When Rovers fans tend to suggest we're a club only thirty years old (it is the only thing they've got on us really) I normally make the point that it's embarrassing to suggest a club is merely its business. Any fan who thinks that way neglects every other factor which, when combined, make the prestige of a football club. Sure, not all is crucial. Our stadium is an integral part of us, but if we move we'll have to make new history. But there's the kit, the crest, the name, the staff, players and, most important of all, us - the fans. This is pushing it. It really is. Any Cardiff supporter must be going through an identity crisis, as their club is steadily vanishing before their eyes. The astounding thing is, for all the moaning and bitching they're letting it happen. Some are even defending it. Did you know Leeds changed their colours once, fifty years ago (they say)? Hell, we've changed our crest, what right do we have to criticise... Well plenty, as such changes weren't simultaneous by a foreign owner trying to make the club more marketable overseas. I'm surprised they even kept the same name, why not Cardiff Dragons? Americans might like the sound of that. Being fit and proper to run a business is one thing, being fit and proper to run a football club is another.
Must admit i have some sympathy with the sheep bothers. I personally would never wear the shirt again if they changed from red to blue so i imagine how cheesed off these guys must be. It's just another example of foreign monet thinking they can make more cash in the east and bollocks to the real heart of the club, the fans. For the only time in my life cardiff fans you do have my deepest sympathy.
please log in to view this image They are the biggest bottlers going,they ought to play in yellow,right down the middle of their backs,I couldn't care less about them..
even the guys modeling the shirts look peed off. or is it the fact there stuck in that sheethole called cardiff.
Find it hard to get my head round how weak their fans are now. They have become dressed by their mum types.
To be fair, its different to us in Bristol - if either club wanted to change from red to Blue or vice versa, the resulting outcry and season ticket boycott would probably bust both clubs. I agree that it is wrong for the owners of Cardiff to just impose change like this but its not like they want to play in white - that I suspect, would be a whole different ball game....
They had a white away kit last season, most fans are glad to see the back of that. Would have made better business sense to have a red away this season, get the fans used to it, then swap over..
Wonder what are they going to do with the seating in the Cardiff Stadium, are they going to change them all to red?
i had the council come round the other day and they are the colours they used to paint my bog............ Thats it, cardiff council must have ordered to much and palmed it of on that lot..............
Seats will have to change colour soon, after all according to the tao of the great Tan blue is a unlucky colour. If he does not there will be floods, tsunami's, typhoons, the sky will turn black due to millions of bats and they will cover Cardiff fans in their deadly bat ****.
I have a lot of sympathy with the distress all this must be causing the die hard Cardiff City fans. My father came to Bristol in the 30's from the Rhondda valley and whilst my earliest memories of watching League football are from Ashton Gate, Dad often took me to Ninian Park in the early fifties when Cardiff were in the First Division. Thus I was able to see many of the great British players of the era. Too many players to mention individually except Stan Matthews and Billy Wright who would even today be megastars. Teams like Portsmouth, Tottenham and Wolves who had all won the title within the previous 3 or 4 years. And later in the decade to follow City there and I especially remember one cracking 3-2 win on Good Friday 1958 and travelling back to Bristol with the team on the supporters special train. So while, like my father, I always want us to beat Cardiff, I hope that for the fans sake, they may be able to overturn this re-branding exercise someday.
I am not astounded by what is happening at Cardiff because many "fans" have forgotten that "fans" themselves are a integral part of football club v winning and commercialisation. There are many aspects of identity and history which are now meaningless to many I struggle to understand how people get excited about modern football. It's virtually a non-contact sport now, you pay your hard earned to go and watch a load of mercaneries paid **** loads, who on the whole don't give a **** about your club in reality run around a pitch for an hour and half, the local lads to cheer on come second to the mercaneries. The clubs commercial director here recently changed City traditional kit for no other reason than commercialisation. Same was done for space for fans flags. Blue has been part of the away kit. The clubs commercial director is not a fan of City, he is an employee. City fans here also said "has to be done, thats the way the game is going ..." It is happening everywhere.
The unlucky blue seats are staying because they of course 25000 x £'s will cost a lot of money to replace. These clubs would not have existed if it was not fans and this is just disrespect for past generations. The new breed of football fans won't be attempting to overturn this as they will lap up the promise of the EPL dream.
I'm still in utter disbelief that the Cardiff City fans are taking this. I think it's safe to say that if we were purchased by foreign investors and changed our kits over to blue and white most of us would hit the ****ing roof and boycott the club. Despite our rivalry I've always liked watching Cardiff play, but if the fans don't stand up to this bullshit then I'll lose all respect for them, and I doubt I'll be the only one. They can have all the success they want but if their rivals won't respect them then what's it all worth?
We might laugh at them but a Southampton fan put blue in the away kit and changed Citys home kit here. Hundreds years plus changed there. Cardiff are just further down the road where clubs are looked upon as brands and products.
