It's been one year since my last post. Cardiff City's 2014/15 season has come and gone. The Bluebirds fell down into the Championship well and landed with a thud...
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| 2014/15 Championship Table (Courtesy of Wikipedia) |
I thought about writing one or more posts summarizing the events of the past year, but in reality there was only one story that mattered for the fans of Cardiff City.
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| Cardiff City FC crest, 2012-2015 |
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| Cardiff City FC crest, 2015... |
The Bluebirds are once again blue.
You could attribute the reversal to a change of heart or aesthetics. Or perhaps you could credit the change to Vincent Tan's mother (yes, seriously). The reality is that the finest deodorant is winning...and once you stop using it, people start to realize that things stink. Cardiff City fans voted with their wallets en masse and elected not to renew their season tickets. And in the end, you can protest all you want but it's the money that talks.
With the change of kit and crest comes a new sense of optimism about the club. The flow of money won't be the same in the 2015/16 season as in the past, but all the same I believe the club when they say..."The target is promotion and if that wasn’t what we wanted to achieve, none of us would be here. We have to get the squad right, the team right. The whole structure of this club has to be spot on and we are spending a lot of time making sure it’s right. Promotion can be the result of what we do in preparation. We are building in every area of the club to ensure we are ready to challenge." (Cardiff City CEO Ken Choo, 3 July 2015 interview)
In my very first post, I stated that "I chose the name [of this blog] not just because it ties to the Cardiff City logo, but also because it highlights the struggle for identity that will be the undercurrent of their 2013/14 season." You can see from the new logo that the struggle is over and whatever happens during the 2015/16 season, it will (hopefully) be the actions on the field that dominate the discussion.
It's only fitting that I now put the blog to rest for good. "Dragon and Bluebird" made sense at the time, but if anything "Bluebird and Dragon" seems more appropriate now.
If you've still got a few minutes left in your lunch break, come check out the newly-formed US Bluebirds site. The mission of the US Bluebirds Supporters Club is to connect Cardiff City’s American fanbase to each other, to other supporters around the world, and to the club itself, by providing a high-quality platform and unique content, in order to grow the Bluebirds community. You can also follow us on Twitter (@USBluebirds).
Thanks for reading, and good luck to the Bluebirds this season and all those to come.
You could attribute the reversal to a change of heart or aesthetics. Or perhaps you could credit the change to Vincent Tan's mother (yes, seriously). The reality is that the finest deodorant is winning...and once you stop using it, people start to realize that things stink. Cardiff City fans voted with their wallets en masse and elected not to renew their season tickets. And in the end, you can protest all you want but it's the money that talks.
With the change of kit and crest comes a new sense of optimism about the club. The flow of money won't be the same in the 2015/16 season as in the past, but all the same I believe the club when they say..."The target is promotion and if that wasn’t what we wanted to achieve, none of us would be here. We have to get the squad right, the team right. The whole structure of this club has to be spot on and we are spending a lot of time making sure it’s right. Promotion can be the result of what we do in preparation. We are building in every area of the club to ensure we are ready to challenge." (Cardiff City CEO Ken Choo, 3 July 2015 interview)
In my very first post, I stated that "I chose the name [of this blog] not just because it ties to the Cardiff City logo, but also because it highlights the struggle for identity that will be the undercurrent of their 2013/14 season." You can see from the new logo that the struggle is over and whatever happens during the 2015/16 season, it will (hopefully) be the actions on the field that dominate the discussion.
It's only fitting that I now put the blog to rest for good. "Dragon and Bluebird" made sense at the time, but if anything "Bluebird and Dragon" seems more appropriate now.
If you've still got a few minutes left in your lunch break, come check out the newly-formed US Bluebirds site. The mission of the US Bluebirds Supporters Club is to connect Cardiff City’s American fanbase to each other, to other supporters around the world, and to the club itself, by providing a high-quality platform and unique content, in order to grow the Bluebirds community. You can also follow us on Twitter (@USBluebirds).
Thanks for reading, and good luck to the Bluebirds this season and all those to come.
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