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Offline Brazilian Villain

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #30 on: June 24, 2022, 11:53:53 AM »
Say what you like about Trump, he's never spoken out against the round badge.

Quite the contrary, he said it was terrific, the most terrific.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #31 on: June 24, 2022, 11:54:48 AM »
Pole-dancing lions do come across as a bit rampant, I agree.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #32 on: June 24, 2022, 12:00:11 PM »
Said for a long time that clubs shouldn't be allowed to change their name, badge or nickname.  This is particularly the case with Chelsea, who should be required to be called 'The Pensioners' and wear that badge with an old dude on it.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #33 on: June 24, 2022, 12:06:57 PM »
A few years back when we had Nike, they did a stand alone lion on a polo shirt and it looked quite good.
I think that is the way the current trend is going, Spurs cockerel, Liverpool liverbird, West Hams hammers have all been simplified recently.
Brighton is a good example of a simple round badge with a distinctive emblem, and just the club name.
I can see a few clubs going down the same minimalist route, Crystal Palace, Arsenal, Leicester would all benefit from having their badges/crest simplified.
Southamptons has to be the worst.


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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #34 on: June 24, 2022, 12:07:09 PM »
Will the MS Paint lion be removed from the mosaics ?

Offline Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #35 on: June 24, 2022, 12:09:11 PM »
I suppose there will be some sort of league regulation that stops us having "Fuck the fuckers" on the badge.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #36 on: June 24, 2022, 12:09:23 PM »
A few years back when we had Nike, they did a stand alone lion on a polo shirt and it looked quite good.
I think that is the way the current trend is going, Spurs cockerel, Liverpool liverbird, West Hams hammers have all been simplified recently.
Brighton is a good example of a simple round badge with a distinctive emblem, and just the club name.
I can see a few clubs going down the same minimalist route, Crystal Palace, Arsenal, Leicester would all benefit from having their badges/crest simplified.
Southamptons has to be the worst.

Just no. It isn't a polo shirt. Also, a lion isn't as specific to Villa as say, some hammers or a fox are to West Ham or Leicester.

It has to have "ASTON VILLA" written on it.

Offline Martin Carruthers

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #37 on: June 24, 2022, 12:09:48 PM »
A few years back when we had Nike, they did a stand alone lion on a polo shirt and it looked quite good.
I think that is the way the current trend is going, Spurs cockerel, Liverpool liverbird, West Hams hammers have all been simplified recently.
Brighton is a good example of a simple round badge with a distinctive emblem, and just the club name.
I can see a few clubs going down the same minimalist route, Crystal Palace, Arsenal, Leicester would all benefit from having their badges/crest simplified.
Southamptons has to be the worst.

Arsenal had/have a standalone cannon on their away shirt and it does look good.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #38 on: June 24, 2022, 12:10:03 PM »
I don't mind the way Liverpool blend a traditional crest with a modern shirt badge.  We could do the same with a nice round crest as the club logo and the stand alone Lion on the shirt. Although that would be a bit like copying their homework.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #39 on: June 24, 2022, 12:10:15 PM »
As a quick point on the simpler designs the big advantage of a badge like spurs is that it works well everywhere. One of the requirements here is that the current badge looks particularly shit online and even more particularly as a favicon (the image that appears in the tab on your browser). By making it simple you can have a consistent image across all media (not exactly the same, but following the same design) both on and off line, which will be one of the things the marketing people will be looking at here.

If we go for a round badge (and I'm ok with it if we do, I just prefer the borderless idea) then I wouldn't want all the clutter that you see on things like the Chelsea badge (with the footballs and flowers). Generally I like the more stylised ones where they're in a frame, so Arsenal for example is very good.

Most important for me is that it doesn't have any writing other than Aston Villa, FC and Football Club can get in the bin, mottos can fuck right off and the biggest crime of the lot is West Ham having fucking London on there, wankers.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #40 on: June 24, 2022, 12:12:20 PM »
Yes, London on there is a tacky, tin-pot, tourist-trap move. Reminds me of a club changing their name to a city they have no claim to represent.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #41 on: June 24, 2022, 12:15:37 PM »
I don't mind the way Liverpool blend a traditional crest with a modern shirt badge.  We could do the same with a nice round crest as the club logo and the stand alone Lion on the shirt. Although that would be a bit like copying their homework.

I'm fine with that idea but don't like the Liverpool crest, it's bit busy for me. If we did that and had a simpler 'lion only' design on the shirt I don't think other fans would make the connection that we were copying Liverpool.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #42 on: June 24, 2022, 12:16:12 PM »
Lion only would be shit. "ASTON VILLA" or fuck off.

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #43 on: June 24, 2022, 12:18:26 PM »
As ever, CDBF being a bit wishy-washy with his opinions. ;)

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Re: Crest Review
« Reply #44 on: June 24, 2022, 12:19:23 PM »
I agree with CD, I'm all for removing the frame but the shirt should always have Aston Villa on it.

 


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