That picture is enough to make me want to buy it already

Gold stars indicate how many times won the league I think

You'll love it

How big is Big Lad?

A bit bigger than what I used to be

Blimey that badge looks so much more classy, I'm buying one just for that.

Hopefully as part of this,the club will amend the website address from www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk to www. wakefieldtrinity.co.uk

Hopefully as part of this,the club will amend the website address from www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk to www. wakefieldtrinity.co.uk

Have to say the new old badge looks quality and the branding looks very fresh. So much better than the Cat.

It looks class, very understated but steeped with history

Letter already on its way to Santa. Looks really good

excuse my little knowledge as I have only been a fan since I lived in wakey in early 2000's but what is the symbol?

looks good but

It's a Fleur-de-lis. Why we have it is because the Club was founded by men from the Holy Trinity Church.

it translates into English as "Flower of the Lily" and its religious meaning was thought to represent The Holy Trinity; the Fleur de Lis on a blue backgound was also, for around 500 years until the 1970s the Coat of Arms of Wakefield Borough Council until Local Goverment reorganisation and we became a Metropolitan County Council.

This seems a bit OTT, I'll admit, but for me the rebranding back to just Trinity is the best thing that's happened in years.

Interesting debate this one.

In the context of the club, does it represent the Trinity part or the Wakefield part?
I guess it depends on when it was first used. I think the club was the Holy Trinity Club when it was first formed in 1873, but when did it change and when did it use the fleurs-de-lys?.
So:
Wakefield or Trinity?
Lily or iris?
fleur-de-lys or fleur-de-lis?
heraldic or religious?
France or Mesopotamia?

Some background reading:
[urlhttp://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Wakefield[/url
[urlhttp://www.heraldica.org/topics/fdl.htm[/url

What is clear is that the mainly blue borough crest was replaced by a mainly black and amber one for the district in 1990. It says it's black (for coal) and gold, but it's quite clearly amber. Wonder why that is then?

I tend to agree. It could really do with a big press launch when we're ready, to get the message out (as Stevo once said).

If the merchandise is decent quality, it should sell really well this year.

All we need then is some success and a stadium and we're on our way.

Decent kit, some success, and a new stadium... Do you want the moon on a stick too?

What do you think this is, some kind of professional sports club?!?!?

Would that be the new floodlights?

You're correct but that's also sad when at most clubs it would just be a footnote.

Despite being happy we are ditching the Wildcats thing, I wasn't sure on the new badge when I first saw it. It seemed like it was lacking a bit of overall polish and wasn't keen on the font. However after seeing it on that image with Johnstone, it looks really smart.

I was exactly the same, at first i thought it was marginally too plain and could do with a little more embellishment. But the more i see it the more i like it. Nice and simple and in this case i think less is more.

I agree, it's an excellent in depth read about all the coming and goings of Trinity over the years.

From reading the book, I many be wrong but I don't think they'd have added the Trinity part if there wasn't already a Wakefield Rugby Club established i the City and thus they wanted to differentiate themselves from it.

As a Graphic Designer it's always been my belief that where sport is cincerned especially RL bold block primary colours work best - hate kits with pintripes and fades, just awfull. Ditto the badge which is defacto your logo. A good logo is simple and the best can be re-produced by an average 8 year old with a pencil - the VW badge, Apple and the Triumph motorcycle logo, very simple hugely recogniseable.

Design is hugely subjective IMO and ahough the new badge is not a design classic in my eyes it is timeless, uncluttered and the more it's used the more memorable it will become and it will look right on almost anything, basic good design.