The great crest survey shambles

Are the club going to follow the 'so-called majority' and change the club badge or has this whole survey turned out to be a waste of time for everyone involved?

The answer is, I suspect, that they're going to use what the 'so-called majority' picked and if you're like me you probably think this is wrong. Or will they?

While I applaud the club in trying to get the views of supporters and the personal touch is all very nice, they don't need to and I really don't think they should be doing this, to this extent. In defence of the club, I can see the 'good publicity' and it's not costing them anything other than time.

While they will get things right they're also going to get things wrong; this survey, along with the Supporter Consultation Group don't work for me for several reasons but mainly because all the questions raised, they already know and they know they should be fixing. If they don't know these things then an awful lot of people, who are getting paid by the club, are not doing their jobs.

Let's just get something else straight; it's not a crest, it's a badge. Also, it's only 4,500 people that have responded and I for one answered at random to demonstrate it was all wrong. How many fans of other clubs could have got online and answered?

Some of the results can be seen on the club site but one of the most surprising ones that I read was that 80%, that's 3,600 (less than 10% of the people that attended the last home match against Everton) people opted to have a star incorporated into the new badge to represent the European Cup win.

For the love of everything that is sane please do not follow the clicks of those 3,600 people.

When we are allowed to have a star over the badge put one on but do not make it part of our badge; it would be embarrassing. Rather than make it part of the badge get the club back into Europe so we can have it on the 'right way'.

But and this is the big but and where I'm going to leave my ramblings for today, the club won't release something that has been picked by 4,500 supporters because they know they cant.

As I've said above this is just 'good publicity' for the club and the new badge will have had, I'm guessing, a fairly expensive team of people working on it and when it was suggested to them to include a star they would have laughed it off, just as I have and the other 20%.

It's also worth remembering that we now have some fairly intelligent people working for us who will actually think about this a little differently and will look at the next three to five years and probably much longer. How stupid is the kit going to look when we are back in Europe? Our dodgy star and then the proper one above it!

The survey is a shambles but it's all good publicity and it's not hurting any of us, but it will be very interesting to see the new badge, which will be out by the end of the month. I hope I'm not wrong.