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    I went to plenty of games through the 90s and 00s and clinical accuracy was exactly what fans wanted to counter the incompetence of the refs and linesmen up until they actually got VAR, and now they pretend they never ever wanted a system that could double-check and potentially overturn their decisions. "All we wanted was the spirit of the game to be maintained", my arse.
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    Well, it's a bit of a moot point because he'd barely be playing if we hadn't have bought him.
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    Never in doubt. The man has no problem getting a semi.
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    I don't know why the Spurs game is a foregone conclusion. Going out on a limb here, but I think Forest may just be up for, you know, being as far away from the relegation zone as possible. And Spurs are just as capable of shooting themselves in the foot as we are.
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    Not 'Direby' anymore, then? What a surprise. Almost as if he's not an awful player whom we supposedly overpaid for and just needed to regain his confidence.
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    Haha!
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    Robertson subbed off at 59 mins. I give up with this game lol.
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    Poe's law?
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    Ah, but, you see, you forgot to consider that we're not going to go on a winning run for the rest of the season. It's just a collapse from here on out (supposedly).
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    Me too. The things I do for Villa.
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    Looks classic with a claret lion (the usual grumbles about the star, the 1874, and 'Aston Villa' being placed at the bottom aside). Love it when we introduce gold to our badges, but, in this case, I think it would only work best on the kit while the bottom row-left would work best for anything with a lighter background. (We already switch between white and claret borders for different contexts - the white was an awful choice, imo - so I don't see we couldn't switch between blue and gold.)
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    "leave it to the professionals"
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    Guys, the season isn’t over yet!
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    Sure, but we'll still be stuck with the drop shadow version on the stadium, social media, and everywhere else.
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    I started accepting the idea of a new design as soon as we got the round badge again. It isn't enough for something to be 'traditional' or 'pleasing to the eye' nowadays, so inevitably it was going to be buggered about with. What rankles me most is that Heck is more concerned with what Chelsea trolls think of our crest than with what our own fans might think of it.
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    By addressing it at all, you're acknowledging it's an issue that exists and, so, will need negotiating, which they don't want to happen if the kits are about to be manufactured. Better to pretend you're ignoring it.
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    Probably because they're ploughing ahead with it - no doubt mass production is imminent - and hoping fans will tire themselves out and/or forget the issue on account of good performances on the pitch.
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    I think that's part of problem, yes.
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    Not all that different. Our team colours and which one is emphasised (claret over blue or blue over claret) are as much of a design choice as our badge is and could also be up for negotiation at the whims of any current or future custodians. They'd be total idiots to do so, but, as you say, it's a "business at the end of the day" and there's not much we could do about it if they decided in was in our best interest (e.g. if they wanted to make us more distinctive from other claret-and-blue teams like West Ham). Villa Park is part of our heritage too. However, like the badge and our team colours, it doesn't 'matter' over and above the results or how we perform on the pitch, and the location of the stadium is almost certainly going to be up for discussion at some point. So, likewise, wouldn't it bother you if we were winning trophies but were playing in a brand new stadium in another part of the city?
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    If how we're performing on the pitch is ultimately all you care about, surely the colour of the kit isn't such an important thing to worry about either? If the club decided it was time to alter or completely change the club clours, but we were otherwise performing well, would still just enjoy the football or wouldn't you feel a bit aggrieved?
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    Can't say I understand the fans saying "who cares, it's only a badge, get over it" about this. Why is it so baffling to care about something that's (a) one of the most prominent visual elements of any football club, if not the most, and (b) going to end up on something you pay extortionate money to actually wear? The actual thing that's baffling is when these fans use one of our badges as their pfp. E.g.
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    I'm sure the club/Heck gave an agency a strict list of things that needed to the included based on fan consultations, but when did we insist that we retain a blue background and gold lion? I thought we were pretty unanimously in favour of claret on blue. And who insisted it needed to be an evolution of the Lerner badge? Again, I thought fans were mostly in favour of a round badge or at least not basing it on the Lerner badge.
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    What's the 'professional' obsession with having a yellow lion on blue? I'm only a peon amateur, and clearly don't deserve to have an opinion, but surely any fool can see that claret on blue is more impactful?
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    This is exactly why 'professionals' reject it. Something being traditionally (and, therefore, actually) beautiful is offensive to professionals because, to them, it's too 'obviously' beautiful - and a traditional badge doesn't aid people like Heck, who are going to be giving all the PR/marketing speak and need buzzwords. So, instead, they bugger about trying to reinvent the wheel.
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