Ooooh the irony in my name didn't get past you did it? Oh, yes it did. Try to keep up. The white shirt colour is in our history. Our past. We now play in black and amber. TWS play in white. We have a group of "fans" in and around Hull called the ER Whites. I would not, along with I hope lots of others, want to be associated now with anything white. I really don't mind the name change, as long as it stays as Hull City. If it doesn't, then I'll accept it as the latest step in our history (that's a record of things that have happened in the past btw not a blueprint for the future). What I would not in any shape way or form ever accept is a change of our colours. That's our current colours. Baffles me that anyone would even suggest using the colour of biggest bunch of detested arsewipes as part of any campaign, unless they were an ER White at school of course. Suggesting you want to keep something from the past, for the future by wishing to associate with white is just bizarre. Even if it was our first strip colour. Black n Amber for ever, white never, to coin a phrase from a few years back.
I think you should re change your name again to Apathy Tiger, but you'll have to wait another 21 days before allowed to do so. I'm quite happy with Hull City AFC. There's is no requirement or need to change. Not a permanent change of colour, just as a demonstration. If you demonstrated in the same colour shirt as we currently wear, the visual impact of those against the name change/re brand would fail. Real Madrid play in White, as do many other teams. The fact TWS play in white has **** all to do with it.
bollocks.. people would be talking about formation and how were in europe and just won the capital one cup and the fa cup!
I could do that, but tbh, I can't be arsed. I think I'll stick with black and amber, as an important part of our heritage for me, more so than the name, I'm just sorry that its not that important to you and I don't understand your apathy towards it either. The fact you don't understand why white is the devil to lots of us is disappointing.
no need to be pedantic son. ALL I am saying is that we fans are easily distracted. It''s only cause the OFF season has been so ****ing long, with not much sport around at all, that we have really taken notice of this.
They're lower league, they don't bother me. The fact that you condone a name change should perhaps be more concerning to yourself.
I've had a White Tiger as my avatar ever since I joined these boards, I must be psychic or is it psychotic? I can never make my mind up <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Don't you think we'd be going down a dangerous road by wearing white? If this happened i'm sure Papa Allem would notice and remember it as a consent to change our colours whenever he felt the whim. Changing colours would really piss me off.
And a photograph of the one season where Man Utd wore green and gold as an away kits shows what exactly? Maybe I should rephrase it to make it more easily understandable. Man Utd never registered green and yellow as a first team kit. So their colours ha e never been green and yellow.The colour they have worn most for away kits is a toss up between blue or white shirts. We have worn white shirts as a change kit for far longer than the one season Man Utd wore green and yellow and more seasons with a red and black stripes. No one has ever suggested those are our colours. Mind you. Allam might decide he prefers red and black stripes and no doubt a lot on here would go along with it.
In Leeds' first fifteen years the club kit was modelled on Huddersfield Town's blue and white striped shirts, white shorts and dark blue socks with blue and white rings on the turnovers, because Huddersfield's chairman Hilton Crowther was attempting to merge the two clubs. He eventually left Huddersfield to take over at Leeds. In 1934 Leeds switched to blue and yellow halved shirts incorporating the city crest, white shorts and blue socks with yellow tops. The kit was worn for the first time on 22 September 1934. The club also adopted their first badge in 1934, using the city crest as Leeds City had. In 1950 Leeds switched to yellow shirts with blue sleeves and collars, white shorts and black, blue and gold hooped socks. In 1955 Leeds changed again to royal blue shirts with gold collars, white shorts, and blue and yellow hooped socks, thus echoing the original Leeds City strip. In 1961, Don Revie introduced a plain white strip throughout, in the hope of emulating Spanish side Real Madrid.
They wore it as a tribute to their original kits, as they put it themselves. They started with green and gold, most United fans will tell you that.
So its been white for the last 52 years. Hey maybe there's a link between us calling them TWS and that??
Revie changed the club colour because he wanted Leeds to emulate Real Madrid. I wonder if Steve Bruce fancies emulating Barcelona?
Ah, so there was a time limit was there? But I take your point about not breaking with tradition. Tell you what, lets paint ourselves blue with woad, sacrifice a few virgins (suspect there are a few on this board), and burn some witches at the stake. I love the old traditions!
Well that's bollocks. We both know that if Allam decided we now play in some other colour you'd support it and say "At least he's keeping us in Hull."
Interestingly, I've been told by two different senior officials at City (neither of them Nick Thompson btw) that they only found out about the name change through the HDM at the same time the rest of us did. It seems Allam just decided last Friday was the day to admit he wants to change the name. Based on that I believe NT wasn't lying when he said he knew nothing about a name change, because it seems no one else did. Apparently Sky Sports published something this morning referring to us as Hull City Tigers and the club have actually written to Sky to tell them not to (though it'll probably be no more successful than when they've repeatedly asked not to be called simply 'Hull').
