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Yesterday's official attendance of 15,429 was the smallest by some distance for a Football League fixture at the Cardiff City Stadium. The previous lowest figure was 17,686 for a 2-0 victory over Peterborough United on a Tuesday evening in February 2010.
The crowd against Fulham was the smallest for a Cardiff City home league game since May 2008, when 14,469 turned out at Ninian Park to watch the Bluebirds beat Barnsley 3-0 a fortnight before the FA Cup final.
Yesterday's attendance was Cardiff's lowest on the opening weekend of a Football League season since way back in August 1999, when 10,193 saw the Bluebirds draw 1-1 with Millwall in the old Second Division, or League One as it is now known.
Before the current season, Cardiff City had had home fixtures on the opening weekends of six other Football League campaigns since 1999. The attendances for the relevant matches were: 17,403 (v Wycombe Wanderers in 2001), 18,840 (v Stoke City in 2007), 19,749 (v Southampton in 2008), 22,264 (v Scunthorpe United in 2009), 20,573 (v Sheffield United in 2010) and 21,127 (v Huddersfield Town in 2012).
The last time Cardiff had a smaller attendance than yesterday's for their first home league game of a season was a decade ago in August 2005. On that occasion, 15,231 turned out on a Tuesday evening to see the Bluebirds beat Leeds United 2-1 at Ninian Park.
Only Brentford and Rotherham United have so far attracted smaller crowds than Cardiff City on the opening weekend of the 2015/16 Championship campaign (Preston North End are playing Middlesbrough at lunchtime today).
Yesterday's official attendance of 15,429 was 3,628 down on the smallest crowd of the 2014/15 season (19,057 v Blackburn Rovers on a Tuesday evening in February 2015), 5,694 down on last season's average of 21,123 and 7,086 down on the equivalent fixture against Fulham in January 2015, when the official figure was given as 22,515.
Are you trying to tell that attendance is down?
like clockwork.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
Was this written by a computer?
Where's the facts and figures off blue Cardiff shirts sold in the shortest period of time ???
Just imagine if we had lost, Gloat mode would be in overdrive
I blame people who have stopped going for the decline in attendances.
Originally Posted by tigerbaybluebird wrote on Sun, 09 August 2015 10:02
Maybe a rare beautiful weekend summer day at the weekend this year, early kick off time and the rugby in Cardiff affected things too but unless City compete at the top end this season, yesterday's crowd may well be as good as this season gets too.
We'll probably get lower crowds over the next few months as well, but yesterday's gate was still a few thousand up on what I would have predicted in May - I wasn't too upset by it under the circumstances.
Understand your point but it bothers me as City took the best part of 15 years to build up the support to the levels they have enjoyed in recent times but, thanks to Tan's folly, 18 months to lose it all. It's a disgrace really.Yesterday's official attendance of 15,429 was the smallest by some distance for a Football League fixture at the Cardiff City Stadium. The previous lowest figure was 17,686 for a 2-0 victory over Peterborough United on a Tuesday evening in February 2010.
Tan's folly? TLG has proven in this thread that we had bigger crowds wearing red shirts and that all the "stay aways" who claimed they'd be back once we went back to blue were liars.Yesterday's official attendance of 15,429 was the smallest by some distance for a Football League fixture at the Cardiff City Stadium. The previous lowest figure was 17,686 for a 2-0 victory over Peterborough United on a Tuesday evening in February 2010.The crowd against Fulham was the smallest for a Cardiff City home league game since May 2008, when 14,469 turned out at Ninian Park to watch the Bluebirds beat Barnsley 3-0 a fortnight before the FA Cup final.
I was happy with the crowd , I doubt the club were.
Lots of hangers on have done one , granted long term fans have given up as well but it was to be expected. Added to the ridiculous shirt colour change we did n`t have any glory to entice people to buy a season ticket i.e. FA cup Final, League cup Final, Promotion to the greedy League, play off Final or a new stadium.
We just had a poor season in relative terms and lots of people for different reasons just did n`t renew or at best will pick and choose their games.
Sometimes you have to go backwards a bit to move forwards.
You can add on a couple of thousand to that figure a lot of people I know didnt go yesterday as they are either on holiday or about to go.
You will get a better picture come Sept / Oct.
Attendances will no doubt though be down on the last couple of seasons - mainly because we are not in PL or challenging for promotion to it and most definitely as no one is inspired by Slades teams.
If you could record the sound of paint drying coupled with vidoes of our recent performances - you would have a very very dull film.
Yesterday was slightly better - we have AGAIN got mid / lower half written all over us.
You have more friends than me.
Good point.Yesterday's official attendance of 15,429 was the smallest by some distance for a Football League fixture at the Cardiff City Stadium. The previous lowest figure was 17,686 for a 2-0 victory over Peterborough United on a Tuesday evening in February 2010.The crowd against Fulham was the smallest for a Cardiff City home league game since May 2008, when 14,469 turned out at Ninian Park to watch the Bluebirds beat Barnsley 3-0 a fortnight before the FA Cup final.Yesterday's attendance was Cardiff's lowest on the opening weekend of a Football League season since way back in August 1999, when 10,193 saw the Bluebirds draw 1-1 with Millwall in the old Second Division, or League One as it is now known.
That would be the same for every other club and every other season. It's nonsense, though. As often as not, attendances in August are just as good (if not better) than they are at other times of the year.
12.00 pm kick off and Rugby international get over it you negative nit picking bastard
How many people do you know who fit into the above category? Personally, I don't know any.
I didn't realise there was anybody left who still thought it was a good idea, Tan included.Yesterday's official attendance of 15,429 was the smallest by some distance for a Football League fixture at the Cardiff City Stadium. The previous lowest figure was 17,686 for a 2-0 victory over Peterborough United on a Tuesday evening in February 2010.The crowd against Fulham was the smallest for a Cardiff City home league game since May 2008, when 14,469 turned out at Ninian Park to watch the Bluebirds beat Barnsley 3-0 a fortnight before the FA Cup final.Yesterday's attendance was Cardiff's lowest on the opening weekend of a Football League season since way back in August 1999, when 10,193 saw the Bluebirds draw 1-1 with Millwall in the old Second Division, or League One as it is now known.Before the current season, Cardiff City had had home fixtures on the opening weekends of six other Football League campaigns since 1999. The attendances for the relevant matches were: 17,403 (v Wycombe Wanderers in 2001), 18,840 (v Stoke City in 2007), 19,749 (v Southampton in 2008), 22,264 (v Scunthorpe United in 2009), 20,573 (v Sheffield United in 2010) and 21,127 (v Huddersfield Town in 2012).
Maybe not personally but this board was action-packed with martyrs in the recent past. You can't have missed it.Tan's folly? TLG has proven in this thread that we had bigger crowds wearing red shirts and that all the "stay aways" who claimed they'd be back once we went back to blue were liars.
However they're not liars. They've been broken, lost their connection with City and have no more than passive interest. Most have found other and different things to do and now prefer that. Once the habit goes, you can't really get it back.Yesterday's official attendance of 15,429 was the smallest by some distance for a Football League fixture at the Cardiff City Stadium. The previous lowest figure was 17,686 for a 2-0 victory over Peterborough United on a Tuesday evening in February 2010.The crowd against Fulham was the smallest for a Cardiff City home league game since May 2008, when 14,469 turned out at Ninian Park to watch the Bluebirds beat Barnsley 3-0 a fortnight before the FA Cup final.Yesterday's attendance was Cardiff's lowest on the opening weekend of a Football League season since way back in August 1999, when 10,193 saw the Bluebirds draw 1-1 with Millwall in the old Second Division, or League One as it is now known.
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