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That's not 'two-tone', it looks like just a bad match of shorts and top !

I pray to the dear Lord that we do not end up with anything similar to this !

FFS, can we not just play in red/white stripes with black shorts like previous years ?

Not asking too much, eh ????

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That's the worst home kit the Premier League's had for many years. Does rather put our complaints into perspective, doesn't it?

 

Not really. The Mail ran an article about how sh it our new kit was last season, complete with quotes from fans about how sh it it was, acked up of course woth two surveys confirming fans thought it was sh it.

 

 

Didn't stop fu cking saps on here dismissing the story as sh it stirring by the media with an anti Saints agenda.

 

No one on here think the Mail have an anti Cardiff agenda, then?

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No one on here think the Mail have an anti Cardiff agenda, then?

 

I thought it was clear that was an anti-Wales agenda in the Mail seeing as it's not a real country and all the welsh teams should be playing in their own league, ruining the English national team it is, coming over here, stealing our jobs, competing for places that our rightfully 'Arrys and all...

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Rudolph Dassler must be turning in his grave at this. At least our kit will be from the company that his brother founded and, to my knowledge, Adidas have never produced anything quite so cheap looking!

 

Promotion apart, my Bluebirds supporting in-laws have had a tough time lately.

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Not really. The Mail ran an article about how sh it our new kit was last season, complete with quotes from fans about how sh it it was, acked up of course woth two surveys confirming fans thought it was sh it.

 

 

Didn't stop fu cking saps on here dismissing the story as sh it stirring by the media with an anti Saints agenda.

 

No one on here think the Mail have an anti Cardiff agenda, then?

 

I'm new around here, but I've just been reading this board and seen your name pop up on a few threads and all you seem to do is snipe and moan. You seem quite angry about things. Perhaps you could try being a little bit nicer and you might feel less angry about something like this.

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I'm new around here, but I've just been reading this board and seen your name pop up on a few threads and all you seem to do is snipe and moan. You seem quite angry about things. Perhaps you could try being a little bit nicer and you might feel less angry about something like this.

 

I think I'll set myself up a new forum persona too.

 

Not quite decided on a name yet, but am coming down on the side of Wonder Woman.

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Not really. The Mail ran an article about how sh it our new kit was last season, complete with quotes from fans about how sh it it was, acked up of course woth two surveys confirming fans thought it was sh it.

 

 

Didn't stop fu cking saps on here dismissing the story as sh it stirring by the media with an anti Saints agenda.

 

No one on here think the Mail have an anti Cardiff agenda, then?

 

Interesting. I tried to find that article but could only find this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2128462/PREMIER-LEAGUE-NEW-KIT-The-strips-team-wearing-2012-13.html

They put us joint 3rd for best kit.

 

Wouldn't be bull****ting again would you Fry? Or did I not detect the sarcasm?

 

For a supposed Saints fan you really do seem to hate Saints fans. You have a lot of Skate traits.....

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Interesting. I tried to find that article but could only find this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2128462/PREMIER-LEAGUE-NEW-KIT-The-strips-team-wearing-2012-13.html

They put us joint 3rd for best kit.

 

Wouldn't be bull****ting again would you Fry? Or did I not detect the sarcasm?

 

For a supposed Saints fan you really do seem to hate Saints fans. You have a lot of Skate traits.....

 

Google "Daily Mail southampton new kit". Two seconds work. Saints fans saying they don't like it, club parroting out what a triumph it has been.

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Google "Daily Mail southampton new kit". Two seconds work. Saints fans saying they don't like it, club parroting out what a triumph it has been.

 

I guess you mean this article? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2168763/Southampton-reveal-controversial-new-kit.html

 

You are right there are a few quotes from a few fans who say they don't like it. But there are a few quotes from fans saying they like it too. In the first paragraph they say "can best be described as a mixed response". But isn't that how it always is with anything where people have the chance to show opinion on something like a shirt?

 

I do find it kind of sad that you would use a 50-50 article in a way to imply we always complain or that when we do we are unique in doing so.

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It's a terrible, terrible shirt, made worse by the fact their rebrand was for red and black last season, and are for some reason wearing red and white this. The reds don't match, the collar looks cheap (looks much nicer on the Newcastle home), the shorts just look like a mismatch and the white bits look tacked on.

 

Our red kit might be crap, but at least it isn't going to look CHEAP and crap. Weird really, the Puma Newcastle away looks quite nice.

 

Incidentally, Malaysia wear yellow and black stripes, so it can't be regarded as THAT lucky. :D

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Why do you hate Saints fans? I'm not being combative, I'd just like to know why you have so much hate in your heart, my friend.

 

I don't hate you. It's great to have a completely new and fresh contributor to the forum. Welcome aboard, brand new person.

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I'm fortunate enough to work with a skate and a Cardiff fan! Haha

I get to rip them both for having **** kits! I just can't understand now puma and Cardiff thought this looked good. Like isn't it obvious it's a terrible idea, especially in those two shades of red.

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Hilarious to see someone actually suggesting that giving the fans the option to vote on the colour of the shorts means "their opinion is being considered". That is the worst combination of colours I've seen on a kit in years - Newcastle have the same template in different colours and it looks absolutely fine. But the two-tone red is just awful.

 

The point is that their shirts should be blue anyway, 99% of Cardiff City fans would vote for that, and probably with pink and yellow spotted shorts if it meant they got the blue back - but because it doesn't suit their mentalist Chairman to wear blue, they don't get the option. If they cared what the fans wanted, they'd be wearing blue, never mind "here's a token vote because we've even managed to screw up WORSE the red kit you all hated anyway".

 

The idiots responsible for their rebranding of course have now changed the colours they wear even since last season's red and black, to red and some different red and a bit of white. I mean, at least decide what you're rebranding to BEFORE you go ahead with it, and plan beyond just one season...

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they'll obviously go for red as the others are all awful.

 

I'm not so sure, the lighter red certainly goes well, but there are already two Prem sides wearing all red (there were last season anyway :facepalm:).

 

In addition, the white shorts actually go with the otherwise mismatched white trim on the rest of the kit. That can't be said of the black, though that was their colour scheme last season so there may be a few who think "sod it, we can't have blue, let's at least keep the combination from last season and stop them changing everything every year". So there are arguments for all apart from the ugly dark red that caused the vote in the first place.

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Club release awful kit.

Fans go mental.

Club offer fans chance to vote.

Fans love chance to vote.

Fans buy lots of kits.

 

So simple but will sell plenty of kits.

 

You are so far off the mark with this it's unbelievable. They will all buy the blue away kit (assuming there is one), just like they did last season. None of them will buy a home shirt because they had the chance to decide the home shorts when they almost all hate the red shirts to begin with.

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You are so far off the mark with this it's unbelievable. They will all buy the blue away kit (assuming there is one), just like they did last season. None of them will buy a home shirt because they had the chance to decide the home shorts when they almost all hate the red shirts to begin with.

 

I'm amazed that so few people know what has gone on at Cardiff in the last year or so.

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I know what went on.

 

It's all gone a bit quiet though so my assumption was that like the good little football fans we all are, they had given up and accepted it.

Cardiff fans have put up with it as they recognised that, without investment, they more than likely would have tumbled into administration, they were absolutely f*cked financially. The new owner has taken on the debt and provided masses of investment into the club and the team.

 

The colour of kit isn't the be all and end all; pretty much all football fans know that (so long as you don't employ your main rival's colours as your own, of course). They also know its really not that much of an important issue to escalate anywhere outside of their local area. But it is important enough to care about, and the Cardiff "protest" as such has been last season to predominantly buy the blue away shirt. having been to Cardiff a few times it was noticeable how many blue shorts there were compared to red. I'd be surprised if there's a blue option this year; and if the red "boycott" continues, that's when teh owner might sit up and take notice (though I very much doubt it).

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You are so far off the mark with this it's unbelievable. They will all buy the blue away kit (assuming there is one), just like they did last season. None of them will buy a home shirt because they had the chance to decide the home shorts when they almost all hate the red shirts to begin with.

 

That's what I'd do; continue to wear the traditional colours and boycott the new kit in colours that were alien to the club. Either their owner doesn't care whether they have poor merchandising sales, or he arrogantly thinks that he can completely disregard the opinions of the fans and ride roughshod over them, and they'll blindly buy whatever rubbish they are presented with. A stadium full of blue shirts and a shop full of unsold stock would quickly disabuse him of that opinion. The trouble is, there will always be a percentage of fans who will buy the new kit regardless, because they don't have the mental strength to make a stand on a matter of principle. Big clubs with loads of plastic fans can get away with that philosophy far more easily than the smaller lower profile clubs, although as their marketing initiatives produce millions of £s of revenue for them, they employ marketing experts who would throw their hands up in horror at such a crass policy. If it were to be applied to us, it would have even more significance, as a change of our colours the other way, would put us in the colours of our main rivals.

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That's what I'd do; continue to wear the traditional colours and boycott the new kit in colours that were alien to the club. Either their owner doesn't care whether they have poor merchandising sales, or he arrogantly thinks that he can completely disregard the opinions of the fans and ride roughshod over them, and they'll blindly buy whatever rubbish they are presented with. A stadium full of blue shirts and a shop full of unsold stock would quickly disabuse him of that opinion. The trouble is, there will always be a percentage of fans who will buy the new kit regardless, because they don't have the mental strength to make a stand on a matter of principle. Big clubs with loads of plastic fans can get away with that philosophy far more easily than the smaller lower profile clubs, although as their marketing initiatives produce millions of £s of revenue for them, they employ marketing experts who would throw their hands up in horror at such a crass policy. If it were to be applied to us, it would have even more significance, as a change of our colours the other way, would put us in the colours of our main rivals.

 

While this is undoubtedly true, you can also see from the polls on here and on the Echo that there's also a moderately significant group who genuinely couldn't care less what colours we turn out in and will buy the home shirt come what may.

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Jesus Christ, les thinks some fans 'don't have the mental strength' not to buy a kit? How much mental strength does it take not buy something?

 

You underestimate our fans. Have a word with the likes of Colinjb; he's already said he doesn't like the current kit but wouldn't be able to resist buying it if the new one was similar.

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