Reply With QuoteCrowd should be good, the announced one anyway. Friday night and on sky though.
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We've won 4 of our last 15 at home to Fulham, stretching back to 1984. We've won 2 out of 2 in the Premier League at home to them but only 1 of the last 4 in the Championship.
The last win at this level came in 2015, when Sean Morrison scored. It was the first game back in our blue shirts. That day saw a crowd of 22,515 with the ever popular Russell Slade in charge. It'll be interesting to see how many turn up tonight.
Crowd should be good, the announced one anyway. Friday night and on sky though.
You'd hope so. That Fulham crowd was one of the best that season and was better than the Huddersfield crowd just over a week ago. It'll be an interesting marker to see if our crowd is much bigger than 22,515, given that we now seem more galvanised and united as a club.Originally Posted by Trigger
In terms of crowds, ours dropped by 23% after relegation 5 years ago. This season so far it has dropped by 26%.
The first two game of this season have aggregated 46,545 and in 2014/15 41,411. Ironically we played Huddersfield in our first two games at home in both seasons. The crowds held up pretty well in 14/15 with only one game below 20,000 before February, and 4 of the remaining 9 games saw attendances in the 19000s and the last game vc Blackpool had 26000 because of freebies etc. Our previous PL campaign we saw crowds around 28000 but last season we were over 30000 bar one game,. Fulham. 'Tan's folly' came in last year and proved to be not such a folly.
I don't believe the attendances that were announced 5 years ago or even now as the inclusion of all season tickets holders falsely increases the announced attendance. I'd be surprised if our attendances stayed at the current level if we are not very successful, so the fall in % terms will be greater. Even plucky little Swansea have seen crowds drop a fair bit this season.
Match Officials:
Referee: TIM ROBINSON
Assistant: Andrew Fox and Ian Cooper
Fourth Official: Dean Whitestone
Match Facts:
- The past two league meetings with Cardiff and Fulham at the Cardiff City Stadium have ended 4-2 - Fulham won in December 2017 and Cardiff won in October 2018 by that scoreline.
- Fulham are looking to secure consecutive league wins over Cardiff for the first time since November 1996.
- Cardiff have lost just once in their past 12 Championship home games, winning 10 in the process (D1 L1).
- Fulham have won nine of their past 14 away games in the Championship (excluding play-offs), losing just twice (D3).
- Cardiff manager Neil Warnock has won seven of his 10 home Football League matches against Fulham (W7 D2 L1).
- Fulham's Aleksandar Mitrovic has failed to score in his four league appearances against Cardiff, although he has provided two assists in those games.
Cardiff v Fulham: pic.twitter.com/idmPp3Phaq
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Expectations are low for tonight. But few beers, maybe even a light show to look forward too - who knows 👍
Amazing to think we win tonight we are in 5th and above them.
No Vassell on the bench?
Harry Arter playing?
Yes.
Can’t moan at the team put out really.
Flint and Mozza are there to stay so we’ll have to get used to having 2 slow centre backs. Let’s hope they are protected.
Who knows what to expect?
why is commintating on this game for sky?
Because it’s on sky :)
Nah.. Andy hinchclife and someone
We need to pass the ball a little quicker
MUUUURRRRRPPPHHHYYYYYYYY!!!
erm and get crosses in earlier rather than always trying to beat the man
GET IN JOSH
Not the cleanest strike and it had a little bobble in front of the keeper but finally some end product from Murphy. Lovely spin from Glatzel to initially draw their defender towards him which opened up the extra little bit of space and time for Murphy !!
Mozza has lost it. He’s gone back a country mile.
holy shit... if they can turn it on like that at any time they can score against us at any time...
He’s had both good and bad moments in the half. He’s trying to stick right to players but if they get away from him then they get well away from him. He seemed to be hobbling back when Mitrovic got away from him so he needs to run that knock off.
Excellent goal no doubt about it but Murphy has been a passenger again, not good enough.
Morrison, Bacuna and Peltier marking eachother for the Fulham goal frustrating BUT I really thought we’d be 3-0 down at halftime
Sean Morrison is bad.
Bamba and Flint needs to be the way as soon as he comes back. Holy crap.
What has happened to Mozza?
Awful defending. Bullied then ball-watching.
Morrison actually looks behind to see where Mitro is and STILL let’s the pass through. ****ing donkey.
Did he just call the CCS ‘the principality’
gotta make the extra man pay now...
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