Crest Review

[Villan82]

While I have breath in my body nobody's touching that star, so help me God.

What if we do something that eclipses the 1982 win? A bigger star? Another redesign?

Its ridiculous isn't it.

Seeing so many fans online say they don't want the round badge because its living in the past, while ferociously defending the inclusion of the star and not seeing any hypocrisy 

This is why it goes through a complicated process. This is why they pay designers to do it. Ask 100,000 fans and you'd get 100,000 opinions on the design. That bloke, Pete, who does the Holy Trinity podcast mocked up a design and it reminded me of Home Simpson's car design.

They have done well, in my opinion, this sort of process can go horribly wrong as clubs like Leeds have discovered. I think some people on this thread need to get a bit of perspective here. The designs are underwhelming for some because when the process was announced we all had in our minds eye our preferred design and nothing can live up to that!

Besides, for the guts of 20 years all I have heard is 'bring back the round crest' and now that we have one as an option people don't like it!

[Villan82]

doubt that will happen, some hipster, ginger beard, cardigan wearing, little ale can drinking vegan has just banked a couple of million from big Wes' pocket for those scribbles in paint.

Yeah, blame the experts!!

[Risso]

Is it OK to not like the round badge if you haven't been asking them to bring it back for 20 years?

[PeterWithe]

I’ve voted now, for the shield. It grew on me, would look better with the letters in a kind of Germanic font.

[N'ZMAV]

Is it OK to not like the round badge if you haven't been asking them to bring it back for 20 years?

you're not allowed to like anything.

[Bad English]

1874 is too small. Apart from that I don't really care. And I will never be referring to it as a 'crest'.

[Si]

I'm glad I'm not allowed to vote. I'm in the age group, supposedly who only want the round badge. I prefer the detailed lion in the shield, but if I could vote I would've chosen the round. However spending more time looking at them, and where I want the club to be in the future. I really hope the shield wins the vote. It also gives you the option to do an Arsenal, (with their stand alone canon) which I mentioned in the survey, and that is to occasionally remove the shield and have a stand alone lion on the shirt.

[maidstonevillain]

Struggling to make my mind up. I like different elements of both of them. Prefer to have 1874 in. And the round one seems more balanced. But the gaslamp has a better lion, and is something new and different. Decision. Decisions.

[paul_e]

I find the vote a bit pointless, as this thread shows, a huge amount of our supporters had already decided on the round badge because of the association to 1982 so if that was an option it was always going to win, and anyone who disagreed was never going to have their voice heard. As I've said before round badges were pretty different when we first used it but now they're everywhere and we just look like we've copied the common trend.

It also means we're now going to have both the overall crest and the star both forced front and centre in homage to winning the european cup. I don't hate the idea but it makes the whole idea of looking forward feel a bit shallow.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think you’re making the mistake of assuming this place is representative of Villa fans in general, Paul.

I reckon the demographic here is much, much older and therefore skewed towards the round badge as they remember it from days gone by.

I wonder how many people 25 or younger post here, for example.

Look at the corresponding VillaTalk thread (that place having a younger demographic) and their poll has the not round one on 44%

[pauliewalnuts]

Obviously all the kids are out ‘doing’ Tik Tok, listening to grime, doing bad drugs.

[PeterWithe]

Speak for yourself, I’m down with the kids, I can work the TV remote and everything.

[Holte End Stylist]

My first Villa shirt at the age of 12 back in 1982 had a round badge and Davenports emblazoned across the front..........So shockingly I've voted for the round one.

[paul_e]

I think you’re making the mistake of assuming this place is representative of Villa fans in general, Paul.

I reckon the demographic here is much, much older and therefore skewed towards the round badge as they remember it from days gone by.

I wonder how many people 25 or younger post here, for example.

Look at the corresponding VillaTalk thread (that place having a younger demographic) and their poll has the not round one on 44%

I'm not so sure, the round badge seems to be more popular on facebook and twitter as well, for the same reasons, and 78 fucking percent wanted to keep the fucking star.

[Brazilian Villain]

My first Villa shirt at the age of 12 back in 1982 had a round badge and Davenports emblazoned across the front..........So shockingly I've voted for the round one.

I've come to the conclusion tha the new round badge is actually better. Darker claret, yellow and the lighter blue all look more correct, and I prefer the lion being claret as opposed to red on the old one. I agree that the '1874' should be larger but not as big as the 'Aston Villa' text.