Stevenage have the hart for Hertfordshire sorted with their new badge. Time for the hornet again - has to be a similar style badge to our current one though.
Looks like the head of a moose with ears pricked up, mouth open, wearing large glasses. It's a "no" from me.
Just stick something like this on a badge, something to give nightmares to all kids under 10. Maybe add the words "Watford, we'll ****ing murder ya"
From a historical standpoint the hart was introduced several decades before the hornet arrived. This club crest dates back to the 1950's.. though it never appeared on any kit. Personally though i think the club will choose a hornet this time. I just think it fits better with modern marketing and as i mentioned earlier it eliminates the 'hart of Hertfordshire' thing that most people dont get. Also more clubs have their nicknames depicted in their badges than not. I feel the hart's days are numbered.
The Burton badge is an interesting one. It clearly depicts a bloke with a beer belly in keeping with the club nickname and traditional industry of the area. Surprised they keep it in these health conscious times though.
Just found this design brief (by chance) and the first thing it states is.. "Watford FC is now looking for you to: Design a new badge for Watford FC that reflects their nickname, 'The Hornets' https://www.talenthouse.com/i/design-the-new-official-badge-for-watford-football-club So that's it folks. The moose is dead.. long live the Hornet! Edit- Unless we vote to keep the moose
All the best badges & club crests I've ever seen just got a simple makeover to subtly bring them up to date, never a full redesign. I dread the thought of any type of Bee/Hornet on the club crest, it's soulless, simplistic & obvious. Think it would be looked upon later as a mistake. There is historical significance with the Hart which represents the Town/County. Surely better than having the club nickname on the badge. Maybe the surest sign yet Pozzo wants to package us up & sell us on to the American's with the marketing name already put in place for the US 'soccer market'. Conspiracy? ...perhaps.
The other design motif from here we could adopt on the new badge is, of course, the bundle of sticks surrounding an axe. Also known as the fasces & a prominent symbol of fascist Italy. Ideally, we would change our shirt colour to black as part of the revamp.
Go full sterotype and have a pizza? Half black olives half cheese with peperoni in the shape of a hornet in the middle.
The 4th star would be for the Top Pitch award for last year. This has something of late period Crystal Tips & Alistair about it. Superficially respectable but, under the surface, decidedly trippy.
The breadth & depth of expertise of the forumites never fails to astound. Maybe a Mozart horn concerto as the new walk on music? I can already picture Harry swaying gracefully to #1 in D.
Maybe better to increase the number of conflicts. Idiots might get confused & our international standing would rocket.
It would fit in very well if we were to run out to the theme tune of 'Rhubarb and Custard'. 'Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah,nah nah nah nah nah... '
I stole the opportunity today to peek at pix of CT&A. Seriously weird psychedelic ****. Half the forum would have been exposed to that for 5 mins a day for years. Extraordinary that we have all turned out so normal.
Perhaps we should take this a step further and have the badge depict “horns” by displaying an array of erect pen1s’s .... or is it penae? Either way, a big line of throbbing cocks some in yellow, some black and the testicles in red because we don’t want to anger the red sock brigade .
I feel it detracts from the dignity it's supposed to signify and Harry the Hornet does the "...yucks...".
