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Wow.

In 3 of the hardest games like.

I think the magpie one is definitely the closest to the prevailing style in the modern game. A modern version of that could be really good.

The survey is fairly pointless, just asking to rate elements of the badge Like, I want a river or maritime reference but you do that with a river rather than two seahorses, for example. And the current castle is not an important part of the badge for me, but a bigger and more prominent castle would maybe be cool. Hard to answer with anything that will be useful.

That's also the direction they say on the press release (minimal change).

Gorgeous. FWIW must PL badges are not ultra simple, so I expect something closer to this style of design.

The Everton ultra simple crest looks class IMO, but I assume Everton fans went apeshit about it.

I’ve said before clubs should have and use multiple logos like American sports teams do. I guess to some extent we’re doing this by using the retro badges again. We might still continue to use the current crest on some products I guess.

Does it?

I mean, I agree but surely there’s lots of symbolism in the current badge already?

Same feelings. Thing it could be good. I’m generally not nostalgic though and more excited about change than about history.

I’d expect like remove the name, maybe remove the lion and flag, simplify the other parts and maybe reshape it somehow into a shield or circle. Seahorse tongues back in their gobs. There are probably loads of examples on the internet already.

It ‘sounds’ like they have a good understanding of what we will accept and/or hate. So it will be a challenge for the designers to achieve the objective without making it too far removed for people to like.

Well you’ve answered your own question there. Of course you can literally render any image digitally, the question is does it look good and work well.

Not sure if anyone’s mentioned that they’ve already said minimal changes is the preferred direction. So I’d expect simplification of some of the details, redraw things more clearly, make it it usable in different scenarios etc. Scary but also a potentially exciting refresh if they can pull it off.

Fernandez making runs into the box from deep seems to have been Chelsea's secret weapon lately. That could work well against us unless we're really switched on to it.

Yeah, no point in an injection unless he's planning to play soon.

If Joelinton plays we make CL no bother. Always thought it was weird that he went back to Brazil, maybe it was just to rest.

Downie is insufferable but that looks good.

Villa PSR situation is an opportunity for us to sell Barnes to them?

A weirdo at least.

Not useless at all

Here we go

With the daylight rule, could you just extend your arm backwards to ensure there’s no gap, while staying goal side of the defender? Big advantage for lanky bastards like myself. Could get a couple of feet ahead.

I would also like that but it wouldn’t stop the media linking Isak away.