A different kind of boycott?

8 Responses to A different kind of boycott?

1. Mike Cadwgan says:

   November 25, 2014 at 3:11 pm

   Perhaps it’s because I’m not a billionaire but I don’t understand why Mr Tan can’t see that he would have more likelihood of becoming a hero if he reverted the teams colours back to blue (albeit with maybe a red logo..)
   The whole business is sad for the club and sad for himself that he just doesn’t understand.
   Oh well let’s have a chorus of ‘we’ll always be blue’ – singing is good for you.
2. Graham says:

   November 25, 2014 at 5:17 pm

   An excellent analysis – sadly, football has become an opportunity for money-making on the grand scale .. and nowhere – literally nowhere else in the whole world – is this more the case than in Britain, well the English part of it .. I mean, of course, the Premier League – when we went up to it, Tan must have thought that yes, many dreams were really coming true .. he has a business reputation for making money, lots of it, by taking chances and trusting to luck – and it must have seemed as if he’d got it right yet again .. AND he was being personally adored by the supporters for bankrolling this exciting money-making exercise .. but whereas TG actually understood what football and football clubs are all about, Tan didn’t – and still doesn’t. And this awful state of affairs may well continue until Tan goes – and yes, I understand all the arguments about utter financial disaster if he does .. unless, of course, someone, somehow, somewhere can persuade him to sit down and listen to and try to understand why we – the supporters of CCFC – can’t support, and show support, to the man who, monetarily, owns our Club, unless he shows us he cares about what we care about .. and a simple gesture, just a splash of blue perhaps, could achieve that.
   Until then, we’ll have the extraordinary spectacle, unique in world football, which I experience every time I travel from London to support my team and go to a bar inside the stadium before the game : NOBODY THERE IS WEARING A SHIRT THE SAME COLOUR AS THE SHIRTS WHICH THEIR TEAM WILL BE WEARING .. I hope Vincent Tan can be persuaded that his money will be safer, and his mind will be calmer {since he says his family keeps advising him to give up this first club in his expanding football-club empire}, if he makes a gesture which will persuade supporters to cheer him again ..
   .. well, no harm in hoping?
3. Graham smith says:

   November 25, 2014 at 10:13 pm

   When will enough be enough and real fans simply turn their backs on what was their team? Empty terraces MAY influence our beloved owner. I am increasingly less interested in following a team I have supported for 60 years. If you were there when Brian scored that goal these are very sad days.
4. The other Bob Wilson says:

   November 26, 2014 at 10:06 am

   Thank you for the replies to yesterday’s piece. Mike, the way Vincent Tan won’t let go regarding Malky Mackay shows he is a stubborn man and I believe he would see any backing down as a loss of face on his part. Even if I’m wrong though and he decided enough was enough, I don’t think all City fans would be prepared to forgive and forget – there’d be plenty who would, but I don’t see Tan ever getting a reception like the one he had in that Palace game again.
   Graham T, I agree about TG – I think he may have been a bit of a controlling influence if Tan had allowed him to be, but his leaving looks suspiciously like the politician who uses the “I want to spend more time with my family” excuse when they lose their Cabinet job (did he jump or was he pushed?). Your last paragraph does a superb job of showing the ridiculous situation we find ourselves in. At the moment, there is nothing to indicate that the change to red has made the club any money and, having been so eager to attribute our promotion to “lucky red”, our subsequent demotion and becalmed situation in a lower position than the one we occupied when we last wore blue makes any defence of the rebrand on superstitious grounds looks even barmier than normal – I can think of no even vaguely logical reason why we are playing in red.
   Graham S, I’ve always said that, while I would be willing to take part in a one off organised boycott of a game, I couldn’t just stop going to matches completely like some have done. However, I would say that this season, the notion of no longer watching City play is not as unthinkable as it has been in the past.
   In my piece on the Reading game, I said the result is more important than the performance as far as I’m concerned, but that view was almost stretched beyond breaking point last Friday. I’ll see what the club have to say early in the New Year when details of season tickets for 15/16 are released, but renewing won’t be the automatic decision it has been in the past. Going to games doesn’t have the same feel any more and throughout this year the football has been poor and the atmosphere crap – I now look forward to international games more because with them I’m watching a team and nation I can relate to, I find that so hard to do now with the team and club that were always my first footballing love.
5. Dai Woosnam says:

   November 26, 2014 at 12:53 pm

   Thanks Paul for your detailed analysis, and for exhibiting something that is always apparent in everything you write.
   I refer to your bred-in-the-bone GOOD MANNERS.
   That I disagree with a fair amount of your thoughtful words above, matters not a jot.
   What strikes me is that you always call him MISTER Tan. I salute you for that. And if he is misguided – as I concede that he was over the colour change* – then at least you stop well short of calling him “Tan” like as though he was the defendant in a murder trial !!
   Kindest,
   Dai.
   * Remember how Yorkshiremen were always characterised as being stubborn to the nth degree. Yet those blunt Leeds United supporters who accepted the move to all white, seem now like positive FREE THINKERS compared to so many Cardiff fans whose herd mentality makes them non-receptive to an admittedly strange move from the greatest benefactor Cardiff City have ever had.
   Stop moving deckchairs on what could be your Titanic, dear City fans! There are far more important issues.
   And yet, if we find ourselves unable to embrace the views of Vincent (and hey, I do not doubt the sincerity of any contributors to your blog, and if they feel the way they feel, I defend to the death their right to air their opinions, as I hope they allow me mine), let us at least do so in a tone of moderation.
6. The other Bob Wilson says:

   November 28, 2014 at 11:14 am

   Morning Dai. First of all, sorry for not replying earlier – I don’t get notifications of any comments made about my posts on here any more since I switched e-mail addresses.

   Thank you for complimenting me about my manners, but I don’t think I deserve your praise because I slip into calling our owner “Tan” from time to time on here.

   I think there is a tendency with some to blame Vincent Tan for everything that goes wrong at the club and in lots of ways I can understand that (I do it myself at times), but, ever since we got promoted, there have been plenty of others on and off the pitch at the club who have not performed well enough.

   Looking back at last Friday, it was easily the most disconnected I’ve felt from the team at a game in the two and a half years since the rebrand – I came out of the ground feeling that and a look the messageboard reaction to the match told me I was far from alone in feeling that way.

   City games aren’t much fun at the moment for all sorts of reasons, but, the main one has to be the rebrand – it’s the over riding reason why so many question whether they are watching the team they grew up supporting any more.

   Leaving aside us “customers” though, I think it’s got to the stage where the rebrand might be counter productive in terms of whatever it is that Mr Tan has planned for the club and if red was lucky for us in the first year following the change in May 2012, it has long since stopped being so.
7. Adrian Lloyd Pickrell says:

   November 28, 2014 at 3:29 pm

   Paul, sorry for the late comment..I have just returned today. A superb piece of writing that reflects exactly how I feel.
   Well done for putting it so perfectly into words.

   I too am feeling more and more disconnected and like Graham Smith I’m becomming less interested. This saddens me deeply as I remember not so long ago always having a 200 pulse and a thumping heart when City played. At the time of the rebrand I really did not believe a colour change would affect me that much…but it’s getting worse with every red shirted game that goes by.

   Best regards
   Adrian
8. The other Bob Wilson says:

   December 2, 2014 at 1:51 pm

   Nice to hear from you again Adrian, hope you are well. I’m in a more upbeat frame of mind after watching City teams win three matches in the last three days while scoring nine times, but I must admit that, for reasons I cannot begin to explain, I find it so much sadder watching our kids play in red than I do the first team. Also, did you see that there’s yet another story in the Daily Mail today regarding Malky Mackay

   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2856402/Malky-Mackay-Iain-Moody-hit-new-race-claims-former-Cardiff-employee-Alisher-Apsalyamov-submits-complaint-FA.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

   I said on a messageboard this morning that someone (we all know who!) is really scraping the bottom of the barrel now – people used to say that Vincent Tan would be a hero if he would only just change us back to blue, but I’m not sure that’s true any more.

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