cowdenbeath Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Perhaps to some older fans but it's sellable. It's lighthearted and amusing. Whenever someone asks what team you support their reply is often 'The Blue Brazil'. It probably brings in more interest than anything else. Less of the old it was amusing at the time but as I say a bit dated. Will always be Cowden to me, I don't think I've ever called us the Blue Brazil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden Cowboy Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Just noticed 'The Blue Brazil' is no longer on the strip either. Are we trying to disconnect with that? I think it's a USP and something we are known for but we seem to be distancing from it. It's the best nickname in Scotland. No we are not disconnecting from it nor are we distancing from it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzza81 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Less of the old it was amusing at the time but as I say a bit dated. Will always be Cowden to me, I don't think I've ever called us the Blue Brazil.Haha sorry!I like the 'THE BLUE BRAZIL' simple chant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Haha sorry! I like the 'THE BLUE BRAZIL' simple chant. I'm only joking, I am old as you say it's maybe a generation thing - always Cowden to me but if folk like the Blue Brazil fair doo's same team after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden Cowboy Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Did we change the badge because we had to or because we chose to? We chose to do so and there is an official announcement giving full background coming out shortly - Darren the kitman is coordinating matters around this and strip launches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Getting back to the strip I would like it if it was red shorts and socks to go with it. Best Cowden away strip for me was our all red bukta effort of the late 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden Cowboy Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 For season 2015/16, a special commemorative edition of the club’s badge is to be worn on the jerseys of Cowdenbeath FC. The Cowdenbeath club crest/ badge has its origins in the late 1950’s. Back then, the club’s players were involved in its creation as they wished to sport a club crest on their club blazers. The players designed it with the help of the late Dave Mason who undertook the leading role with the artwork. Dave Mason was for so long the club announcer and then had a stint as Cowden’s programme editor from 1968. Back in the 1950’s, his cartoons used to illustrate the tales of Cowden games in the Cowdenbeath Advertiser. The familiar present day version of the club crest comprises a shield divided into 4 quadrants with a diagonal Cowdenbeath FC legend emblazoned on a panel in the foreground. The four quadrants feature from top left in clockwise fashion – the Scottish lion rampant; thistles - also emblematic of Scotland; a football representing the game; and the crosses of the crucifixion. This has been the version of the club crest in use since 1970. The club crest previously had some other elements that were dropped in the 1970 revamp. Our original club crest took great pride in the mining roots of Cowdenbeath FC – a club formed by local miners. On the original crest, depicted on the top of the shield, was a pit winding wheel flanked by 2 crossed picks and shovels emblematic of the mining industry. Of course by 1970, there were no pits left in Cowdenbeath hence these elements were removed. However, the club has decided that ‘the Miners’ version of the club badge should be revived in 2015 in order to commemorate: • That 2015 is the Centenary of Cowdenbeath FC winning the Scottish League 2nd Division Championship in two successive seasons. • The players in the double title winning team who served in the Great War. The first two players to enlist in 1914 were winger Pat Neilson and centre half Willie Birrell. Pat Neilson was already a Territorial and served 1914 to 1919 as a Sergeant in the Royal Engineers. Willie Birrell joined up with the Cameron Highlanders. In the 2nd World War he served in the Canadian Forces. In 1915, goalkeeper Paddy Savage joined the Fife & Forfar Yeomanry. 1916 saw Jock Mackenzie enlist in the Black Watch and Bobby Tait also joined the army. In 1917 Willie Paterson became a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery. Charlie Scott from Foulford Place who had been a signed Cowdenbeath player until 1913 was a lance corporal in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was killed in action in 1916 and his name is on the Cowdenbeath War Memorial. • The Cowdenbeath players of that time who also served their country by carrying on the vital coal mining work that the nation depended on. • The end of the Miners Strike some 30 years ago which was more or less the final chapter in the story of local mining. The Miners club crest will be sported both on the home shirt (Blue) and the away shirt (Red – which of course has echoes of the commemorative poppy and which featured as the club’s jersey colour until blue was adopted in 1911). The ‘Blue Brazil’ may now be more widely used but Cowdenbeath FC also proudly still holds dear its age old nickname of ‘the Miners’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PELE Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I love the Blue Brasil nickname (I prefer the Brasilian spelling) and it has grown in popularity since the 80's, but I don't like it on the strip. Looks a bit tacky after a while. I looked at the Uhlsport range when it was announced we would stick with them again and that strip was the one I liked best out of the current range. It would look good as the home strip, but I am not sure if we would change away from plain blue again. Any news on the home kit? The badge looks excellent. I would love it if we had a white 3rd top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PELE Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I will be purchasing the new tops this time. Much better than last seasons. Looks like the kit a winning team would wear. Well done all involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big al Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Have shouted ' cmon the miners' a few times and folk look bewildered. Sad really. Historic name and better than the Blue Brazil for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big al Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Ran the Edinburgh marathon in our red uhlsport top and I like it. Material is great, no bleeding nipples I was warned about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzza81 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 I've never heard anyone shout anything about the Miners in my whole time supporting us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NM_1919 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Darren brownlie, opinions have heard rumours about him come to queens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wulliemc Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 His lack of game time last season is probably the biggest unsolved mystery in scotland in the last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowdenharley Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Have to agree. His lack of game time will be up there with bigfoot, lord lucan, ufos and john browns continued involvement in football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieLes II Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 The most important factor in any kits this season has to be the colour of our home socks. Also can we please go back to yellow away kits. At least they were different. Blue and red is so common and generic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Pit_Owns Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 His lack of game time last season is probably the biggest unsolved mystery in scotland in the last year. It's not a mystery. Jimmy Nicholl was our manager and he doesn't have a f*cking clue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOON-E Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Sorry Loon-E - Unfortunately, my compadres are a still bit excised with what is going on at the club in the close season at a time when the club is in a state of fairly serious flux. Welcome aboard my friend. Notwithstanding the fact that your 'ying' are Man Utd , you have chosen the club with the coolest nickname in British football as you 'yang' club. P&B is indeed the place to keep yourself up to date with the latest gossip etc. Some people on here even know some of the truth of what is going on......but it is mostly bollocks (Kierkegaard, for example being formerly a man of the cloth and a current journalist, veers dangerously between the two. So buckle up, buy a shirt and enjoy (or not) the ride. The basic things you need to know are:- Dunfermline Athletic. Arch rivals. Nickname: The Pars (on account of a misguided Townie official describing to a judge that Dunfermline Athletic were about on a 'par' with Cowdenbeath FC). Wasn't true in the 1800's, still not true today. East Fife. Denizens of Methil. If you are in The Kingdom of Fife and smell something awful, chances are you have found yourself in Methil. Nickname: Smelly Widtinks. Team where players released from Cowden end up. Their stadium is constructed, on one side only - because they ran out of pieces, from Lego bricks. Most definitely not a feeder club for Cowden mostly because they are shite. Raith Rovers. Nickname: None, as essentially too dull to merit a nickname (see current home strip). Occasional destination of better Cowden players who get the wrong bus (see Dougie Hill, Laurie Ellis). Mostly inoffensive. Ha awesome recap mate...ive been cursed with following the ups and downs since 96ish..n f**k me have there been some downs ...my season tik at Utd saw me through while weeping for my "under the cosh" northeren team (long story..my old mans as glasweigian as they come...but f**k Rangers..its the Cows for me)..i have this seasons training top (mate was there a few wks ago n they had no home strips!!...he had to get someone too open the club shop for him lol..but whoever it was...if your on here...you sir a a fuckin legend...as well as my training top he gave my mate a copy of "helicopter dreams (already finished) and a big stack of programs)..i have my blue brazil home shirt circa 96(i think) that i,ll wear with pride when i ride over too make the pilgramage this yr...1st or 2nd home game of the season...look after me LOON-E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOON-E Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 aye,you'll soon be wanting to find a tall building to fling yourself off.only joking,looking forward to next season It really looking that grim for us?....in my stoned head we gonna be straight bk on the promotion case LOON-E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotAFan Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Brownlie to QOTS. One central defender left?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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