- Apr 6, 2014
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It's good to have such selective on heritage
Sometimes your digs at the club are misplaced and unfair. The new logo is supposed to embrace the club's past, present and future, and I think it does, as basic as I think it looks. At least it is a logo originating from the club. If I remember correctly, the Magpies logo, as much as I like it and I grew up with it, wasn't even a club designed logo, it was an SANFL design. The SANFL designed all the club logos sometime in the 70s (?). The club used a Magpie in various forms prior to the 70s but it didn't appear on the jumper from the time we became black and white until the 70s. Obviously the club didn't always use a Magpie as a logo either since 1902. Not having the Magpie logo doesn't mean we are not using the nickname in the SANFL, we still are. However, if in the future we must move on from the SANFL then obviously we won't have it as a nickname, and that's just the situation we have. It has been difficult enough fighting for the bars, a jumper that has been worn since 1902, in many premierships, through two major wars, with greater meaning and relevance etc ... We would be placing our fight for the bars at risk if we couple it with the Magpie logo and nickname. I know that Richardson is a big supporter of the Magpie but it was time that the club developed a new unified logo for its 150th year, and due to positive support for it, the club continued with it. Inferring that we should just keep our current jumper because we've ditched the Magpie logo is showing that you haven't thought this through deeply.