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In the 60's the Sky Blue revolution started (1 Viewer)

  • Thread starter japandy
  • Start date Dec 27, 2013
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japandy

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  • Dec 27, 2013
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with a) new kit b) new image c) new song --- with all the controversy surrounding the outcry from fans around the country i.e Hull and Cardiff, would our sky blue revolution ever have got off the ground if it happened now? Would the Chairman have been able to do it?
 

ccfc92

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  • Dec 27, 2013
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japandy said:
with a) new kit b) new image c) new song --- with all the controversy surrounding the outcry from fans around the country i.e Hull and Cardiff, would our sky blue revolution ever have got off the ground if it happened now? Would the Chairman have been able to do it?
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Sisu are having a good try at the minute
 

italiahorse

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  • Dec 27, 2013
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japandy said:
with a) new kit b) new image c) new song --- with all the controversy surrounding the outcry from fans around the country i.e Hull and Cardiff, would our sky blue revolution ever have got off the ground if it happened now? Would the Chairman have been able to do it?
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Don't forget Jimmy Hill put on free train travel to away games.

Who can forget the Sky Blue Express ?
 

Hobo

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  • Dec 28, 2013
  • #4
The difference was we had never been successful, always under achieved and were going nowhere.

They sold us a dream, it was honest open and transparent.

That I believe is the difference.
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Dec 28, 2013
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I was gonna say people follow leaders when they have a vision, dream and in small ways prove they can be trusted.
 

bigfatronssba

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  • Dec 28, 2013
  • #6
Back then it was done for the right reasons, I.e. for the benefit of the club, not the owner.

Colour change wasn't really significant, blue to sky blue, also sky blue had been the teams colour in the past anyway.

Song is neither here or there really.

Ours was a rebranding that was respectful to the fans, history and the city.
 
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jesus-wept

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  • Dec 28, 2013
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The timing was the perfect thing. A lowly third division club in a booming city workwise. Success in the first season with a great cup run followed by promotion. I assure you if Cardff or Hull suddenly become the next Manchester City their fans won't care about kit colour or Hull fans if they are called tigers
 
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rightumpty

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  • Dec 28, 2013
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I remember being part of 10000 plus going to away matches when we were in Div 3. Can't get more than 1500 to go to home games now. That's the SISU effect.
Still the same city but all the enthusiasm knocked out by a bunch of amateurs getting involved in something they don't have a clue about.
Tim pack your bags and try to do something you are good at. Whatever that may be.
 
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jesus-wept

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  • Dec 28, 2013
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And Sky Blue was more an accident. Jimmy Hill's original idea was Coventry blue which is a bit darker than sky blue but it is said the then new kit came with the now famous lighter blue and it was the journalist Nemo (Derek Henderson) who first called us the Sky Blues in a match report.
 

Mr T - Sukka!

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  • Dec 28, 2013
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Back then it was all to do with making CCFC better and giving the city a team to be proud of.

Now we have Joy who is by her own admission clueless on football and olny cares what her investors think.

That in a nutshell is why we are going nowhere in Northampton in division 3 playing in front of around 1k.

Sooner the they are gone the better, CCFC will never prosper with SISU.

They only know how to relegate and increase debt. This is proven already.
 
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jesus-wept

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  • Dec 28, 2013
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rightumpty said:
I remember being part of 10000 plus going to away matches when we were in Div 3. Can't get more than 1500 to go to home games now. That's the SISU effect.
Still the same city but all the enthusiasm knocked out by a bunch of amateurs getting involved in something they don't have a clue about.
Tim pack your bags and try to do something you are good at. Whatever that may be.
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You are right our away support in those halcyon days was massive, anywhere I remember getting special train number 3 to Carlisle and over 10000 to Crystal Palace for a Saturday night game, moved so it didn't clash with the West Brom v Q.P.R. league cup final, the first staged at Wembley. But you are correct the cretins running OUR club nowadays have no idea or care about who we are, where we came from or more scarey where we are going or end up. And one more thing the fans of those days would not have accepted what is currently happening to OUR club as meekly as todays fans so-called are.
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Dec 28, 2013
  • #12
What would they have done Jesus??
 
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