know change is difficult so I’m happy to compromise. A hornet stinging to death our current hart emblem in Watford pond will do nicely.

 

Maybe my avatar.
Replace the adverts for Shell with a couple of hornets, replace "Audentior" with the word "Hornets", get rid of the saltire of course, and the axe. Replace the blue with another colour, and have less red and more black. Open a competition to see who has the best idea with what to replace the axe.