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  1. ThunderPower_14
    I don't think i've ever seen a cushioned volley finish that accurately from that distance before. Incredible! Looks like he's been playing some great football at that level.
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    Everyone else is slipping up as well, we just need to keep up our PPG. The worst possible outcome is that we drop away and Man City or Liverpool win the league with 79 points. If we end up with a point total in the 80s and get beaten by a side worth £1billion+, I'll be proud.
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    I've never seen us miss so many wide open chances. Lucky to get away with that.
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    ffs we've missed so many bloody chances and then that
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    We need to take one of these chances and put the game away
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    What on earth are you thinking pulling a shirt that egregiously on a yellow. Insane
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    And what exactly about him being ignorant about the sport do you think is relevant to the criticisms he's copping at the moment? The decision to refresh the branding or whether to rebuild part of the stadium (which have both been made with the support of the owners) aren't specific issues to football and aren't particularly different between football and any other major professional sport. The NY Red Bulls had been around for 5 years when Heck joined them, with Red Bull having completely taken over the NY Metrostars who were formed just 12 years prior to that. I'm sorry, but a 17yo soccer team owned by an energy drink conglomerate in NY in 2011 can have it's culture and fanbase dismissed, especially when the fanbase watched the club get rebranded under an energy drink 5 years prior. Aston Villa and the Philadelphia 76ers in 2014 have a lot more in common with each other than either of them do with NY Red Bulls. Both are old clubs who were historically big and successful but have been in a period of dormancy.
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    The NY Red Bulls stint was prior to the Philadelphia 76ers stint, where he spent 9 years, led a wildly successful rebrand and oversaw turning a nothing franchise into one of the most popular in the league.
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    "Liked" is doing a lot of work here. The majority liked it better than the Lerner badge and the majority voted for it over the shield version of the design, but that's a long way from the majority being over the moon with it. It's a 6.5/10 design and that was reflected in the underwhelmed response when it released. If it was a knockout design, we wouldn't be having this argument and the club wouldn't be reviewing it.
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    Not from the 76ers he wasn't. Which post?
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    I've been fairly supportive of a wait and see attitude towards Heck's rebrand given his previous work, but if we get another slightly modified Lerner badge I'll be furious.
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    Lazy, low intensity garbage second half. Disgraceful. Every one of their goals stemmed from casual carelessness.
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    Looking at the thread from when the badge was announced, the general feeling was that it's a clear upgrade from the Lerner badge while being fairly safe and unremarkable. Nice but not a knockout. A few were glowingly positive (nick76 leading the charge) and nobody hated it but there are lots of posts about it being nice but a bit of a missed opportunity.
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    The badge looking cool makes it more likely for an Aston Villa fan to use it on their social media, but it doesn't make a random kid in Asia or America care about Aston Villa. To attract those fans, we need exciting star players and we need to be playing in the champions league. You don't have to look far to see Al-Nassr badges on social media. It's not because they have a cool badge or cool branding, it's purely because they've signed one of the best players of all time. Selling your branding soul for new supporters doesn't work. Look at Cardiff changing their shirt colour. No doubt that the new badge will be designed to work in social media applications, but I have no doubt that the new badge will have been designed with generational Aston Villa supporters in mind.
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    I'm not too sure about that. Sports branding 101 is that you're not trying to win over new fans, you're trying to drive engagement from people who are already fans. We gain new fans by winning. We unlock new markets by playing in Europe and having star players. Branding isn't about that, it's about engaging existing supporters. We could have the greatest badge and shirt combination ever seen and it's not attracting new fans in any significant number. We only do that by winning. Fortunately we can look at the previous rebrand that Heck led and see that it was very strongly geared towards the existing 76ers fanbase. He didn't worry about the oversaturation of red white and blue in the US market, he used the colours that resonated with the fanbase. He didn't give them a slick, overly modern design, he played into the historic, traditional uniform aesthetic of the Doctor J era. He brought the classic identity of the team into the modern era. How he approached the 76ers rebrand is what makes me confident that he'll get this right. Some of the vitriol surrounding a one-off 150th year logo is way over the top. The biggest takeaway should be the colours, something that has been complained about for my entire time on this forum, it looks like he's listened and got them right.
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    I want to hear the audio from the disallowed goal, did they even discuss the phase of play? Insanity. I was screaming at the television that it's a different phase of play and i'm sure every Villa fan was as well. Sheffield are running off with the ball FFS! The handball is also criminal. It's a clear, deliberate handball in the box. You can't swing your arm at the ball and intentionally control it, it was nowhere near the shoulder and if he didn't swing his arm out, the ball maybe glances off of him. Nobody is complaining if that's given a pen.
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    Disappointing result but that VAR decision was complete bullshit. Sheffield United had clear possession between the foul and us scoring. Different phase of play.
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    So, so frustrating
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    The way you've included the lamp is excellent
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    "Adding too many seats too fast" could be related to logistics as opposed to demand.
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    If we're as good as we have ambitions to be, we'll have little kids all over the world jumping on the bandwagon. There's no point playing who is the better fan, just embrace anyone wearing a Villa shirt. Just be comforted in the knowledge that joy in sport is all about the contrast of the highs and lows. Those of us who were there through every one of those awful season under Lerner leading to the relegation will get so much more out of our successes.
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    Not sure about anyone else on this forum but I'm partial to the 2006 Italy world cup winning kit. Puma have had Borussia Dortmund since 2012 and I'd argue they've been the best outfitted team in world football in that time.
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    Surely we're aiming higher than "not being wowed but generally liked" though. This is the Aston Villa badge. It should make us beam with pride, not just be an unspectacular design-by-committee that generally fulfills the criteria.
  24. ThunderPower_14
    If he didn't think the badge was right, isn't the correct time to fix it right now? It was hardly popular or inspiring, most people were basically shrugging their shoulders at it. It hadn't done it's job. The right decision was to rip the band-aid off and start again. It's absolutely insane to me that he's being slagged off for changing a relatively unpopular badge. The fact that the most recent badge change was botched isn't Heck's fault. If the redevelopment has issues, isn't delaying it the right move? I don't believe for a second that he's solely responsible for any delay, he's just announcing it because that's his job.
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    I think this has really been missed in this release, the colours, which will have far more bearing on our identity than a one-off 150th logo element. I've been on this forum for 20 years and in that time every time a new shirt or badge is released, people complain the claret "isn't claret" and is too purple. At the same time you've got people here and social media complaining that he doesn't listen to the fans. He's listening.
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