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Originally Posted by Rjk
Maybe they have all started following cewnty
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The Kop Shop has shut nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Maybe they have all started following cewnty
Always had a soft spot for County and it was not unknown for a fair number of people to watch the teams on alternate Saturdays.
Not sure that I have really heard anyone call them big rivals as that post was filled by Bristol City for years and now Swansea for most. Local rivals , certainly, when we were in the same division but it was short lived and hardly intense.
Completely agree with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
AbsolutelyQuote:
Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog
And Welsh rugby fans hate England
But only in the rugby
Football wise most rugby boys I know are Liverpool or United fans which are of course English clubs
I was there. I'm sure it was November (or thereabouts '76!)Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Sadly the feckers haven't. I was in the Queens in Newport and it has a big bar downstairs with huge screens, for the PlastiPool v Real Madrid Champions League Final a few years back. It was rammed wall to wall with plastic scoucers, literally hundreds of them squeezed into the place like sardines. Oh how I laughed when Bale scored and Madrid ran out the eventual winners :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
they must have been guttedQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68
I think you're right, but apart from along the M4 corridor, rugby isn't all that popular a sport in England - there aren't great numbers of big rugby fans in England like there are in South Wales. I have family that have lived in the West Midlands for several years and tournaments like the 6 nations don't seem that big a deal to the locals, unless England do well. If you go up north, then rugby union isn't a sport bothered with much at all. Bit like North Wales, really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
If they don't go up and that Josh Sheehan leaves, I wouldn't be averse to Cardiff taking a punt on him for a low wage. Looks like a fairly tidy player and didn't look out of place for Wales against Mexico.
seems tidy enough for Wales, if unspectacular.Quote:
Originally Posted by FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead
He's out of contract in the summer as well.
Why were Newport at home for the first leg when they finished above Forest Green??
They can’t be at home the same day as Liverpool, the other local team in Newport.Quote:
Originally Posted by fugsyphil
I remember that last league game towards the end of the season we went up in 88, 4 nil, they were on their way to oblivion. Think they had about 300 fans at NP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario Miethig
Think pre-80s city fans bear no ill will towards the county with many, in my experience Cardiff based supporters, often going to Somerton to take in games relatively frequently. Post-90s supporters probably have a similar viewpoint, except they likely didn’t go to any games there when they were bobbing about in non-league.
I do understand city fans coming of age in the 80s thinking of them in a different way. If both clubs played each other more frequently over a few decades I think this fixture would eventually eclipse the city/jacks as the South Wales derby for most supporters, save for the Neath/Port Talbot bluebirds.
I was at that game too. County’s support at the game was pitiful, but in fairness they were already doomed and fielded a team largely of kids.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
A bloke I work with is from Usk and has always maintained that City are Newport's biggest rivals. I've never understood it.
It's like Carmarthen Town claiming their rivals are Swansea.
He’s dreaming....they’ve never really been on our radar which is crazy if you consider we almost meet at the border of each city.Quote:
Originally Posted by B. Oddie
A brief rivalry born out of hooliganism in the 80’s is all it ever was.