C'mon, Sludge, however potent the Moroccan funny fags you're puffing this evening no way can a 30-mile journey be described as a trek.
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Was talking to a city fan from hirwaun the other day , that's one heck of a trek for every home game
These people are tremendous
Make the man united supporting cardiffian look like a prize plum
C'mon, Sludge, however potent the Moroccan funny fags you're puffing this evening no way can a 30-mile journey be described as a trek.
40 minute car journey according to google. Double that for there and back and though commendable no medals will be awarded.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hirw...hrome&ie=UTF-8
Hirwaun is about 10 mins from Merthyr, Sludge.
I agree the support in the Valleys is good but it’s not exactly Anglesey where some lads travel from.
40 minute on a clear day with no match on if you put your foot down. Double that by car on match day.
If you can't use a car, it's even worse. It's bad enough from where I live, the other side of Aberdare. From Hirwaun it would mean bus to Aberdare, train and long walk from Grangetown or change and wait to go to Ninian Park or get the 95 shuttle bus. Allow 2 hours minimum.
Hirwaun and Aberdare is full of Jacks anyway. Merthyr is getting as bad.
I get the train down with my boy. Depending on whether we meet up with friends before, it can be an 8-9 hour day out for one game. For me, the social aspect is important. Next season my boy has suggested not having a season ticket but going around lots of local grounds on Saturdays instead. He's not 7 yet!
I for one, commend our valley following.
If our attendance was just Cardiff we would struggle.
Great support from the comandos., particularly away as well.
Blooooooooobirds!
Yes I do agree especially on a cold or wet winter evening game , straight after work, not home until 11ish ,bloody heroes in my book
A long time ago, I went to Hirwaun for the first time, to buy a car off someone. I couldn't believe the amount of pro-Cardiff City graffiti sprayed everywhere, no Swansea, Man Utd etc.
As a comparison , whenever I visited Llanrumney, I saw virtually nothing. It really did (at the time at least) give me a feeling that Hirwaun was a Cardiff City stronghold.
They feel the need to stamp ones territory up there, not so important in Cardiff suburbs I’d say. I don’t know where hirwaun is, not even really heard of it so the support is commendable, like that of port talbot and Neath areas which is on the doorstep of the hills have eyes.
Used to be the same in Merthyr "CCFC Pride Of Wales" "Cardiff Aggro".etc.etc. was sprayed over bus stops and the park at the bottom of my street when I grew up.
Theres a new generation in the last decade of Swansea City fans in former Cardiff strongholds. Theres still more Cardiff fans but not the kind of large ratio to Jacks that there used to be.
Theres even Jacks in the Rhondda these days im led to believe.
"they feel the need to stamp ones territory up there"
****ing hell. What a stupid post.
Good effort. Lots of ST holders from various places over the bridge too. Remember reading about a ST holder who lived in Chicago a few years back.