New badge

[The Edge]

They may surprise us and it's nice. I'm not overly optimistic though.

Might be nice but the bastards are erasing our history.
 

[PeterWithesShin]

How? By my reckoning this will be our 9th different club crest, and the 6th different badge*.

That doesn't include slight changes to the badge after the 90's one was introduced.

[wittonwarrior]

They should bring this back, be appropriate as we win the trophy again next season.

Thats the one !

[four fornicholl]

Plus theres the added inconvenience of updating the h&v website header

[The Edge]

They may surprise us and it's nice. I'm not overly optimistic though.

Might be nice but the bastards are erasing our history.
#fucked up.

[PeterWithesShin]

Isn't that at worst a broken promise? Isn't that pretty much how we displayed them before Lerner arrived?

[Stirchley Villain]

Was mooching online at our crests and this popped up and thought i'd share. 1899 League Champions medal won by Albert Evans.

Did Donald Trump design that?

[The Edge]

How? By my reckoning this will be our 9th different club crest, and the 6th different badge*.

That doesn't include slight changes to the badge after the 90's one was introduced.

Well there's the trophy room we were promised to show off the Villa's proud history. Ten years on and the trophies remain scattered around Villa Park.

[Billy Walker]

Can someone please tell me why the word prepared has to be removed?
Re-design the badge if you must but why lose this huge link to our past? It's one of the things that make the Villa unique. I think it might be from back in the day when the ref would ask each captain "are you prepared?" before kick off. Rangers had "Ready?" Could be bollocks! Point is why are the owners so hell bent on making changes that the fans don't want? Leave things the fuck.alone will you?

Villa had "Prepared" about sixty years before Rangers copied it with "Ready".

[PeterWithesShin]

According to John Lerwill, "Prepared" was on our first crest back in 1878.

[olaftab]

Very pleased to hear we are spending money😟

[TopDeck113]

Are we seriously going to spend money replacing the mosaics?  The decoration on the much-missed Trinity Road was never updated when there was a change of badge.


Also, regarding the star.  Personally until there is some official consistency in their use, I wouldn't bother.  By way of two examples, I'll take my closest Premier League and Football League clubs.  Man City have on their soon-to-be-replaced badge have three stars.  What do they represent?  Bury have two.  What about those? 

[Billy Walker]

According to John Lerwill, "Prepared" was on our first crest back in 1878.

That's even earlier than I thought.  I think Rangers put "Ready" on their badges for the first time in the late fifties/early sixties as part of a rebrand of sorts.

[fbriai]

They should bring this back, be appropriate as we win the trophy again next season.

Please, let it be this!

In my mind, it will always be our badge anyway.

[The Edge]

According to John Lerwill, "Prepared" was on our first crest back in 1878.

128 years of history thrown away by some asshole making a"commercial" decision. Fan fucking tastic.