Crest Review

[Ads]

I do like a scroll underneath a shield as well

It made it really hard to draw as a kid so I'm naturally averse.

I perfected the 3-D fancy swirly bits at either end so vote to reinstate it. Also got it tattooed on my arm.

To be fair my lion wasn't up to much either, so I propose we go back to just AVFC.

[London Villan]

The 70s badge is classic piece of minimalist design, but it was also the icon of the seven most successful years in our post-war history. It symbolises the re-birth of the club and in a way it was good that is was only in existence for less than 20 years.

[SamTheMouse]

I couldn't give a toss whether it's a shield, a circle, or a dodecahedron, as long as it's done by someone with more than a passing acquaintance with the words "graphic design".

[pauliewalnuts]

The one thing that I am really looking forward to is the introduction of the new kit, then maybe, just maybe people will FUCKING WELL STOP doing mock ups of the badge and/or the new kit.

[saunders_heroes]

The worst thing about Lerner’s crest was the yellow lion on a sky blue background. It just doesn’t look right, and now they’ve brought it back and somehow made it even worse. The “1874” is unnecessary and looks out of place and “Aston Villa” looks like it’s falling down a plug hole. It’s bloody awful!

[Drummond]

The crest will be looked back on with great fondness when we've won stuff in it.

[Ads]

I hope we keep adding to the badge every year, like a Bukcaroo game, see how far the club can push it.

[pauliewalnuts]

I hope we keep adding to the badge every year, like a Bukcaroo game, see how far the club can push it.

Culminating in the addition of a Chad-like Steve Hodge peering over the top of the shield.

[Risso]

Have a guess who these comments about from his time at Red Bull, after he was sacked:

"I don’t think people really comprehend how much damage he’s done in the little time he’s been there, one team insider said. He added: He just came off as arrogant and ignorant, and in this business it’s a very bad combination. He was so arrogant, you just couldn’t talk to him. You don’t have to be a 100 percent soccer guy, able to name all the players on Brazil’s 1970 World Cup-winning team, but you have to have a basic understanding of the sport you’re working in. And that was clearly lacking."

Oh.

[Ads]

I hope we keep adding to the badge every year, like a Bukcaroo game, see how far the club can push it.

Culminating in the addition of a Chad-like Steve Hodge peering over the top of the shield.

With Stewart Downing holding a Liverpool scarf in the background.

[LeeB]

I hope we keep adding to the badge every year, like a Bukcaroo game, see how far the club can push it.

Culminating in the addition of a Chad-like Steve Hodge peering over the top of the shield.

With Stewart Downing holding a Liverpool scarf in the background.

The crest slowly morphing into a pair of bollocks.

[Villan82]

Putting aside designs etc when they first announced the u-turn on the round badge last summer I thought they were bonkers for reopening the can of worms. They got out relatively unscathed, some murmuring aside, of the 2022 consultation.

By reopening the can of worms and starting again they ran the risk of really making a mess and causing new distractions and divisions and so it has proven. That is on Heck.

It's as if they thought 'hmm, that was relatively painless, let's chance our arm on doing it again!'

[Brend'Watkins]

The crest will be looked back on with great fondness when we've won stuff in it.

Then it becomes a brilliant bit of design by default. 

It's a little odd that we're discussing something that really only goes back as far as 1957.  It's not that long ago is it? Just the lion on it's own would suffice.  That's our brand, you don't need wording.  A star can be added once we're back in the CL.

[Drummond]

Have a guess who these comments about from his time at Red Bull, after he was sacked:

"I don’t think people really comprehend how much damage he’s done in the little time he’s been there, one team insider said. He added: He just came off as arrogant and ignorant, and in this business it’s a very bad combination. He was so arrogant, you just couldn’t talk to him. You don’t have to be a 100 percent soccer guy, able to name all the players on Brazil’s 1970 World Cup-winning team, but you have to have a basic understanding of the sport you’re working in. And that was clearly lacking."

Oh.

You can dig up a shit report about pretty much anyone you want.

[jon collett]

It's a little odd that we're discussing something that really only goes back as far as 1957.  It's not that long ago is it? Just the lion on it's own would suffice.  That's our brand, you don't need wording.  A star can be added once we're back in the CL.

The proper shield goes back to at least 1924 when the Trinity Road was built and I am sure much before that on correspondence etc.