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  1. ThunderPower_14
    I hope you're right. For the shirt especially, it's perfect.
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    It can, but we've shoehorned it in in the most meagre, 4:45pm on a friday way possible. If we're going to do it like we have, what's the point? Crests need to be scalable and don't have a lot of real estate. If something isn't worth putting on the badge in a prominent way that specifically works with the design, is it worth putting on the badge at all? The star has the same problem for me.
  3. ThunderPower_14
    Everyone has heard the audio. The court not being able to convict because the victim chose not to cooperate with the prosecution doesn't make Bellingham any less correct.
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    I like the idea of supporters having a final sign-off, but surveying supporters about individual elements and then shoehorning in everything they vote for is the worst possible way to design a badge, and everything we've had since Lerner bought the club proves it. "Consultation" isn't automatically a good thing.
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    Yep. It really is a case of if we want to punch a man in the face, aim for the back of his head. If we carry ourselves like title challengers and hold those expectations, a miss will see us in the CL spots. No limits under Unai Emery
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    He's a striker, he relies on service like any other. When the team has been playing well behind him he's been absolutely phenomenal this season. Constantly causing trouble on or off the ball, and linking up so well with his teammates.
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    Agree. Less is usually more with badges. The 1874 looks shoehorned in, in a hard to read white on light blue.
  8. ThunderPower_14
    That boost to goal difference today was huge, it'd be nice if we could smash a few teams like that to give us an advantage over the likes of Arsenal and Spurs.
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    The detailing on the lion absolutely helps the badge significantly. It's not perfect and it's still got some design issues, but it's gone from a horrendous own goal to a fairly classy badge.
  10. ThunderPower_14
    Gotta love him, shame he couldn't be his wizard best every week. Hope he does well at Villareal.
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    I think he's just settling into the league. He'll get there, he's showed he's got plenty of talent. Remember 12 months ago when Bailey was in the same position?
  12. ThunderPower_14
    I only follow Adelaide United casually as they're my hometown club, but he's a super promising keeper. He's basically bashing down Mat Ryan's door to be #1, and Ryan is really only still there because he's a very experienced incumbent. Excellent shot stopper and his command of the box is great for his age. His distribution is getting better and better. This is a great signing, I think he'll absolutely be a #1 somewhere at a top 5 European League club before too long
  13. ThunderPower_14
    Similar to Forest, the text isn't outside their badge, it's part of it.
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    The difference with the Forest badge is that the stars are a part of the badge, much like our star. It's never displayed without them. We could theoretically do the same thing, but then you lose a lot of readability at smaller sizes because the star has to fit so the rest of the badge is even smaller. Forest get around this by having one of the cleanest, simplest badges in football. There would also be PL rules limiting on how much real estate a badge can take up on a shirt. Forest have been prepared to deal with that. I think they only way we could have a badge with the star above like forest do is to scrap the shield altogether and just run with the lion.
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    Aston Villa is the most beautiful club name in English football and maybe the world, but ultimately everyone still recognised us with AVFC at the top. It was still clearly a Villa badge. The yellow on light blue is the biggest problem with that badge.
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    Perfect time for them to do a freestanding lion. Removes a lot of the issues with the crest.
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    I agree with this, but is it possible they've made the rest of the shirt but commissioned a replacement badge (whether it be rubber, a patch or whatever), and they'll attach those to the shirts that have been produced instead? Leeds released their horrible unpopular badge on January 24th 2018, cancelled it 6 days later and managed to get the old badge on the kits for the following season. I'm hoping we can do the same with the more 3D lion.
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    They got bought out by rich owners about a year after the Emirates opened, so pretty well I guess.
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    Yes, with 100 million pounds, that doesn't vanish into thin air if we don't spend it on a new North Stand, and could potentially be invested elsewhere for greater returns.
  20. ThunderPower_14
    You simply adjusted the matchday revenue up by the percentage the capacity will increase. I'm sorry but that's wildly simplistic given how bullish you're being about the financial implications of a new stand. If you've got something more detailed i'd love to read it.
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    If you're going to claim that "there is no way the new stand wouldn't pay for itself if we decided to do it", i'm surely allowed to ask you to expand on and clarify that claim? I don't agree that it's automatically a sound investment. Major stadium work is almost never a sound investment long term unless you're forced into it by rule changes or safety. Most major professional sports stadiums get built using public money for a reason.
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    Then surely we apply Occam's Razor and deduce that the numbers don't add up as simply as you're saying.
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    That's very simplistic and doesn't take into account the opportunity cost of what else we could do with 100 million pounds to increase our revenue. Does this take into account what we'll be borrowing/repaying etc? If it's such a clear financial uplift, why did we cancel it?
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    I'm not sure that's true. There is a reason that major stadium works, basically everywhere over the last 20 years have involved significant public money or at the very least government loans at a very low rate. If building new stadiums and new stands paid for itself, there would be a lot more of them getting built.
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    A lot, but clearly not enough to make a new stand financially viable. It's not ideal for people who go to Villa Park every week and want it modernised, but why do we think they've shelved these plans?
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