AjcW Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 back on the agenda yesterday and a kit released the day after.... Impressive! I'd imagine this was decided a lob long time ago, considering how our kit was delayed due o a sponsor issue, I doubt they could churn out a design over night for cardiff
Guest Bilo Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 THE CLUB WITH NO SOUL THE CLUB WITH NO SOOOOUUUUL CARDIFF CITY THE CLUB WITH NO SOUL! THEY CHANGED THEIR SHIRTS FROM BLUE TO RED CARDIFF! CARDIFF! FORGOT SWANSEA WERE MILES AHEAD CARDIFF, CARDIFF! THEY CHANGED THEIR SHIRTS FROM BLUE TO RED AND NOW THEIR HERITAGE IS DEAD, CARDIFF CITY A PLASTIC FOOTBALL CLUB!
Babylon Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 Worrying for every foreign owned club... could be the first of many!
Zingari Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 Red is so much a better colour . You only have to look at which teams have won the Premier league ,FA Cup, Champions League and Championship this year to see that
Tielemans63 Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 DRAGONS! DRAGONS! DRAGONS! Couldn't have happened to a nicer club! Seems a lot of the fans are as upset about the new crest (which relegates the Bluebird to the bottom of the badge) as they are the change of shirt colour. Their owners clearly couldn't give a **** about the club's history. I think it might be a PR disaster for them.
RonnieTodger Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 Gutted for their fans. This epitomises everything that's wrong with modern-day football. "Fire & Passion". Disgusting.
Finnegan Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 THE CLUB WITH NO SOUL THE CLUB WITH NO SOOOOUUUUL CARDIFF CITY THE CLUB WITH NO SOUL! THEY CHANGED THEIR SHIRTS FROM BLUE TO RED CARDIFF! CARDIFF! FORGOT SWANSEA WERE MILES AHEAD CARDIFF, CARDIFF! THEY CHANGED THEIR SHIRTS FROM BLUE TO RED AND NOW THEIR HERITAGE IS DEAD, CARDIFF CITY A PLASTIC FOOTBALL CLUB! Yeah hilarious. Any other club and you'd be crying about "calcio moderno" and money ruining football heritage. Not the fans fault is it? Cardiff are due criticism for plenty but being a plastic bunch of fans? From a Leicester fan? Just making yourself look silly.
Guest shearfox Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 I would certainly hate this to happen to our club, feel sorry for them really... similar to Wimbledon but not as bad though so far....
Guest Bilo Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 Yeah hilarious. Any other club and you'd be crying about "calcio moderno" and money ruining football heritage. Not the fans fault is it? Cardiff are due criticism for plenty but being a plastic bunch of fans? From a Leicester fan? Just making yourself look silly. To be fair Finners, having read the Cardiff City forums and seeing the number of fans who are not only blithely accepting it but mocking those who are calling it for it what it is; the cynical binning of the club's heritage to shift more shirts in Kuala Lumpur, I felt it appropriate. Had it been a brave battle that was lost, I would feel more sympathy for them but obviously the acceptable price to pay for a shot at promotion is over 100 years of history and memories. It seems as though they had the right idea to begin but the Malays' blatant blackmailing tactic of threatening to cut the club's funding and treasured potential Premiership place if they didn't accept the changes has hit home. Their fans are now evidently content to look like an overgrown Wrexham, and the biggest concerns about the kit seem to be the bland design of the shirts rather than the fact they're the wrong colour.
Finnegan Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 I know loads of Cardiff fans that are massively against this and I don't know what forums you've read but the ones I've seen were all hugely against as well. People often read what they want to read, you've always had an odd chip on your shoulder over Cardiff and I know you'd love to believe their supporters are soulless money lovers but, sorry, that's just a load of shit. Might be a small handful that are being pragmatic and accepting it's just part of the investment (which loads of our fans would do too) and one or two charmed by the "Welsh club" aspect but the vast majority are appalled.
Mark_w Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 This really is disgracefull. The fact that they are doing it is wrong, but that they've manipulated the Cardiff fans into agreeing with it, using this 'The club will go out of business if we don't do it' nonsense is just sickening. Wouldn't be happy if our owners tried to do it to us.
Guest Bilo Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=82586&sid=4a9fe62c03ef555dbb96af8654c63e3d The reaction to this bloke, who for me has called it perfectly, sums it up. They appear to be missing the point about going up; a club is about its history and part of that is respecting the heritage of the club such as the colours, the nickname, the emotional attachment between fan and club. For me, all of that would be lost if Leicester City were to change colours. That would go for red, white, green or Palermo pink. Like it or not, club colours are massively important. If they can be so easily changed for reasons of commercialism, why not go back to school PE lessons and wear flourescent training bibs each week? I've grown up supporting a team that plays in royal blue, as did my dad and my granddad before him. I'd be gutted to see all of that thrown away and have to seriously question those fans who would accept it so readily. And all for a shot at the Premiership, where midtable would be as good as it got unless an Arab billionaire were so easily fooled by 'The Welsh Club' nonsense. Good luck to Cardiff in selling that one in Swansea and North Wales! Cardiff have always struck me as an obnoxious bunch for whom Welsh patriotism and Anglophobia are synonymous but I never, ever saw them as 'soulless money lovers' until this bullshit idea was so readily accepted for a shot at the so-called Promised Land of the Best League in the World. ©
21st Century Fox Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 http://www.cardiffci...b96af8654c63e3d The reaction to this bloke, who for me has called it perfectly, sums it up. They appear to be missing the point about going up; a club is about its history and part of that is respecting the heritage of the club such as the colours, the nickname, the emotional attachment between fan and club. For me, all of that would be lost if Leicester City were to change colours. That would go for red, white, green or Palermo pink. Like it or not, club colours are massively important. If they can be so easily changed for reasons of commercialism, why not go back to school PE lessons and wear flourescent training bibs each week? I've grown up supporting a team that plays in royal blue, as did my dad and my granddad before him. I'd be gutted to see all of that thrown away and have to seriously question those fans who would accept it so readily. And all for a shot at the Premiership, where midtable would be as good as it got unless an Arab billionaire were so easily fooled by 'The Welsh Club' nonsense. Good luck to Cardiff in selling that one in Swansea and North Wales! Cardiff have always struck me as an obnoxious bunch for whom Welsh patriotism and Anglophobia are synonymous but I never, ever saw them as 'soulless money lovers' until this bullshit idea was so readily accepted for a shot at the so-called Promised Land of the Best League in the World. © That's shocking how many are blindly just rolling over and buying the survival bullshit.
Uncle Phil Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 I can't believe it, imagine Leicester City no longer being the foxes. Everything you ever knew about the club just being thrown away to sell some shirts on the other side of the world. They should have focused the marketing on Cardiff, enhancing the clubs reputation in its own city and region. There must be a huge potential catchment area for Cardiff. Getting Cardiff into the prem would have undoubtedly put more bums on seats and sold more shirts and then if they really wanted to, try and sell shirts in Asia when they already have a bigger brand. ( I hate referring to a club as a brand) Obviously that doesn't reap the same levels of short term profit though.
Finnegan Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 I'm stuck at work but I can assure you it's easy to find just as much, if not plenty more, vitriol for the idea on forums and Twitter as support. Better yet, you could actually ask around in Cardiff or take the word of someone who has umpteen Welsh friends. It is not a popular move. And very few, if any, people in Cardiff or further afield in Wales will believe that this will make the rest of them country attached to the club. The rugby regions illustrated how poor an idea that is and how people won't put aside decades of local rivalry for a new, fabricated club. And on the Anglophobia not, sod off. Every single ****ing away trip Welsh clubs make it's Ingerlund this and sheep shaggers that, you can't get pissy because they join in and start throwing it back. Only difference I've ever spotted is Cardiff and Swansea tend to be a bit more creative with it.
Daggers Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 Colours change, grounds change, badges change - that's part of any club's history. I really don't get how anyone thinks this is worse than the mass sucking of Top's cock so he can load massive debt onto the club and make a series of piss-poor decisions. The soul of LCFC was finally sold the second everyone had a wankfest with Mandaric.
Xen Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 Can't believe I'm saying this, but I feel sorry for the Cardiff fans. Will be interesting to see how much their shirt sales drop next season. Certainly can't see them selling many home kites at all and, judging by the reaction to the changed crest as well, can't see that many away kits being shipped out either.. Will be interesting to see if their fans boycott their early fixtures or not...
Finnegan Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 Moreover, I could post a link of foxes talk threads where everyone is wanking off over Man City and make us all look tinpot, talking about Yuki eating dogs and make us all look racist or raving on about Rangers and No Surrender and convince people we're all British nationalists. These threads aren't always a real snapshot of the actual fanbase. Trust me.
Guest Bilo Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 Colours change, grounds change, badges change - that's part of any club's history. I really don't get how anyone thinks this is worse than the mass sucking of Top's cock so he can load massive debt onto the club and make a series of piss-poor decisions. The soul of LCFC was finally sold the second everyone had a wankfest with Mandaric. Speaking as someone who was and is deeply uncomfortable with King Power's rebranding of the stadium, which has seen the nods to our history deleted, I can see exactly where you're coming from. I also take your point regarding the change of our colours very early in our history, however we've played in blue for at least as long as Cardiff so to lose these colours would be horrific. We last changed our colours long before royal blue became THE colour associated with Leicester City. Owners, players and sponsors come and go but for me there are some things that are sacrosanct. Colours, location in the city that bear the club's name and the name itself are the main three in my opinion. What the Malaysians in charge of Cardiff have done is considerably more far-reaching than anything Top has done thankfully. That's coming from somebody who is no fan of this King Power nonsense we're expected to put up with.
brockmyster Posted 6 June 2012 Posted 6 June 2012 Ive said it before and ill say it again, if they wanted a red kit just they couldve just done the away kit red. Their claim of more shirt sales in asia because more red shirts sell over there, theres a reason for that. You think the most succesful teams over 90s and early 00s where man u, liverpool, arsenal, all of whom wear red thats why red sales are more, inabout 10 years time if chelsea and man city continue then more asian children will be buying blue shirts. If i was a cardiff fan id be very pissed off
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