Crest Review

[Brazilian Villain]

If we go down the US style

It's very MLS. It's a no from me.

[Drummond]

That looks like the Olympic Team GB logo in claret and blue.

[Brazilian Villain]

As someone said a rampant lion isn't uniquely ours so I think they'll be looking at ways to create something familiar but different enough to be special. The Premier League have already done a good job of something similar and created an image that is instantly recognisable:

I thought it was from The Lion King.

[edgysatsuma89]

If we go down the US style

This is what I'm anticipating.

[Sexual Ealing]

I'd perhaps swap the claret and blue around so the blue is in its rightful peripheral position, but then I'm someone who enjoys the info written on the cards next to paintings in an art gallery more than the pictures themselves. My eyes are there purely to stop me bumping into things.

[Rory]

If we go down the US style

It's very MLS. It's a no from me.

Same.

[Axl Rose]

Looks like a shit tattoo on someone wearing a Chang Beer vest, at a rubbish full moon party,  'finding themselves' on a Thai island.

[edgysatsuma89]

Looks like a shit tattoo on someone wearing a Chang Beer vest, at a rubbish full moon party,  'finding themselves' on a Thai island.

It does have shit tattoo vibes but I think it will be some variation on this, I can feel it in me bones. The fallout would be amusing though.

[tomd2103]

If we go down the US style

It's very MLS. It's a no from me.

Same.

The problem with a standalone one will be the colour.  Wouldn't be able to have any claret on it on the home kit. 

Didn't we have a standalone lion on the kit in the early 70's?

[PeterWithesShin]

Early 70s

[Scott Nielsen]

No idea how anyone who supports the club could see our lion and think it looks "absolutely terrible". 

Without anything surrounding it, it's just a rampant lion. A generic symbol for loads of brands.

Exactly. Outside of Villa-fans, no one will look at a lion and say, 'ah, that's Villa alright'. So how that would help grow the brand is beyond me.

[Toronto Villa]

Our football brand simply isn’t strong enough in global markets to have a standalone lion. A symbol loads of clubs have already. The name Aston Villa has to be on the badge. Maybe there is a third kit where you can be bolder. But today of the top English sides, like it or not, outside of the UK, Chelsea own that space with a lion in their badge because of their more recent successes. We have to be a little unique, a nod to our past and with an eye to what we are hoping to achieve in the future as we commit to our brand presence.

[pauliewalnuts]

I'd perhaps swap the claret and blue around so the blue is in its rightful peripheral position, but then I'm someone who enjoys the info written on the cards next to paintings in an art gallery more than the pictures themselves. My eyes are there purely to stop me bumping into things.

I'd swap all the colours to white and only have it displayed on a white background.

[LeeB]

I'd perhaps swap the claret and blue around so the blue is in its rightful peripheral position, but then I'm someone who enjoys the info written on the cards next to paintings in an art gallery more than the pictures themselves. My eyes are there purely to stop me bumping into things.

I'd swap all the colours to white and only have it displayed on a white background.

Make it one of those dot prints that you have to stare at for a couple of minutes before the image jumps out

[ChicagoLion]

Looks like a shit tattoo on someone wearing a Chang Beer vest, at a rubbish full moon party,  'finding themselves' on a Thai island.

and how would you know that?