Cardiff Re-Branded?!

I would love it if Watford were rebranded as the Watford Cowboys and all our players dressed like cowpokes. It would be awesome. Or pirates.

 

If we borrow some of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, I'm all for it!

 

Official. The locals are not best pleased, already talking about themselves becoming a plastic club. The identikit stadium hasn't helped either.

http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10335~2798585,00.html

 

Oh dear, they've sold their soul to the devil. Really hope we never do anything like this.

Football is dead :dismay:

 

I hope cardiff away is our first game of the season now!

 

I've heard especially in China and across Asia red is the colour of luck.

 

£1m a month losses....

 

I've got no feelings either way for Cardiff but from a general football fans perspective this is utterly horrible. Football is a dirty game now, it's been ruined by greed.

 

This is hilarious.

 

So the owners said they weren't going to do it. But in the meantime they got Puma to design a red kit and commission a new badge...

 

This is terrible news for football clubs everywhere.

If it is a success then it will just open the door for other clubs to be exploited in the same way.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18324804

Wow. Just wow. I cannot seriously believe they are going ahead with this.

 

They took our manager, our staff, our players, and now they want some of our colours?

FML.

 

If they wanted to invest £100m in a team, why didn't they choose one that already played in red?

 

A fact the media seem to be overlooking is that the Malaysian owners were only willing to invest the £100m if the colours were changed from blue to red. Surely this is proof enough that these owners completely mental?

 

At least kit launch day will never be boring for them anymore, lol.

 

The badge is bl**dy awful as well. It's way too obvious how they've tried to shoehorn the bluebird in there. I'll only ever say this once, but I actually feel a tiny little bit sorry for the Cardiff fans. It must be diabolical for this to happen.

 

I guess they'll be changing the seat colours in the ground and things. A pub near me has a big blue cardiff flag, and a blue signed shirt propped up behind the bar.

 

Is investment now more important than history?

In a way we went through the same change from blue to yellow/black/red along with the nickname change.

 

I heard the new owners of Watford will rebrand us and change the logo to a yellow and red lion! Makes just as much sense as a moose (I KNOW it's a hart!)...

I don't feel sorry for them - but I do feel sorry for football when the perception of a specific colour in a foreign market is more important than years of history and identity.

 

Good, I don't feel sorry for them in the slightest.

You can't have everything. If they don't want to change colour then the owners will leave, but then they will have to cut costs and flog their best players, reduce wages massively and compete on a scale natural with their size. Like, I don't know, us? They want investment with no sacrifice, well sorry but that isn't how things work. Take your medicine or deal with having no money.

Tough ****. Sell your soul for success or keep your history and work from the bottom up. About time something like this happened.


Besides which, we changed our colours/badge/nickname just because we felt like it. Its not like it makes a blind bit of difference.

 

No Cardiff fan is going to buy the new kit now.

 

Agreed, if you read the article on Skysports the spokesperson for Cardifff keeps referring to 'the brand', when will these ********s wake up and realise that these are football clubs not marketing strategies. :rant:

 

This how I feel. If the owners were willing to invest such a vast amount of money they should do it anyway, instead of holding the club at ransom over their proud hisotry. It just shows that the owners view CCFC as a personal plaything. The new badge is also hideous.

 

People comparing to when we became the Hornets, that was actually voted on by the fans so totally different. The fans were not consulted in any way about this

 

Times change. When the change was made from blue to yellow fans were not consulted. However, as I remember nobody much cared.

 

I actually support the investors here, to a point.

If they're going to pump 100 million of their own cash into the club, they should be free to make changes to it as they see fit. They want to make the changes to aid marketing in Asia, where red is a lucky colour and will significantly improve their chances to make money.

If the fans aren't ok with that, they have no right to expect a rich sugar daddy to finance them.

Getting bought by rich owners is a double edged sword. The investors own the club, the club don't own the investors.

Naturally I wouldn't want to see this happen to us, but if it did, the new owner would be fully within their rights to do so.

For the record, my personal preference would be for clubs to not be allowed to be owned by anyone other than the city/town they play in, in the style of many of the Spanish teams.

 

It's being compared as something similar. Obviously the circumstances are very different.

However the only vote was on the nickname, not the colours.

 

I think some people are being a bit precious about the colour of the shirt. We change the second shirt colour almost every year. Some clubs like palace have gone for shirts with their colours completley changed round over the years, ie white shirts with blue red trim, I remember shrewsbury in blue and orange stripes then then orange stripe disappeared. Our badge has changed several times with Hart/Hornet/lettering changed. Infact bring back the hornet, never seen a black and yellow Hart! Our colour of shorts/socks are always up for debate. The best change colour was the all red and yellow/black trim I remember worn by Steve Sims at Oxford away - looked frightning! I would like a Black/Yellow stripe next year with a hornets head on the back :naughty:

 

I love the fact that L*ton recently changed their home kit from white to orange and nobody cared / noticed.

 

Red or blue, I'll support the lads 110% Come on you Reds!

You are all terrible fans.

 

Haha, oh dear.
I have no idea what the Malaysians were thinking, if they wanted a club who wore red, Bristol City is just over the water!
Mental, what is football these days!!