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    In the full tiktok you can see this year's away complete with the round badge and the BK8 logo to the left of our kit. If this was legitimately next year's stuff, it wouldn't have last year's away kit in it. I'm content to call this a concept.
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    Lerner seemed quite heavily involved with his badge, getting it tattooed on him. It came with his purchase of the club. I don't think the "Heck" badge is what he wants ideally, but I think, much like with the North stand, it's all about dollars. It's too expensive to do properly right now, so we'll wait. Heck gets credited with the new badge because on being hired he immediately put the kibosh on the round badge. I believe he'd argue that it was a financial necessity, but it just shits me that much smaller clubs can get this right and we're now fumbling into yet another bad badge.
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    I do really like the idea that refs can call for another look without VAR intervening for things like penalty shouts and red cards. There is really no reason why the ref can't ask the question himself, unless play is still going. I think refs are far more likely to call out their own mistakes than they are to call out the mistakes of their colleagues. VAR will always err on the side of the onfield ref for this reason. The onfield ref has a feel for the game, and if the responsibility and accountability for the decision is placed squarely on them, then we'll be more likely to get correct decisions. If the onfield ref knew beyond any doubt that Young didn't get the ball, he's giving a penalty 100% of the time, but you have a situation here where a VAR official in an air conditioned office somewhere away from the coalface is basically guessing why the onfield ref didn't give it and is loathe to overturn a decision made by one of his colleagues. Ridiculous. Just let the onfield ref review his own work, with the full weight of responsibility for getting it right on his shoulders.
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    Lerner Badge: 4/10 Purslow Badge: 6/10 Heck Badge: 1/10 We probably won't get a good badge for a long time, because Lerner set the standard of design by committee. It sucked then, it sucked for Purslow's badge, and it will always suck. And because we've let people vote before, if we do another badge without letting people vote there will be a chorus of "you don't care about the fans". There are millions of Villa fans with different ideas about what our badge should look like and there is a huge variety of opinions in there, so they end up shoehorning in stuff that is controversial for no reason. Heck has just made that situation so much worse by deciding he didn't want the club to pay to replace the Lion on all our branding, but knew everyone was expecting a new badge, so he gave us something "new", which attempts to solve some of the criticisms of the Lerner badge in probably the worst way possible. It's an absolute mess. The Heck badge won't last long, it sucks. It'll be replaced within a few years i'd suggest. When it's replaced, i'd hope we have a CEO who has built up enough trust and has the courage to tell the fans that they aren't getting a say. Let a professional do it. It couldn't possibly be worse than the last 15 years of poor badges. If we go back to the well with fan consultation, we're going to get something bad again.
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    This Betano logo is better than the one that was getting used in the mock ups.
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    I think he'd be great for an England side with so much talent because he'd get them in a positive frame of mind and let them play football instead of this rigid defensive borefest that Southgate has going. There are probably better qualified choices but I think he'd absolutely be able to do the job.
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    Third one is about as clear as a penalty gets, unbelievable. The first one is 50/50, I wouldn't have given the handball one.
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    The one time I want these scumbag clubs to win and they all lose together like this. At least we know where we stand and Man City and Arsenal's fixture congestion means they can focus on beating Tottenham
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    It doesn't feel real. How did we land this manager when we were sitting 17th with "a squad that needed to be overhauled"? He's like an angel. Am I dead?
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    Just blown away by that 2nd half. This is an Arsenal team that has been absolutely flying. We're playing a packed schedule and we've been patchy, and we put in a 2nd half like that. Massive. So chuffed for Unai, doing the double over them.
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    Good **** ebening Arsenal you ****
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    I can't believe my eyes, up the **** Villa!
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    BAILLLEEEYYYYYYY!!!!!
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    I can see it now, this image is going to end up being real minus the sponsor, disproving hundreds of posts on here calling it fake. A real pallettegate for the modern era. I think what we'll end up with will be pretty close to this, and I like it.
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    Disastrous night for the coefficient. Liverpool winning was something we all banked on and they got smashed at home 0-3. We really need City and Arsenal to win their return legs now.
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    West Ham had 1 shot to Leverkusen's 33. It would have to be a decent turnaround.
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    I guess
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    I think it's absolutely a penalty. Neuer positions himself in a way where Saka can't avoid the contact even if he makes the most of it. I'd want it a penalty if it happened to us.
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    Have you got CVByrne on mute? There is absolutely an element who is trying to protect themselves mentally by declaring that the worst case scenario is inevitable. Personally, i'm betting against us, on Tottenham, and for German sides against English sides in Europe. At least my sportsbet account will be happy if it all goes wrong.
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    What's the value of the player with the most goal contributions in the best league in the world? More than what we got for Grealish i'd suggest. I don't think anyone is paying it.
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    If he was doing exactly what he's doing for us for United or Liverpool, Transfermarkt would value him at €80mil. Absolutely brilliant bit of scouting to uncover him, could be anything.
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    There's a photo from about 5 seconds later where he's got his arm around the lad. Absolute doctored mountain out of a molehill.
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    Yep, this thread is full of the false dichotomy between our ancient and beloved home and the most soulless bowl imaginable. In fact, we basically already know what a modern version of an Aston Villa stadium might look like, because we've seen the renderings of the proposed North Stand. There's no reason that aesthetic can't be expanded to a whole stadium design.
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    I don't think we want to copy it, it's a very different aesthetic and it's specific to the team that use it. It's just an example of how brickwork or at least a brick facade has been used in a modern stadium. Everton's brand new stadium also has brick elements. It can absolutely be done. I think they'll want to soften the blow by bringing some of the elements of Villa Park with us, and the brickwork is iconic. I'd also expect the statues of the Lion and William McGregor to be there. They're absolutely not going to build some sort of hypermodern monstrosity like Sofi Stadium or Allegiant Stadium. The brief for those would have been totally different than it would be for a New Villa Park.
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    This has got to be a wind up.
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