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  1. JPAngel
    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?
  4. JPAngel
    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.
  7. JPAngel
    Calling it now. It's going be Puma.
  8. JPAngel
    “And it’s hi-ho! Avvtin Vleb!” I am deceased.
  9. JPAngel
    You can take that tin hat off because this was a great read.
  10. 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
  11. JPAngel
    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.
  12. JPAngel
    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
  13. JPAngel
    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.
  14. JPAngel

    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.
  17. JPAngel
    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.
  20. 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...
  21. 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!
  22. JPAngel
    Yep! I had the same thought process as you but, as 83 points and 78 points both feel like a crazy number to achieve, I tempered my expectations so I didn't get carried away. For context, over the same period (2009/2010 - 2022/2023), the total point averages are: 2nd - 82 3rd - 73 4th - 71 5th - 67 3rd place total points averages are pretty consistent but there's a pretty huge swing when it comes to 2nd place. Examples being 92 points required in 2022 and 97 required in 2019 but only 71 points required in 2016 and 2011. Whichever way you look at it, we're 100% on course to finish in the top 5 even with a pessimistic prediction of our remaining fixtures.
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    I'm not sure if this is any good to anyone but I'm far too excited about the prospect of getting into the Champions League and I needed an outlet. I checked back over the last 10 or so years to get total point averages for finishing 4th and 5th (with 5th seeming likely to obtain CL football next year) to see where our current trajectory stacks up. On the chart below, the X axis is games played and the Y axis is points accrued. As you can see, our current points total has us above where we need to be to reach the CL by around 5 points. Sometimes it's good to see things in the cold light of a spreadsheet! For fun, I took a stab at predictions for the rest of the season. I know it's a fools errand but I wanted to see where we'd end up with some very conservative predictions and it puts us right in the middle of the average points for 4th and 5th. For context, I've not been wild with my estimates and have called the remaining games as: W:9, D:7, L:6. Crazy to think that winning just 9 of the remaining 22 matches (along with 7 draws) would see us amass a total of 69 points which would almost certainly be enough for 5th.
  24. JPAngel
    Our fans in the ground have definitely grown and embraced the way Emery plays and those rumbles of nervousness when playing around the back seem to have dissipated massively which is great. That nervousness within the crowd definitely makes it's way onto the pitch and doesn't help the team. My only gripe with some fans, and this may just be me, is screaming at certain players the first time they do something "wrong". I sat by the touchline a few weeks back and a few lads in particular were absolutely battering Bailey with insults about his work rate and I just can't imagine how that could be helpful to anyone. This, coupled with brain dead comments like "switch on!", "wake up Villa!", and "get it forward!" always annoy me. At 34, this is the best I've ever felt about a Villa team and, while no team is beyond criticism, I'd love it if more fans could just enjoy the moment without hammering certain players like we're back in the Remi Garde era.
  25. JPAngel
    The high line will end up being the reason we don't earn a lot of clean sheets this season and there will be teams (see: Newcastle and Liverpool) that have the right players to dismantle it. These are the games where we'll ship goals and "experts" will tear the us to shreds. However, it will also be a major factor in the vast majority of wins this season as we catch teams offside, compress the pitch and break through teams at incredible speed resulting in scoring a boat load. These are the games where the same "experts" won't even mention the high line as they focus on the individual performances of our forwards. In short, pundits haven't got a damn clue on what to focus on. It's dangerous but ultimately incredibly exciting and has resulted in our most successful period in years. Enjoy the ride.
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