Cardiff City RedBlueDragonBirds 2012-2013 season

[Balbi]

Any multimillionaire backer who fucks around with your clubs identity gets short shrift. Our nutter Russian had us play in all blue - all fucking blue! - and got shit from the supporters/sales of kit that we went back to red socks, white shorts, blue shirt.

Tan's eating the club. It's modern football.

On the other hand, if he leaves - you could be easily disassembled, which we're well aware of in Pompey. His desire for 'success' should be measured by the 2008 final. We won the match, but we've lost nearly everything since then. Cardiff have been stable - which given how things go in football, can be just as good as winning something these days. People endorsing Tan's ideas in some search for glory shouldn't get their ambitions mixed up with their capabilities.

 

[1927]

But we have ambition and the capability right now!

 

[Gromit]

Cardiff have been stable - which given how things go in football, can be just as good as winning something these days.

Stable?

We are £80mil plus in debt. If we weren't turning over £20mil a year the vultures would be circling. Our results are keeping the incomes high. Investment has gained us those results.

We're spending our way away from administration but its never stopped hanging over us.

 

[editor]

Thats never then. They'll always be some rebranded corporate entity

I remember this horrific crest:

You don't get more bluebirdsly than that. It was shoved down our throat. Fans didn't like it.

We got rebranded to this:

I remember my mate moaning that the stitching had gone from the footballs and that the daffs had changed to a daff. So still a new corporate rebrand.

Owners after Tan may want to change things again. Or they may not bother, may not see a need. Rebranding costs money after all. If they do rebrand they may not look backwards for branding ideas.

I'm still seeing a great big bluebird in those designs, and the team was still playing in the colours they've played in for the last century or so. Tan has changed all that in 6 months, presumably for the benefit of yet-to-be-located faraway 'fans' who will most likely never even visit Wales, let alone Cardiff.

 

[editor]

Hello...
Cardiff City chairman Dato Chan Tien Ghee resigns

 

[Gromit]

I'm still seeing a great big bluebird in those designs, and the team was still playing in the colours they've played in for the last century or so. Tan has changed all that in 6 months, presumably for the benefit of yet-to-be-located faraway 'fans' who will most likely never even visit Wales, let alone Cardiff.

So you admit it. You do like re-branded corporate entities. Just so long as the re-branding contains a bluebird of a size amenable to you. What about the dragon on that last badge? Should it be removed? Don't want people to risk calling us the dragons or the daffodils for that matter.

 

[Balbi]

Stable?

We are £80mil plus in debt. If we weren't turning over £20mil a year the vultures would be circling. Our results are keeping the incomes high. Investment has gained us those results.

We're spending our way away from administration but its never stopped hanging over us.

I mean as in your club has a future that extends beyond the monthly contracts our squad are on, and isn't subject to a court case which will decide whether or not we stay in the Football League. Your club structure's sound, you've not been relegate for yonks now - and you're consistent top half finishers.

You don't know what you've got till you''ve lost it.

 

[ddraig]

worra pic!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21624957
Former captain Jason Perry fears Cardiff City name change

 

[poisondwarf]

The whole thing is just depressing. If we go up it will feel hollow for me.

 

[1927]

worra pic!

I dont understand why?

 

[1927]

I mean as in your club has a future that extends beyond the monthly contracts our squad are on, and isn't subject to a court case which will decide whether or not we stay in the Football League. Your club structure's sound, you've not been relegate for yonks now - and you're consistent top half finishers.

You don't know what you've got till you''ve lost it.

But what is the point of aways being mid table if you dont go all the way just once?

 

[trampie]

Hello , K-aardiff chairman resigns, the team are on the verge of the Premier League and the chairman resigns.

 

[ddraig]

I dont understand why?

that's a shame

 

[ddraig]

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[Gromit]

Hello , K-aardiff chairman resigns, the team are on the verge of the Premier League and the chairman resigns.

Good on him. Not right for him to draw a salary if he is too busy elsewhere to work for us.

 

[Balbi]

But what is the point of aways being mid table if you dont go all the way just once?

What's the point of going to the moon if you die on the return trip?

 

[Gromit]

What's the point of going to the moon if you die on the return trip?

Many astronauts were prepared to take that risk and many still would.

 

[Balbi]

Many astronauts were prepared to take that risk and many still would.

And CCFC fans were always a little on the space cadet side

 

[Gromit]

And CCFC fans were always a little on the space cadet side

Fan comes from the word fanatic. There very little logic involved in being a fan.

 

[trampie]

Good on him. Not right for him to draw a salary if he is too busy elsewhere to work for us.

K-aardiff fans on various sites are suggesting the chairman did not agree with the red kit and the club losing its identity through the rebrand, will the owner put himself or somebody else in as chairman now ?

 

[trampie]

Cardiff's local paper has spoken on the suggestion of a name change.
Apparently there is a massive 'NO' on the front page of the paper.

 

[trampie]

Things seem to be kicking off now, reports are suggesting that the Cardiff chairman has gone and that apparently he was anti 'red', the local press has apparently come out being anti 'change', a lot of the fan base particularly the 'ultras' are anti 'rebrand', if indeed there is a kick back reaction, where have the various groups been until now ?, Swans fans took action much earlier in the day a decade or so ago when they thought their club was in danger, Cardiff are just pulling their trousers down and taking it, perhaps they are finally trying to pull their trousers back up ?, Cardiff really are a laughing stock, its pitiful the state Cardiff are in.

 

[Gromit]

Its the media that have blown this up.

Fans created rumours.
Tan didn't deny the rumours when asked about them, he talked instead about thinking about the branding further next season.
The media read as much as they can into that as possible.
Club issues statement categorically stating name will not change.
The media continues to stir up the story.

I doubt that the chairman left over the colour.
If it ain't the reason given then its probably because Tan has stopped taking a back seat and is in all the headlines and Dato is getting little say or publicity any more.

 

[trampie]

We'll always wear white
We'll always wear white
We're Swansea City
We always wear white !

 

[editor]

So you admit it. You do like re-branded corporate entities. Just so long as the re-branding contains a bluebird of a size amenable to you. What about the dragon on that last badge? Should it be removed? Don't want people to risk calling us the dragons or the daffodils for that matter.

I like a team that plays in blue, calls themselves 'Cardiff City' and has 'The Bluebirds' as their nickname and a bluebird as the main part of their badge.

Is that simple enough for you?

 

[editor]

We'll always wear white
We'll always wear white
We're Swansea City
We always wear white !

You're being a boring dick. Please fuck off.

 

[Gromit]

Western Mail and Echo in stirring up shit to sell more newspapers shocker.
We banned them from the ground once and they bought their way back in through sponsorship

 

[Gromit]

We'll always wear white
We'll always wear white
We're Swansea City
We always wear white !

Even has the word red on the shirt.

 

[bendeus]

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[trampie]

That is our away kit 'Gromit', the away kit has got to be a different colour to the home kit in case it clashes with the opposition kit, 32red is a sponsor.