...because if the club think having a particular badge will help them sell merchandise and help other commercial activities....then in the end it helps to provide a better football team.
I want a better football team not a better badge
Your Badge, Your Say
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I want a better football team not a better badge
exhertsimp
Vital 1st Team Regular
The results are in
www.weareimps.com
Fans opt for badge return
Imps supporters have voted overwhelmingly in favour of reverting to the iconic badge design used by the club during the eighties and early nineties.
www.weareimps.com
Surprise surprise!The results are in
Fans opt for badge return
Imps supporters have voted overwhelmingly in favour of reverting to the iconic badge design used by the club during the eighties and early nineties.
Liam Scully
Vital Newbie
I honestly struggle to comprehend this angle.
“You never give the fans a say.”
(Club gives fans a say)
“It was already decided.”
Let's be really clear.
We set out our position and preference.
We asked 5,600+ of our most engaged fans.
77% of those who voted, voted in support.
23% are very entitled to be disappointed with the outcome. It was a binary decision and it didn't go the way of their preference.
But to now rubbish the vote, the process, and the transparency (not accusing people on here of all these things - just speaking generally) is (IMO) shifting the focus to find something else to blame.
elkimp
Vital Reserves Team
Thank you for the reply. I just didn't find it a balanced vote.
The marketing was very strong on one side. The current badge was not fairly judged alongside it.
I agree the club has asked the fans and can be applauded for that and the end result is transparent and what the club desired.
But I believe there was a flaw in the process. That is my opinion.
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
What about the married ones?
Personally, I didn't mind either way, but it will at least bring back some good memories of the badge's previous use:
Long suffering Imp
Vital Squad Member
I can remember the time when our luck was so bad, the board of the time were seriously considering dropping the Imp altogether as they actually believed it was a bad omen!!! It made the calandar/Look North news. There would be a lynch mob if anyone suggested that today.
hulloutpost
Vital Champions League
I hope the Remainers won't be demanding a second vote 
really winds me up seeing the "club have already decided" posts on Lincoln banter and the like! yes, they've made their opinion very well known as to what they want to do, but they still bloody asked us, and we've voted overwhelmingly in favour of it, does my head in all the constant conspiracies about the club working against us, there's a reason we're in the top 5 in fan engagement or transparency (whatever the award was), it's like people don't realise how good we've got it!! this is one of THE best run clubs in the EFL, but still constant moaning
I didn’t vote either: can see the marketing angle of the 1980’s badge and the connection of the Club and City to the traditional one. Not something worth getting stressed about though.
The Board’s preference was well documented and that will have helped steer the vote to an extent, but at least the fans were asked.
The Board’s preference was well documented and that will have helped steer the vote to an extent, but at least the fans were asked.
If this had been under the governance of the electoral commission it would never have passed muster.
Ainsworth7
Vital Reserves Team
Probably not, given it wasn’t an election.
stokeimp
Vital 1st Team Regular
I didn't vote - my preference was to stick with what we have, and would have voted that way, but I'm not "anti" the 80s (now 20s!) style, and didn't really want to vote against the recommendation of the Club and Trust.
With that in mind, I don't have a problem with the process. It could, perhaps, be seen like any business process where the business's management board make a proposal to shareholders who then vote whether to support or reject that proposal.
I suppose a difference here is that the Club's board need not have asked supporters to vote. It is perhaps indicative of the relationship currently enjoyed between the Club and supporters that they chose/agreed to do so
With that in mind, I don't have a problem with the process. It could, perhaps, be seen like any business process where the business's management board make a proposal to shareholders who then vote whether to support or reject that proposal.
I suppose a difference here is that the Club's board need not have asked supporters to vote. It is perhaps indicative of the relationship currently enjoyed between the Club and supporters that they chose/agreed to do so
Opposing fans are still going to say WTF is that? anyway, so I guess it doesn't really matter which one.
On another note, while I agree the Imp should have a central part to play in our public image/marketing etc, the option of the City of Lincoln Crest with no Imp as the shirt badge was not offered as an alternative.
It probably wouldn't have won but just sayin
No, I haven't got enough to worry about apart from this, the colour of our socks, the width of red stripes and which way we kick in the second half.
On another note, while I agree the Imp should have a central part to play in our public image/marketing etc, the option of the City of Lincoln Crest with no Imp as the shirt badge was not offered as an alternative.
It probably wouldn't have won but just sayin
No, I haven't got enough to worry about apart from this, the colour of our socks, the width of red stripes and which way we kick in the second half.
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
There are those who will always find something to moan about, like when John Ward scored 29 goals in the 1975/76 season and all you heard about was the number of chances he missed.
Off topic alert!
