Wow, I expected better of you OLM. History is history after all. Everything starts somewhere, and the start is important, else you could just wipe any amount of history away. So they're not a real club with real history until they've existed for how long in your opinion? The owners of Man City, called City Group, are making all their clubs they own have similar names, and making sure they meet the groups colour branding. The City brand is important to them, as well as blue and white, so any clubs they acquire will be changed to meet this branding. This is why New York City FC is thus called. You're ok with this? If they were able to and took over us, they'd insist on us being called Hull City FC, but would also insist we changed colours to meet their brand. You'd be ok with that too? I know you wouldn't btw, but the point here is, that is exactly what they're doing to other clubs.
Melbourne Heart have played a grand total of three seasons of league football and though I'm sure they have many fans who didn't want a change, they are very much in their infancy and it's obviously very different to a club who've existed for over 100 years. It's also not true that they'll be playing in the same colours as Man City, they wanted to, but Sydney FC already play in light blue, so their home shirts will actually be white and their existing kit colours will become their away kit. New York City FC are a brand new club, they have no history at all, so their kit colour is irrelevant.
It would also be rather ironic, if an organisation called City Till We Die started complaining about someone being called City.
White with some blue in, to be pedantic. I.e. Blue and white. They're obviously not wearing the exact same strip, but the blue and white, thats their colours now. They tried to force the same strip as their other clubs through, but the Aussie FA told them to bugger off, so they've gotten around that as explained. You'd be ok if we played in Blue and White, but kept Amber and Black for the away strip? New York City FC are not irrelevant. This is all about the City Group forcing their branding on football clubs. As our resident expert on branding, I thought you'd appreciate that nuance. They already have an established City brand to work with, from their own Group name and Man City, commonly referred to throughout the land as City. It makes sense for them to do this across all of their holdings. We need a differentiator. Again, as a branding expert, I'm surprised you don't understand that.
So on that basis, we should actually be called Hull Allam? Or is it Tigers Marine? Oh dear, how silly of you.
As a branding expert, I know what you've just posted is bollocks, we don't need to differentiate ourselves at all, we can already be marketed as 'The Tigers' should that be required. We're a Premier League club, playing in Europe and we just played in front of half a billion people in the FA Cup final, anyone who can't trade an existing brand with that much exposure, shouldn't even be trying. As for Melbourne, they're a three year old football club in Australia, what they do, or don't do, is nothing to do with me.
We already have unique colours- black and amber , which no other club has. We have a short 8 letter name. The shorter the better as AA tells us (How many letters does he think Hull Tigers has???) We have one of the best nicknames in the country and have been known by that name for over a century.
Were battling it out with Hull FC for Joes Whelk Stall sponsorship money. FC have offered Joe a place on the board. City have offered Joe a pass at 25% discount. Touch and go this one. If we change our name to Tiger Prawns the money's in the bag, allegedly.
With quality marketing like this, I'm sure they will have attracted a big name! http://http://www.oncloudseven.com/Shirt%20sponsorship%20brochure3%20(normal%20sponsor).pdf
If they had any sense, they'd have asked CTWD to do it, we've got far more creative talent at our disposal than the club has.
Except Wolves, Newport County, Cambridge United, Southport, Boston United, Berwick Rangers and Alloa Athletic, you're cock on there.
No. They're just teams that share a similar colour to ours, although not all of them play in stripes. It's not exactly unique. We all know it as Amber, which it is, but everybody else (including those across the other side of the world) will see it as Orange or Yellow. You won't convince a 10 year old Chinese kid watching Hull City out the back of his Dad's shop that our kit is anything other than orangey-yellow.
Amber is amber. Yellow is yellow. Orange is orange. Old Gold is Old Gold. If people are unable to distinguish or lazy/ couldn't give a monkeys, it's not Hull City's problem.
Well it becomes Hull City's problem to a point when we start saying we have a unique look, when in fact to most of the outside world we don't. We do in terms of playing in the Premier League, there isn't another kit like ours at this level and there probably won't be for some time. And yes we play in Amber, Wolves play in gold whathaveyou, we know that, but it's not us we're trying to convince to invest, it's the foreigners with the money. Granted, some unknown from Indonesia isn't going to have heard of Cambridge United, but it's still not exactly a unique colour to everybody else.
Is that real?! That's absolutely ****ing diabolical. Who does our print/graphics stuff these days? They want sacking.
