That dragon looks like they've nicked it from Leyton Orient. There's already too many clubs with dragons on their badge without anymore and that poor little bird looks totally lost.
I wonder if that means they will change all the seats in their stadium from blue to red. Sounds costly, but would be strange to have a team in red and black playing in a blue and white stadium
I wonder if that means they will change all the seats in their stadium from blue to red. Sounds costly, but would be strange to have a team in red and black playing in a blue and white stadium
Not to mention that Cardiff Blues who play there won't be too happy about that.
The thing that worries me is that the owners think changing the colours and nickname will help transform a middling team into some sort of international giant. Plenty of teams have come a cropper after being mismanaged by ambitious foreign owners, who don't know British football as well as they think. Portsmouth, Birmingham, Blackburn etc
As for blue, those well known losers in 2011/12 Man City and Chelsea play in blue also...
The Blues are moving back to their old Arms Park ground for next season and beyond, they've mutually ended the lease with Cardiff City - which I guess has cleared the way for all this.
Judging by some Cardiff fans views on this, there may well be plenty of empty seats there next season.
We've changed our badge a few times, but always had a lion. To all of a sudden stick a dragon on there, change it to red & put a bluebird at the bottom is quite a change & kick in the teeth.
They'll be gone in a year or 5, the fans are what makes a club.
Judging by some Cardiff fans views on this, there may well be plenty of empty seats there next season.
We've changed our badge a few times, but always had a lion. To all of a sudden stick a dragon on there, change it to red & put a bluebird at the bottom is quite a change & kick in the teeth.
They'll be gone in a year or 5, the fans are what makes a club.
Not the ones I know who recognise that the money will keep the club going. Not much point having a blue kit and no team to wear it.
I would prefer city to play in blue and be in league 2. If someone said to us we would change to blue to get a 100mill cash injection i wouldnt be up for it. Red is our colour and it should never change.
Ten years time if they're up the top of the Premiership it'll all be forgotten about. Similarly if they were back in blue but at the bottom of League One most of the ultras moaning about it wouldn't be going. It's only a colour.
That dragon looks like they've nicked it from Leyton Orient. There's already too many clubs with dragons on their badge without anymore and that poor little bird looks totally lost.
Orient don't have a dragon but a wyvern (dragon & serpent) on their shirt
Ten years time if they're up the top of the Premiership it'll all be forgotten about. Similarly if they were back in blue but at the bottom of League One most of the ultras moaning about it wouldn't be going. It's only a colour.
If they are in the prem most of their current fan base won't be there anyway...the move to new ground has killed off a lot of the Ninian support. Just another nail in the coffin of a club that once had character.
When MK Dons moved there was a stink and still many fans dislike them...yet Cardiff can change their badge & kit colour and nobody seems to care because it will help them survive...which was a similar argument for MK Dons.
Not sure you can compare moving from Wimbledon - Croydon to MK with moving part of the way across a small city, and happened some time ago. Cardiff's crowds have generally gone up year on year before and since the move. I admit that it's a bit daft of the owners to want to change the badge and shirt, but equally it's daft to get worked up about it.
Not sure you can compare moving from Wimbledon - Croydon to MK with moving part of the way across a small city, and happened some time ago. Cardiff's crowds have generally gone up year on year before and since the move. I admit that it's a bit daft of the owners to want to change the badge and shirt, but equally it's daft to get worked up about it.
It's the fabric of the club though isn't it, effectively selling the soul of Cardiff and what we've all known Cardiff to be in our lifetimes.
Imagine if at the time your owners came in & thought that you needed a colour change & changed the badge? Would you just rollover & say ok?
What happens when the owners leave? Hardly likely to be around for long.
I don't see why anyone in Asia would support Cardiff anyway, and even if they would, surely it is more important to keep fans in Cardiff than to gain them in Asia, which I can't see them doing anyway?
That dragon looks like they've nicked it from Leyton Orient. There's already too many clubs with dragons on their badge without anymore and that poor little bird looks totally lost.
Orient don't have a dragon but a wyvern (dragon & serpent) on their shirt
Fair dos. Too many mythical creatures then; mythical dragons, mythical wyverns, mythical Eagles in South London.
Killed the tradition! Changed colors and mascot. Why nome change the name? If I were a Cardiff supporter I would not stick with it. For me Cardiff died and re-born as a Dragon!
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As for blue, those well known losers in 2011/12 Man City and Chelsea play in blue also...
Swansea fans must be having a field day while Cardiff fans must be torn between tradition and the lure of the promised £100m.
Prague Addick can explain this better than I but why tamper with such a strong brand.
We've changed our badge a few times, but always had a lion. To all of a sudden stick a dragon on there, change it to red & put a bluebird at the bottom is quite a change & kick in the teeth.
They'll be gone in a year or 5, the fans are what makes a club.
When MK Dons moved there was a stink and still many fans dislike them...yet Cardiff can change their badge & kit colour and nobody seems to care because it will help them survive...which was a similar argument for MK Dons.
Imagine if at the time your owners came in & thought that you needed a colour change & changed the badge? Would you just rollover & say ok?
What happens when the owners leave? Hardly likely to be around for long.
I wouldn't want a change of ground though, tried that already.