Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
Try to remember how you used to think when you were, say, ten or less. If, having endured Cardiff 0 Derby 0 and Cardiff 0 Millwall 0 on your last two visits to Cardiff City Stadium and your parents came up to you on Tuesday to ask you what would you prefer, going down the football again or going out "Halloweening", what would your answer have been?
It was a poor crowd for the Ipswich match, but I wasn't as disappointed and upset about it as I might have been, because I was half expecting it.
No. for me, the one that asked serious questions about the attitude of so many part time fans was the Derby game which was played four days after 27,000 watched us play superbly in beating top of the table Leeds 3-1. Of course, the cheaper tickets that night helped and, of course, there were those whose financial situation meant that they were only ever going to go to the one match even if we had won it 6-0 while playing absolutely brilliant football, but the fact that probably six or seven thousand Cardiff fans (once you allow for away fans) were still not persuaded to go to the next match despite having, presumably, thoroughly enjoyed themselves at the Leeds game was very poor in my book.
Apart from the final days at Ninian Park when the ground capacity was reduced below that figure, City have always been able to attract 20,000 plus crowds during the times I've supported them when they were realistic promotion contenders. Gates this season are thousands down on such seasons and are quite a bit lower than in our Championship winning season when we were playing in red - I don't get that.