AyewJoking Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 If it gets them more money and more success then why not? This is what happens when you are owned by foreign devils with no knowledge or respect of the clubs history and traditions. I highly doubt it will happen anyway.
Lambert09 Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 The whole thing terrifies me. Owners should not be allowed to do this sort of thing, it seems they have the best intentions for the football club, but a football club is more than just a business and they are ruining a lot of history. If we just suddenly changed from the foxes to the Elephants (Thailands national animal) I would be completely distraught. I hope to god Cardiff fight against this as much as possible because if this venture turns out to be a success other clubs will surely follow..... and after our stadium being re-named I would put us up there with one of the first to follow.
davieG Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 The whole thing terrifies me. Owners should not be allowed to do this sort of thing, it seems they have the best intentions for the football club, but a football club is more than just a business and they are ruining a lot of history. If we just suddenly changed from the foxes to the Elephants (Thailands national animal) I would be completely distraught. I hope to god Cardiff fight against this as much as possible because if this venture turns out to be a success other clubs will surely follow..... and after our stadium being re-named I would put us up there with one of the first to follow. You're right although referencing our stadium renaming as an example is skewed because all we've done is change one sponsor for another, if there is any relevance it's must be that it was was named after a sponsor in the first place and that was when it was "owned" by local businessmen. They did a good job of "getting away with it" by including 'bowl' in the name thus deflecting attention away from the actual sponsoring with people protesting against 'Bowl' rather than the Walkers/sponsorship. Southampton at least arranged a compromise with their naming and was often referred to as St Mary's rather than by the sponsors name due to fan pressure where as all we manage to achieve was changing bowl to stadium. The official ground name at opening was 'The Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium'. Initially the club wanted the ground to be named purely after the sponsors, but fan pressure influenced the decision to include a non-commercial title. In 2006 the new sponsor Flybe.com did not choose to purchase the naming rights to the stadium, meaning it reverted to the name 'St Mary's Stadium'.
Raw Dykes Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 It would be a terrible thing to happen for the Cardiff fans, but at least they can ditch that rubbish badge now.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 If there's any truth in this it could pave the way for the khaki coloured Leicester kit I've hankered for for ages. Obviously, I'd prefer it to be a straightforward chocolate brown but we wouldn't want to be seen as being inspired by that Cov away top, damn shame those varmints beat us to it, I say. Racing Green and beige would also be OK. If I ever actually wore one, be it royal blue or any other colour, my girlfriend would probably leave me anyway, so it's all academic
Finnegan Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 It would be a terrible thing to happen for the Cardiff fans, but at least they can ditch that rubbish badge now. lol I saw that on a Jacks forum the other day. Love it.
Bert 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. Are you happy about anything. All you seem to do is moan.
Jordan Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 Those Malaysians could have saved themselves all of this trouble had they just bought Wrexham.
Leicester_Loyal Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/keepcardiffblue/signatures/page/17 I've signed it.
MrSpaM Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 And for the people saying it's not going to happen "A Cardiff City supporters group says it has been told a change in club colours from blue to red will go ahead and is not open to negotiation." So basically fi the want the investment, they've got to change their colours to red, and replace the bird emblem with a dragon. Really cant see them turning down £100,000,000 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18001917
davieG Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 He thinks it's ok and who can argue with the logic but then again is football and are football fans driven by logic? http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footballnation/cardiff-city/cardiff-city-fc/2012/05/09/opinion-we-must-buy-into-the-chance-of-taking-cardiff-city-forward-91466-30928067/?
purpleronnie Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 fookin peitions, thats about as far as we go. Its wank.
HEGGSY Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 If I was a Cardiff supporter, I'd be doing everything I could to stop this going ahead. I'd rather still have a clubs tradition in tact than investment. And as purpleronnie has said, a petition is as far as some people are willing to go, to try and stop this. It won't do fvck all.
Webbo Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 The whole thing terrifies me. Really?Ffs sake don't ever watch Dr Who then.
Kitchandro 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. Well if our home kit changes to red I won't go again, that's it. And I don't pay £45 for a kit. If I really want one of the modern shirts, which is rare, I ask for it at christmas In any case I don't see how that's relevant to this, our club haven't changed to colour of our kit...
Kitchandro 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? Well we'll see some sort of answer to this in this instance, maybe. I know there's a line for me. On what basis do you assume people are 'embracing the PL' or that we 'desire success by any means?' And how are they any different to how it's always been? People emnraced the first million pound footballer, the Premiership is still essentially the first division, and sport is about winning. At the end of the day fans are just doing what they've done for decades, it's the game that's changed. Yes there are different kinds of fans these days but I don't see how things like this prove what you've just said. Nothing has actually happened yet, the Club have decided something for Cardiff and it's upto the fans to react. See how they react before assuming they have lost their values.
davieG Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 Well we'll see some sort of answer to this in this instance, maybe. I know there's a line for me. On what basis do you assume people are 'embracing the PL' or that we 'desire success by any means?' And how are they any different to how it's always been? People emnraced the first million pound footballer, the Premiership is still essentially the first division, and sport is about winning. At the end of the day fans are just doing what they've done for decades, it's the game that's changed. Yes there are different kinds of fans these days but I don't see how things like this prove what you've just said. Nothing has actually happened yet, the Club have decided something for Cardiff and it's upto the fans to react. See how they react before assuming they have lost their values. Because so many people talk as if football only started with the creation of the PL and there's been loads of instances on here where people have said they're happy to see the club go into debt to achieve success, that to me means by any means and sod the consequences for fans of the future.
Kitchandro Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 Because so many people talk as if football only started with the creation of the PL and there's been loads of instances on here where people have said they're happy to see the club go into debt to achieve success, that to me means by any means and sod the consequences for fans of the future. Aren't Man Utd in debt? It's all relative, I'm sure nobody who cares wants us to risk our existence. If people had any real reason to believe we were in danger of going out of business, I'm sure they would kick up a fuss. And I don't think people do talk as if football only started in 1992, apart from Sky. But Sky don't represent the masses. I don't know any proper football fans who talk that way.
Daggers Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 Yeh, we've never changed our strips. Like, ever. Same strip every season, that's us.
Jaspa Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 Yeh, we've never changed our strips. Like, ever. Same strip every season, that's us. It isn't 1899 !
Voll Blau Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 fookin peitions, thats about as far as we go. Its wank. Welcome to England.
Daggers Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 It isn't 1899 ! So it's OK to fvck over long standing history but not the recent stuff because the forum children can't think back that far? Either all of this mock faux indignation leads to people demanding the original strips their clubs played in or it has absolutely no substance at all.
Jimothy Posted 9 May 2012 Posted 9 May 2012 Yeh, we've never changed our strips. Like, ever. Same strip every season, that's us. The black and blue sash one and the brown one are pretty irrelevant. Most clubs have changed colours since the very first kits. Newcastle used to play in red and white. The white kit was for one season in the 70's and it's no coincidence we reverted back to blue a year later. No team I can think of bar us for one season and Leeds in the 60's have had a major change to the colour of the home kit since the 1920's. The colour of the home shirt is a huge part of a clubs heritage. Nobody is saying clubs should play in the a kit the same colour as the very first one they played in, but once a colour was settled on nigh on a hundred years ago, it does feel like a big **** you to the history of a club to change that on a whim.
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