New owner confirmed…

The Premier League stated there was no business case for the name change.......surely they are qualified to say so

 

I couldn't give a monkeys about your unwillingness to debate opinions other than your own - you've proved my point about this forum on that score. What I do care about is that you withdraw your defamatory statement about "lies" as you are unable to justify it. Trying to fob it off as you are in "piss take" mode is unacceptable. You are a moderator - act like one.

 

No but heard you got a long face.

 

To try and put an end to this now... Waggy, you speak as if CTID started initiating 'hostilities' as a fight back to tjw owners. By hostilities I can only imagine you refer to chanting at matches and singing one of the usual songs at 19:04. However, the CTID group were urging the Allams to take a vote and consult with the fans exactly as they were supposed to... now, this did happen, but it took months of non-agreement from the club until they had to comply by order of the FA.

Regardless of how twisted that survey was, the fact is there that CTID were trying to go about things in the least hostile way possible to absolutely no avail.

Please explain what you regard as hostilities.

 

Back on topic.. Am I correct in assuming that once the Chinese pass the Fit & Proper person test, the takeover is a 'done deal'?

 

I believe so.

 

I've heard of that film.

What's it about?

 

Question for Waggy:

If, during Lloyd's reign of a terror, a protest group emerged calling themselves 'City Till We Die', would you have called them out and said their name is too provocative against the owner, Lloyd?

 

think Eddie Lizzard plays the lead character who has a hissy fit on an Airbus..

 

With eels?

 

Every thread descends into willy waving and feather fanning.

So did the Chinese meet the FA today? Anyone have any real news beyond whose cock is longest!?

 

I've expressed an opinion that you disagree with - you're entitled to regard it as ridiculous if you want and hurl your usual abuse at me. However, you are not entitled to make defamatory statements about "lies" and it is that statement which I am asking you to withdraw.

 

Don't know what you are talking about, we're discussing the badge, not the name change. The Premier League eventually agreed with me on the name change.

 

"CTWD - now renamed HCST " This isn't true.

" the vast majority of the HCOSC didn't vote at all because, like me, they don't consider this name change proposal to be that important." This isn't true

Referring to HCOSC - ". At least we've got a group that speaks for all the supporters" This isn't true.

 

See OLMs post further down from mine.

If Marketing has 'touched' you in your day job, then you'll undoubtedly know why it's an appallingly ill conceived idea, though if your arguing the toss, then it's safe to assume you haven't been 'touched' by marketing.

Binning it isn't because they did it, binning it is because it's a bloody terrible idea.

Branding needs to incorporate many things an identity and a logo and for sports teams it is usually a fairly good idea to communicate more than a few jumbled numbers.

Does the current logo encourage our own fans to buy shirts? No it doesn't. Many fans are not buying shirts because of the current logo. Shirt sales - down - Fail

Football fans are on the whole traditionalists and a badge is seen as a tangible part of where they they are from and the club they support. No name - Fail

What does the current badge tell anyone who knows nothing about football? It doesn't tell them what sport we play, it doesn't tell them where we play and it doesn't tell them what our name is? How on earth is that going to attract new fans? Or even satisfy existing fans? That badge could be for a baseball team, a basketball team or a rugby team - Fail.

It's a badge with amnesia, instantly forgettable because other than 1 904 it doesn't tell anyone anything - Fail.

We have a world platform whilst we are in the PL to attract new fans and we're failing at the first hurdle by having a Tigers head and 1 904. Means absolutely nothing to most people outside of our current supporter base and other UK PL supporters - Fail.

If you're a company with an instantly recognisable logo eg Apple - then words/text aren't necessary. We are however a million miles away from being Apple.

I'd like you to provide me with one good reason for keeping the current badge, just one. One sentence will do.

 

Izzard always wears eels doesn't he

 

Beavers.