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  1. JPAngel
    Perhaps, and this is wishful thinking, they are so confident about us to getting CL football each season for the foreseeable future that they see reducing our current capacity and spending a fortune on updating the North Stand as a waste of money. Why spend vast sums of money on updating the stadium over the next few years if they're thinking it may not be a viable arena for the inevitable success coming our way? We're better off moving to an absolute coliseum in 5-10 years time. A bit of a leap, but I need a way to calm down after the commercial blunders of the last few weeks.
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    Whinging aside, I’m always a sucker for a monochromatic look.
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    It’s so uninspiring that I fully expect this to be legitimate. It’s about as safe and underwhelming as one could anticipate.
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    Really not a fan of this. At first I thought it was an xG table but it's Expected Points which feels a bit whacky.
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    It shows the absolute gulf in quality when they're selling their most promising player for around £3.5m.
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    A quick update on the average PPG thread following the Sheff Utd, Man Utd and Burnley games. Just to help manage my own expectations and let data do the talking. Our average PPG still sees us finishing with a projected total of 79.8 points which would generally see us finish 3rd. As has been mentioned previously, teams have generally needed 70-71 points to finish 4th over the last 10+ years so I feel that earning 28-29 points from the next 18 games should be our minimum objective. If we can win ten of the below, we should secure CL football comfortably. EVE (A) NEW (H) SHU (A) MNU (H) FUL (A) NOT (H) LUT (A) TOT (H) WHU (A) WOL (H) MNC (A) BRE (H) ARS (A) BOU (H) CHE (H) BRI (A) LIV (H) CRY (A) It's going to be a fun ride!
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    We're going to end up with an abomination like this, aren't we?
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    Based on this, they've already told us exactly what the badge will look like, haven't they? In the event it's not liked, specifically highlighting the items below is essentially a free pass to say "but this is what you asked for". Predominantly claret and blue A shield - not a circle Aston Villa FC/Aston Villa - not AVFC Left-facing lion Features 1874 Features a star Now, if I can just figure out exactly what "build a picture of our heritage as a traditional club" means, I'm pretty sure we could mock up a design based on the brief above.
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    I hate it. Purely because I know it's perfect and that we won't get anything even close to this. One of the biggest criticisms I remember from our bade redesign was that the silhouette was identical to so many clubs across the world. Incorporating the gas lamp into the crest in this way solves that problem in a beautiful way that is similar to the way Real Madrid and Espanyol solved the issue - with a crown.
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    There's something so triggering about seeing a lion representing something that features the name Birmingham City.
  11. JPAngel
    Calling it now. It's going be Puma.
  12. JPAngel
    “And it’s hi-ho! Avvtin Vleb!” I am deceased.
  13. JPAngel
    You can take that tin hat off because this was a great read.
  14. JPAngel
    Now I've had some time to mull this over, I think I'm fine with it. If we're to understand that this is simply a marque - much like the McGregor one that has adorned shirts previously - it's fine. Not great, but fine. Imagine that this logo is something that appears no bigger than a two pence piece on the nape of perfectly coloured home shirt and it gets a lot more palatable*. *Unintentional but insert shirt on a pallet meme if you need to
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    It's going to be an unpopular opinion but, having been to stadiums like SoFi in California and AT&T in Texas, I'd love for us to have a super stadium. I love Villa Park deeply but if the owners that have dragged us from back from obscurity to challenging for top 4 see this as the best route to becoming a Premier League superpower then so be it. That said, I'm 99% certain they're not even looking at doing this and that this forum has become a bit of an information vacuum over the last 24 hours.
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    I'm such a sucker for articles like this! One thing I found interesting is that, if we're top at Christmas and we implode as we did in 1999, we'd still finish above where we finished last season
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    The worst part about this part in bold is that, at the beginning of Heck's response to a question he clearly wrote, he triumphantly stated "that's a great question". Cringe.
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    Douglas Luiz

    JPAngel replied to LondonLax's topic in Villa Talk

    I don't know, if Man City offered Villa £100m for me, I'd expect them to take it.
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    You don't think Heck is look at the Euros and thinking "Hmmm... 2028... that'd be 4 years to build a new stadium" and seeing it as way more cost effective than renovating the North Stand? Spitballing, obviously. I'm just wondering what the long game is.
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    It really sounds like Heck is concerned about having 10,000 extra people use the existing transport links around Villa Park and I do understand where he's coming from. Anyone who visited the ground when we were pulling in 30,000 fans in the Championship can attest to how much worse travelling in is now we're filling VP again. Now add 10,000 more fans on to already strained transport links and it's clear to see there's a problem. Perhaps he wants that solved before moving ahead with extra seats. I still think it's a weird decision given we've clearly put a lot of effort into those plans and, as I said in another thread, we're simply moving this same problem to another season.
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    Weirdly, I was thinking what a shame it is that our potential first Champions League campaign in decades would be in front of a reduced capacity Villa Park and that this was coming at a bad time. This alleviates that worry for now, but it does just move the same problem to a different season. Surely the best plan of action would be to just get it out of the way while we're still ascending?
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    Trying to trust the process but I am puzzled here. It's just difficult to read and even looks somehow off-center? I really hope this isn't an indication of what could be used on the kit as, in my opinion, that's as bad as it gets. Even the Lerner badge was better.
  24. JPAngel
    I'm back with another chart after the Brentford game and, again, it makes delicious reading. Our points per game average now has us sitting on a projected points total of 85 points when extrapolated. That would be enough, on average, to see us finish 2nd. However, we know that football is rarely that simple. That said, if we were able to match our equivalent performances last season in our remaining fixtures (W10, D3, L8) it would leave us with a total of 71 points and generally be enough for Champions League football. That would include losses against Man Utd, Burnley (replacing Leicester), Fulham, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Palace along with draws against Sheffield Utd (replacing Leeds), West Ham and Wolves. I still think we can do better than the above so who knows where we could end up...
  25. JPAngel
    I just wanted to pick up on the bit in bold, here. When swapping out Leicester, Leeds and Southampton for Burnley, Sheffield United and Luton (in that order) our results from last season for all of our remaining fixtures this season equals 34 points (W10, D4, L8) and would leave us on 69 points. Weirdly, that's exactly in line with my pessimistic prediction for the rest of the season (W9, D7, L6) and would see us claim 5th but I'm quietly confident we can do better than that!
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