Cardiff City rebranded? (non-WHU)

[KernowHammer8]

Just having a look at their forum to see what they thought of the match and spotted this thread.

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=78929

[Bobby Orangeboom]

Foreigners rule !!

[Welsh Iron]

I noticed that, too.

Yesterday, one of their top 'fans representatives' called it 'absolute bollox'. Today he says it may have some legs.

Something about red being a lucky colour in Malaysia.

Cardiff 'Redbirds'?. Can't see it myself.

They'd be sick as parrots. (see what I did there?)

[cockney hammer]

Cardiff 'Redbirds'

sounds like a baseball team

[szola]

FC Red Bull Salzburg.

Red Bull wanted a team, and they bought one.
Result ->
New name, new colours.

[Sweeney Bod]

FC Red Bull Salzburg.

Red Bull wanted a team, and they bought one.
Result ->
New name, new colours.

I remember a good few years back that Coventry wanted to change their name to Coventry Talbot, due to their sponsoship from the car firm. However the league vetoed it

[KernowHammer8]

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewt ... =2&t=79147

" HEADLINES FROM TONIGHT'S MEETING "

Postby carlccfc » Tue May 08, 2012 8:18 pm
Our home shirt will be red with black trim, black shorts and red socks and the club badge will be totally different to what we have currently.
The sponsorship on the front of our shirt will be Malaysia.

The away kit will be blue.
We will no longer have the nickname the Bluebirds.

Vincent Tan is close to agreeing a £100m investment in CCFC.
But Langston has to be sorted first.
An announcement is to be expected in the next 2 weeks.

The stadium will be increased to 35,000 for the 2013/14 season.


The meeting was told that the change to red kit and Welsh dragon badge was non-negotiable and there was no viable alternative for the Board but to accept the proposals as the club could not survive financially without the investment.

These are the main points of the meeting and I will give a fuller description and the reasons behind these changes later

[STL Hammer]

Shocking really, can't believe the reasons for re branding and changing the identity of their club. Usually organizations will re brand to attract more fans, this is killing what loyal support they have.

Could not even fathom if our owners decided to re brand WHUFC

[BMU.WIC]

Give our board a few years STL, and you might have to...

[shammy]

Dont see a real problem, their blue kit is hardly iconic. The idea is to rebrand them "Red Dragons", associating them more with the Welsh national team makes sense to me afterall they see themselves as the Welsh representative in an English league anyway.

[vmixture]

Dont see a real problem, their blue kit is hardly iconic. The idea is to rebrand them "Red Dragons", associating them more with the Welsh national team makes sense to me afterall they see themselves as the Welsh representative in an English league anyway.

The blue is iconic to the Cardiff fan. If we had potential new owners who wanted to build on the 1966 West Ham world cup winners theme and change our kit to red and white we'd be up in arms about it.

Football has sold out and history/tradition means F all these days I'm afraid.

[shammy]

The blue is iconic to the Cardiff fan. If we had potential new owners who wanted to build on the 1966 West Ham world cup winners theme and change our kit to red and white we'd be up in arms about it.

Football has sold out and history/tradition means F all these days I'm afraid.

All very well, but unless its stated in the terms of sale then any new owners can do as they please.
"If you sup with the devil you need to use a long spoon"

[DaveWHU1964]

All very well, but unless its stated in the terms of sale then any new owners can do as they please.
"If you sup with the devil you need to use a long spoon"[/quote]

Shammy-

The thing is that if someone changed West Ham's colours to red and white or whatever, and our crossed hammers were discarded in favour of a badge with with the Olympic Stadium as it's centre piece then I suspect not many of us would be 'supping with the devil'. We'd be fighting it and if we lost (as you say the owners can do what they want) we'd be abandoning it.

I can just about understand the twisted logic in it. They are considering trying to create a team for Wales but it'll fail. A big percentage of City fans will turn their backs on them and fans from other parts of Wales will not replace them in sufficient numbers as they have no affinity with Cardiff.

If there are legs to this story I hope it's just the owners flying a kite rather than them being absolutely set on it.

[Bobby Orangeboom]

Could not even fathom if our owners decided to re brand WHUFC

We don't have Owners that 5 years ago had never heard abut our Club though or had absolutely ZERO interest in it.

English football selling it's soul once again to foreign people with foreign ideas..

[DaveWHU1964]

Bobby-

Don't call them English- they will get even grumpier than they normally are.

[falcon hairspray]

There are some precedents for such changes to "tradition". Don Revie changed Leeds kit to white and Crystal Palace changed from the Glaziers to the Eagles.
The part I find the strangest is that they want to increase the capacity when they couldnt sell out a play off semi final against the greatest team in the land.

[WestHamIFC]

Welsh clubs shouldn't be allowed to play in the English league anyway..

[shammy]

Welsh clubs shouldn't be allowed to play in the English league anyway..

I heard a foreign buyer was coming in for Total Network Solutions....they are gonna rip up their traditions and even tamper with that iconic name...got to be gutted for the fans.

[Up the Junction]

There are some precedents for such changes to "tradition". Don Revie changed Leeds kit to white and Crystal Palace changed from the Glaziers to the Eagles.

There's probably as many clubs who play in a different coloured shirt to that they wore when first formed as those who don't.

Thames Ironworks, royal blue? Man Utd/Newton Heath, yellow and green... Liverpool, blue and white halves... Everton, black then pink... Orient have played in white, then blue, now red!

[tonbridge iron]

I heard a foreign buyer was coming in for Total Network Solutions....they are gonna rip up their traditions and even tamper with that iconic name...got to be gutted for the fans.

not sure if thats what they call a troll post.but TNS are "The New Saints" and have been for the last 5 or 6 seasons.