New Cork Crest

[DmanDmythDledge]

Think there's some kind of livestock on the Sligo crest.

never noticed that!

http://soccerpatch.com/MISC/FOREIGN/P_SligoRovers.jpg

[GavinZac]

The low profile of the bow suggests something like a Viking longboat and then the sails skip a century or seven and appear to be of the type seen on a Portugese Man-o-war.

To put it in context you need to look at the Cork Hibs crest and the coat of arms of the city.

In the Hibs crest, the ship is coming in- the back of the boat is much higher than the front, like a galleon. In the coat of arms its looking straight at one of the sides. In the new crest, the ship is going out - thus the lower profile front of the ship is advancing and the raised back is hidden by sails.

[depor]

Crest is dreadful. Shocked looking castles, flag of surrender on a ship that won't fit through that gap, no club name, no idea of what sport its for, wieird use of shadowing on the castles and boat and horrible colours too

perfect description, its rubbish. the one they have is nice.

[YankExile]

Apparently not, home jersey for next season is all green (Hummel) according to rumours.

That'd clash quite badly with this alleged "crest". Color-wise, it would work on the away shirt, assuming it is still going to be charcoal.

[GavinZac]

That'd clash quite badly with this alleged "crest".

wasnt so bad on the flags they gave out recently. Stood out anyway, which is the point of the redesign, to be recognisable.

Color-wise, it would work on the away shirt, assuming it is still going to be charcoal.

Its just plain black, no "charcoal greys" this time.

[CollegeTillIDie]

The reference to Cork Harbour is surely redundant now that ye stopped playing Water Polo up in Bishopstown

[razor]

What does two Castles and a ship legging it have to do with Cork by the way?

A reference to this me thinks

[pete]

I don't like the crest mainly because no reference to football but I won't get too worked up about it either.

I like the Sligo livestock

[kingcolers]

I don't think the new one is too bad. But i was happy enough with the original one. The 1980s design-style was kind of cool...and showed our heritage as a club founded in 1984 (in the same way that Liverpool's or Arsenal's or QPR's show their heritage as Victorian era clubs).

I'd be worried that changing the crest is an attempt to show change/progress, when it's just superficial and accomplishes nothing. Didn't the FAI change their crest recently as well? The last refuge of a scoundrel, perhaps...

[TheBoss]

Just revive this a little, how many crests have Cork City used since their introduction in 1984, and what years were they used between.

[GavinZac]

Just revive this a little, how many crests have Cork City used since their introduction in 1984, and what years were they used between.

http://www.corkcityfc.ie/images/kits.gif the crests can be seen there.

Barring all the variations in colour and sizes, we've had 3 main crests - the original, a redesign, and a "re-imagining"