HOW MANY KNEW ?

That our most greatest achievement in history, winning the FA Cup in 1927, we played with the badge which is the Cardiff City Coat of Arms, it does not feature a Bluebird but has the Red Dragon on it with a motto 'Y ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn' (the Red Dragon will lead the way).

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http://www.ngw.nl/int/gbr/c/cardiff.htm

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Its been said many of times on here already. Catch up lol

Its been said many of times on here already. Catch up lol

Sorry been busy this week

Ok then can someone tell me why we had a Bluebird on our badge and what was the reason behind it?

Its been said many of times on here already. Catch up lol

Sorry been busy this week

Ok then can someone tell me why we had a Bluebird on our badge and what was the reason behind it?

was it to do with re branding/ marketing

I like it

Carl - By the look of it we didnt even play in Dark Blue.

Instead we seem to have been playing in the colours of Man City!

It is not a bluebird its a swallow

Its been said many of times on here already. Catch up lol

Sorry been busy this week

Ok then can someone tell me why we had a Bluebird on our badge and what was the reason behind it?

Because it was fcuking embarrassing having a merhorse and a goat !!!!




PS I know its a hippocamp.

It is not a bluebird its a swallow

I know but why?

I read on here that we only became the Bluebirds in the 30's after a play of the same name by some famous play-write was launched in Cardiff

I knew this but we have been known as the Bluebirds ever since we changed from our chocolate and amber. We didn't have the bluebird on our badge in 1927, but we still played in blue and had the nickname of the bluebirds. Us changing to red will obviously mean we will know longer be known as the bluebirds which is why I'm against the change.

It is not a bluebird its a swallow

I know but why?

The play that was on in 1911 or something like that..not sure of the reasoning towards the badge change

This guy saw a play which had Bluebird connotations and was so thrilled by it he nicknamed the City side 'the Bluebirds'. Something like that anyway!

It was the city of cardiff coat of arms

I read on here that we only became the Bluebirds in the 30's after a play of the same name by some famous play-write was launched in Cardiff

Must have ben one hell of a play though.

Thank God Swan Lake wasn't playing

I read on here that we only became the Bluebirds in the 30's after a play of the same name by some famous play-write was launched in Cardiff

Must have ben one hell of a play though.

Thank God Swan Lake wasn't playing

It won the Nobel Prize

I found this a while ago unsure if its true


The origin of Cardiff City’s nickname, ‘The Bluebirds’ is truly fascinating. It had started being used, along with ‘The Cardiffians’, ‘The City’ and ‘The Citizens’, after the club changed from their first colours of chocolate and amber to royal blue and white, sometime around 1910.

There is a connection with a classic children’s play, called The Blue Bird, written by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in 1909. The bird, a symbol of happiness, is pursued by children who want to imprison it in a cage and the play’s theme urges us not to try to hoard happiness for ourselves.

This play had come to the New Theatre in Cardiff in late October 1911. It received good reviews during its six-night run and a week after the production had left town, Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his symbolist plays including The Blue Bird and Pelleas and Mesilande. The publicity surrounding the play’s arrival in the Welsh capital and then Maeterlinck’s honour led to an unknown Cardiff City supporter deciding to call the team, resplendent in their blue strip, ‘The Blue Birds’. Gradually, it emerged as the favoured nickname before being adopted officially by the club.

I read on here that we only became the Bluebirds in the 30's after a play of the same name by some famous play-write was launched in Cardiff

Agree with this, I think it was on one of the echo articles I believe, I could be wrong.

The bit on the top is good as well, 'deffro mae'n ddydd'. 'Awake, it's day'. Would have been good advive in the last 5 minutes of the first half at Wembley against Blackpool. If we had held until half time' I am convinced we would have gone up. And not had the soap opera of the last week

The first CCFC shirt that I remember was a really smart, all blue one, with the word 'Bluebirds' written on it, where the badge would be. Late 60s.

We had our Bluebirds nickname in 1911 when the children's play "The Blue Bird" was performed at the New Theatre.

I do like that Cardiff City Coat of Arms though.

I read on here that we only became the Bluebirds in the 30's after a play of the same name by some famous play-write was launched in Cardiff

Must have ben one hell of a play though.

Thank God Swan Lake wasn't playing

Been a tough week but this made me laugh

I found this a while ago unsure if its true


The origin of Cardiff City’s nickname, ‘The Bluebirds’ is truly fascinating. It had started being used, along with ‘The Cardiffians’, ‘The City’ and ‘The Citizens’, after the club changed from their first colours of chocolate and amber to royal blue and white, sometime around 1910.

There is a connection with a classic children’s play, called The Blue Bird, written by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in 1909. The bird, a symbol of happiness, is pursued by children who want to imprison it in a cage and the play’s theme urges us not to try to hoard happiness for ourselves.

This play had come to the New Theatre in Cardiff in late October 1911. It received good reviews during its six-night run and a week after the production had left town, Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his symbolist plays including The Blue Bird and Pelleas and Mesilande. The publicity surrounding the play’s arrival in the Welsh capital and then Maeterlinck’s honour led to an unknown Cardiff City supporter deciding to call the team, resplendent in their blue strip, ‘The Blue Birds’. Gradually, it emerged as the favoured nickname before being adopted officially by the club.

Thank You

Interesting.

Thanks for that.

I like the Cardiff crest.....the goat surely goes back to the Crimean War.

I think the goat and the seahorse links the mountains(goat) and the sea(seahorse).The mountain goat could also represent the valleys because of the coal and the seahorse represents Cardiff docks. This ties in nicely with the song I'll be there and also most of Cardiff city supporters(from the valley or Cardiff)

http://www.ngw.nl/int/gbr/c/cardiff.htm

I found this a while ago unsure if its true


The origin of Cardiff City’s nickname, ‘The Bluebirds’ is truly fascinating. It had started being used, along with ‘The Cardiffians’, ‘The City’ and ‘The Citizens’, after the club changed from their first colours of chocolate and amber to royal blue and white, sometime around 1910.

There is a connection with a classic children’s play, called The Blue Bird, written by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in 1909. The bird, a symbol of happiness, is pursued by children who want to imprison it in a cage and the play’s theme urges us not to try to hoard happiness for ourselves.

This play had come to the New Theatre in Cardiff in late October 1911. It received good reviews during its six-night run and a week after the production had left town, Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his symbolist plays including The Blue Bird and Pelleas and Mesilande. The publicity surrounding the play’s arrival in the Welsh capital and then Maeterlinck’s honour led to an unknown Cardiff City supporter deciding to call the team, resplendent in their blue strip, ‘The Blue Birds’. Gradually, it emerged as the favoured nickname before being adopted officially by the club.

So the supporters chose it not some bloke who isn't a Cardiff fan who is from Malaysia and never went down the City until recently?

er.......... find myself strangely drawn to that coat of arms, evokes images of 'Zulu' strangely! I am dead against the rebranding for hard cash, but love the genuine historic pride of that badge. Could I go for that as our badge? Maybe I could, gonna ponder that in work all day.

Could I be swaying to the other side? Ooh matron!

Right, send this badge to some top designing company, tell them to slightly modernise it, make it a bit less cluttered with more prominence for the dragon to keep the carrot dangling owners happy, and make sure theres a bluebird added, and get back to us with the design so we can have a butchers. Really like it as it is apart from the Bluebird missing.

We also played in diffrent colours before cardiff city fc but we was not cardiff city fc then so why should it matter, homes shirts have been blue forever weather its a dark blue or light blue its the same thing, unless somebody is 90 years old or older nobody can remember this badge or anything before it. Some would change there kids names on here for a few sheckles how cringeworthy