Haha now that is something we agree on, awful design, it still crops up time to time when lazy national newspapers, can't be bothered to check things through.
Yer like we did when we signed Jamie Wood, that must have been to boost City shirt sales in the Cayman Islands then?? Cause he was ****e.
I think you and I will have to agree to disagree on this because for me the badge, the club colours and the traditions have been an integral part of HCAFC since they were created by generations of supporters who were proud of them and would have expected us to protect them. The fact that supporters like you feel no pride in these things and wouldn't mind if we became the penguins is a sad thing and a bit of an insult to those past generations.
To be honest, if we were offered the choice of changing our shirts to black and white in return for a massive investment, I'd snap their hand off. As the Cardiff fan says, you're still the same club, no matter what colour you play in. It was either that or continue haemoragging money and wind up in the Conference North with a 30 point deduction, ground sharing with Newi Cefn Druids. Cardiff used to play in red, so it's not like they've picked this colour out of a hat.
I do understand where your coming from and given the choice of course I would want to keep what we have now. But my sense of pride and that of many others comes from who we are and where we come from, not the colours, badges, mascots...etc. The only constants since Hull City's conception are the name and where we are from. The colours, badges, supporters, players, owners, managers have all changed.
(slightly tongue in cheek but) A bit rich coming from someone whose signature comes from a time when City had predominantly played in white jerseys.
Hopefully completely tongue in cheek They wore white jerseys in 1904 for a series of friendlies before being accepted into the football league for the 1905-06 season at which point they wore black and amber. They also experimentally wore the blue kit that reflected the city colours for a few seasons but that was also discarded. So I think it's fair to say HCAFC have traditionally worn black and amber.
I remember reading the blue kit was in the war/post-war years when rationing restricted what colours were available. Is that true or am I completely making that up?
I don't know whether that was true in 1946, but they did have the blue jersey in 1935 with the city crest. This site gives a lot of the kit / badge background; http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Hull_City/Hull_City.htm
Assuming it was suggested, what was the clubs response to leaving the home kit traditional and using the new one as the away kit? As the trend is now to wear an away kit irrespective of opposition colours, a bit of jiggling with colour clashes and the new kit would be seen by more people at away grounds than it would if used as a home kit.
im trying to think of NON foreign owners making a complete mess of English football clubs oh hang on ... nearly every club has gone through a club badge change , and on more than one occasion. As for the kit colours again i cant think of any occasion where a British ower has meddled with a kit colour , As for stadium name - the holiest of the holy - no club has ever fiddled with that , they wouldnt dare zzzzzzzzzzzz - what a load of old tosh a lot of people splatter my monitor with .
I don't see the point of this to be honest, because they'll never do anything in the far eastern market. They aren't a big enough name. Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, Barca & Real Madrid have pretty much sewn up that market.
Hulls eggchasers should take note of this, don't follow that game but if they got together surely would be the best team in England who cares what colour the shirt would be and maybe they could bugger off and get their own stadium
They aren't wearing red because of the national team, they're wearing it because it makes them more marketable in the far east, red being a "lucky" colour. The fact that it matches their national kit is a mere coincidence and gives them a bit more leverage trying to convince the fans.
Danny Baker ‏@prodnose Any Cardiff City fan who buys the new red shirt is a coward. The only power fans still have is to withhold money. You'll be OK believe me.
Clearly a joke right? Without Hull FC, we wouldn't have the KC and as a result wouldn't have just enjoyed the most successful decade in our clubs history, think on. With regards to the 'got together' comment I assume you mean a merger? As you know nothing of the game I'll explain, unlike football, rugby league has a salary cap, therefore no matter how big/rich a club is, they cannot simply buy the league. Success is built on quality local talent and a select few high earners. Given neither clubs academy is particularly great at the moment they'd have to rely on buying a team of talent, which given the cap, would not be possible. In summary, a merger would not guarantee success, it would alienate fans and worst of all for you, if it ever did happen they'd still be playing at the KC.
