Jaspa Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10335~2763805,00.html They have also come to an agreement with 'Cardiff Blues' rugby club, for the Blues to leave the stadia, for 'significant re-branding' Looks like this might just happen >
Finnegan Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 I'd be gutted if I was a Cardiff fan. But seeing as though they shouldn't be in our leagues I'll just laugh instead http://www.cardiffci...2763805,00.html They have also come to an agreement with 'Cardiff Blues' rugby club, for the Blues to leave the stadia, for 'significant re-branding' Looks like this might just happen > The Blues have wanted to move out for a while, to be fair. They were just contract bound, so this is be more like City releasing them from their rent agreement than anything.
21st Century Fox Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 Credible enough to have reached the BBC... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17996534
Feed The Yak!! Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 would piss myself if this happens! Living where I do for the play-off semi-final was absolute hell.
pSinatra Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 they were nicknamed the Dragons too ! Is no one else as annoyed as me about this ? ( other than Cardiff fans ) Cardiff have got to be one of my least favourite teams.......but it's an absolute disgrace what they are facing. It should not happen to any club. They have a long history & a heritage that is being destroyed for a few Malaysian ringgits.
Guest Bilo Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 As much as I dislike Cardiff as a club this is disgraceful. A club's traditional shirt colour is arguably the most visible representation of its heritage and traditions, I for one couldn't imagine watching us walk out at home in anything other than blue. It'd be anathema to me. When I first saw this thread, I thought it was a pie-in-the-sky idea that had little credence but it's clear now that this story has legs. Sad.
Kitchandro Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 I'm waiting for the first "Thais are similar to Malaysians, so that might mean..." reply. Well at lot of Asian countries consider red to be lucky or prosperous, haven't you seen the HSBC advert? Seriously though it's depressing that this isn't a wind up. I don't expect it to happen though, their fans will make a big deal out of it and the people in charge will slowly come to realise what they shouldn't change. Even if it did happen it will last a season and then they'll revert back to blue like we did when we had the white kit.
Zingari Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 Cardiff have got to be one of my least favourite teams.......but it's an absolute disgrace what they are facing. It should not happen to any club. They have a long history & a heritage that is being destroyed for a few Malaysian ringgits. Yes , I’ve got no particular feelings for Cardiff either way , they’re just another team to beat on the day for me and I really don’t give them much thought and that pretty well sums up how I feel about any club . But I really am furious the way the owners seem to have ridden roughshod over the feelings of the fans. Ok maybe they aren’t a Liverpool or Chelsea , but the tradition of the colours mean a awful lot to the fans and I don’t think they seem to grasp this . And are they really that stupid to think that everyone wants to wear red all the time and wouldn’t want to wear the colour associated with the team ?
Bryn Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 It'll all be forgiven if they smash the Championship and establish themselves as a Premier League club.
Voll Blau Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 It'll all be forgiven if they smash the Championship and establish themselves as a Premier League club. And that's perhaps the saddest fact of all. I wish I had more faith in our fans but I could see that being the case here too if such a ridiculous situation, heaven forbid, were to occur at Leicester.
Zingari Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 And that's perhaps the saddest fact of all. I wish I had more faith in our fans but I could see that being the case here too if such a ridiculous situation, heaven forbid, were to occur at Leicester. Yes you're probably right . I'm just wondering what would have happened if they'd have tried it a somewhere like Wolves or Burnley , where the colours are perhaps a little more distinctive to the club ?
Guest ttfn Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 I'd be disappointed if we changed, but as Bilo has said before it's not without precedent. There are worse things happening in football than this. At the end of the day their club's still there. Given that a couple of years ago they repeatedly avoided administration (and almost certain liquidation) by routinely lying to the tax authorities, Cardiff City are lucky to be there at all.
pSinatra Posted 8 May 2012 Posted 8 May 2012 Yes , I’ve got no particular feelings for Cardiff either way , they’re just another team to beat on the day for me and I really don’t give them much thought and that pretty well sums up how I feel about any club . But I really am furious the way the owners seem to have ridden roughshod over the feelings of the fans. Ok maybe they aren’t a Liverpool or Chelsea , but the tradition of the colours mean a awful lot to the fans and I don’t think they seem to grasp this . And are they really that stupid to think that everyone wants to wear red all the time and wouldn’t want to wear the colour associated with the team ? I just get the feeling that it is a slippery slope. Year by year, the fans of any club seem to be losing their value.........it's all about the corporate image. If this is allowed to happen to Cardiff, it proves to be financially successful - this idea may be rolled out at many other clubs.
Dan Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 I think it won't happen thankfully. Reason being they're on about using it as an excuse to pump £100mil into the club. That should be seen as a loophole to the FFP rules, and Vince Tan should be banned from the sport forever. Corrupt fvcking cvnt, anyone who is happy with, or doesn't see the bad side of this, is a complete and utter mug as far as I'm concerned.
Dan Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 I just get the feeling that it is a slippery slope. Year by year, the fans of any club seem to be losing their value.........it's all about the corporate image. If this is allowed to happen to Cardiff, it proves to be financially successful - this idea may be rolled out at many other clubs. I'm totally with you on that and that's why whilst I'd initially smile should it happen to say, Forest, yet after looking at the bigger picture, it would be a disgrace. Fans are just unaware it seems, we'll continue to moan about prices yet pay them and also laugh when our rivals get ripped off, we'll laugh at clubs we hate suffering absolutely horrendous sides of modern football (such as Cardiff & Hull today) yet looking at the bigger picture, it's all very bad news. I would like to hope the authorities have some fvcking back bone in this one.
ozleicester Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 While they are changing colour, they should change location, i understand there is room for another club in Glasgow. To be honest, its just another step down the corporate road of American Football. Rich people buy a name and history, then just rebrand and put it wherever they please.
Daggers Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 People slate this and yet will pay £45 every season for a shit replica shirt from our club shop? If you don't like it - stop giving your money to these people, support grass roots football...the only place left with a soul.
davieG Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 I think fans themselves are partly to blame as Dagger's says so many seem to be clamouring for success at any price, witness the number on this forum that want the club to continue to spend beyond it's natural needs making them ripe for plucking by owners that are just out to make a killing and to polish their egos. All the little things I loved about going to the football have gradually gone leaving just the match and football was always more than just the game.
Zingari Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 I don’t really go for the “ fans are to blame themselves” argument . Not the true fans of the club anyway . We never really had a say in how the marketing of clubs has gone over the years. I was quite happy to pay at the gate, buy a replica shirt if I wanted, but this was all overtaken by global branding, whereby the this market dictates everything about the club and the direction it takes. OK we go along with it , but it’s a slow process , a frog in a pot process , that we never had any say in whatsoever . It’s pretty much how the EC has developed over the years in that we are being told this is what we want and it’s our own fault As PSinatra says in his post , the fans( meaning the ones with their arses on the seats) are becoming of less and less value and therefore their opinions of little or no consequence . Just like in all walks of life , we are being led by the nose into buying into whatever vision they have for us.
davieG Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 I don’t really go for the “ fans are to blame themselves” argument . Not the true fans of the club anyway . We never really had a say in how the marketing of clubs has gone over the years. I was quite happy to pay at the gate, buy a replica shirt if I wanted, but this was all overtaken by global branding, whereby the this market dictates everything about the club and the direction it takes. OK we go along with it , but it’s a slow process , a frog in a pot process , that we never had any say in whatsoever . It’s pretty much how the EC has developed over the years in that we are being told this is what we want and it’s our own fault As PSinatra says in his post , the fans( meaning the ones with their arses on the seats) are becoming of less and less value and therefore their opinions of little or no consequence . Just like in all walks of life , we are being led by the nose into buying into whatever vision they have for us. Well we're not totally to blame of course but by the desire for success by any means by many fans and the embracing of the PL and all it stands for makes us partly culpable, we may be being led by the nose but we don't have to go. Sure we're tied in by our loyalty but is there no line we wouldn't cross to get our fix?
Zingari Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 Well we're not totally to blame of course but by the desire for success by any means by many fans and the embracing of the PL and all it stands for makes us partly culpable, we may be being led by the nose but we don't have to go. Sure we're tied in by our loyalty but is there no line we wouldn't cross to get our fix? Yes of course , but my point being that the changes in the game have come about in a step by step process that we didn’t really have any say in and we just accepted them in that manner , until each of us reach a breaking point that makes it unacceptable . But this breaking point is staggered and the loss of a few fans in the stadium year on year is more than compensated by other commercial activity . No we don’t have to be led by the nose , but if we want to stay as a regular supporter actually watching in the stadiums , we don’t have any real choice.We put up with it . I had to drop out many years ago when the cost was too prohibitive and I was very bitter that a game that I used to watch for the price of a couple of pints had become more like a day’s wage. I can afford to go again now , but do not feel like I want to be part of it again because I can see what it has become and it's not something that I like . If the feelings of the fans in Malaysia are more important than the fans in Cardiff , then this really is a very sad day . And I agree many fans will accept it for some hope of success, but not with any real choice .
MrSpaM Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 How is changing their colours to red going to get them to the premier league? People thought our owners were bad, Cardiff are literally selling their souls for success!
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