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Swansea city looks out for and unites the people of the city, cardiff city does absolutely nothing for the city of cardiff which is why so few people actually go or even know a game is on. Rather than try and attract more young people from a city of approaching 400,000 they’d probably rather put in a free bus from some obscure valleys town, which is nice, but just bizarre.
There’s been a big shift in the last 2 decades about how they, the wurzels view us too. When they were playing Rovers a lot they naturally had them as rivals and weren’t too bothered by us. Since 2002 playoff, rovers demise and us beating them loads and going up twice, they definitely seem to have that hate building up more…..living there for a few years from 2002 to 2005 it was noticeable.
They get quite wound up by us these days whereas 20 years ago or more they weren’t so bothered.
Me and my boy said exactly that yesterday but we have also said it of other sides as well this season that we have lost to but we are sleepwalking to relegation at the moment and noone outside the fan base seems to care as there are still no communications from those in control of our club (and I use that in the loosest of senses)
I also wonder how hard our journos are working to get any information from the club because if they are trying and failing they should be telling us that as that would be another sad indictment as to how our club has been run.
I said in another thread that I have emailed Mehmet Dalman direct but as yet still no answer after 6 days of waiting
We are a rudderless shambles at the moment and it is impacting on the pitch as it inevitably would and the board are to blame - all of them
Have found the reaction to yesterday well over the top to be honest. We played 83 minutes with 10 men. Going to lose 90% of games under them circumstances. 7 out of the 11 had never played in a South Wales Derby before so laying into them for the dreadful performances of years gone past is pointless.
Thought Swansea were average but could afford to be with the luxury of an extra man, never felt like we were going to get a hiding at any point compared to QPR on Wednesday where it felt like the extra man could mean it is 5-0 game. I think we'd have given them a very good game and potentially won with 11 yesterday with how the game played out and how laboured and out of ideas they looked at times but wasn't to be so it's frustrating, but don't agree that the current players "don't get it" etc, they're just taking the brunt of frustrations with the old group of players.
weird thread
So despite having a worse squad than them, a worse record over the last 10 years, a string of poor results against them but still getting bigger crowds we can't say we're a bigger club? Why? Because you saw a couple of Herberts in white tops walking around Bridgend? Get a grip.
People who stumble across this thread (and board generally) would be forgiven for thinking that this was a Swansea City forum. The amount of abuse the owner, board, manager and team get here is far greater than anything the Swansea media and fans throw at us. It is disgraceful really. We will never be a ‘big club’ with people like that ‘supporting’ us.
So Cardiff with a far bigger local population and a huge metropolitan area gets just a few thousand more than Swansea.......which is far smaller and has a smaller metropolitan population ......and that means it's a bigger club ?
Sort yourself out , our attendances are almost exactly the same
It's not just about population size is it - there will be lots of the Cardiff population that have no connection with Cardiff or its football club let alone interested in football.
It is what it is re attendances - we are not a sleeping giant and never have been - we have punched above our weight for the last 10-12 years and are probably finding our level now the real debt inducing investment has stopped