Investment on the Horizon? (11 Viewers)

[KG7]

Changing the badge never bothered me, it was the laughable amateur design that was the issue.
After all the current badge isn't the same as it was in the 70's or 80's so its been changed before.

I was once told that there was a bit of back story to the badge change and design that was never made public.

Apparently just before the release of the new design the person who was designing potential new badges was flying off on his honeymoon with his new wife and had a heart attack on the plane and sadly never recovered (I think his name was David Jones). He was popular and well loved and taken well before his time and the person who told me this said that it always felt to him like using one of his designs to adorn the shirt of his team was partly a tribute to him from the club.

Edited to add article:

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/sky-blues-worker-honeymoon-tragedy-3146766

 

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[stevefloyd]

I am in the I couldn't give a shite what colour we play in camp, nobody complains when they watch the team play away from home in Yellow, green, black, red, brown etc etc so what does it really matter just give us something to support on the pitch and until we know for definite why bloody argue about it FFS...see what you done here Malaka

 

[Malaka]

I am in the I couldn't give a shite what colour we play in camp, nobody complains when they watch the team play away from home in Yellow, green, black, red, brown etc etc so what does it really matter just give us something to support on the pitch and until we know for definite why bloody argue about it FFS...see what you done here Malaka

Sorry mate!

 

[ajsccfc]

Anyone who complains about us playing in brown should be banned for life

 

[Sky Blue Kid]

Anyone who complains about us playing in brown should be banned for life

Sorry mate. I already did

 

[ajsccfc]

You're off the Christmas card list!

 

[clint van damme]

Sorry mate. I already did

The greatest kit ever!!

 

[wingy]

You're off the Christmas card list!

Blame Ipswich It was meant to be theirs!!

 

[torchomatic]

Blame Ipswich It was meant to be theirs!!

Did you see that programme on Admiral a couple of months back? Brilliant.

 

[wingy]

Did you see that programme on Admiral a couple of months back? Brilliant.

No missed that torch.

 

[torchomatic]

This was it:

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-09-21/...it-pioneers-admiral-and-how-they-lost-it-all/



All the kits were designed by a woman. They touted the brown kit around and we were the only club who said yes.

 

[wingy]

This was it:

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-09-21/...it-pioneers-admiral-and-how-they-lost-it-all/



All the kits were designed by a woman. They touted the brown kit around and we were the only club who said yes.

Good read.
Notable mention as top Club along with Utd,Spurs, Norwich, West Hem etc.
£500 for a second hand model and all from a Company that used to make Nuns Knickers, brill!!

 

[Otis]

It could be much worse... We could be taken over by Cadburys.............

Or Andrex.

 

[MusicDating]

Or Andrex.

I've had enough of your shit jokes.

 

[Otis]

I am in the I couldn't give a shite what colour we play in camp, nobody complains when they watch the team play away from home in Yellow, green, black, red, brown etc etc so what does it really matter just give us something to support on the pitch and until we know for definite why bloody argue about it FFS...see what you done here Malaka

And the NOPM advocates who only do away games almost never see us play in sky blue.

 

[Hobo]

Far too much creative speculation going on. It is almost like SISU have left. Get a grip.

 

[Don't know why I bother]

I don't think SISU ever arrived to be fair...

 

[skybluebeduff]

And the NOPM advocates who only do away games almost never see us play in sky blue.

If you can call that Tesco Bag Sky Blue,,,

 

[Brylowes]

Well I was busy last night
Great night up In Liverpool.
I've read through the thread again and again.
I'm still of the opinion it's something through Fisher and the Butts.
However as I've read back the third time something clicked through my mind where I'd mentioned an aspect of Andersons role through all of those meetings.
Those aspects must have been broached.
Are there two competing outcomes here?
He did seem an odd pick for CEO, I wouldn't have had him down as one for sorting mundane ticketing or retailing operations others lower down could take care of that.
I thought and think there was more to his selection and role here?
Time will tell.

Where abouts were you in Liverpool Wingy, had some brilliant times up there.

 

[wingy]

Where abouts were you in Liverpool Wingy, had some brilliant times up there.

Went up for a gig Brylowes.
Had a wander around, couple Of Museums, meal and a couple of pints (Early).
Then onto the echo arena, which may describe it accurately as there was either a reverberation or slight echo as the sound hit the back of the auditorium.
So didn't get too much of a sample on venues.
Have worked up there a couple of times too, usually knackered so wander to the nearest pub or rehydrate at the hotel.
It looks like a city on the up with good investment going in.
A city near water alway helps doesn't it.
I'd stay in a hotel next time and make it a fuller more relaxed venture.

 

[Brylowes]

Went up for a gig Brylowes.
Had a wander around, couple Of Museums, meal and a couple of pints (Early).
Then onto the echo arena, which may describe it accurately as there was either a reverberation or slight echo as the sound hit the back of the auditorium.
So didn't get too much of a sample on venues.
Have worked up there a couple of times too, usually knackered so wander to the nearest pub or rehydrate at the hotel.
It looks like a city on the up with good investment going in.
A city near water alway helps doesn't it.
I'd stay in a hotel next time and make it a fuller more relaxed venture.

We go up twice a year Grand National weekend in April and Int Beatles week in August,
Fantastic city, the night life, restaurants, museums, people, but most of all the architecture.
We first went in 05 and been going ever since, often take some friends or family and it's
Always funny watching them change their original perception.

 

[wingy]

We go up twice a year Grand National weekend in April and Int Beatles week in August,
Fantastic city, the night life, restaurants, museums, people, but most of all the architecture.
We first went in 05 and been going ever since, often take some friends or family and it's
Always funny watching them change their original perception.

Yep can't help but be Impressed at the scale of some of the buildings, port cities tend to be Impressive,Bristol comes to mind.
Friends have given it the same reviews as yourself and I would concur, would be a good weekend destination not to far to head off to on a Friday evening, plenty of culture and events as you describe.

 

[Hobo]

Yep can't help but be Impressed at the scale of some of the buildings, port cities tend to be Impressive,Bristol comes to mind.
Friends have given it the same reviews as yourself and I would concur, would be a good weekend destination not to far to head off to on a Friday evening, plenty of culture and events as you describe.

Liverpool and Bristol are nice cities, but slavery funded some of those grand buildings.

 

[Sky Blue Kid]

Liverpool and Bristol are nice cities, but slavery funded some of those grand buildings.

Yeh Those Romans/Normans/Vikings were right bastards weren't they!

 

[wingy]

Liverpool and Bristol are nice cities, but slavery funded some of those grand buildings.

You would be right of course along with regular trade.
The history isn't impressive but the architecture is.

 

[Hobo]

Yeh Those Romans/Normans/Vikings were right bastards weren't they!

he First Slave Ship

Name: Liverpool Merchant
When: 1700
What: Sold a cargo of 220 African slaves in Barbados
1792 - a 'good' year for slaving

Ships coming out of England were as follows:

Liverpool 131
Bristol 42
London 22
Estimates state that over 40,000 African slaves were transported by Liverpool vessels alone.

From then, for the next 60 years, between 40 and 110 ships sailed each year laden with slaves.

That was Liverpool alone SkyblueKid....Bristol and London also had big slave trade figures.

 

[Hobo]

You would be right of course along with regular trade.
The history isn't impressive but the architecture is.

I don't dispute that, as I said both nice cities.

 

[Sky Blue Kid]

And the thread goes rapidly downhill from here... I'm out.

 

[wingy]

I don't dispute that, as I said both nice cities.

I'm with you
Watched an awful 70's dramatised film on it recently, glorifying in it, couldn't believe there'd be any market in that, maybe they were trying to portray an accurate perception of real events and it went over my head. :-(

 

[wingy]

And the thread goes rapidly downhill from here... I'm out.

Sorry mate, we have gone off topic.

 

[georgehudson]

I wonder if 'the splinter boys', (C&W for sitting on the fence for too long), will mention the subject of this thread, on tonights phone in ?

 

[Brylowes]

Liverpool and Bristol are nice cities, but slavery funded some of those grand buildings.

It certainly did, no denying that Liverpool was the largest Atlantic port and as such
Attracted the wealthy merchants, who built palaces as there headquarters to show
Off their wealth and outdo each other. Liverpool never attempts to hide from this
Particular chapter in its history, its also worth noting some of the more prominent
And active abolitionists hailed from here.
It was the second city of empire and led the the way in many fields of finance and
Industry not to mention the arts and culture, it has a fiercely proud working class
People and rich heritage.
The result today is a City Center most other places would die for.

 

[matesx]

Glasgow's merchant City is pretty impressive too.

Financed mostly by imported tobacco.

 

[Hobo]

It certainly did, no denying that Liverpool was the largest Atlantic port and as such
Attracted the wealthy merchants, who built palaces as there headquarters to show
Off their wealth and outdo each other. Liverpool never attempts to hide from this
Particular chapter in its history, its also worth noting some of the more prominent
And active abolitionists hailed from here.
It was the second city of empire and led the the way in many fields of finance and
Industry not to mention the arts and culture, it has a fiercely proud working class
People and rich heritage.
The result today is a City Center most other places would die for.

Lived and worked there for a bit so know it reasonably well. Always enjoy visiting it and Bristol.

 

[ceetee]

So a lot of people want to get rid of SISU by hastening the death of the club and starting a new club in a park somewhere and pretending it's CCFC

And a lot of people, possibly some of the same ones, aren't prepared to change the shirt colours even if that were the price we pay to get rid of SISU

You couldn't make it up