Constance_Perm wrote:Serious question, do many supporters/members care about the appearance of the badge?
Yep, we had crappy ones for a while but North supporters have a lot of collectors amongst them (just ask Gerry at the Toss of the Coin) and we wanted to get back to a quality looking badge that we'd be proud to collect that also fitted in nicely with some of the badges of yesteryear.
I think our historical committee has a bit to do with the badge these days.
Looking at the fantastic display of badges in the Legends Bar at Prossie makes me appreciate how nice it is to have a new unique good looking badge every year as opposed to a generic type that lasts a few years as those years look tacky.
They're very collectible items and such best that they look better than worse.
As a comparison here's our 2006 badge which also had a retro theme:
