Some of the things the club are doing to boost crowds

[Lawnmower]

Cheap season tickets
Cheap half season tickets
Half price tickets for the Hull home game. Cheapest being £7.50 for an adult £2.50 for a kid.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A SEASON TICKET HOLDER TO GET THIS DEAL

Half price Golden Membership after Xmas (gets you £2 off every home ticket you buy). Gives you access to away tickets as well.
This is £20 adults, £10 kids.
After the Fulham game it's £10 adults and £5 kids.

We can't say the club aren't trying.

Apparently sales have been decent for Hull and Fulham, so hopefully we will get reasonable crowds for that.

For Hull there is a Family ticket- 2 adults, 2 kids for £18

Get the message out.

Even for someone who only wants to see top level football a half season ticket isn't a big gamble, with the chance of priority should we go up

[Former Labour leader]

I agree club is doing everything on and off the field right. It is difficult to know why crowds have remained poor. Perhaps now the egg is out of the way for a couple of months, things will look up.

[Badly Ironed Shirt]

I agree club is doing everything on and off the field right. It is difficult to know why crowds have remained poor. Perhaps now the egg is out of the way for a couple of months, things will look up.

Tan told his customers that he could live with 25% of them not showing up, and about 40% took him at his word.

[TH63]

Tan told his customers that he could live with 25% of them not showing up, and about 40% took him at his word.

I know you desperately want that to be true, but it just isn’t.

Ten years ago, without a red shirt in sight, we were averaging 15,000, less than this season. In fact you have to go back to the early 70’s before average attendences were where they are now. This is a fact.

Attendances only started going up when it looked like city might be going up.
They went down again when we went down again.

The figures just don’t support your assertion I’m afraid. It really is that simple.

I would argue that we’ve lost about 7,000 glory hunters who appeared in our championship winning season, with any who stayed being cancelled out by boycotters.

Mate of mine who is a long term fan that boycotted is getting a half season ticket.

The club is doing everything that it can to encourage new, and old, fans to come to games. If those fans still don’t want to, then, with regret, that’s their loss.

[blue matt]

I know you desperately want that to be true, but it just isn’t.

Ten years ago, without a red shirt in sight, we were averaging 15,000, less than this season. In fact you have to go back to the early 70’s before average attendences were where they are now. This is a fact.

Attendances only started going up when it looked like city might be going up.
They went down again when we went down again.

The figures just don’t support your assertion I’m afraid. It really is that simple.

I would argue that we’ve lost about 7,000 glory hunters who appeared in our championship winning season, with any who stayed being cancelled out by boycotters.

Mate of mine who is a long term fan that boycotted is getting a half season ticket.

The club is doing everything that it can to encourage new, and old, fans to come to games. If those fans still don’t want to, then, with regret, that’s their loss.

We have always had the " big game charlies " and " glory hunters ", every team has them

Which means if / when we get back to the Prem league, they will come flooding back, I am afraid that we have seen the Championship now for so long, it holds no glamour for the BGC's and GH's, so they simple do not attend

Some of the boycotters will move on and find something else to do ( some will post on a message board dedicated to Cardiff city football club, a strange one that ) or they will decide, enough is enough and pop down the CCS and see what it is like now

as we are seeing with the Jacks, the money from the fans is fairly small fry compared to the riches of the EPL, We know that the ground will be packed full if we get back to the EPL, fickle fans eh `

[Rocco Siffredi]

If they cannot get over 22009 then we do not deserve to have a team in the top two of the Championship

[Lawnmower]

If they cannot get over 22009 then we do not deserve to have a team in the top two of the Championship

Is that the old Ninian Park capacity?

[Penarth Blues]

Bit pissed off to have missed the date that Fulham and PNE went on sale... When were the Xmas period tickets released?

[blue matt]

fair play to the club, as you said, they are doing everything they can

If these deals do not entice the people back, they just are simple not city fans and deserve nothing

[TH63]

fair play to the club, as you said, they are doing everything they can

If these deals do not entice the people back, they just are simple not city fans and deserve nothing

Agreed.

Short of picking the feckers up, driving them to the ground and giving them free beer, there’s nothing the club can do.

The team are doing well, we really can be the twelfth man.

The players are running through walls for us, yet a lot of fans can’t be arsed to walk across the rec.

It’s like something out of a David attenburgh documentary - the lesser spotted Cardiff city fan, most of the time, invisible to the naked eye. You can sometimes tempt them out of hibernation with a cheap hull ticket. But once every few years something remarkable happens. The planets align and with the prospect of a trip to Wembley thousands of these fans, known by their Latin name of gloryhuntus plasticus will clamour all over each other to make the trip before disappearing again into their holes, not to be seen again until the next time.

[Badly Ironed Shirt]

Agreed.

Short of picking the feckers up, driving them to the ground and giving them free beer, there’s nothing the club can do.

The team are doing well, we really can be the twelfth man.

The players are running through walls for us, yet a lot of fans can’t be arsed to walk across the rec.

It’s like something out of a David attenburgh documentary - the lesser spotted Cardiff city fan, most of the time, invisible to the naked eye. You can sometimes tempt them out of hibernation with a cheap hull ticket. But once every few years something remarkable happens. The planets align and with the prospect of a trip to Wembley thousands of these fans, known by their Latin name of gloryhuntus plasticus will clamour all over each other to make the trip before disappearing again into their holes, not to be seen again until the next time.

It's a shame that the gloryhuntus plasticus did not breed in sufficient numbers to replace the principalus boycotterus. Isn't it a pity that the easilyus replacedus were named incorrectly and are now known as the wemissus themus terribulus.

[Jimmy the Jock]

It's a shame that the gloryhuntus plasticus did not breed in sufficient numbers to replace the principalus boycotterus. Isn't it a pity that the easilyus replacedus were named incorrectly and are now known as the wemissus themus terribulus.

Spot on.

I doubt the missing few would be enough to get the numbers where we seem to expect though.

Premier league football or maybe a cup final .......... Now that would bring the masses back.

Its much easier getting to and fro the ground in a 16,000 crowd.

[Organ Morgan.]

Vinny will be in attendance for the Hull game. He always turns up when there's cheap tickets on offer.

[Lawnmower]

Bit pissed off to have missed the date that Fulham and PNE went on sale... When were the Xmas period tickets released?

Don't know, but there's plenty left, so you won't miss out 👍

[Penarth Blues]

Don't know, but there's plenty left, so you won't miss out 

I was looking to buy seats around mine for both games - both of which appear to have been sold now weirdly as they are never usually sold...

[dembethewarrior]

I'm looking to get 2 half season tickets this week or next in the family stand. Looking at the games it's worth my money as I'll only miss the one tues night game.

[Barry Shitpeas]

I believe a big part of the problem is ignorance. I’ve said before on here that, on many occasions, I have been met with genuine surprise when I’ve told people that my season ticket works out at £13 a game and the kids one at just over £2 a game. As far as prices and deals go the club are really trying, but the only place I’ve ever seen it advertised outside of the stadium is on Facebook.

I think what would help is a blanket awareness campaign across the City. Radio adverts, Flyers, billboards, buses, trains, posters in pubs and shops, City players visiting schools and turning up at kids football training / matches etc etc

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

I believe a big part of the problem is ignorance. I’ve said before on here that, on many occasions, I have been met with genuine surprise when I’ve told people that my season ticket works out at £13 a game and the kids one at just over £2 a game. As far as prices and deals go the club are really trying, but the only place I’ve ever seen it advertised outside of the stadium is on Facebook.

I think what would help is a blanket awareness campaign across the City. Radio adverts, Flyers, billboards, buses, trains, posters in pubs and shops, City players visiting schools and turning up at kids football training / matches etc etc

[Steve R]

I believe a big part of the problem is ignorance. I’ve said before on here that, on many occasions, I have been met with genuine surprise when I’ve told people that my season ticket works out at £13 a game and the kids one at just over £2 a game. As far as prices and deals go the club are really trying, but the only place I’ve ever seen it advertised outside of the stadium is on Facebook.

I think what would help is a blanket awareness campaign across the City. Radio adverts, Flyers, billboards, buses, trains, posters in pubs and shops, City players visiting schools and turning up at kids football training / matches etc etc

Good post. Agree 100%.

[WJ99mobile]

We had more support when we went up in red so no one can use the rebrand as an excuse

[the other bob wilson]

We had more support when we went up in red so no one can use the rebrand as an excuse

Exactly, if people are not attending as a matter of principle because of the rebrand, then the huge majority of them are doing it retrospectively and I would guess that these virtuous souls came to their decision some time around our relegation from the Premier League - no two ways about it, our crowds are poor this season and our manager passed comment on it last week in his meeting with supporters.

[goats]

Tan told his customers that he could live with 25% of them not showing up, and about 40% took him at his word.

Maybe this is the case.
Living in Cardiff I often think that apart from those who are going anyway, most people would be un aware of a game even going on. There are tens of thousands of people walking through the city centre every day and nowhere advertising Cardiff City or selling tickets? Surely a small booth or outlet in another store etc would cost that much to run. Always think we are missing a trick in getting our very lazy fan base to come.....

[Organ Morgan.]

Maybe this is the case.
Living in Cardiff I often think that apart from those who are going anyway, most people would be un aware of a game even going on. There are tens of thousands of people walking through the city centre every day and nowhere advertising Cardiff City or selling tickets? Surely a small booth or outlet in another store etc would cost that much to run. Always think we are missing a trick in getting our very lazy fan base to come.....

Some good awareness raising ideas you floated there. Several people wearing sandwich boards or holding banners high in the air advertising in the busy shopping streets would be worth a try. Another is having a couple of cars fitted with tannoys whizzing round the capital in the days preceding home games as political candidates do before elections.

[goats]

We had more support when we went up in red so no one can use the rebrand as an excuse

You can if you take away the Gloria’s, of which, we have more than any other place in the uk

[Badly Ironed Shirt]

I know you desperately want that to be true, but it just isn’t.

Ten years ago, without a red shirt in sight, we were averaging 15,000, less than this season. In fact you have to go back to the early 70’s before average attendences were where they are now. This is a fact.

Attendances only started going up when it looked like city might be going up.
They went down again when we went down again.

The figures just don’t support your assertion I’m afraid. It really is that simple.

I would argue that we’ve lost about 7,000 glory hunters who appeared in our championship winning season, with any who stayed being cancelled out by boycotters.

Mate of mine who is a long term fan that boycotted is getting a half season ticket.

The club is doing everything that it can to encourage new, and old, fans to come to games. If those fans still don’t want to, then, with regret, that’s their loss.

He said it when crowds were 26000. Crowds are now 16000. Let's not change the chronology of events - if he'd said it when crowds were 15000 fair enough.