As a Sydney fan I don't really care. I'm more concerned at seeing an A-League club being completely rehashed at the drop of a hat. It could potentially happen to any club.

The downside of a franchised league.

=d> totally agree

And Sutherland against them.

Marconi were green for a while weren't they.

Tbf, there isn't much stopping this happening to any club in the world unless they are publicly owned by a majority, so I wouldn't be all that concerned.

I dont have much of a problem with this, other than what happens when ManCity are no longer the owners?? Ultimately I think this should be down to Heart(??) fans as they are the ones that will be wearing and paying for the jersey.

Riiight. So from what I can gather, you are arguing that FFA 'own' all IP concerned with the individual franchises. Which is fairly correct as they have 100% control over the use and distribution of said IP as per their terms of licensees.

But none of that has anything to do with with what Melbourne City will be wearing next year. Just like when the consortium that applied for Queensland Roar requested as part of their bid to FFA that they will turn out in 'oranje' as part of their brand. To which FFA agreed upon - they had an agreement and hence the licence was granted.

Melbourne's new ownership negotiations are finished and the deals are done. The fact that they've had to put in an 'official request' to change name etc is merely an administrative formality.

Seriously though, if the City of Melbourne's colours are red and white, wouldn't the best option be to keep the colours and change the name from Heart to City?

And does happen, with Cardiff this year, and with club relocations like Wimbledon/MK Dons. In all cases the relevant association needed to approve the changes, and occasionally overruled the owners like in the Hull Tigers case.

Let's look at it objectively. Heart had a name that everyone ridiculed, a strip that was pretty cool, a lack of a separate identity in the city, a small dedicated fan base, and no historical record of proud achievements. The strip is the only positive the club has but that is far outweighed by the negatives. If any club was to be ripe for a change of identity it would have to be MH.



Edited by Angus: 15/4/2014 01:23:40 PM

Yeah, it would be best. But if they change to Sky Blue Im not gonna get my nickers in a twist over it. We'll just have to make sure that our jersey is better than theirs.

the sky blue version of their home kit is complete class, it just looks beautiful so you will have to come up with something impressive to beat that

wtf
like there aren't already a-league teams with the same colours.

barlow you fucking mouth breather

Nice gem: http://s14.postimg.org/88mrfgejl/Football_Men.jpg

Also, apparently NSW's colours aren't sky blue. It's a different shade (Light blue and Mid blue): http://www.nsw.gov.au/about-nsw/symbols-emblems

Euro snobs have their own teams, and they won't support Mini Man City, which is what Heart will have become.

I think this is a winner.

It just needs the man city white shorts like below. I also adjusted the blue to theirs as well.

That second link has only fueled my desire to get Sydney FC to incorporate the Blue Groper into their identity.

Isn't 'The Groper', Seb Ryall's nickname.

I'll see myself out. :-"

Not bothering to read 4 pages of waffle.

But, why not change colours?

They can wear their old Heart colours in away games.

They'll wear sky blue at home.

Sydney FC had ample opportunity to forge its identity but opted not to have one.

Let this be a lesson to teams who think xx FC or xx United is all they need to brand a team

I'm a SFC fan and frankly, I don't care what Melbourne City does. When we play each other at Allianz, they'll probably be playing in red colours anyway.

If we have to modify our colours slightly to differentiate our brand, so what? As long as whatever we change it to is representative of Sydney, and as long as the fans are consulted, I'm cool with it. I've always found the whole "Sydney is Sky Blue" thing a bit contrived anyway. Sky Blue is traditionally the colour of NSW, not Sydney.

The old colonial flag of Sydney is actually royal blue and orange. We could always add some orange back into the Jersey, as many fans have been asking for. Or you could even add a dash of Green on the Jersey somewhere - Sydney is, after all, nicknamed the "emerald city".

This really isn't the end of the world. Most football teams go through a colour change at some point, especially in their early years.

Wrong question. Flip it round, as the right question is: why change the colours?

The majority of Melbourne Heart supporters want the club to keep the colours Red and White, the colours of the Melbourne flag are red and white (The colours of Man City's NYC club are also the colours of the New York City flag), and Sydney FC is sky blue and is against Heart changing its colours to sky blue. So why change the colours?

Because the colours are a part of a dead club that failed miserably.

ignorance is bliss hey?? Forgetting that Marconi were green, with white shorts. But never let the truth get in the way of a good story...??

Yeah 442 is going down hill. When Cardiff changed colours every football fan in Britain said it was wrong, with the suggestion Hull City should be Hull Tigers there is very little support across the league. Fans realise if the name and colours of their club were to change they would oppose it. Yet here we have a situation in Australia where the owners are trying the change the identity of a club (a young one yes, but still one beloved by their fans) and opposition supporters simply take it as an opportunity to get stuck into Heart and Sydney.

People on here take anything as an opportunity to take shots at other teams.

Funnily enough Central Coast was the sky blue team back in the day.

i can sympathise with you wanting to keep your team colours but sydney fc are just a joke when it comes to worrying about another team having sky blue so should be mocked, heart fans not so much

Hey Jim,


Go fuck yourself,


Regards

Fuck 'em, mate.

We're the only team that stood on our own two feet, never asked for a handout from anyone.

Marconi didn't wear sky blue at all until after Sydney FC came around?