Check out a design for the new Wigan badge https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/54778430

Check out a design for the new Wigan badge https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/54778430

Quote ="snowie"Check out a design for the new Wigan badge https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/54778430 '" I was sent a whatsApp image of that with a pie in the middle!

Quote ="snowie"Check out a design for the new Wigan badge https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/54778430 '" I was sent a whatsApp image of that with a pie in the middle!

Always had admiration for club badges that had history and used they coat of of arms for their badge and absolutely loathed the wildcat design for years at least our club listened to the fans and came up with the traditional fleur de lys

What do the Wigan fans think of this

The 27 page thread on here is largely negative. At least we can blame Super League as they were the ones pushing for league wide rebranding.

Still getting news by carrier pigeon in Yorkshire I see. Spoiler alert for you - President Kennedy has been shot

Yeah had to sift through dozens of pigeons before I got to this one, who's President Kennedy last heard it was president Lincoln in power



You'll have to excuse me I've loads of crap to clean up

It would make a for a great Widnes logo.

Do you know why badges are being changed from those traditional ones?

Yup, the world is full of marketing/schmarketing people trying/failing to justify their wage/existence - b*llshiite baffles brains.

Example: SL has failed to finish its fixtures by some way but we are expected to swallow the below spin from SL's Head of Commercial,



Excited and exciting in the same sentence, hardly Dylan Thomas.

Douglas Adams had all pointless people shipped off into deep space supposedly to colonise new worlds. Is it time that RL attempted to expand into new, as yet untapped planets. Maybe there could be a First Pangalactic Rugby Team?

"The decision to create the new badge stems from extensive discussions between the Club and Super League as part of a wider vision for the competition"

I'd have much preferred the version in Egg Chasing's avatar. Wakefield showed you can have a new badge that looks both traditional & modern at the same time.

Certainly once we got rid of the bloody cat.

I see Salford have unveiled an equally ridiculous new badge. What next, Cas to use Tigger from Winnie the Pooh?

Cas would be a good contender for the next to be changed as it's a slightly more complicated logo, and everyone's harping on about making things look better on a smaller scale.

I think the Wakefield Trinity rebrand (back to Trinity) was fantastic.

I respect Saints for having not deviated from their original nickname and not modernised their badge too much.

Warrington have gone for something weirdly in the middle and fairly rubbish by comparison, with our American nickname and our proper nickname on the same badge - why?

Makes the Wigan one look good

Salford's previous one was rubbish too, though, it looked like it had been done by a 15 year old who had just got a Mac with an Adobe suite for Christmas.

You can leave your old crest behind if its part and parcel of an overall transformation. I quite liked the Bradford Northern crest but nobody really kicked up a fuss when we went from this: to this, dare I say, iconic one:

I just don't see what Wigan are achieving with that new one.

I didn't think the Bradford Bulls one was iconic, personally. Name, which had nothing to do with Bradford, and logo a direct steal from probably the most admired sports club in the world at the time (Chicago), redone in Bradford colours.

I'd say this was an iconic and original RL badge, that incorporates a nickname and tradition well

Wigan's new one is based on a tribe/people that predominantly inhabited what is now Yorkshire!

Saldord's? Someone on RedDevils.net has said that the new devil more resembles an ape with horns - it does!!

What a time to rebrand when there iis such uncertainty over next season.

Surely, Salford especially, should be spending money on more important things?

Love that Bradford Northern badge

we never dropped the Trinity name its always been there and wildcats was just added, it just happened that people not connected with the club at the time ended up calling us Wakefield wildcats, the mascot to my knowledge as yet has not been homeless

Yeah, what I really meant was 'the rebrand back to JUST Trinity' if I had been being careful with my post.

While I wasn't a fan of the now old logo either, it seems a strange time to rebrand due to as you say the financial situation but also after a Grand Final and Challenge Cup final surely Salfords brand recognition is the highest its been for decades?

Wigan's old badge was the worst in SL, a coat of arms just doesn't cut it anymore, to the uninitiated their old badge was indistinguishable from the dozens of EFL clubs who have similar designs. I can't say I'm overly convinced by either Wigan or Salford's new badges, but I applaud idea.

As others have mentioned Wakefield absolutely nailed the rebranded with their newest badge, Saints did pretty well with theirs too.

Leeds, Castleford and Huddersfield need to follow suit now, Leeds and Castleford look like their badges were made using clipart from a mid-90's version of Microsoft Office.