City support from the Cardiff area's?

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

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

Of course it was

If 250 fans were at Rochdale and 150 of those fans were on coaches carrying fans from outside of Cardiff then the majority of hard core fans came from outside Cardiff

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[Baloo]

Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

Of course it was

If 250 fans were at Rochdale and 150 of those fans were on coaches carrying fans from outside of Cardiff then the majority of hard core fans came from outside Cardiff

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Great thread to distract from Strictly. Welling up.

[MOZZER2]

Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

Birmingham City is a weird one as well.
Second biggest city, but most of those who live in the area support Aston Villa.

There was a suggestion a few years ago that Aston Villa was the be rebranded as Aston Villa Birmingham. As they were the biggest club in Birmingham.

well i,m going to challenge that claim

My time in Birmingham which was about 5 years on and off I would say that the bulk north of the city was Aston Villa land whilst the south is Birmingham city . Obviously being a huge city there are fans of both sides in all areas

I agree with villa being the biggest and best supported but for some reason they attract alot of fans outside Birmingham whilst Birmingham don't apart from Redditch . Villa have a huge fan base in most border areas like south staffordshire .Lichfield and Tamworth for example is almost 100 per cent villa .If Birmingham were in the prem they would get big crowds too

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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well i,m going to challenge that claim

My time in Birmingham which was about 5 years on and off I would say that the bulk north of the city was Aston Villa land whilst the south is Birmingham city . Obviously being a huge city there are fans of both sides in all areas

I agree with villa being the biggest and best supported but for some reason they attract alot of fans outside Birmingham whilst Birmingham don't apart from Redditch . Villa have a huge fan base in most border areas like south staffordshire .Lichfield and Tamworth for example is almost 100 per cent villa .If Birmingham were in the prem they would get big crowds too

Villa are for the posh types in Sutton Coldfield , Solihull , Knowle , Worcestershire

Birmingham City are the working class club of the South and East

West Brom are the North West of Birmingham

[Armitage Shanks]

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Villa are for the posh types in Sutton Coldfield , Solihull , Knowle , Worcestershire

Birmingham City are the working class club of the South and East

West Brom are the North West of Birmingham

I was in Birmingham today, the pubs were full of Villa fans all afternoon due to the postponed game.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

I was in Birmingham today, the pubs were full of Villa fans all afternoon due to the postponed game.

They would be , if Villa were at home

[Former Labour leader]

Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

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

I'm a Ponty boy originally and I remember the specials running down to NP in the 60 s, on a Saturday, usually full. Ponty rugby team was lucky to get 2 men and a dog for their matches at Ynysangharad Park, 200 was a big crowd. I would pop down now and again if City were away and I had nothing better to do.
Times have certainly changed.

[Wash DC Blue]

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Not seen that before….
Not sure what sludge is on about with regard to away games, lots of cardiff boys always there we usually went in the train. Hardly ever in a coach….that was for old people

1/3 of those lads are from Alway and Ringland in Newport.
Talking of which, it's nuts how many Newport lads used to go in the 70's.
Then the early/mid 80's were what they were.

I started going early 91/92 with a few lads from work
And got hooked very quickly.
Had plenty of trouble in Newport Town Centre back then.

Now there are plenty of City fans in Newport.

[Des Parrot]

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Villa are for the posh types in Sutton Coldfield , Solihull , Knowle , Worcestershire

Birmingham City are the working class club of the South and East

West Brom are the North West of Birmingham

Having worked in Redditch for the last 20 years, I’d say the split is roughly 60% Villa, 20% Bluenoses, 10% West Brom and the balance split between Cov, Wolves & Polish clubs. You don’t see many shirts from Northern or London clubs.

By the way I can rustle up around 15-20 from the Forest of Dean & Monmouth. There are more City fans in this little corner of England than there are Bristol fans, although Gloucester Rugby dominates the local shirt wearing.

[Packerman]

Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

I'm a Ponty boy originally and I remember the specials running down to NP in the 60 s, on a Saturday, usually full. Ponty rugby team was lucky to get 2 men and a dog for their matches at Ynysangharad Park, 200 was a big crowd. I would pop down now and again if City were away and I had nothing better to do.
Times have certainly changed.

fellow Ponty boy here, Trallwn, yep crowds were not great in the park
team and support took off when the moved to Sardis road,
Ponty support from then on was as good as anyone in Wales and at the time the regions were formed they were the premier team in Wales and produced loads of Internationals
remember the 60s specials to NP
and was a regular on Mair Daniels coaches in the 70s
happy days

[insider]

Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

Of course it was

If 250 fans were at Rochdale and 150 of those fans were on coaches carrying fans from outside of Cardiff then the majority of hard core fans came from outside Cardiff

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Did you go around with forms asking for address details and do a head count?
My brother has lived in n Cardiff all his life and he travelled with the adar glass coaches back in the day.

[Chilled of Llanishen]

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

Afraid to say Mike Pearce died about 18 months ago. I always remember him from working in the souvenir shop in the late 70s, a very nice guy.

[chrisp_1927]

Re: City support from the Cardiff area's?

Did you go around with forms asking for address details and do a head count?
My brother has lived in n Cardiff all his life and he travelled with the adar glass coaches back in the day.

I think there is only 1 conclusion to take from this. You must have made a mistake, forgotten where your brother has lived, and not realised that he's a valley boy !! The other option of course, is that sludge is talking bollocks again 😂

[dembethewarrior]

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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.

Yeah, used to be a massive rugby town, people still talk about the big games in Europe.
All guess work now but I think they'd have done alright in Europe as well.