Popular Post GarethRDR Posted April 22 Popular Post Share Posted April 22 1 hour ago, mrchnry said: Pure gaslighting No, they threw that design away completely. 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 1 hour ago, thabucks said: It’s not Heck’s badge it’s NSWE … If they were suitably blown away by the round badge do you think they’d let it be changed a year afterwards ? Why is it the Lerner badge and not Paul Faulkner’s. Yes Heck would’ve been behind it but ultimately it is Nas & Wes’s badge as it will define their ownership in terms of badges. Or is it cause a lot don’t seem to like Heck they get away from being associated with it ? Lerner seemed quite heavily involved with his badge, getting it tattooed on him. It came with his purchase of the club. I don't think the "Heck" badge is what he wants ideally, but I think, much like with the North stand, it's all about dollars. It's too expensive to do properly right now, so we'll wait. Heck gets credited with the new badge because on being hired he immediately put the kibosh on the round badge. I believe he'd argue that it was a financial necessity, but it just shits me that much smaller clubs can get this right and we're now fumbling into yet another bad badge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 The Lerner badge is different from our current one, and a lot worse imo with the inebriated, declawed lion 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_Evans Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 33 minutes ago, Keyblade said: It's actually from the Xia era which is even funnier Sorry but it’s not. It was refreshed before the takeover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_Evans Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 45 minutes ago, ThunderPower_14 said: It came with his purchase of the club. It was changed in 2007 about 11 months after the purchase. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaslash Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 4 hours ago, sne said: Like the stupid West Ham one What’s the scene from Spinal Tap when they do the black on black album? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Townsend Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 (edited) You see my issue here isn't so much the scrapping of the round badge it's more that we were definitely promised a break from the Lerner badge so it is quite something for them to depart from the round badge and up with something based off the unpopular Lerner badge. Edited April 22 by Captain_Townsend 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyjavfc Posted April 22 VT Supporter Share Posted April 22 4 hours ago, imavillan said: as previous posters have mentioned about the official Villa site and the kaizen one having the different badges i've taken a screen shot and here they are. These badges are honestly so similar the rebrand is pointless. They should have just worked “Aston Villa” and “1874” into the existing badge somewhere (and removed AVFC) and called it a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 A. ****. Drop. Shadow. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 1 hour ago, mikeyjavfc said: These badges are honestly so similar the rebrand is pointless. They should have just worked “Aston Villa” and “1874” into the existing badge somewhere (and removed AVFC) and called it a day. They kinda did do that … 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayVTID Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 9 hours ago, rbcuk said: Well on the betano site they have put the new badge on the press release https://kaizengaming.com/aston-villa-and-betano-announce-principal-partnership/ This has since been edited to use the same image as Heck posted. Image showing new badge has been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 The drop shadow is still so funny. Like I wouldn't even do that and I'm about as creative as a piece of wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted April 22 VT Supporter Share Posted April 22 23 minutes ago, GarethRDR said: A. ****. Drop. Shadow. Just needs some outer glow and make the lion flash in the online stuff. Perfect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
479Villan Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Why does the club kick this hornet's nest every time we are doing well. It's like they want to drive engagement at this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ender4 Posted April 22 Popular Post Share Posted April 22 Took my son to Villa to watch the Bournemouth game. They brought out that AU1500 flag thing into the centre circle. My son asked me unprompted why do they have Chinese writing in the centre circle and what does it mean in English. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishywashy Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 10 minutes ago, ender4 said: Took my son to Villa to watch the Bournemouth game. They brought out that AU1500 flag thing into the centre circle. My son asked me unprompted why do they have Chinese writing in the centre circle and what does it mean in English. #OnBrand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 7 hours ago, imavillan said: as previous posters have mentioned about the official Villa site and the kaizen one having the different badges i've taken a screen shot and here they are. New badge is 10x better. Ironically the round one has grown on me now, especially after seeing us do so well in it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted April 23 VT Supporter Share Posted April 23 9 hours ago, GarethRDR said: A. ****. Drop. Shadow. I think it’s the drop shadow that gets me too… I mean, it’s not gcse coursework Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 I think they've said, we like the Lerner badge, but need the yellow to contrast better with the blue. And I think that's about the long and short of the story - I get the rage. But I don't mind about the new badge, if describing it I would agree with others that it feels like an American interpretation of English heritage symbols. However we square it, there is an American DNA strand of the club now and has been for a while, why shouldn't the badge reflect that reality in 2024?. Really hoping those classy gold versions on a shirt are for real - would purchase. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 16 hours ago, Teale's 'tache said: Plenty of clubs change their crest, probably more often than you think, usually though, it's just tweaks or refinements that a lot of people, especially those not associated with the club don't notice. As a case in point, the refinements made to the original Lerner design were barely noticed by the wider football community, indeed some places still use the original design with no idea it was updated ages ago. It's easy to say 'let's just stick with something', but you have to have something worth sticking to first. The clubs that don't change are those that have solid designs. Our problem is we've never really had a design worth keeping, and so we keep changing and will continue to do so until we bite the bullet and create a genuinely good design. How possible that is with the amount of fan consultation demanded is another matter of course. The issue is Heck seems to think the Lerner badge was that genuinely good design. So that's what he's gone back to. Sadly, the core issue is that yellow on light blue doesn't work. I can genuinely see us having another one year badge... the gold Heck badge on the shirts for the 150th year, because they're already going to be in production, and then something else again next year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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