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Cardiff City RedBlueDragonBirds 2012-2013 season

Gromit said:
You are starting to sound like a conspiraloon now.
You have no evidence that is going to happen. 2+2=5 thinking going on here.

But fuck it why not support a team called the dragons. Its nothing to be ashamed of. I'm proud to be welsh and the dragon is the welsh national symbol. It wouldn't be the first team called the Dragons that I supported. I have a Harchester Utd shirt in my wardrobe somewhere. At least I hope I still have, it took me ages to get one.

Thats much better that a Swan, The Swans. how lame arse is that.
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If you are proud to be Welsh can you at least capitalise the first letter of the word please
 
This is an excellent article.
Cardiff City’s bluebird identity lasted another three years until the news broke this Summer, that without consultation, or regard to the club’s identity and history, one man from Malaysia would be changing everything. Vincent Tan changed the club’s colours and drastically redesigned the badge to feature a dragon and a cringeworthy ‘Fire and Passion’ strapline. The bluebird was relegated in significance until a final indignity at the home game versus Brighton, when 20,000 of the club’s own supporters waved red scarves bearing the legend ‘Cardiff’ (not Cardiff City) and displaying a red bird where there used to be blue.

I no longer recognise the famous club that has played in blue since it was honoured with the title Cardiff City, and which has always been known as the Bluebirds. I suspect too that the club’s name will change over the next few years. Who knows what further insults will be thrown at the memory of Bart Wilson, Fred Stewart and the millions of other who helped build a national institution over a century, only to see it demolished in a single shameful season.

http://ffwtbol.co.uk/2013/02/20/the-life-and-death-of-the-bluebird-1910-2013/
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To be honest we have a history of throwing away tradition. We should still be Riverside FC instead of rebranding ourselves to make us more marketable to a wider fan base.

Keep Riverside Orange and Brown!!!

By the way the last badge featured a dragon too.
 
Gromit said:
To be honest we have a history of throwing away tradition. We should still be Riverside FC instead of rebranding ourselves to make us more marketable to a wider fan base.
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You can't even produce a coherent argument. Try reading the article. :facepalm:
 
1927 said:
and don't we all fecking know it.
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Yep. And at some point you'll look back at this time and realise what you've lost. Still, at least you've got West Ham what with you being so hardcore about Cardiff you support them. What are you going to do when Cardiff play West Ham? Racially abuse yourself? :D
 
editor said:
Yep. And at some point you'll look back at this time and realise what you've lost. Still, at least you've got West Ham what with you being so hardcore about Cardiff you support them. What are you going to do when Cardiff play West Ham? Racially abuse yourself? :D
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West Ham and Cardiff have played each other plenty of times, we dont have to be in the Prem to do that. You love the club soooo much you turned your back on it. Ive lost nothing, because i am matire enough to realise that the historu and heritage of a club is more about a colour and more to do with what we actually achieved.
 
1927 said:
West Ham and Cardiff have played each other plenty of times, we dont have to be in the Prem to do that. You love the club soooo much you turned your back on it. Ive lost nothing, because i am matire enough to realise that the historu and heritage of a club is more about a colour and more to do with what we actually achieved.
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I haven't turned my back on Cardiff City. The team I supported - you know, the ones that played in blue for over a century and were called The Bluebirds - no longer exists.
 
editor said:
I haven't turned my back on Cardiff City. The team I supported - you know, the ones that played in blue for over a century and were called The Bluebirds - no longer exists.
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Cardiff City are alive and well and playing in red. Where you get the idea they dont exist I dont know. If denying their existence is not turning your back on them I dont know what is. You cant have it both ways.

I'm so pleased for you that you dont have anything in your life to really get worked up about apart from the colour of a football shirt, it must be bliss.
 
1927 said:
Cardiff City are alive and well and playing in red. Where you get the idea they dont exist I dont know. If denying their existence is not turning your back on them I dont know what is. You cant have it both ways.

I'm so pleased for you that you dont have anything in your life to really get worked up about apart from the colour of a football shirt, it must be bliss.
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Football to me is all about community, heritage and tradition, something that you, Mr 19 "Two Teams" 27, clearly don't understand. You think it's all about SUCCESS at any price and doing ANYTHING our newly drifted-in owner demands. It's not.

Enjoy the red seats, enjoy the rebranding, enjoy the new name, enjoy the new badge, enjoy being a plaything of Vincent Tan, and enjoy supporting the Cardiff Dragons Franchise FC. I'll be back when I can recognise the team again.
 
editor said:
Football to me is all about community, heritage and tradition, something that you, Mr 19 "Two Teams" 27, clearly don't understand. You think it's all about SUCCESS at any price and doing ANYTHING our newly drifted-in owner demands. It's not.

Enjoy the red seats, enjoy the rebranding, enjoy the new name, enjoy the new badge, enjoy being a plaything of Vincent Tan, and enjoy supporting the Cardiff Dragons Franchise FC. I'll be back when I can recognise the team again.
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Typical anti-red, if you lose the argument just resort to personal abuse.
 
1927 said:
Typical anti-red, if you lose the argument just resort to personal abuse.
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What 'personal abuse'? Everything I said above is factual. You support two teams. You are happy for Cardiff's entire identity to be thrown out of the window if that what Tan demands. You prefer SUCCESS over tradition and heritage.

Which parts of these statements are untrue?
 
editor said:
What 'personal abuse'? Everything I said above is factual. You support two teams. You are happy for Cardiff's entire identity to be thrown out of the window if that what Tan demands. You prefer SUCCESS over tradition and heritage.

Which parts of these statements are untrue?
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Cardiff's entire identity has not been thrown out of the window. As I have said many times before if you do not aspire to play at the highest level why bother competing. Why is it that no chairman has ever taken us into the Welsh league system?
 
1927 said:
Cardiff's entire identity has not been thrown out of the window.
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We were: 'Cardiff City, The Bluebirds'.

We no longer play in blue, the bluebird has been relegated to a tiny afterthought on the badge underneath a big red dragon, the name is no longer announced at home games and the word 'City' quietly vanished from the free scarf, so any sensible description would have to be, 'Cardiff Red Dragons'.
 
From the cheapo free scarf but not the official scarf.

When it vanishes from the official scarf feel free to moan that we aren't City any more.

Not every fucking thing is a statement of intent. It could just be a shoddy job.
 
Gromit said:
From the cheapo free scarf but not the official scarf.
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Err, it was the scarf designed, made and handed out at the behest of the owner, Vincent Tan - the very same person who forced through the strip, badge, and slogan changes without consultation. That's about as official as it gets. Stop making piss weak excuses.

I bet you love this hideous scarf too.

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Unless you went up close to examine the badge, there is not a single thing about this top that has anything to do with Cardiff's heritage. It's in the official store.

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West Ham's shirt next season...

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:( Looks like we're following your lead.

Oh, except ours is an April Fools.
 
I quite like that shirt. The red and gold is nice. Not too much gold to make it tacky. The collar still looks a bit like the old colours as a tribute.

Could be worse.
 
Anyhoo,

We had a bunch of Malaysian kids at the stadium today. Some scheme to build football links between Malaysia and the CITY.
According to Ali they are being shown around the CITY to see what the CITY is like. Then they'll spread that knowledge around Malaysia (unfortunately cold is going to be one of the adjectives as it was freezing today)

They posed for photos on the pitch and ran around the pitch holding up scarves that read Cardiff CITY FC.
 
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