Cardiff Rugby

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Re: Cardiff Rugby

I’m “cherrypicking” games based on when both teams are at home at the same time so there’s no question about people attending both sports. Something you no doubt would’ve mentioned.

It’s rare it happens, but for both instances it has happened this season, over 30,000 individual people have attended a sports event in Cardiff at the same time.

Does every single Sunderland fan walk to the ground for their games? Not a single person travels from Blyth, Durham, Whitley, Seaham or any of the other number of towns in the area? It won’t be half, but it’s more likely to be in the thousands rather than hundreds.

Maybe Sunderland is a better supported Sport city, but Cardiff is certainly a better supported Sports city. You should be careful how you word things, some people are pedantic

Sunderland isn’t very big and has Newcastle one way and boro the other…we got no rivals for miles and miles….how can 2% of the population following its football club be called good? Your mad, end of.

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I’ve never claimed Cardiff had more supporters than Sunderland.

I’ve not exaggerated anything, I explained with pretty sensible reasoning why I chose the only 2 games Cardiff City and Cardiff Rugby have played on the same day.

You keep saying 50% of Cardiff’s fans come from outside Cardiff for all the sports teams with nothing to back that up.

Why does number of games matter? Sunderland having 800,000 fans in attendance over the course of the season doesn’t mean there’s 800,000 people in Sunderland supporting their team. If Cardiff City only played 10 games a season we wouldn’t suddenly get crowds of 40,000.

You think we’re the worst sports supporting city in the country. Plenty of people consider Sunderland one of the best set of fans in English football. When it comes to sports, Cardiff isn’t too far behind Sunderland. A matter of a few thousand depending on the year in fact. This year, the 3 Cardiff clubs 31k, Sunderland 38k. When Sunderland were in our position a few seasons ago and got relegated they averaged 27k. Last season Sunderland had 2k less and Cardiff City had 2k more.

The 3 best supported rugby teams in England last year:
Leicester - 21k
Bristol - 19k
Saracens - 15k

Cardiff at 8k in a worse league ain’t too shabby.

In Ice Hockey, Cardiff beats out Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Coventry as the 4th best supported team in the UK. Again, not too shabby.

Saying the people of Cardiff aren’t interested in sports is wrong. They’re just not all interested in the same sport.

Half that 8k at the rugby is kids for a quid isn’t it….

[J R Hartley]

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Sunderland isn’t very big and has Newcastle one way and boro the other…we got no rivals for miles and miles….how can 2% of the population following its football club be called good? Your mad, end of.

Hes on a wind-up. Or hes that DML fella re-incarnated.

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Re: Cardiff Rugby

Hes on a wind-up. Or hes that DML fella re-incarnated.

What a life…living the dream eh

[ZZ Jack]

Re: Cardiff Rugby

I’m “cherrypicking” games based on when both teams are at home at the same time so there’s no question about people attending both sports. Something you no doubt would’ve mentioned.

It’s rare it happens, but for both instances it has happened this season, over 30,000 individual people have attended a sports event in Cardiff at the same time.

Does every single Sunderland fan walk to the ground for their games? Not a single person travels from Blyth, Durham, Whitley, Seaham or any of the other number of towns in the area? It won’t be half, but it’s more likely to be in the thousands rather than hundreds.

Maybe Sunderland is a better supported Sport city, but Cardiff is certainly a better supported Sports city. You should be careful how you word things, some people are pedantic

You left out a full stop by there, after pedantic look.

More people watch and play football in Wales but the BBC want to ram the egg down our throats. Today, women's rugby was better represented than the football teams and supporters of Cardiff, Newport, Swansea & Wrexham were.

Never mind what the licence payers want, we'll decide what we're going to cover.

It looks like we're safe, and I hope we play you lot and Wrexham in the Championship 25/26, win draw or the other one. 🙄