Change all that is SKY BLUE? (2 Viewers)

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

Will us playing in a different colour win us more games ? Yes or no Otis ?

Apparently so, maybe we should play in red as the most successful club in England play in red therefore red = success

 

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[Otis]

Apparently so, maybe we should play in red as the most successful club in England play in red therefore red = success

Yes, cos this is obviously only about changing the kit.

That is exactly what we have been saying here. Change the kit and we will win games.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

Yes, cos this is obviously only about changing the kit.

That is exactly what we have been saying here. Change the kit and we will win games.

I know you are being sarcastic here but that is how this whole thread comes across.

Clubs can change there mentality and direction without going nuts and changing things for no reason at all.

 

[Gaz]

Yes, cos this is obviously only about changing the kit.

That is exactly what we have been saying here. Change the kit and we will win games.

I agree that a lot of changes need to be done at our club.
So lets go through some of them and rule the bad ideas out.
Lets start with kit colour ... will it make us a better football team/club ?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Well obviously the answer is yes. :facepalm:


Fook me, this is hard work. We need to think about changing everything. This isn't about the kit. But if we consider changing everything then the kit obviously forms part of that whole package. People here are ignoring the fact that we need change and are only talking about us changing the kit!! :facepalm:

Stop giving Leonard Brody ideas Otis.

 

[Otis]

But why does it come across that way that this is just about the kit?

Think everyone pretty much agrees that there is something seriously wrong with this club of ours.

All the suggestion is is that we should look at everything from top to bottom. We shouldn't necessarily rule anything out. Can understand the thinking here because we haven't always been the Sky Blues and have only been so since 1962. Before that we were the Bantams and played in dark blue and white.

Just think we need a complete re-think from top to bottom.

And don't rule out anything.

 

[Gaz]

I think we can now put this brain dead idea to bed now.

 

[Otis]

Can we not at least revert to stripes?

Scientifically proven to make players appear bigger and it did give us our greatest success in our history.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Can we not at least revert to stripes?

Scientifically proven to make players appear bigger and it did give us our greatest success in our history.

We got relegated from the PL in stripes.

 

[Otis]

We got relegated from the PL in stripes.

I remember.

Saw a programme once though by scientists and they did say wearing stripes can make a side appear bigger and prove to be an advantage.


First thing I do when I go to bed tonight is to paint stripes on my penis to test the theory!

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Too much info Otis! Stripes and bright colours are always what they suggest for goalie kits-it doesn't have the same advantage for outfield players. Remember our 2002/03 spiderman keeper kit?

 

[Grendel]

Come on we all want to get back to chocolate brown.

 

[Otis]

Come on we all want to get back to chocolate brown.

You talking about my sex life?

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

But why does it come across that way that this is just about the kit?

Think everyone pretty much agrees that there is something seriously wrong with this club of ours.

All the suggestion is is that we should look at everything from top to bottom. We shouldn't necessarily rule anything out. Can understand the thinking here because we haven't always beent he Sky Blues and have only been so since 1962. Before that we were the Bantams and played in dark blue and white.

Just think we need a complete re-think from top to bottom.

Ok I respect your opinion, yes there is something seriously wrong with the club. The club does need rebuilding right from the coaching staff, the playing squad, the board room and owners and the day to day running of the club from the bottom. We need to create a feel good factor and get the community involved and have a whole city uniting behind a football club. As Thorn said in his interview we need everyone to be pulling in the same direction, that includes everyone in the council the people living in the city and everyone involved in the club. The football club should be the heart of the community, when you enter a public place it should be full of the sky blue strip. Instead all you see are the Red and Blue of clubs like Manchester United and Liverpool. Before and after games the local pubs should be packed to the rafters buzzing and singing songs, instead they are half empty and sounding like a funeral.

I am a young fan but my Grandad always tells me about the games vs Wolves, we had over 50k fans at that match. He told me he had to climb on top of the roof at highfield road to watch that game it was that packed.
Could you imagine those sort of figures now and the buzz around the whole city.
He also told me after the games you could go and have the drink with the players after the game, my Grandad criticised one of the players on a poor performance and Hill came over and told my Grandad he wasn't to criticise the teams as that was the managers job.
I am sure there are many other similar tales but these things are unheard of now was the majority of footballers are overpaid prima donna who are put on a pedestal and worshipped. Jimmy Hill did a lot of great things for football but was getting rid of the max wage one of the worst things? I guess if not him someone else would have.


Anyway the sky blues are our identity, if we are not the sky blues then who are we? We would be just another club playing in another colour in the lower leagues. We don't need to change our identity to be successful, we should be proud of our history and not try to forget it. Offer most clubs in the football league 1 major trophy and 34 years of consecutive top flight football and they would all take it bar maybe 5 or 6 of the top clubs.
All clubs go through bad spells in time it doesn't mean you should panic and change the entire image of the club, our time in the lime light will come again in the future I am sure.

 

[Otis]

What we do need is someone to come in with a vision as Jimmy Hill did.

I know it's an old cliche, but we need someone to ride in on his white horse and grab this club by the scruff of the neck and give it a big shaking.

 

[coundonskyblue]

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What we do need is someone to come in with a vision as Jimmy Hill did.</p>
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<p>I know it's an old cliche, but we need someone to ride in on his white horse and grab this club by the scruff of the neck and give it a big shaking.

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Think we all agree with you there.

 

[WillieStanley]

Restructuring the club is a must, but rebranding... I'm not so sure about that. I couldn't imagine chanting anything other than "Sky Blue Army". That is who we are. When Hill revitalised and rebranded the club back in 62, the football club wasn't viewed as it has been or even as it is now. In fact, so I read, there was an element of resentment towards it. There was no history, no identity. We have both of those things in abundance now... infact thats the only thing we do have. Let's keep hold of it.

When you witness the team you love rot from the inside out slowly, so that all that's left is a rotten corpse languishing in the basement of the football league, all we have is our history and identity.

I support The Sky Blues. They once were called The Bantams.

I do like the Singers black and red kit though.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

What we do need is someone to come in with a vision as Jimmy Hill did.

I know it's an old cliche, but we need someone to ride in on his white horse and grab this club by the scruff of the neck and give it a big shaking.

I agree but changing badges, kit etc. is trivial if they don't have the passion, determination and drive to turn the club around on and off the pitch and in the community. Changing the colour of the kits is unneeded for the club to move forward.

 

[WillieStanley]

The club needs to mean something again. Back when we used to sign players, in interview, it has always been the stadium that was the pull. Never the "When a club like Coventry are interested, you can't say no."

When we were in the PL and before, there was the incentive of playing at a well established top filght team. There was an honour that went with it. Not any more.

 

[skybluelee]

They wouldn't feel like my club if they didn't play in sky blue. Utterly ridiculous to even consider changing colour.

 

[Otis]

I'm sure that's what fans said back in 1962 too.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

We have one of the best badges in the country I still think-captures the history and identity of the city very well and I wouldn't change that (though this season's one wasn't so bad). As a few others have already said, many of us have grown up watching 'the Sky Blues', and for all that name is tied with the club's rise to the top flight under Hill-it would take a brave, or crazy, man to suggest it change.

 

[curlyc_]

We should keep wearing sky blue shorts but maybe wear a yellow shirt instead so at least then no matter how shit we play we can always sing 'its just like watching brazil'.

 

[Otis]

We should wear yellow shirts just to show how cowardly we have become as a team.

 

[melbourneskyblue]

Gonna put my neck on the block here and admit that ive always thought that sky blue is a wanky kind of colour.Our best kits are the 'sky blue and white stripes ' look AKA Argentine....nice (and the've won a few world cups)

shoot me

 

[Otis]

My fave kits have been the striped sky blue ones like in 1987 and 89-91.

The kit this season looks washed out and anaemic.

 

[Houchens Head]

Never mind the kit. Let's change the song. Think of the words.....

Let's all sing together, Play up Sky Blues, (They haven't)
While we sing together (doesn't happen enough)
We will never lose (Ha! Joke line!)
Tottenham or Chelsea, United or anyone (Never again!)
They shan't defeat us (No??)
We'll fight till the game is won. (like they did on saturday?)

 

[Paxman II]

There is all the history attached to every aspect of the club yes. When it changed for the better by Jimmy it was immediately taken up and the passion and drive attached to it was infectious. The kit, the name, the song, the whole marketing strategy.
now today we find ourselves tired and lackluster in appeal and there is nothing infectious anymore.
A change across the board would do this club a lot of good. I know i want to not just see a difference but almost feel a difference from now on. Not suggesting we lose the sky blue, maybe we could and maybe we could just change it all and become more relevant than that 60's appeal.
I don't know about anyone else but when ever i hear the commentary on radio or TV about the 'Sky Bluuuueess' we sound like a bunch of wussies! There's just too many syllables and no impact. I remember being on the terraces at the spion kop in the late 60's and 70's and we always chanted 'City' never the long winded wussie 'sky blues'.

I'd love another Jimmy Hill era....what ever that form took to get us away from the last 25 years of drab.

 

[Paxman II]

Never mind the kit. Let's change the song. Think of the words.....

Let's all sing together, Play up Sky Blues, (They haven't)
While we sing together (doesn't happen enough)
We will never lose (Ha! Joke line!)
Tottenham or Chelsea, United or anyone (Never again!)
They shan't defeat us (No??)
We'll fight till the game is won. (like they did on saturday?)

Nope....just doesn't fit anymore right?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

We should wear yellow shirts just to show how cowardly we have become as a team.

Otis, did you not see the plans I had for my takeover (thread a few weeks back)? Next season's home kit is the most stunning shade of pink with shorts in extra extra small size only. Our Ricoh rent problems will be solved by a relocation to the Amex.

 

[Bobby Firenze]

I've just waded through 10 pages of this, my jaw dropping lower with each car-crash of a page. Paxman posturing himself as the new Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen, Otis prematurely nailing his colours to the mast and then furiously backtracking.

Can someone make the Benny Hill soundtrack play to complete my joy, please?

 

[Houchens Head]

I've just waded through 10 pages of this, my jaw dropping lower with each car-crash of a page. Paxman posturing himself as the new Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen, Otis prematurely nailing his colours to the mast and then furiously backtracking.

Can someone make the Benny Hill soundtrack play to complete my joy, please?

Glad to be of service.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg

Anything else you want?

 

[cloughie]

A kit can also make a difference. It has been scientifically proven. Wearings stripes for instance creates the illusion of players seeming bigger.

I am pretty sure that if any team wore a pink kit this could well be considered to be a weakness.

Just the way it is.

our away kit is striped hmm 1 away win

total bollocks

 

[egastap]

I suggest we go back to the blue and white panels we had back in the 1952 -1957 era (when we were in the third division [a la Division 1 of today]), as per my avatar. We might also want to go back to being the Bantams. Full circle....deja vu!

edit: Away colours should be gold and yellow with thin blue trim. We'll mesmerise our opponents with colour.

 

[1940 oldfive]

What J.H. had was support from a chairman who cared, without D.R. we would still be in the 3rd div. whoops my mistake we are in the 3rd div now.