S-Platt Posted October 7, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 7, 2022 18 hours ago, Davkaus said: Pretty uninspired though isn't it? I'd rather stick to our current badge than have a claret and blue Chelsea badge Round works look at the avatars on here all in a nice circle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted October 8, 2022 Administrator Share Posted October 8, 2022 17 hours ago, S-Platt said: Round works look at the avatars on here all in a nice circle The avatars here are not crests. Anything but round for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 10 minutes ago, limpid said: The avatars here are not crests. Anything but round for me. Howcome? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted October 8, 2022 Administrator Share Posted October 8, 2022 17 minutes ago, Tayls said: Howcome? We;d just be copying all the other round badges. We wouldn't be doing our own thing and we wouldn't be referring back to our massive history. Something traditional or unique for me. Not another Man City / Chelsea / Everton clone. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted October 8, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 8, 2022 33 minutes ago, limpid said: We;d just be copying all the other round badges. We wouldn't be doing our own thing and we wouldn't be referring back to our massive history. Something traditional or unique for me. Not another Man City / Chelsea / Everton clone. But we had a round badge before others so just going back to what we started? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted October 8, 2022 Administrator Share Posted October 8, 2022 22 minutes ago, S-Platt said: But we had a round badge before others so just going back to what we started? We didn't. Off the top of my head Leeds introduced a round badge the same season that we did. Rangers certainly had one before this. The truly unique crest we had was the first one, with the lion facing right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 41 minutes ago, limpid said: We didn't. Off the top of my head Leeds introduced a round badge the same season that we did. Rangers certainly had one before this. The truly unique crest we had was the first one, with the lion facing right. But you could say an X club had a lion, a square, a shield, a round badge, claret colour, blue colour etc before us. There used to be clubs before us with a club name on the crest - why are we copying them? Why do we need a name on the badge? And is lion alone not copying other clubs as well? Liverpool have their bird, are we copying the animal trend? I really don't mind the shape. I don't care if every other club in the world uses a round badge, as long as our is different and true to our history/values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted October 8, 2022 Administrator Share Posted October 8, 2022 29 minutes ago, Mic09 said: But you could say an X club had a lion, a square, a shield, a round badge, claret colour, blue colour etc before us. There used to be clubs before us with a club name on the crest - why are we copying them? Why do we need a name on the badge? And is lion alone not copying other clubs as well? Liverpool have their bird, are we copying the animal trend? Yes we would, at least in part. We don't need a name on the crest. Our lion originally faced the other way, which was unique AFAIK We can't be copying Liverpool if we had an animal before they existed. 31 minutes ago, Mic09 said: I really don't mind the shape. I don't care if every other club in the world uses a round badge, as long as our is different and true to our history/values. I largely agree. I'm countering the people saying the crest must be round, based on us having one round one previously. I don't see how a round one can refer to our uniqueness or history. I don't claim to know what the club's "values" are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 it seems to me, the biggest criteria, is having "Aston Villa" written on it as oppsed to just AVFC.....for global reasons. other than that......I'm sure they will come up with something acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuL Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 Different variations of a lion rampant in gaslamp shaped shield. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 Has anybody knocked up a rough approximation of the three designs that were presented? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 23 hours ago, limpid said: We didn't. Off the top of my head Leeds introduced a round badge the same season that we did. Rangers certainly had one before this. The truly unique crest we had was the first one, with the lion facing right. But we had a round badge for our biggest ever achievement in ‘82, so that gives it its own level of uniqueness in a way. I instantly think of that game against Bayern when I see the round badge and i wasn’t even born! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted October 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 9, 2022 6 hours ago, StuL said: Different variations of a lion rampant in gaslamp shaped shield. Curious. I'm instantly drawn to the ones with lion facing right. Wonder if actually that should be the way it faces? After all, that's the way our written language reads. Facing left is looking backwards rather than forwards (from a western perspective anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvonVillain Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 29 minutes ago, Lichfield Dean said: Curious. I'm instantly drawn to the ones with lion facing right. Wonder if actually that should be the way it faces? After all, that's the way our written language reads. Facing left is looking backwards rather than forwards (from a western perspective anyway). Or looking at /acknowledging our history perhaps? I love the idea of the incorporated gas lamp but these don't quite work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepal_villan Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 6 hours ago, StuL said: Different variations of a lion rampant in gaslamp shaped shield. I don't mind this at all. I feel it is going all in on our history, instead of trying to provide something for everyone and mixing past, present and future. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 I really don't like the monochrome versions where the shape is just a line, but the top middle and middle left are really nice. Much prefer our current lion to that one though. I don't think the 1874 is needed, and if it were to be included having it in a completely different font to the name is the kind of oddity that made the first version of our current badge look so bad, IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 7 hours ago, StuL said: Different variations of a lion rampant in gaslamp shaped shield. Anything like this would be a million times better than the shite round badge we're likely gonna get because we can't move past 1982. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 Lion facing to the right gets my vote 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 38 minutes ago, thabucks said: Lion facing to the right gets my vote Same here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 Our original crest was facing right but has always been left since. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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