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  1. Stephen_Evans
    The version where the detailing is claret is better because it gives some unity to the whole.
  2. Stephen_Evans
    And the third goal came from poor decision making when we had the ball.
  3. Stephen_Evans
    The frustrating aspect for me in many games is the lack of urgency. Control is great but control can mean fast as well as slow. We’re sometime “chasing” games in injury time and knock it around at the back like we’re 3-0 up. And there are some players who play to the “system” at the cost of some imagination, like Cash with the constant check inside and resetting.
  4. Stephen_Evans
    All this checking inside.
  5. Stephen_Evans
    It’s a strange one, this whole saga. I absolutely detest the trademarked version and yet the Bosko’s boot fellow’s version with the claret overlay on the lion suddenly transforms it into something I could get behind.
  6. Stephen_Evans
    Agree with those who are nervous, but taking a step back, who would have thought after match day 1 we would have the opportunity to go 17 points clear of Newcastle in the return fixture. That would be a 20 point turnaround!
  7. Stephen_Evans
    Off topic I know, but I will laugh a lot that the Liverpool job will have become vacant nearly three years after Slippy joined us and he won’t be getting it.
  8. Stephen_Evans
    You agree then that 2024/25 is not the club’s 150th season but its 151st?
  9. Stephen_Evans
    1874/75 was our first season which makes 2023/24 our 150th season, at the end of which we will be 150 years old. Just in case anyone from the club reads these pages.
  10. Stephen_Evans
    Unless he goes to Man City and the longer term injury issues mysteriously disappear.
  11. Stephen_Evans
    I was more admiring how you have managed to do all the great designs to share with us in your spare time while all the badge dramas have unfolded. Apologies if that is not how it came across.
  12. Stephen_Evans
    You still have your job?
  13. Stephen_Evans
    Doug’s legacy is the real problem here. It always used to aggravate me when uninformed media would tell us what a great job he had done of redeveloping Villa Park. He made a pig’s ear of it. After the Taylor report, a generously costed masterplan incorporating our most iconic asset (the old Trinity) would have seen us with an historic and beautiful stadium which was large enough.
  14. Stephen_Evans
    8 points from 5 games. Which you could say is a disallowed goal away from 2 points a game.
  15. Stephen_Evans
    ‘Tis true. But in 2009 we had a manager who ran the legs off the same 11 or 12 players, thought Heskey was our answer to Arshavin and played a rather one-dimensional style (as exciting as it could be when it worked).
  16. Stephen_Evans
    Me too, particularly having seen the improved version “leaked” by Bosko chappie.
  17. Stephen_Evans
    I was dismayed by the trademark but very impressed by the novel use of gold and claret for the lion in the digital version.
  18. Stephen_Evans
    That’s not how it works though. The €9m plus his wages are divided by the number of years of his contract up to a maximum of 5 and that is the expenditure for FFP per year.
  19. Stephen_Evans
    Another slight niggle is the way Luiz gets sucked into pettiness and personal battles instead of focusing on his job.
  20. Stephen_Evans
    I understand the need not to risk the point in injury time but I do find the complete lack of urgency frustrating at times.
  21. Stephen_Evans
    Yes, and I think that is why the club believe they are compliant with the rules. I am not saying I agree with the loophole, if you can call it that.
  22. Stephen_Evans
    In terms of FA rules, the issue will be whether Heck’s new badge is a “material change”. It is compared to the fan-approved round badge. It probably isn’t compared to Lerner mark II.
  23. Stephen_Evans
    The thing about this design is that, even if there was something else I preferred, this one captures something that Heck’s doesn’t. It’s hard to put into words. The claret on blue, the gold border and the lovely shape.
  24. Stephen_Evans
    It looks like a proper Villa badge to me.
  25. Stephen_Evans
    Dear me…
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