MrBlack

Were we ready for the Conference League when we qualified for it last season following an unbelievable run of form? Did it kill us this season and see us finish lower than we did last season? If we qualify for it, we will be ready. It will not kill us. And Emery knows what to do.

How do you know this, is there a reliable source that confirms this? The BBC say its going to replace the existing rules, but doesn't mention anything about whether the recent 85% rule is part of what it considers the current regulations.

I can only assume this constant changing and revision of the rules was on the cards when we cancelled the North Stand. A hard cap based on TV revenue leaves no incentive to increase the stadium capacity. If Uefa follow suit, and the 85% cap in the current revised rules goes away, then a big stadium is no help what so ever. It's no environment to make a major costly investment that could end up crippling you. Now these rules seem to be landing the way they are, hopefully we get some more clarity on what the plans are, because they presumably will still want to make it fit for purpose while they wait for the domines to fall.

@GlobalVillan clearly rattled and that nervous twitch made them press the 0 key twice by mistake.

Norwich won't want to finish 6th either I guess? Ideally they won't want to play whoever of Leeds/Ipswich finishes there over two legs. Much better to let another team take on that burden, and possibly fluke a win. They take on a Southampton team that have been on the beach for a few weeks and might not hit their stride straight away. Then you get a final against a supposedly weaker team or a one leg shootout against a better team at a neutral venue that on any given day could end up with any scoreline. I really think they're flushing.

Any chance Norwich would want to beat blues to get them out the league? Bit of insurance that their supposedly huge spending potential won't impact them next season if they cock up the play offs? I think if Hull win tonight then there's no way Norwich are taking the game easy anyway, but if they don't then Norwich could well still turn up.

Come on Huddersfield, you're getting relegated. Don't concede looking for the winner though please:)

Going to hold the PL record if they keep it up, and not just the 38 game season one.

Plymouth is the big one. If they can score... my word what a day that would be.

Did you know. Cows don't like having their Huddersfield?

Wednesday have a second too

Get in you Hudders.

It hit the post and went in...maybe that's why?

Norwich now winning too

Millwall Plymouth game looking like it could go either way so still a good chance blues find themselves in the bottom three even if they win.. as they are currently.

Boo blues score

'Tis a thing of beauty.

@lainux in addition ... A lot of people have suggested that there is room for extra seats in the current footprint. There used to be more anyway, so why couldn't they be reintroduced? Profile/rake can be modified, and concourse gaps can be filled. There is 100% the possibility to add 700+ seats without moving anyone out their current seat. There may well be the opportunity to add even more. I dont think it's a given that they will force anyone to move. Call me naive, but I reckon the ~1300 Heck mentions is mostly new seats. It aligns with the total capacity they're claiming we'll have, and aligns with his latest comments about keeping costs the same for everyone currently there, but increasing them for those that are willing to pay a surplus. The relatively small percentage that isn't moving people, will hopefully be those seats that usually go on general sale. It's easily done, and I really think Heck has learnt his lesson from the lower grounds debacle.

He seems to have done nothing at spurs because he keeps getting dropped for no apparent reason after a pretty good performance. Emery, having worked with him and extolled his virtues before, seems to know he's a brilliant player. If we go back in for him, I trust that it's because Emery thinks he'll improve our squad, and Monchi thinks we'll be able to get him for a relatively decent price. If we dont sign him, then fair enough, but if we do it's because he'll be a good value addition to our squad.

And the weirdest thing about what he's done is that the leaked badge and the AU500 have absolutely fk all in common. They're totally alien to each other. On brand? My arse.

Are you regularly premature? . Of course, I really hope you're right, what scenes they would be.

I assume the restrictions we placed on them made it the way it was as a whole package. It's grown on me, probably due to the success, but it does lack vibrancy for sure. Lack of gold highlighting maybe an issue. Whatever, its definitely mistakable for others when monochrome. Having seen their other works and what they're capable of, I'm loathe to place the blame on them. I'd love to see some of their concepts that perhaps stretched the brief to its limits or beyond, bet they'd be great.

I assume the brief was to keep the old lion (due to decades or familiarity and ease of reusing merchandise/labels/etc), so we can't use the new lion. It was also presumably to incorporate our full name in place of AVFC, keeping the star and adding the year. And I'm guessing the final requirement was that it must have the same core colour arrangement to retain the sense of familiarity and association with our recent past. Freedom to change the shield shape, but it has to be a shield. It leaves little room to improve it. If the brief also said the yellow must be the same yellow then there was never any hope and whoever set the brief should be fired. But assume there was room to play around with the shade of yellow, then they could easily have made it darker, and kept the Aston Villa text at the top and it would be miles better than what was leaked. I really don't understand how they came up with what is so fundamentally flawed and brings back all the issues that we had with it that caused it to be replaced in the first place. If someone wanted to offer a revision using my guidelines above (but not keeping the same yellow) I'd be intrigued to see how good a designer could make it look. (Also, the succes we've had with the new lion should mean we are glad to be associated with it and should now take precedence, but for now assume its going the way of the dodo)

Defintely does. That's why we paid Dragon Rouge a fortune to design it.

Agree that it doesnt look great but I'm curious what a design expert would do to fix it. Use a different font where all letters have a similar size so space between letters doesn't need to change? Have the letters all spaced equally but then the lion doesn't sit in the middle of the physical space? It's the same issue we have with a circle, and the name not sitting equally around both halves of the circumference. What's the answer?