sexbelowsound Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Looks like the Lerner family will be the latest house addition to Game of Thrones based on that design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 36 minutes ago, Sam3773 said: We filed the trademark for this late last year. Meets all the description. Could be the one. It's shit, and yet it's still less shit than our current badge. Honestly, a GCSE design student would be embarrassed by our current badge. 1 badge, 2 fonts. Colours so washed out that a few feet away you can't tell what it is, and a declawed lion. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMcKenna Posted April 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2016 3 hours ago, Richard said: I think ive just identified the next person for the sack WIJERATNA OUT! Is a bit of mouth full though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaffmaster Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 The thing I don't like about the current badge is the star. I know we won the European Cup in '82, but by putting the star inside our crest, it feels to me like an admission that we'll never see it proudly sailing above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilchard Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Firstly, the badge we have now is a trainwreck. Two fonts that clash, the pastel blue background and the fact Nike had a huge say in it so it was easy for them to manufacture their stuff (notice how many clubs have badge re-brands when they move to Nike...). This £2million price though. It's bananas. It's not £2million for the design. It's the Mail putting a guess price at how much it'd be for all the new stationery, signs etc. Updating the mosaic? Like that is going to happen. The old Trinity one wasn't updated every time a badge was changed. It's part of the stand. We may get a new badge, but the current one will always be part of Aston Villa. There are plenty, plenty of things to have a go at Villa for without having to make things up and guess prices to make things more sensationalist. As for dropping 'Prepared' - it's still the club's motto. But we haven't been prepared for a season for ten years now. It also wasn't on the club's badge during perhaps our most famous couple of years. There are plenty of things to get our knickers in a twist over. This isn't one of them. Having said that, it is a slight concern that Wijertna appears to have used the same company to do the same job wherever he goes. They may be very good. But it does stink somewhat of 'Jobs for the boys', when perhaps a more prudent, sensible approach - and one that might benefit the local economy more, would have been to tender it out to the many local companies in the area who I am sure would have done just a good a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 44 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: I can't imagine a single thing I could care less about. You are lucky not to be an obsessive lunatic like the rest of us who do care... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dn1982 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Our badge needs our name on it! Abbreviations do nothing to promote the name of the club. The name is our brand. I'd like the round one back with the added star but what ever one we get it needs Our name Our lion Our colours and Our well deserved star. We have had varying shapes over the year so as long as it includes what I've stated I'll be happy but I'd like a return to the round one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2016 They should pay me to organise it. I'd hire D1, SBS and anyone else on here who can knock up a decent design, then put the best ones to a vote on here. I guarantee the badge that won would be better than our current one, and most likely the new one too. Easy. That'll be a million quid. Thanks. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2016 1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said: I can't imagine a single thing I could care less about. I have to ask, why don't you care? There are far more pressing matters that need to be addressed at the club first, undoubtedly. The timing of this does appear to be a bit like "Relegated you say? Never mind, here's something shiny and new to look at!". But if they're gonna change it anyway, you're really not fussed about what it looks like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 We filed the trademark for this late last year. Meets all the description. Could be the one. What a pointless, boring change. It's an improvement but it's still a pretty poor badge. We should go closer to the old lion shape, it feels more Aston Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 I look forward to updating my avatar and seeing how different it will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 8 hours ago, Sam3773 said: We filed the trademark for this late last year. Meets all the description. Could be the one. Can confirm this is the new badge: https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/014517254 Looks disgustingly awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 The lion looks like it has elephantiasis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 6, 2016 Moderator Share Posted April 6, 2016 12 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: I like PREPARED. As the new one is the third version of our badge, it should be recorded on our badge motto like this: III Prepared 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 9 hours ago, Sam3773 said: We filed the trademark for this late last year. Meets all the description. Could be the one. Thats bloody terrible, somehow they have managed to find a badge worse than the existing one. Expect nothing less from that idiot Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 6, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Spoony said: Can confirm this is the new badge: https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/014517254 Looks disgustingly awful. What am I meant to be seeing on that link? It just takes me to a search engine. Edit: ignore me. It worked the second time I clicked it Edited April 6, 2016 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 We have actually payed for someone to remove the border and a word from a badge. we just love throwing money away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 9 hours ago, gaffmaster said: The thing I don't like about the current badge is the star. Yeah it's small time and looks shite. THe whole badge was a missed opportunity really and this new version looks even worse. £2m for that? What a farce. It would only happen at Villa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 3 minutes ago, Jimzk5 said: We have actually payed for someone to remove the border and a word from a badge. we just love throwing money away. We should demand 2m back from Tom Fox from his payoff the "word removed" what a wste of bloody money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 The opposition period ends on the 12th April.... Please tell me someone has legal grounds to block this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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