I sent this :
You can't allow that badge to remain, its a complete joke and looks like its been designed by a bunch of pre-Schoolers.
If any of you people running MY football club even care remotely of the wishes of the fans you will remove it ASAP.
I direct you to this poll
http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/56381-New-Badge-Poll-Petition.
Less than 1% think its a good design and almost everybody ive spoke to says they will not buy a single thing with that eyesore on it.
For once, please, consider the fans.
Thanks
Think I posted this in the other thread, but I went for:
I am writing to express my disgust at the new badge foisted upon Evertonians by the powers that be at the club, in the hope that you take notice of the huge weight of opinion and disappointment currently pouring forth from Everton fans everywhere.
The new badge is an amateurish, ugly, cartoonish and cheap looking abomination of a design, which has the appearance of something which could have been knocked up on Microsoft Paint in a matter of minutes.
I do not know whether this was designed in-house, or whether outside designers were brought in, but either way, it is embarrassing to think that not only was this actually submitted as a finished piece of work, it was presumably SELECTED from several possibilities. One can only imagine how poor the alternatives were.
I (along with the vast majority of Evertonians) understand that change is sometimes required, whether for aesthetic or commercial purposes, but this change has thrown away several features of the badge important to Everton's history and heritage, and left us with something that looks utterly childish and unprofessional.
The badge has been met with almost universal condemnation from the Everton fan base - a fact that CANNOT have escaped your attention by now, since the launch on Saturday afternoon.
The fact that this new "creation" was not officially unveiled to the fan base until it was a fait accompli is rather telling. However, given that the design was leaked some time ago, and the reaction then was very much as it is now, it points to a worrying arrogance that the launch still went ahead with that opinion unheeded.
As of this writing, in just a few short hours, nearly 8,000 people have signed an online petition expressing their displeasure at this new design, and almost every comment on the club's social network pages is unremittingly negative. The national media have even picked up on what a poor job was done with the redesign.
I write this email in the small hope that you and your fellow decision-makers at the club see sense, and do whatever can be done to rectify this enormous commercial and historical misstep.
