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Cardiff City RedBlueDragonBirds 2012-2013 season

Gromit said:
No one promised that. They can't. What if the home team's kit is blue.
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The official away strip was supposed to be blue. Are you stating that they've always worn that colour when playing teams not wearing blue? Are you sure about that?
Gromit said:
We lost a load of times in blue at the beginning of the season. The players fancied playing in lucky red. Our away form improved and we started singing "We're Winning abroad, how rubbish are you" thanks to our previously dire away record.... in blue.
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Would be the same blue that saw Cardiff suffer such a "dire record" that we got to the play off final and two cup finals at Wembley in four years? Gosh, weren't they awful times?

Oh, and have you got a quote stating that the players preferred playing in red? Thanks.
 
editor said:
Ah yes. They all got a new strip, different club emblem, different club nickname and different club slogan foisted on them at the whim of their autocratic new owners too, didn't they? Oh wait....

:facepalm:

Newport are still wearing similar colours that that they did for decades.
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No they are not. They wore blue-and-white in the 70s, red-and-white, and then black in the 30s, claret-and-blue in the 20s etc.

And Barry Town have worn every color in the rainbow, and they actually did call themselves 'the Dragons' for a while.

So why would you support them rather than CCFC? It's like when a band gets famous, all the original fans suddenly hate them.

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Newport_County/Newport_County.htm
 
phildwyer said:
No they are not. They wore blue-and-white in the 70s, red-and-white, and then black in the 30s, claret-and-blue in the 20s etc.
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Their strip has remained based on orange/yellow with black trimming since 1912, with just a handful of years with other colours.

And their current strip now follows that same tradition. If you bothered looking at the link you provided yourself you'd see that as well :facepalm:

phildwyer said:
So why would you support them rather than CCFC? It's like when a band gets famous, all the original fans suddenly hate them.
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That remark is as idiotic as it is inaccurate. I was at Wembley, remember?
 
editor said:
Their strip has remained based on orange/yellow with black trimming since 1912, with just a handful of years with other colours.

And their current strip now follows that same tradition. If you bothered looking at the link you provided yourself you'd see that as well :facepalm:
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Still, both Barry and Newport, which are the realistic local alternatives to Cardiff, have done the very thing that you claim has provoked you to abandon CCFC.

The truth is that these days any club is liable to change their strip, marketing devices and even nickname if the owners think it will make them money.

editor said:
That remark is as idiotic as it is inaccurate. I was at Wembley, remember?
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Of course I remember it well. I remember you as a stalwart supporter for many years before that too, which is why I'm mystified that you're moving on.

I don't think any long-term fan likes the changes, or any changes come to that--personally I was more upset about leaving Ninian Park.

But most probably we'll have a couple of seasons stuck with red, before Tan gets bored/goes bankrupt/is accused of crimes or pulls out for some other reason, and then we can go back to blue (and presumably back to the Championship).

No harm done, and a couple of seasons in the Prem to look back on. Unless you've already abandoned the club the minute they became successful, in which case it would be a bit difficult to change back again. Seriously, I think you just enjoy supporting the underdog... nothing wrong with that either.
 
phildwyer said:
But most probably we'll have a couple of seasons stuck with red, before Tan gets bored/goes bankrupt/is accused of crimes or pulls out for some other reason, and then we can go back to blue (and presumably back to the Championship).

No harm done, and a couple of seasons in the Prem to look back on. Unless you've already abandoned the club the minute they became successful, in which case it would be a bit difficult to change back again. Seriously, I think you just enjoy supporting the underdog... nothing wrong with that either.
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What delusional bubble are you living in? If Tan moves on the club will be well and truly fucked with eye watering debts and a hardcore fan base that's been well and truly split down the middle.
 
cardiff-city-rebrand.jpg


*sigh
 
Regardless of the rebranding issue, they're pretty shit atm, aren't they. I wonder if they have it within their capacity to fuck up auto promotion? If it were any other team I'd deem it unlikely, but Cardiff? :hmm:
 
We played well last night in my opinion.

A few chances didn't go in that in other games might have. That's the rub of the green.

We defended too deep during injury time which was stupid and disappointing as this time we paid the price.
But all in all I always count Games in hand as lost so wasn't too upset with a point.

Crowd were in reasonably good voice for a change. There was an electric charge in that stadium lat night.
 
bendeus said:
Regardless of the rebranding issue, they're pretty shit atm, aren't they. I wonder if they have it within their capacity to fuck up auto promotion? If it were any other team I'd deem it unlikely, but Cardiff? :hmm:
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I expect they'll get promoted OK. I wonder if the success-desperate Cardiff Dragons fans will think it's all been worth it if it turns out we're a bit shit in that division.
 
editor said:
Er, I think you'll find it's the reds that are going up.
The blues no longer exist thanks to Mr Tan.
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We are still blues. It's our away colour and short for bluebirds.
Takes more than a red shirt to stop loyal supporters thinking of themselves as blues and celebrating a good match in strong voice.
 
Hmm after viewing the footage I think Billy Davies was being quite generous in accepting the red card.
Definitely a booking but worthy of a red?
 
never a sending off.....

it was nice hearing 'the blues are going up',......even if it didnt make sense...

especially as Forest were playing in blue....
 
Not all financially-motivated demolitions of a football club's history and hertiage involve a change of strip/colours.

Not all changes of strip/colours are the result of a financially motivated demolitions of a football clubs history/heritage.

If I had found a club who's jib i liked the cut of, I couldn't give a toss if they changed their strip every fortnight.
 
when you are so used to hearing / singing 'blue army'......'bluebirds'........'blues'........'the boys in blue and white and we're fuckin dynamite'.....'blues are going up'...etc....etc

its a bit of a flagrant piss rip if your team are being made to wear red....
 
Gromit said:
We are still blues. It's our away colour and short for bluebirds.
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Except it's not always the away strip is it? Read this bollocks:
CARDIFF City chief executive Simon Lim has insisted there are no plans to do away with blue – but admits, personally, he prefers black.

The Bluebirds went 10 points clear at the top of the Championship on Saturday with a 2-1 win over Blackpool.

But they caused anger among some fans after donning a black third kit when City’s blue away kit, the club’s traditional colour, would have sufficed on the same field as the Tangerines.

Mr Lim said wearing the black kit allowed them to wear red shorts – considered to be a “lucky omen”.

Mr Lim said: “No, there’s no intention of doing away with the blue kit. It’s just we preferred the red, if we could wear the red. We wore the red shorts and they are a lucky omen for us.

“We will wear blue again this season, I’m sure. We still have nine away games to play so somewhere along the line we will [wear blue].

“Personally, I prefer the black. Black is one of my favourite colours and I think it looks dynamic.

“But officially, we normally leave it to Malky. We discuss it with him and it will be a joint decision.”
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/cardiff-city-insist-club-no-2497681
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With the bluebird on the club's emblem reduced to a tiny afterthought shunted underneath a large dragon, and the name no longer announced when the team come on, how can a team playing in red with a dragon on our chests, be sensibly called the Bluebirds?

Spot on comment from the article above:
Red might be 'lucky'' and black might be 'dynamic' but blue is the colour of Cardiff City Mr Lim. If we wore blue at home and red away no one would have any complaint and we would be one group of supporters again. Until that happens this will always be casting a shadow on what should be good times. No plans to get rid of the blue eh......? Hmm..... We'll see.
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Lets put it another way. Blue is a state of mind,you can wear a red shirt and a red scarf and still be a blue.

Just like i was a blue wearing lucky black and gold at Wembley.
 
So erm, i dont do football and i have never been to a game in my life and stuff but tomorrow im like going to this game yeah. (work managers away day/night)

i just wanted to ask is this the one where they will go up into prem, or could go up, or is it just turn up and play to go up.

I have played Fifa 97 and 2012 thats about it.

Cheers
 
Gromit said:
Lets put it another way. Blue is a state of mind,you can wear a red shirt and a red scarf and still be a blue.

Just like i was a blue wearing lucky black and gold at Wembley.
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Wow. You've really been suckered. Perhaps Cardiff are a state of mind too.
 
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