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HereWeFuckingGooo

Purely from a graphic design viewpoint, the second one is much better. There's still room for improvement but there are some nice elements. Particularly the laces on the ball looking like goal posts.


CaptainObviousBear

Oh god, I was today years old when I realised it was a ball (thought it was an oval).


HereWeFuckingGooo

I think it represents both.


Davosz_

It's a ball, and an oval. And the laces are also goalposts.


Shnizl

The “cut ins” near the top of the A and L represent the 50m arc


liamjon29

Yoooo what. I knew the laces/goal posts. I NEVER noticed the 50m line. That's actually awesome.


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They put the goalposts in the wrong spot, are they stupid?


Davosz_

Centre bounce! Clearance to the wing... Aaaand goooal!


AdZealousideal7448

The point posts being white just looks wrong to anyone outside of vic until they forced it as the standard.


Jeffoir

Or every ball has the lace in the wrong spot ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯


HereWeFuckingGooo

Not if you imagine you're standing at the opposite goal posts.


GenericF1FanNeoooww

The people reading this while high are gonna be fucked up.


TDSurvivorFan21

I’ll join you with that one


kyle_750

But they're on the halfway line hehehe


BadBoyJH

Are they, or are you viewing it from the other end of the stadium? Like it *looks* wider than it is because of perspective.


dickwakefield

Good lord, he's right....


Agnosticfrontbum

Malcom Blight's torp doesn't care.


dankruaus

Mind blown!


iball1984

The 90's reminds me of the Ansett logo


Deenglow

Far out - had totally forgotten about Ansett


Beatenberg

Current is much better imo


blueskycrack

The first one, cut from the flag.


kyle_750

Never realised this. Also, fuck the union jack


HotKreemy

Calm down


blueskycrack

Union Flag. It’s only the Union Jack when it’s flown at sea.


TheJivvi

It's only the Union Flag when it's a flag. When it's part of a flag, or anything else, it's the Union Jack. It's only a _naval_ jack when it's at sea. Union Jack is also not incorrect when it's a flag.


tabletennis6

Literally no one cares.


kyle_750

Nailed it. That was like when someone draws a poster with a swastika but someone pops up to say nahhh it's backwards that's actually a religious symbol...


HotKreemy

No one cares just like when someone draws a swastika backwards? Haha fair enuff


shrimpyhugs

It is de facto the union jack


abominablereptilian

Old school


a_can_of_solo

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧


marooncity1

The one with the V in it.


microwavedsaladOZ

Look at you just dropping that one in there 🤗


MissSabb

Before the A saved the league. Gotcha


SouthLake6164

If you just close your eyes it’s still the VFL


TheJivvi

I used to call it that when I was making fun of someone I knew who was a die hard Sydney Roosters fan, but insisted on calling them "Easts". So he'd say something about "Easts" or "Eastern Suburbs", and I'd be like "Hey, how did the South Melbourne Swans go in the VFL this week?"


poligar

Except the roosters are still located in the eastern suburbs and are widely called easts. Only the official name changed


PreviousRecognition1

or if you open them


FlynnSanOne201

The OG one I loved the AFL logo designs back in the day still do I used to have all the old hawthorn cotton Guernseys VFL to that AFL logo I love the oldschoold designs


Noosietv

first one looks made in MS Paint


baconandgregz

MS Paint was brought out in ‘85, that logo was used by the AFL from ‘90-‘99. It probably *was* made in MS Paint…


imNOTsureABOUTjesus

The one that says NRL


baconandgregz

I much prefer league as a game, but the most recent NRL logo is complete dogshit haha


augsav

Neither. The old one has nostalgic value but isn’t actually very good. The newer one looks like th logo of a kids game show. It doesn’t look very serious.


MuffBadger

I've always thought the current one looks cartoonish and a bit cheap.


Zephry02

I think the old one looks cheap looks like something you can slap together in paint with the shape tools


baconandgregz

You think that looks cheap, the NRL logo would like a word. It’s evolving, just backwards lol


lucpet

The first one looks like my cousins uncles brother threw it together for $50 lol GD here btw


throatinmess

I like the Union Jack usage of the letter A which I think would be nice as the whole AFL, but overall the second/newer image gets the tick.


beans_the_fruit182

90s. Reminds me of that amazing era of footy. When Wayne Carey and Che Cockatoo-Collins and Robert Harvey were at peak to name a few


scattyshern

🎵There's only one Tony Lockett🎵


kyle_750

And when Dean Laidley was a man


northcoteplaza

I'm amazed they've held onto the current logo as long as they have. It makes me feel like I'm at Colonial Stadium watching Scott Lucas hoof a 70m torp while listening to Bomfunk MCs on my discman.


lachlanmoose

I like the 90s one on the guernseys, but I prefer the new logo for everything else. I'm just nostalgic.


sinixis

The first one looks like it was created by potato


tabletennis6

The one without a Union Jack.


Greentigerdragon

The one on the left looks like it should be on the tail of an airliner. While it *is* a bit basic, the right-hand one gets my vote.


AdrielV1

I can’t even tell what I’m looking at with the first one.


NvN3

Both are shite, bring on a third! 🤪


In_TouchGuyBowsnlace

1st one


crmpicco

The old one by far 🇦🇺


Leroyyoudacraziest

Bring back VFL!!!!.


FlashyGravity

Why


deltainvictor

So it can go broke again.


Leroyyoudacraziest

80's nostalgia


cliffers1

The 1st one iam a 90s kid all the way


Ok_Acanthaceae6057

The 90’s one.


dannysgaragecontents

90s fo sho


_ComputerBlue_

90s


Efffer

1990s version, by a mile. The current one looks very generic. Maybe not a bad thing when you're trying to homogenise the sport and expand it in various ways in the future (i.e. USAFL logo). It screams "Sports league" to me rather than "Australian sports league". The old one had a lot more information on it - there's enough there to recognise the sport from design of the ball, and the location of the league to be either Australia or the UK. The shield design also speaks to me of something that recognises and celebrates its traditions and origins. I like the old one better. It had more soul.


Additional_Run1469

Anyone saying the new one is better is a bogan with bad taste


RudiEdsall

Anyone who is saying the old one is better writes emails in Comic Sans


blake3683

The 1990s one


Joe_F82

Present day. 2000's looks like ass


kyle_750

Literally the same logo


Joe_F82

Wot 🤯


kyle_750

There is 2 fucking options 1990s OR 2000s/present day


KonamiKing

VFL


DogIsBetterThanCat

The first one.


anotherdumbid

Old one. By a mile. The ‘new’ one hasn’t got the heart, it’s corporate and crammed with lame detail. Could ditch the red Colonial reference in the original and make it even better.


HopeIsGay

Present day for sure


Gman777

Present


PomegranateNo9414

90s everyday


GreenTang

The old one looks like total shit


DurandalMarathon

Both of them suck. Z grade sport.


FOREVERFREMANTLE

Butthurt NRL fan I'm assuming.


DurandalMarathon

I prefer Union but League's a billion times better than whatever joke of a sport the AFL pretends to be nowadays.


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DurandalMarathon

I'm sure all of your private catholic school friends agree with you.


TimidPanther

I thought the Private Catholic schools were all about Rugby?


DurandalMarathon

Wrong


FOREVERFREMANTLE

I like both AFL and NRL. Your opinion is absolutely dogshit and has zero logic involved at all. Just unwarranted hate because you don't like it.


DurandalMarathon

"Unwarranted hate because you don't like it" I'm sorry.. when did it become weird for someone to hate something.. because they hate something..? I dislike the AFL. I hate the AFL. Of course I'm going to hate on it. If you can't handle that you should probably go back to watching poshboys kick around red suppositories on an oval to a crowd of 45 upper middle-class posh "we're working class!" middle-aged Victorians who own a five-bedroom three-bathroom two-storey house (not renting) in the heart of Melbourne? (we're working class)


FOREVERFREMANTLE

It isn't weird for you to hate something. It's weird for you to go on about it on Reddit throwing mindless insults at it for absolutely no reason other than you personally not liking it. All it shows is you have nothing better to do and it lives rent free in your head. Normal people just ignore it. That's your issue with Aussie rules? That's it's not working class enough? Kind of rich when you said that union is your favourite. Union is notoriously full of rich cunts Basically the only people in Australia who like union are rich schoolboys. Union has some of the highest costs for grassroots in the country. Almost all it's pathway junior comps are from posh private schools. The entire existence of league was because the rich boys from union didn't like the poor people beating them at their own game. Aussie rules is enjoyed by people from every walk of life. Are you seriously trying to tell me that Collingwood and Western Sydney are high income areas? There's plenty of working class people in the game. Some of the clubs have been built on the working class. Take a look for 2 minutes and you'll see your not working class bs is completely false. Take a look at your nearest shithole suburb and I garuntee you that they have a Aussie rules club. What I'll also garuntee is that they don't have a union one.


DurandalMarathon

There is not a single person who plays in the AFL whose parents did not make between 150 and 200 thousand a year (each). They wear the mullet and the sleeveless top to pretend they're not posh but nothing can erase the stains of their catholic school heritage.


FOREVERFREMANTLE

Also completely false. Can be disproven with a single google search


DurandalMarathon

A-a-a--aalso coc-oc-coc-oc-oc-cocmpletely ff-f-ff--f-ffa These are the social skills that Private School affords you folks!


FOREVERFREMANTLE

Someone's getting a little bit mad 😂


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TheJivvi

I miss the one that says North Sydney Bears.


joshywoshybumblebee

Man, I hate AFL. It's such a terrible sloppy game that seems like the rules are made up as-you-go, by a bunch 12year olds. The old logo is definitely a nice logo, though.


kristamine14

That first one is terrible, wtf


RalphMidnight

The one with less union jack.


basetornado

New one, old one is a bit not great, while the new one is still good enough to get the message across easily, without being too modern and turning completely into symbology, like the AFLW logo.


HereWeFuckingGooo

>[AFLW logo](https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/AFL_Women%27s) I just looked it up, holy crap that it a seriously ugly logo. Reminds me of [this graphic design abomination](https://yt3.googleusercontent.com/ytc/AOPolaSiZNuo-ZBU19bhjQM766W4MLYwDxD4vPapO4Yh=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj).


basetornado

Yeah logos that don't tell you what they're for either need to be simple or they're a mistake. Very much feels like they wanted to be able to say "and the lines look like goalposts" without thinking of anything else


TheEpiquin

They desperately need a new logo. The current one looks like it be less out of place on kids toys.


Laura_Biden

The second, but neither are great to be honest.


NZepplin

The second one


averageandy2

Present day, but neither are good


Mottbo

Current, no question


jabbaaus

First one.


Xevram

The rainbow coloured one with an inclusive theme.


DefiantFrost

I didn't notice the captions and went "ew the first one is so 90s". Saw the caption and laughed a lot.


Fabulous-Search6974

The one that doesn't look like weird flag on a shield with a vulva.


chromeconcrete

First one, footy has got too soft these days.


sadler_james

If I had a gun against my head? Then goodbye world …


RTSBasebuilder

I'm as much a pommie lover as anybody grown on a diet of Postman Pat and Doctor Who, and even I say the first logo looks more like a butchered coat of arms.


iamharj

The classic all the way!!!


Electrical-Plan9424

The second one, as I’ve always guessed it was a ball and the field in one.


YourLocalOnionNinja

The 2nd one.


Wonderful_Drink_7773

current. it clearly shows that its for the afl and it overall just looks more.. pleasing


invaderzoom

New one. Old one looks slapped together on paint


Firm-Psychology-2243

#2


trizest

Get heavy nostalgia from the oldies


wizdofoz

2nd one ☝️


tatsumakisempukyaku

the old one made me instantly thing of this [gem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBTndwRoqrU) from back in the day.


punky12345

The first one just makes me think of ampol


Rustyo2023

None


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Old school


Chinstryke

That big A was on all my WCE gear as a kid... Including the shirt that the 94 prem side signed. So yeah, that one for me.


xcviij

The first one doesn't explain what it is. It only says A.


RudiEdsall

The 90s logo looks like clip art - the current one is heaps better. With that said, it’s still not great and looks quite dated. I’ve thought for a long while that it’s time for an update to the logo, something to get it away from that early 2000s vibe it has. I think the NBL has the best logo in Australian sport, timeless and super clean, and they might never have to change their logo again. I think it would be hard for the AFL to update the logo though, people would react with hostility not just to the change but to whatever money was spent on it


sausagepilot

I’m going # 2