Melbourne City FC Thread

[Deleted member 58678]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

G'day lads,

I am actually a fan of the Heart and post regularly on their forums. My personal opinion is that I am very excited/grateful of the take over of Man City of our club and love the idea of the club becoming apart of the City group, as its called in our media. In regards to the colours, I can say this here because I would probably be shot if I said it over on the Heart forums haha but I would preferre if we wore sky blue and our away kit would be red and white as a compromise, so we could become an identifiable part of the city group. I agree with the above post about how noone knew the city of melbourne colours before the heart (originally heart was going to be red white and black anyway) so although I can see the point of having a club called Melbourne city and having red and white.

FWIW I may be the type of person that the City group is trying to attract as I have never followed the EPL, except years ago when I was a kid and Viduka was at leeds (all we had was a one hour highlights show on monday nights) but I have found myself starting to watch city games and to take an interest. Not sure how many of me there is in Melbourne as our rivals, Melbourne Victory, had a 5 year head start and are the biggest club in the country. Plus, the Melbourne market is very saturated. But, I still think the takeover is going to be a huge success and will transform our league so I am very happy to be on board so to speak.

There are people on the Heart forums who are very pissed off about a colour change but they are about only 8 posters who are just very vocal. The cynic in me knows that they will be back as soon as we start winning games ;)

G'day mate, welcome to City, mate, good to have ya, mate!

Mate!<br /><br />-- Thu Apr 24, 2014 10:26 am --<br /><br />

I reckon that's gilding the lilly a fair bit with that statement mate...

The big sporting rivalry in Aus is NSW v Queensland. NSW colours are sky and navy, Ql's is maroon. Manly Sea Eagles who are a NSW RL team play in maroon but i don't think their fans particularly care that that is the colour of Ql.

Yeah, if I supported a team called 'Manly Sea Eagles' I'd be far more worried about the camp name tbf. :D

:D

Manly is a town/area in Northern Sydney, their nickname is Sea Eagles - they aren't named after big butch hard eagles of the sea!

 

[Wintermute]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

G'day lads,

I am actually a fan of the Heart and post regularly on their forums. My personal opinion is that I am very excited/grateful of the take over of Man City of our club and love the idea of the club becoming apart of the City group, as its called in our media. In regards to the colours, I can say this here because I would probably be shot if I said it over on the Heart forums haha but I would preferre if we wore sky blue and our away kit would be red and white as a compromise, so we could become an identifiable part of the city group. I agree with the above post about how noone knew the city of melbourne colours before the heart (originally heart was going to be red white and black anyway) so although I can see the point of having a club called Melbourne city and having red and white.

FWIW I may be the type of person that the City group is trying to attract as I have never followed the EPL, except years ago when I was a kid and Viduka was at leeds (all we had was a one hour highlights show on monday nights) but I have found myself starting to watch city games and to take an interest. Not sure how many of me there is in Melbourne as our rivals, Melbourne Victory, had a 5 year head start and are the biggest club in the country. Plus, the Melbourne market is very saturated. But, I still think the takeover is going to be a huge success and will transform our league so I am very happy to be on board so to speak.

There are people on the Heart forums who are very pissed off about a colour change but they are about only 8 posters who are just very vocal. The cynic in me knows that they will be back as soon as we start winning games ;)

G'day mate, welcome to City, mate, good to have ya, mate!

Mate!

-- Thu Apr 24, 2014 10:26 am --

The big sporting rivalry in Aus is NSW v Queensland. NSW colours are sky and navy, Ql's is maroon. Manly Sea Eagles who are a NSW RL team play in maroon but i don't think their fans particularly care that that is the colour of Ql.

Yeah, if I supported a team called 'Manly Sea Eagles' I'd be far more worried about the camp name tbf. :D

:D

Manly is a town/area in Northern Sydney, their nickname is Sea Eagles - they aren't named after big butch hard eagles of the sea!

Yeah its a suburb of Sydney. Apparently they are the most hated team in the rugby league, probably because they have maroon as a colour.

 

[aguero93:20]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

I reckon that's gilding the lilly a fair bit with that statement mate...

The big sporting rivalry in Aus is NSW v Queensland. NSW colours are sky and navy, Ql's is maroon. Manly Sea Eagles who are a NSW RL team play in maroon but i don't think their fans particularly care that that is the colour of Ql.

Yeah, if I supported a team called 'Manly Sea Eagles' I'd be far more worried about the camp name tbf. :D

:D

Manly is a town/area in Northern Sydney, their nickname is Sea Eagles - they aren't named after big butch hard eagles of the sea![/quote]
Fair enough, still a bit of a shit name though :).

 

[dario2739]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

Keep reading about 'big rivalries' and 'our colours' like Melbourne Heart is a team about to celebrate it's centenary... their inaugural season was 2010/11 ffs!!!
All you Heart fans check out <a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalkits.co.uk.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">www.historicalkits.co.uk..</a>. check out any team you like, but take us as an example – Gorton FC started in 1884 wearing black shirts... ten years later we were Manchester City wearing our now famous Sky Blue shirts – to me this is no different to how Melbourne Heart now find themselves. Teams are formed and then go through a natural period of tranformation in their early years – virtually no established English team wears the colours they wore when they were formed.

 

[supercity88]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

I assume they don't want to change kits for the same reason as any other club wouldn't. In terms of sport in Melbourne, they have the Melbourne Storm rugby league team who play in purple and then about 7 Aussie Rules sides from the various suburbs who play in various different kits and colours, some in blue and white, others in tiger stripes, others in Rag colours... the pale blue is associated with NSW rugby league team in the State of Origin games v Queensland in maroon but beyond that it has little influence on individual club sides, many Queenslanders play outside the state and vice versa - no particular issues in terms of colours and associations. Most teams are young so it is better to change now than do a Cardiff!

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

Keep reading about 'big rivalries' and 'our colours' like Melbourne Heart is a team about to celebrate it's centenary... their inaugural season was 2010/11 ffs!!!
All you Heart fans check out <a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalkits.co.uk.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.historicalkits.co.uk..</a>. check out any team you like, but take us as an example – Gorton FC started in 1884 wearing black shirts... ten years later we were Manchester City wearing our now famous Sky Blue shirts – to me this is no different to how Melbourne Heart now find themselves. Teams are formed and then go through a natural period of tranformation in their early years – virtually no established English team wears the colours they wore when they were formed.

Its a bit different though,city are basically changing hearts in to Manchester city 'lite', if I supported hearts I would hate that personally. I can understand their fans wanting to keep some of their identity.

 

[aguero93:20]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

Keep reading about 'big rivalries' and 'our colours' like Melbourne Heart is a team about to celebrate it's centenary... their inaugural season was 2010/11 ffs!!!
All you Heart fans check out <a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalkits.co.uk.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.historicalkits.co.uk..</a>. check out any team you like, but take us as an example – Gorton FC started in 1884 wearing black shirts... ten years later we were Manchester City wearing our now famous Sky Blue shirts – to me this is no different to how Melbourne Heart now find themselves. Teams are formed and then go through a natural period of tranformation in their early years – virtually no established English team wears the colours they wore when they were formed.

Its a bit different though,city are basically changing hearts in to Manchester city 'lite', if I supported hearts I would hate that personally. I can understand their fans wanting to keep some of their identity.

So do I, if the rags bought a club wearing blue and made them change it to red we'd all be up in arms here, MK Dons here have been a disgrace, plenty of ways to identify them with City without a colour change.

 

[mancity1]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

More particularly, Heart fans have an issue with sky blue as it's the colours of New South Wales sport, and Victoria and NSW have a rivalry to match Manchester/Liverpool or the English North/South divide.



City want all their teams to look and play the same for brand identification purposes.

I reckon that's gilding the lilly a fair bit with that statement mate...

The big sporting rivalry in Aus is NSW v Queensland. NSW colours are sky and navy, Ql's is maroon. Manly Sea Eagles who are a NSW RL team play in maroon but i don't think their fans particularly care that that is the colour of Ql.

Correct the rivalry at club level is meaningless when compared to the rivalry at State level especially for different codes.

Interestingly when Victoria used to play AFL games against interstate rivals they used to wear blue.

The state colour of Victoria where Heart is based and will continue to be based is either blue or yellow for the yellow wattle but traditionally its blue.

Wearing sky blue for the home games and maybe something similar to what they wear now to away games especially when the play Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory is the way they will go.


Its inevitable they will be renamed Melbourne City and wear City colours and their will be no back lash from existing supporters and a number of new supporters will come along for the ride.

 

[aguero93:20]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

I reckon that's gilding the lilly a fair bit with that statement mate...

The big sporting rivalry in Aus is NSW v Queensland. NSW colours are sky and navy, Ql's is maroon. Manly Sea Eagles who are a NSW RL team play in maroon but i don't think their fans particularly care that that is the colour of Ql.

Correct the rivalry at club level is meaningless when compared to the rivalry at State level especially for different codes.

Interestingly when Victoria used to play AFL games against interstate rivals they used to wear blue.

The state colour of Victoria where Heart is based and will continue to be based is either blue or yellow for the yellow wattle but traditionally its blue.

Wearing sky blue for the home games and maybe something similar to what they wear now to away games especially when the play Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory is the way they will go.


Its inevitable they will be renamed Melbourne City and wear City colours and their will be no back lash from existing supporters and a number of new supporters will come along for the ride.

How do you know all this mate, or is it just speculation on your part?

 

[tailspin747]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

They could go half way and have sky blue / red stripes? A play on the barca kit? Or just wear black/red stripes. It's s famous city kit after all?