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HolteExile

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  1. Roma, Ajax, Eintracht Frankfurt, Dynamo Zagreb and Fenerbache say hi.
  2. I don't think that's right. As well as the goals and performances against Zrinjsk and Sheff Utd, he looked like a raging bull at the start of his stint with us. Burnleh and Chelsea away in quick succession and Luton at home I thought we had a player. If he'd scored in those games we might have had lift off. As it is, the betting scandal back home combined with the challenge of trying to adapt to a new country and new league looks like it's got to him. I wouldn't have been against him going back to Galatasary in Jan. But he's ours for now. His season could still turn with an inspirational key goal or two.
  3. I don't think he's all that. If you somehow manage to rinse Arsenal or whoever for circa £70 million you should def do the deal. Not sure Frank will ultimately benefit from it as I reckon he'll be gone in the summer. Just seems the right time to part ways. Brentford seem to want to play football now (as you did for most of our battles in the Championship) and I'm not sure he's the sort of bloke for that at the top level.
  4. Aye, the gaslight one was rubbish. Reminded me of the cack made up ones on Pro Evo.
  5. That's a Villa badge. It's alright by me and welcome to marry my sister any day.
  6. Food for thought there. The original colour order is still lousy, but we can see with slight variations it *might* not be totally embarrassing.
  7. That all sounds totally fair. Good on 'em.
  8. The Lerner badge was complete cack to start with, from the light yellow on light blue issue to the odd mix of fonts and totally bland featureless lion. The second incarnation did at least seem to sharpen the design up; removing the 'prepared' (which ironically looked like an afterthought), removing the spacing and adding more detail to make the lion look more prominent. With an embroidered lion the effect was closer to gold than light yellow and stood out much better. This new effort undoes all that. And (somehow) has worse balance than even the original Lerner botch job.
  9. There's enough familiar aspects in this dog dirt Heck version, so as not to see a complete overhaul where the Lerner efforts are used throughout Villa Park. at the training ground and in branded media etc. So I get the logic. But it's pissweak original branding in the first place, so it's odd we (or more acccurately Heck) want to hold on to it. Purslow instinctively got the club and its heritage and status in the British game. Heck will show no such sentiment or interest, clearly. His remit seems to be cut costs and drive revenue. Nothing else.
  10. Even with these constraints do we believe a professional design house really signed off on that? Maybe the cost cutting (agree on that point, BTW) extends to getting a trainee or sons/nephews of Heck to design it. It's actually more jarring than the original Lerner effort, which is some going.
  11. At the time it was commissioned, a ground with close to 50,000 capacity would have been seen as more than adequate. We nudged 40,000 fairly regularly in the early 80s. From about 1984 to the early>mid 90s 25000 or less was not unusual. We were doing well to get 20k in the latter part of the 80s at times. I don't recall any serious discussions to rebuild that end until Ellis took a wrecking ball to the old Trinity. Hard to believe, but the North Stand seemed gargantuan in its day - not the raw capacity as such, more the overall size of it compared to the rest of the ground and most of the other behind-goal efforts across the country. The Witton was always the obvious focus when expansion was being mentioned. There was also a fair bit of scarring from the original North Stand build going way over budget and fraud allegations against the contractors if memory serves. Events that played a major role in Eli$$ returning to the club and the breakup of the 82 squad.
  12. Not bad. How about with the lion facing our way (the way it's faced for most of our 150 years)?
  13. It looks like something that could be cobbled together with the limited options from Pro Evo in about 2006. Stock flat lion. Generic shield. Fonts all over the place. Has no redeeming features whatsoever.
  14. Too much going on. Looks like a presidential seal.
  15. Was thinking that with a darker shade of blue and a gold lion with detailing (as per the old Trinity) it could work. But then I look at the crap font layout at the bottom and how out of proportion it all is and I just think no. Get it in the bin.
  16. Only issue with that is the club have had the best part of 24 hours to come out and distance themselves from it. Or explain in in context (we're using some of these elements but the colour scheme is still being worked on). Purslow had his critics, but apart from the Gerrard appointment he didn't get a whole pile wrong. The comms since he departed have def hit the skids.
  17. Agreed. As an outsider who doesn't get our history or heritage much, perhaps he assumes the post 2007 bad is the heritage. But light yellow on a light blue backgroud looked cack in 2007 and it still looks bad now. The 2016 modifications made it look less bad, but this seems like a weird tribute to Lerner's original vision.
  18. You can carry an inconsistent wide player or winger, you can't really get away with an inconsistent centre half. Even Nyland could manage the odd good game in 20 or 30 matches. It's not enough.
  19. At his age he's not going to get a whole lot better. Wonder if we might be able to trade him to a Spanish club, still has a decent reputation there. Hasn't been up to the pace of the English game, for the most part.
  20. I felt we could have utilised him at least in the ECL games and as an impact sub in some PL games. But his body can't seem to withstand the walking football standard that is the Qatari League, so there's no way we could bank on him here. A real shame, those moments of quality against Yanited, Leedzzz and Soton at home and Leedzzz away offered a tantalising prospect of better things to come.
  21. Might look better on the balance sheet, won't look particularly good on a football pitch. Anytime I've seen Wan Bissaka recently he looks like an athlete who only started playing football in the last year or two. Miscuing simple passes and generally having a look of Harwood about him. Against Copenhagen he was directly responsible for two of their four goals conceded. We have an organised defence for the first time in McGrath knows how long, with each player comfortable in possession and disciplined and smart enough to contribute. Signing a player like Wan Bissaka (for little reason other that he's nominally a RB and moved to a big club for a large fee a while back) seems like a retrograde step to me.
  22. Well we were bidding on that 31 year old Argentinian left back in the summer - for more than we paid for Moreno. Until he got injured playing for Sevilla.
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