City support from the Cardiff area's?

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Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

Not up north in places like Rochdale, Bury , Doncaster

A few might have gone by train but most fans went by coach

Apart from the bigger games our following was only a couple of hundred in the dungeon

Of course we would take loads to Hereford or a big cup game by train but for normal games we would have about 20 or 30 on the train and I know that because I was living up north at the time and travelled by train and would join the escort to get back to the station

Up north is always different, I dont think we took loads ever. Coaches are easier but I recall going on them to places like Blackpool, Peterborough, tranmere…..

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Mike Pearce!!!! Haven't heard of him for absolutely years. Anyone know how he's doing in Scotland?

I don't even know if he is still with us ?

Mike Lambert is in the far East, swigging cocktails I believe

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Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

The other board always suggest in various threads that the City took many more than the 200 suggested above to places like Hartlepool, Bury in the dungeon years, etc etc. Is this just their imagination?

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Up north is always different, I dont think we took loads ever. Coaches are easier but I recall going on them to places like Blackpool, Peterborough, tranmere…..

Blackpool , bedlam up there , even before CCFC turned up , then it got worse

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The other board always suggest in various threads that the City took many more than the 200 suggested above to places like Hartlepool, Bury in the dungeon years, etc etc. Is this just their imagination?

Yes

We took about 600 to our first away in the old fourth to hartlepool but it soon dwindled

In 1986 I was living in Manchester, went to see CCFC v Bury and we had no more than 150 fans

In the late eighties we got relegated at Bury , losing 2 nil and took 2000 fans but it was a do or die game and of course any fairly big club would take a decent support , Bristol Rovers , Plymouth , Stoke etc

We could always get big support for the important games but this idea we were followed by thousands away week in week out is a myth

We played Scarborough in April 1993 in our promotion season . We took 500 .

But a week later played the league leaders York in a crunch match so we had 2000 there

Like our home support our away support has always been up and down

That was then however , it's excellent now

[chrisp_1927]

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I think the digs at Cardiff rugby are a bit unfair. I've got a season ticket for the rugby and also manage at least 50% of city's games home and away.

Cardiff rugby don't get great crowds, that is true. The crowd they do get is nothing like the Welsh international type though. It's a decent set of fans who are passionate about their team. There's not much of that hymn singing crap and lots of shouting. Certainly don't think your average Cardiff rugby fan would have any bad feelings towards Cardiff City.

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I think the digs at Cardiff rugby are a bit unfair. I've got a season ticket for the rugby and also manage at least 50% of city's games home and away.

Cardiff rugby don't get great crowds, that is true. The crowd they do get is nothing like the Welsh international type though. It's a decent set of fans who are passionate about their team. There's not much of that hymn singing crap and lots of shouting. Certainly don't think your average Cardiff rugby fan would have any bad feelings towards Cardiff City.

Yeah very different to the 6 nations crowd (drunk middle aged women mainly these days), they attend club matches and probably know the rules. You get the feeling Welsh National team crowds all go to games also….proper fans.

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I think the digs at Cardiff rugby are a bit unfair. I've got a season ticket for the rugby and also manage at least 50% of city's games home and away.

Cardiff rugby don't get great crowds, that is true. The crowd they do get is nothing like the Welsh international type though. It's a decent set of fans who are passionate about their team. There's not much of that hymn singing crap and lots of shouting. Certainly don't think your average Cardiff rugby fan would have any bad feelings towards Cardiff City.

Old mate of mine from Splott, massive CRFC fan, actually wasn’t struck on the ‘Blues’ franchise and gave up attending Wales games years ago.

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Blackpool , bedlam up there , even before CCFC turned up , then it got worse

Yeah last time I went to Blackpool (1989) our mini bus didn’t show up by empire pool, the loony bus swung by (mainly croesy and the docks crew) and we were left with little choice to get on as they needed bodies to fill their coach. I did feel fortunate to get home that day, the coach was half empty on the way back and mainly full of stolen clothes…..

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Old mate of mine from Splott, massive CRFC fan, actually wasn’t struck on the ‘Blues’ franchise and gave up attending Wales games years ago.

I think the way the regions were pushed through alienated a lot of people. Especially the way that teams like ponty were completely stitched up. Completely off topic, but I always thought ponty rfc should have told the wru where to go and joined the English leagues. With their fanbase and player production , they'd have probably had a fair chance of getting to the premiership and being the biggest rugby side in Wales.

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I think the way the regions were pushed through alienated a lot of people. Especially the way that teams like ponty were completely stitched up. Completely off topic, but I always thought ponty rfc should have told the wru where to go and joined the English leagues. With their fanbase and player production , they'd have probably had a fair chance of getting to the premiership and being the biggest rugby side in Wales.

They completely ****ed up where ponty were concerned. Conveyor belt of players in the valleys and the fan base for a good level team.

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They completely ****ed up where ponty were concerned. Conveyor belt of players in the valleys and the fan base for a good level team.

Pontypridd used to get very big gates. They had a really passionate following. As you say, the WRU really messed that up, thinking Pont supporters would switch to Cardiff Blues.

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Yes

We took about 600 to our first away in the old fourth to hartlepool but it soon dwindled

In 1986 I was living in Manchester, went to see CCFC v Bury and we had no more than 150 fans

In the late eighties we got relegated at Bury , losing 2 nil and took 2000 fans but it was a do or die game and of course any fairly big club would take a decent support , Bristol Rovers , Plymouth , Stoke etc

We could always get big support for the important games but this idea we were followed by thousands away week in week out is a myth

We played Scarborough in April 1993 in our promotion season . We took 500 .

But a week later played the league leaders York in a crunch match so we had 2000 there

Like our home support our away support has always been up and down

That was then however , it's excellent now

1990 and it was a bank holiday weekend. And the weather was nice.

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1990 and it was a bank holiday weekend. And the weather was nice.

Indeed it was

It was so hot there was a gorilla in the cardiff seating section

But he got arrested at half time , presumably to put him on a plane to Rwanda

Via Treorchy

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Well my experience , especially away from home in the first time in the old fourth division that for many trips we would have about 250 away fans and 3 coaches , about 150 , would come from Bridgend , Barry and Pontypridd

Two coaches were run by Mike Lambert , originally from Aberdare then Bridgend , Mike Pearce from Barry and the third coach was valleys run by roy and mair daniel from Pontypridd.

And these coaches would all meet at ninian Park and they would be full of fans from outside Cardiff before they got there

For most of the games that was it , about 3 coaches , most of the people on them from outside Cardiff. On our coach we would often have a group of lads from port Talbot and Porthcawl.

I think it's fair to say our away fans then , as now we're very loyal to ccfc and most of them were not from Cardiff

There are loyal fans from Cardiff it's just that as with our crowds, there are not enough of them . Far too many people from this part of the world find excuses not to get behind CCFC . Tony Clemo might not have been everybody's favourite chairman but he said as much many years ago .

That's your experience not mine.
Obviously if I went away with the City it would be with lads from my area plus you knew all the City fans from Cardiff areas as you knew them from getting the train or drinking in town.
I know City fans from all areas of Cardiff who were going when we were shit and still go today.
I'm not having this support for the club is or has been bigger from areas outside the city.
Because it's not my experience