Not Saints related I know, but Cardiff have confirmed their move to red this morning http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18324804 Which is probably the equivalent of us changing our colours to Blue/Green stripes How would you feel if it happened? Changing tradition is a hard and unpopular thing to do
No more bluebirds then? maybe redbirds? no dont think so,feel sorry for Cardiff fans i know i would not want Saints to change our colours.
I don't think I've ever seen that happen to a football club before, maybe apart from New York being bought over by Red Bull...
Jeez the badge looks horrible now, they have obviously tried to keep the Bluebird thing alive by adding it into the crest but it just looks nasty. Cardiff had quite a modern badge and now it looks really poor imo.
I'm pretty sure that Leeds did it. Don Revie was a big Real Madrid fan and he changed Leeds from yellow and blue to all white. If that is wrong I'm sure someone will correct it but blue and yellow are colours connected with Leeds for some reason. Their rugby league team plays in those colours. You could argue that Saints did it, as we started off with white shirts and red slash and changed to red and white stripes. Same colours but radically different design.
Unfortunately I wasn't around in Don Revie's day A quick search suggests it changed in 1950, so that would be before Revie took over. The only over thing that comes close is Bill Shankly changing Liverpool to all red.
Look if it gets the club into the premier league with the improved playing squad and improves the facilities I'm sure fans wont be moaning. If Saints where a championship club and had been for a while I'm sure i would accept the changes if it meant that we had a better chance of get the premier league.
Does it bring in more money, or just alienate the fans? They want to clear the debt, build a new training ground, expand the stadium and strengthen the squad. Let's see if they get it all done.
If it didn't happen, they'd lose the Malays (who've promised to invest), so I suppose it does bring in more money. Noticed a few fans have said if it's a choice between battling for promotion in red and battling for relegation in blue, they'll suck it up and go for red.
Why would red make them more money? Does anyone know what their reason was, i havent really been paying much attention to it all. If anything i think this will cost them money will probably end up selling less home kits
I don't really buy it. Is the colour of a kit really the most important thing when you're investing millions of pounds? If it came down to that choice I'm sure we'd all be happy in chocolate and pink quarters, but I doubt it is that simple. If I was a Cardiff fan I would be asking what small tweaks we should be making to turn a play-off challenge into an auto challenge, this is just a bit silly.
Tan is a very culturally engrossed man, it's tradition in Malaysia for red to be a lucky colour and he's very convinced by this. Rumour was he fired an executive for not having a "lucky aura"... while it seems small to us, it's clearly important for him.
Fair enough, good luck to them. I reckon they might find some of those promises easier said than done.
The move to red is a very positive step for Cardiff, if they then added some white in a stylish stripey fashion they could be on to something.
It does seem to be a change of huge proportions for Cardiff City, but just because something has always been done one way doesn't mean it can't be altered, and the fundamentals are still the same, after all. I suppose the visible identity of Cardiff City is changed radically by it though. It was 100 years and more ago that Saints changed from a red sash, to red and white quarters, then to red and white halves, before they settled on stripes. I wonder if there was a furore over adopting stripes, at the time..? Saints were also in blue shorts and socks, on and off [mostly on] for nigh on 60 years before they changed, too. Nothing is sacred and much as we'd like them to sometimes, nor should things stop evolving. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the occasional break from stripes, as the first choice shirt, for example.
Yes but changing style (sash to stripes) and changing colours altogether are completely different as at least you still have your colours with different styles
