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  1. MrBlack
    Youri!!!
  2. MrBlack
    I'd have expected a flash sale to get rid of the stock... but guess our favourite third party are on the way out and don't care
  3. MrBlack
    Think it's fair to assume that the murals painted on the warehouse are a temporary measure done just in time for the last game of the season and to coincide with an announcement of some sort. Looked on like that, it's an impressively coordinated and well executed temporary display. If it hangs around for more than a year and becomes a permanent fixture it's less impressive and begs question about the lack of cleaning of the bricks.
  4. MrBlack
    Sounds like you will anyway, but please ask them to explain the thought process behind why yellow on light blue was brought back. That colour match up was a huge reason why we moved away from the Lerner era badge in the first place. It's not been a villa colour combination for most of our history or any of our successful periods. Yellow on light blue is such a jarring colour scheme that isn't visible from any distance. What we do with that colour scheme won't scale well (drop shadow or not).
  5. MrBlack
    New shop originally in Villa Live, then when that got canned it was going to be in the stand. Then they said, well revamp existing shop and make it bigger by removing the ticket office we have in the same building.
  6. MrBlack
    Is he even registered? I guess he would have been at the start of the season, but would we have kept him on it in Jan?
  7. MrBlack
    But the point is that over time that shield and double border becomes synonymous with us, and frees us up to use other colour variations in collaborations with other partners, and everyone will still know its Villa. I dislike Heck, and am not a fan of a lot of what he's done (especially his communication) but establishing this as a new brand that becomes immediately identifiable as a Villa themed product is not bad. Light yellow on blue I don't understand, but the shape and the brand reveal across media, print and physical villa property is a well organised and positive thing for me.
  8. MrBlack
    Three badges in one season. We did it. Well done Heck!
  9. MrBlack
    We've used shield patches/borders a lot over the years, although they've always been claret, like the below and what we used between 95 and 99: No room for them now on a shirt with a massive sponsor and logos placed so high they're on your collar bone, but I think we'll have gone with the double border so that it doesn't matter. The white becomes effectively the outer border, and then it stands out from the shirt.
  10. MrBlack
    If we can pick ourselves up from the disappointment of Thursday then I can see us having just enough to beat a Liverpool team with nothing to play for. The injuries are really hurting us, but Diaby and Watkins being on it, McGinn played further forward, Pau finding his early season passing lanes, and Luiz hitting some semblance of form would be enough for us to win. There's a lot that needs to come together for it, but if they do then we can win. Or backup option is Liverpool really don't turn up at all and then even with half of those players having off days we might still scrape a win. If Bailey is fit enough to come off the bench then that could be the turning point in an otherwise tight game. I dont want to have a care about the city spurs result, but as a fall back option to rely on if we lose, its about as good as they come. Then we can relax and enjoy the final away day.
  11. MrBlack
    It does look clean. I don't mind the double border. I like the shield shape and reverting back to a shield is more infitting with our history than the round badge. But why did we go down the yellow on light blue path again . Why did Heck think that was the colour scheme to go with.
  12. MrBlack
    Gnonto fouled, looked a lot like a penalty as foul carried on in the box, not even given as a free kick. Poor Leeds
  13. MrBlack
    That was the softest penalty ever. Completely unnatural running pattern from the Celtic forward who then kicks the standing leg of the defender. He then falls over in a dive after doing that completely unnaturally as well. As a former forward I've got no love for defenders, but that was a shocking call. Glad it got saved.
  14. MrBlack

    Jhon Durán

    MrBlack replied to PieFacE's topic in Villa Talk

    Not a good game for him, but then the team didn't really play to his strengths. His immaturity showed again but I think we've got a potential star if Emery can get him on board. Wouldn't be selling him at this stage.
  15. MrBlack
    Hopefully he's not aggravated anything that they caused to his knee by playing on last night. Clearly wasn't right. And despite that still put in a decent shift and reasonable performance. Unlucky not to get a goal. Hopefully spurs drop a clanger against Burnley and it gives us chance to rest him for the remainder of the season, but failing that I do hope he's fit for our last two games as we really struggle to create when Bailey isn't around at the moment.
  16. MrBlack
    Yep, possibly. The bookies give it about a 6% chance of happening. There are far more scenarios, that are also more likely, that see us finish 4th. But the point is none of them are foregone conclusions. People need to stop acting like they are.
  17. MrBlack
    The disappointing thing about their goal was it didn't require any if the things that Pau is supposedly weaker at anyway. All he had to do was not run towards the goal. I'm sure he's feeling as frustrated about the outcome as anyone, and hopefully he learns from that to do less ball watching. What he brings to us going forwards when we're on form though is irreplaceable. Need to find a way to get him and Mings on the same team.
  18. MrBlack
    True true. We'll never really know whether we could have kept him and got Rogers, or whether keeping him would have helped us in Kamara's absence. Even with hindsight of Kamara's injury, not having Rogers would have been a potentially bigger. I think I'd had a few too many last night thinking Donk might have saved us .
  19. MrBlack
    Our bench explains why. We don't have enough fit players thanks to injury. We have 8 first team players that our out injured at the moment. Didn't really have a choice sadly. Our bench had two Goalkeepers, and 3 youth players that have barely played for us on it.
  20. MrBlack
    Anyone predicting the results at the bottom of the championship on the last day? Nope. Anyone expecting us to beat Arsenal 2-0? Nope. Football isn't played on paper and it doesn't always go to form. Not even close to always. Anything could happen over the next set of games and it probably will.
  21. MrBlack
    Kevin De Bruyne at the end "Put Jack on there, he doesn't even know where Villa is". Well, neither did Cash.
  22. MrBlack
    That's shocking. How can he possibly not know that wolves are more west than us.
  23. MrBlack
    6-2 agrees with you. But I don't. Just my view though, and seems I'm very much in the minority.
  24. MrBlack
    That bit in bold is everything. I guess we didn't know Kamara was getting a season ending injury when we let him go, but knowing that he might do and that we have zero faith in Tim should have seen him kept. We've sacrificed so much by not having a fit DM. It's worked some weeks, but it's shown us desperately short in others. As bad as Donk is, we clearly had more faith in him than Tim, so he'd have been better kept around. Hindsight maybe I guess.
  25. MrBlack
    Looked surprisingly good for a player I'd never heard of before tonight. Didn't clock him on the bench for previous games. I'd be giving him some minutes in the league after that though. A very solid debut in hostile and generally shit circumstances.
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