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Quote from: MEGA1879 on February 19, 2018, 07:49:17 pmWhat has a viking got to do with Doncaster Rovers -(Nothing ) We represent the Town so we should use the town crest!!!!Their first emblem was the town’s old coat of arms, granted in 1927, when Doncaster became a county borough. The debt, which many English towns owed to the royal or baronial stronghold beside which they sprang up and grew in size and prosperity, is reflected by the popularity of the castle in civic heraldry. It is, therefore, that a castellated gateway features in the shield, together with a Saxon crown. The crown is especially appropriate, inasmuch, during the reign of Edward the Confessor, Doncaster, and then part of the Manor of Hexthorp, belonged to Earl Tostig. In Henry I’s time it passed into royal hands. The royal lions, each holding in its mouth a white rose of York, support the shield. The lion also appears in the crest, holding a banner with the same castellated gateway, charged with the word Don, with the wavy lines representing the same river.In the late Sixties the local council denied Doncaster Rovers the prolonged use of its civic icon. A competition was held and the best design selected was today’s badge, christened “the Viking”. It was designed by a group of local students and one may assume that the undaunted Scandinavian alludes to the “Rovers” suffix.https://thebeautifulhistory.wordpress.com/clubs/doncaster-rovers/
What has a viking got to do with Doncaster Rovers -(Nothing ) We represent the Town so we should use the town crest!!!!
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be averse to changing the badge for a 'heritage' edition shirt e.g. an anniversary or whatever but the Viking is so established I think it stays (although I thought it was left over from a previous sponsorship deal and never removed?).Three things remain from OBV:The badgeThe hoopsJames Coppinger
Did Carl Swan model his tache on that Viking?
This stuff has been my job for 30+ years. Would normally be telling a client to change things but I wouldn't do much to the Rovers logo. You might do a bit of a clean up redraw and make it a bit more multi platform friendly but that's it. Don't fundamentally change a thing (see the Leeds story for how to f*ck it right up). Apparently the Viking connection is fairly random but it did get nicked from the Rover car co logo and reinterpreted for our footy club.
Didn't we have a pirate at one time before the viking?
...... That would make it about 1971/72 or 1972/73 I think. Didn't we have at least a season with no badge?
Quote from: ravenrover on February 20, 2018, 09:51:20 amDidn't we have a pirate at one time before the viking?When I started watching Rovers I had a rosette (remember them?) with a kid dressed as a pirate on it. Apparently they had been produced at the time we played the American side Dallas Tornadoes. This was I think a fairly short lived initiative aimed at young fans. I still have the pirate somewhere as I made it into a badge after the rosette fell apart.
Quote from: The Red Baron on February 21, 2018, 11:21:05 amQuote from: ravenrover on February 20, 2018, 09:51:20 amDidn't we have a pirate at one time before the viking?When I started watching Rovers I had a rosette (remember them?) with a kid dressed as a pirate on it. Apparently they had been produced at the time we played the American side Dallas Tornadoes. This was I think a fairly short lived initiative aimed at young fans. I still have the pirate somewhere as I made it into a badge after the rosette fell apart.as mentioned elsewhere, it was definitely an identity used for Rovers in the media - I've got a Portsmouth local paper previewing our 1952 FA Cup match, and there's a pirate alongside their own "jolly jack tar" character...not much good going down that route now, though, what with brizzle having cornered the whole pirate market, but it was definitely a thing before the viking got shoehorned in on the act...
There's an idea, some of our graphic wizards who mock up nice shirts every season should have a go at concept badges, just for fun and a bit of discussion on the forum that doesn't revolve around where Tommy Rowe's best position is.
Quote from: idler on February 20, 2018, 09:06:12 am...... That would make it about 1971/72 or 1972/73 I think. Didn't we have at least a season with no badge?From google images, it seems we had no badge from 1970-75. Though http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Doncaster_Rovers/Doncaster_Rovers.htm shows us without a badge for 6 months in late 1970, and then none again from 72-73 till the 75-76 season.Before that there seem to be a couple of seasons with a badge in the 1960s but going back, we've not had a badge on the kit for most of our history.