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CARDIFF GO BLUE

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by The Relic, Jan 9, 2015.

  1. The Relic

    The Relic Well-Known Member

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    As of Saturday, Cardiff will play home games in their traditional blue shirts. Their away strip will be red. Owner Vincent Tan changed the shirts to red as it was considered a lucky colour in his culture. However, he called a consultation with fans this week, and at a board meeting today, it was decided to revert to the traditional colours.

    I'm over the moon for Cardiff fans, and impressed with the way Tan considered their feelings and changed his mind.
     
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  2. Disco down under

    Disco down under Well-Known Member

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    Couldn't care less.

    If Short wanted to change our strip to full block red and our name to Sunderland Black Cats to make us more marketable I'd trust his call and look forward to reaping the benefits.

    Tradition is lovely but progress is far better.
     
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  3. Rick O'Shea

    Rick O'Shea Well-Known Member

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    How nice of Tan to consider the fans feelings.

    Shame he didn't do that in the first place.

    Fool.
     
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  4. Nordic

    Nordic Well-Known Member

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    I couldn't give a toss. The fact they got relegated was a bit of a signal having a red strip matters not one jot.

    Tan is a knob. Anyone who wears their trousers up round their armpits should never be trusted.
     
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  5. C19RK73

    C19RK73 Red & White army!

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    It was his mother who told him to revert back
     
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  6. Sidthemackem

    Sidthemackem Newcastle United 0-1 Cambridge United Staff Member

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    Cityblueforever will be chuffed, bless him....
     
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  7. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    A poster so idiotic & witless he even managed to stand out from a crowd of witless idiots <laugh>
     
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  8. Sidthemackem

    Sidthemackem Newcastle United 0-1 Cambridge United Staff Member

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    Wonder who he's bothering nowadays? Apart from Dolly the Sheep, obviously...
     
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  9. mackemwelder

    mackemwelder Well-Known Member

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    What if he changed it to black & white? (god forbid)
     
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  10. Home_and_Away

    Home_and_Away Well-Known Member

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    Imagine if NewCRAPsle once wore red'n'white..... Oh wait :smiley-finger007::smiley-finger007::smiley-finger007:
     
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  11. Disco down under

    Disco down under Well-Known Member

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    Obviously a hypothetical which is near enough an impossibility.

    It just wouldn't happen but if it were to come to that I'd be a mixture of shocked, appalled and bemused. Any other colour or combination wouldn't especially bother me as long as the red and white stripes were memorialised somewhere.
     
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  12. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    Sid you mad ****er ha ha
     
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  13. MrRAWhite

    MrRAWhite Well-Known Member

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    I would hope that any owner of our club would have respect for our history and traditions. It is these that give our club soul, and without soul we are nothing..
     
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  14. The Relic

    The Relic Well-Known Member

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    You didn't complain when the ship was removed from our badge. Even if shipbuilders made the club what it was, and the most successful it was ever going to be. So what do you care about 'memorialising' anything? For a club that boasts six titles (deservedly) when five of them were over a century ago, I just don't think there's enough respect in some quarters for the traditions of the game. Don't you think a club that's won one measly title and two cups (one of those from the second division!) in a hundred years needs a regard for tradition more than most? If Sunderland doesn't have tradition, it has precious else left. I'd delighted for Cardiff fans who have stood on the terraces of Ninian Park for a century, and got one cup win (1927) to show for it. At least they've fought and kept their identity. People like you would have given it all away.
     
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  15. Blunham Mackem

    Blunham Mackem Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Yeh, Tan considered their feelings and changed his mind

    Gates down were they? Revenue down was it?
     
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  16. The Relic

    The Relic Well-Known Member

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    Yes, and well done to Cardiff fans for fighting their corner.
     
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    Disco down under Well-Known Member

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    No I didn't complain oddly enough, I was too busy playing subbuteo and building lego houses. I was 8 years old in '97 you ****ing moron

    Our badge had a black cat on it before it had a ship. Are you complaining that they brought that history back?

    Did you complain when they dropped Distric and Teachers from the name? The teachers who made the club what it is? No you didn't. You let them give all of that history away in the 1800's. People like you...

    Edit: I've also got a replica shirt framed on my wall from the 70's with the ship on it, memorialised in my house.

    Good job speaking without knowing a ****ing thing about what you're on about.
     
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  18. Blunham Mackem

    Blunham Mackem Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    I think you missed my point!
     
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  19. Somebodys pinched my sombrero

    Somebodys pinched my sombrero Well-Known Member

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    To tell the truth, he was a stupid twat for changing the colours in the first place, no logic to it. If Ashley considered changing our strip, there'd be uproar. Again. I'm sure that would apply to your club if short wanted to change your colours to blue. No Jonny come lately should mess with a clubs heritage and culture.
     
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  20. The Relic

    The Relic Well-Known Member

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    I didn't complain when they dropped '& District Teachers' from our name because I wasn't even born then "you f^^^ing moron ". But Sunderland & District Teachers lost their dominance fair and square in two 'friendly' games in 1889 under the name of Sunderland Albion, and disgusted Sunderland people so badly that their horse drawn carriage back to Hendon was stoned, with James Allen being hit in the eye. But please note that it was the teachers themselves who changed their name to Albion, not the shipbuilders who built the Team of all the Talents.
     
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