Our fanbase from the City of Cardiff (again)

[NinianOpinion1927]

Re: Our fanbase from the City of Cardiff (again)

It was one of his team that stated it was not something the club could support

I don't know if that was his opinion or the opinion of the spokesperson

Either way it was bullshit and typical of Cardiff City to suggest a mural depicting a black cardiff woman in a city shirt wasn't a suitable thing for the club to get support

What a bunch of hopeless clowns

I don't know why it bothers you SO MUCH LOL

[NYCBlue]

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Bristol City have a higher average than us and that’s with Rovers a few miles away. Public transport in the Bristol area makes TFW look progressive.

I doubt they attract fans as far away as we do from some of the valleys

So not mind blowing then? Because to me it seems like exactly the same thing. Bristol City's attendance average was about 6% higher than ours last season

[olderblue]

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Biggest surprise for me reading this thread is the news that we have a marketing department

**** knows what they do???
Fans like me are always going to be going and my sons are the same, what the club should be doing is employing a real marketing strategy to attract the next generation of fans so that it becomes part of their DNA
In reality it’s easy to understand why some fans stayed in the warm, watching on the red button on Wednesday night
Saturday was hard to watch, but against Brum we were awful and there’s no point trying to put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig!
As it stands I think we have a decent manager, but he’s inherited a squad of shite players or players who are half arsed.
I’m saying he won’t make mistakes in selection and tactics, but you can only deal with the hand you have.
He needs two transfer windows to get the players he wants in and get rid of the dross.

A successful winning team will bring the crowds back
Hopefully if we ever get promoted again into the Premier League, they’ll be a plan in place to actually stay there and build the support on

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Best marketing department is the patch of grass inside the stadium..

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Best marketing department is the patch of grass inside the stadium..

Absolutely. Do well and people will want to go to games.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Public transport in the Bristol area makes TFW look progressive.

There can't be many worse places in the UK for public transport than Bristol.

[Bruce Parry]

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After the move from Ninian Park, we were growing season on season. The club killed all momentum with the rebrand. There’s still plenty of former season ticket holders who either don’t go down or pick and choose games.

Considering what’s happened over the last decade, is our average even that bad?

[goats]

Re: Our fanbase from the City of Cardiff (again)

After the move from Ninian Park, we were growing season on season. The club killed all momentum with the rebrand. There’s still plenty of former season ticket holders who either don’t go down or pick and choose games.

Considering what’s happened over the last decade, is our average even that bad?

It’s a miracle we get nr 20,000 and almost 30,000 for the jacks after the last decade, when I started going we had 6000 for games v swansea and I thought that was good, over 10,000 was out there….Cardiff is quite a cool city these days, maybe ccfc and football in general just isn’t cool for the young dudes of the this world. It wasn’t when I was growing up either if I’m honest, just gangs of hooligans from various suburbs and the valley towns who would regularly have issues with each other….

[Doucas]

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We've had almost a decade of negative to extremely negative football. Not even the Royal families PR squad could sell that.

[Mr Soul '68]

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Being a capital city means nothing.


Manchester United are the best supported team in England by about 15k week in week out.

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Most of United's home fans are not from the greater Manchester area though. A huge proportion of them come from South Wales, Devon & Dorset, London & the Home Counties, Ireland and even abroad. I have a mate who is Utd 'plastic', (a Mansfield lad) who will admit this.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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There can't be many worse places in the UK for public transport than Bristol.

Parking at Ashton Gate is a nightmare, in my experience.
Ashton Gate is much further from Temple Meads than CCS is is from Cardiff Central.
AG is further from Bristol city centre than CC is is from 'town'.
AG is also out on a limb, being on the western periphery of the city - and where there is no super-duper ring road.

[TWGL1]

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So not mind blowing then? Because to me it seems like exactly the same thing. Bristol City's attendance average was about 6% higher than ours last season

Bristol City’s season tickets prices for children included a free home shirt, ( and were better value) plus the away attendances at Ashton Gate were higher that when we got. That’s the 6% accounted for

[goats]

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Bristol City’s season tickets prices for children included a free home shirt, ( and were better value) plus the away attendances at Ashton Gate were higher that when we got. That’s the 6% accounted for

They were doing ok for them last season too, new stand opened to I think. As for the traffic there, it’s far worse than here when I lived there 20 yrs ago. You’d be very lucky to get to 20 mph going across town

[pipster]

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A football club and what they produce (entertaining football) is a measurable thing. If watching the city was entertaining, with great performances, attacking football, challenging matches etc then yes it would be packed - like it was in the Malky / Warnock promotion season and the premier league seasons.
But in reality watching the city play - has not been in the least bit entertaining over the last decade and that is reflected in the attendances. In fact Im surprised it has been as high as it has been - considering what has been on offer to watch.

[City123]

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Mark Denham and Ashley James make me wince so bad with their commentary.
I know that I sound like a broken record, but they spoil my experience so so much.

Just watched the highlights of the game that was posted on the “best goal at Ninian Park” showing the Barnet free kick.
The guy commenting was quite unpolished, but so full of excitement and enthusiasm.
I’d love to hear someone like that rather than the dour, football hipsters that we have who constantly call The City players by their first names, initials or nicknames.

It’s an irrational hatred now for me.

That is quite annoying