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Cardiff could undergo a 'rebranding'

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  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,799
    Why not red and blue stripes....?
    Because there's already one team in the championship that wear those colours and have lost all their tradition..............................
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,640
    Sky reporting that it is a done deal
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    Pictures up on BBC site. New badge and shirt. Away shirt to be blue...
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    If it is a done deal, what happens to their nick name; do they remain The Bluebirds, or do they become The Redwings or some such?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    edited June 2012
    That dragon looks like they've nicked it from Leyton Orient. There's already too many clubs with dragons on their badge without anymore and that poor little bird looks totally lost.

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    "Fire & Passion" - What's the bets they'll be running out to Prodigy then?
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,602
    The Dragons I'm guessing, but the new badge has a tiny bluebird on it still. Most fans will just buy the away kit instead of the home.
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  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,030
    So it'll be reds v blacks when we play down there. Rather than blues v reds. When are fixtures out? 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,420
    So it'll be reds v blacks when we play down there. Rather than blues v reds. When are fixtures out? 
    18th June

  • Splodge
    Splodge Posts: 514
    I wonder if that means they will change all the seats in their stadium from blue to red. Sounds costly, but would be strange to have a team in red and black playing in a blue and white stadium

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  • JollyRobin
    JollyRobin Posts: 1,706
    I wonder if that means they will change all the seats in their stadium from blue to red. Sounds costly, but would be strange to have a team in red and black playing in a blue and white stadium
    Not to mention that Cardiff Blues who play there won't be too happy about that.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,441
    The thing that worries me is that the owners think changing the colours and nickname will help transform a middling team into some sort of international giant. Plenty of teams have come a cropper after being mismanaged by ambitious foreign owners, who don't know British football as well as they think. Portsmouth, Birmingham, Blackburn etc

    As for blue, those well known losers in 2011/12 Man City and Chelsea play in blue also...
  • AshC
    AshC Posts: 156
    The Blues are moving back to their old Arms Park ground for next season and beyond, they've mutually ended the lease with Cardiff City - which I guess has cleared the way for all this.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,480
    All seems too bizarre to take seriously.

    Swansea fans must be having a field day while Cardiff fans must be torn between tradition and the lure of the promised £100m.

    Prague Addick can explain this better than I but why tamper with such a strong brand.
  • Judging by some Cardiff fans views on this, there may well be plenty of empty seats there next season.

    We've changed our badge a few times, but always had a lion. To all of a sudden stick a dragon on there, change it to red & put a bluebird at the bottom is quite a change & kick in the teeth.

    They'll be gone in a year or 5, the fans are what makes a club.
  • WelshAddick
    WelshAddick Posts: 1,322
    im fuming about this. Should always be blue and bluebirds should always be there name.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,030
    Judging by some Cardiff fans views on this, there may well be plenty of empty seats there next season.

    We've changed our badge a few times, but always had a lion. To all of a sudden stick a dragon on there, change it to red & put a bluebird at the bottom is quite a change & kick in the teeth.

    They'll be gone in a year or 5, the fans are what makes a club.
    Not the ones I know who recognise that the money will keep the club going. Not much point having a blue kit and no team to wear it.
  • WelshAddick
    WelshAddick Posts: 1,322
    I would prefer city to play in blue and be in league 2. If someone said to us we would change to blue to get a 100mill cash injection i wouldnt be up for it. Red is our colour and it should never change.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Ten years time if they're up the top of the Premiership it'll all be forgotten about. Similarly if they were back in blue but at the bottom of League One most of the ultras moaning about it wouldn't be going. It's only a colour.
  • WelshAddick
    WelshAddick Posts: 1,322
    would you be happy if we changed colour?

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  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772
    That dragon looks like they've nicked it from Leyton Orient. There's already too many clubs with dragons on their badge without anymore and that poor little bird looks totally lost.

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    Orient don't have a dragon but a wyvern (dragon & serpent) on their shirt

  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,182
    What a disgrace. It looks like the national team's old badge. Sadly this looks like the direction the game is taking.
  • Ten years time if they're up the top of the Premiership it'll all be forgotten about. Similarly if they were back in blue but at the bottom of League One most of the ultras moaning about it wouldn't be going. It's only a colour.
    If they are in the prem most of their current fan base won't be there anyway...the move to new ground has killed off a lot of the Ninian support. Just another nail in the coffin of a club that once had character.

    When MK Dons moved there was a stink and still many fans dislike them...yet Cardiff can change their badge & kit colour and nobody seems to care because it will help them survive...which was a similar argument for MK Dons.

  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Not sure you can compare moving from Wimbledon - Croydon to MK with moving part of the way across a small city, and happened some time ago. Cardiff's crowds have generally gone up year on year before and since the move. I admit that it's a bit daft of the owners to want to change the badge and shirt, but equally it's daft to get worked up about it.
  • Not sure you can compare moving from Wimbledon - Croydon to MK with moving part of the way across a small city, and happened some time ago. Cardiff's crowds have generally gone up year on year before and since the move. I admit that it's a bit daft of the owners to want to change the badge and shirt, but equally it's daft to get worked up about it.
    It's the fabric of the club though isn't it, effectively selling the soul of Cardiff and what we've all known Cardiff to be in our lifetimes.

    Imagine if at the time your owners came in & thought that you needed a colour change & changed the badge? Would you just rollover & say ok?

    What happens when the owners leave? Hardly likely to be around for long.
  • Stone
    Stone Posts: 3,026
    Makes some of the ealier comments on this thread quality reading.....
  • cafcvfr
    cafcvfr Posts: 179
    I don't see why anyone in Asia would support Cardiff anyway, and even if they would, surely it is more important to keep fans in Cardiff than to gain them in Asia, which I can't see them doing anyway?
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,969
    would you be happy if we changed colour?
    For a wedge a cash, I'll take a change of colour. You can always change it back.

    I wouldn't want a change of ground though, tried that already.

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    That dragon looks like they've nicked it from Leyton Orient. There's already too many clubs with dragons on their badge without anymore and that poor little bird looks totally lost.

    image
    Orient don't have a dragon but a wyvern (dragon & serpent) on their shirt

    Fair dos. Too many mythical creatures then; mythical dragons, mythical wyverns, mythical Eagles in South London.
  • quenquen
    quenquen Posts: 46
    Killed the tradition! Changed colors and mascot. Why nome change the name? If I were a Cardiff supporter I would not stick with it. For me Cardiff died and re-born as a Dragon!