Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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SLUDGE FACTORY
I don't live in Cardiff
I am there all the time though
Even down the bay in the summer you see more man United and Liverpool tops than Cardiff
It simply isn't a city where the population gets behind its football team like they do in Derby, Forest , Sheffield , Portsmouth and even Swansea
Sludge, I was like you once, convinced we would never average more than 25,000 if we became an established Premier League club, but our average gate in 18/19. when we were in the top ten in the country, proved me wrong. I used to call the Ninian Stand extension "Tan's folly", but our last season in the Premier League proved that there was a need for it. While Cardiff will never be a hotbed of football support for the club that represents it, things have moved on since your formed your opinions.
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
I don't live in Cardiff
I am there all the time though
Even down the bay in the summer you see more man United and Liverpool tops than Cardiff
It simply isn't a city where the population gets behind its football team like they do in Derby, Forest , Sheffield , Portsmouth and even Swansea
Wearing your teams shirt around the town through the week doesn’t appeal to me.
I don’t think you can gauge a teams support by it either.
What is a fact though, is the 4 times we played at Wembley recently we sold out our allocation, and could have sold a lot more, and as ToBW has mentioned, we had tremendous support in the Premiership.
That tells me, that we have a massive hometown fanbase when the team are doing well.
You could say from that, that we have a lot of fair weather fans. Or you could say that the good folk of Cardiff, will get behind their team when the club are showing ambition and playing well, but are too cute to just spend their hard earned, blindly following the team when they are serving up dross.
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William Treseder
Wearing your teams shirt around the town through the week doesn’t appeal to me.
I don’t think you can gauge a teams support by it either.
What is a fact though, is the 4 times we played at Wembley recently we sold out our allocation, and could have sold a lot more, and as ToBW has mentioned, we had tremendous support in the Premiership.
That tells me, that we have a massive hometown fanbase when the team are doing well.
You could say from that, that we have a lot of fair weather fans. Or you could say that the good folk of Cardiff, will get behind their team when the club are showing ambition and playing well, but are too cute to just spend their hard earned, blindly following the team when they are serving up dross.
We have a tremendous hard-core support
It's just everyone else vanishes if we are not doing well
We can pull em in , we have a huge catchment area .......its getting them to stay that's the matter
Was having a coffee a few years ago in a cafe , group of cyclists turned up
Bloke saw my city badge , said I wasxa season ticket holder when city were in the Premier league .......under malky ......I said do you still get down there now ? He said no , I am a Liverpool fan , said he went to see city play the big clubs
I am afraid South Wales is full ofvthese fans and big crowds in the Premier league mean nothing if they do a runner
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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goats
Going by your logic with wigan and Leicester, they could have already……they never seem too. I don’t even recall if they’ve made it to a cup final in the last 30 years? Have they? Or semi?
Beaten finalists in 1974, 1998 an 1999
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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Toadstool
Would be great if some Israeli businessmen took over Sunderland…
Alan Sugar
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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William Treseder
The amount if money involved in football now, is verging on the obscene, and has been for a while.
Whether fans agree with it, or the mechanics and morality of it all, is a discussion that could go on for ever.
If more foreign wealth is gonna come into the British game, then i for one, am glad it’s Newcastle.
Their fans have been loyal for what seems an eternity, and apart from the odd flirtation with potential success, have been rewarded with the middle of a doughnut.
It will be a great watch if they begin to ruffle a few bigger feathers..
Agreed ... have always had a soft spot for both NUFC & SFC.
The money invested will immediately benefit the locality.
There is no limit on spending on infrastructure (training facilities / academy etc)
They can increase capacity or build 100k stadium if they want.
There is a limit on how much they can spend on the team ... FFP
Did not realise about the 15/19 Saudis involved in the NY attacks, but the deal has been done so there is no point digging up issues related to the country who is one of the UKs best customers.
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Forest Green Bluebird
Agreed ... have always had a soft spot for both NUFC & SFC.
The money invested will immediately benefit the locality.
There is no limit on spending on infrastructure (training facilities / academy etc)
They can increase capacity or build 100k stadium if they want.
There is a limit on how much they can spend on the team ... FFP
Did not realise about the 15/19 Saudis involved in the NY attacks, but the deal has been done so there is no point digging up issues related to the country who is one of the UKs best customers.
Especially all the bombs and guns we sell them which they use to kill the Yemenis
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
We have a tremendous hard-core support
It's just everyone else vanishes if we are not doing well
We can pull em in , we have a huge catchment area .......its getting them to stay that's the matter
Was having a coffee a few years ago in a cafe , group of cyclists turned up
Bloke saw my city badge , said I wasxa season ticket holder when city were in the Premier league .......under malky ......I said do you still get down there now ? He said no , I am a Liverpool fan , said he went to see city play the big clubs
I am afraid South Wales is full ofvthese fans and big crowds in the Premier league mean nothing if they do a runner
We’ve barely skimmed the surface in Cardiff itself….if 10% followed us that would be 40,000 people, let alone Barry, penarth etc which are all but connected anyway. It’s hardly surprising, the club does little to market itself in the city, but it will put on buses to the valleys to get them here.
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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goats
We’ve barely skimmed the surface in Cardiff itself….if 10% followed us that would be 40,000 people, let alone Barry, penarth etc which are all but connected anyway. It’s hardly surprising, the club does little to market itself in the city, but it will put on buses to the valleys to get them here.
The club , combined with the local indifferent means only decades long success would increase the size of the club .
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Encouraging and pleasing thing in work this morning, the bloke doing the dry lining had his two young lads with him, about 13 & 14, one had a City top on (which pleased me no end). They were helping dropping plaster boards off. I wasn’t aware that one of the lads, bloke in his 30s, doing the boarding was a ahem ‘Liverpool’ fan, the youngsters knew though and the one in the City top shouted ‘Liverpool wanker’ at him as they were leaving:hehe:
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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splott parker
Encouraging and pleasing thing in work this morning, the bloke doing the dry lining had his two young lads with him, about 13 & 14, one had a City top on (which pleased me no end). They were helping dropping plaster boards off. I wasn’t aware that one of the lads, bloke in his 30s, doing the boarding was a ahem ‘Liverpool’ fan, the youngsters knew though and the one in the City top shouted ‘Liverpool wanker’ at him as they were leaving:hehe:
Their father obviously taught them well.
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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splott parker
Encouraging and pleasing thing in work this morning, the bloke doing the dry lining had his two young lads with him, about 13 & 14, one had a City top on (which pleased me no end). They were helping dropping plaster boards off. I wasn’t aware that one of the lads, bloke in his 30s, doing the boarding was a ahem ‘Liverpool’ fan, the youngsters knew though and the one in the City top shouted ‘Liverpool wanker’ at him as they were leaving:hehe:
****ing have that
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Especially all the bombs and guns we sell them which they use to kill the Yemenis
Blair’s war in Iraq was legal wasn’t it …. How many poor Iraqis have lost loved ones or have been misplaced ,4 million ?
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TWGL1
Blair’s war in Iraq was legal wasn’t it …. How many poor Iraqis have lost loved ones or have been misplaced ,4 million ?
What does that have to do with anything?
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Llandaff Blue
What does that have to do with anything?
Sorry , wrong thread ….
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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TWGL1
Blair’s war in Iraq was legal wasn’t it …. How many poor Iraqis have lost loved ones or have been misplaced ,4 million ?
I understand the motivation of normal 'whattaboutery' but this just makes no sense.
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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TWGL1
Sorry , wrong thread ….
Wrong planet
Re: Newcastle Takeover Done
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Rjk
Chelsea were a fairly nondescript midtable club, but if i recall correctly (which is by no means guaranteed) they were more or less instantly elevated amongst the elite when the russian money arrived.
Man City took a little bit longer to get to the top, it seemed they struggled to attract big signings as quickly, and there was one more big club up there in the form of Chelsea. Of course having all that money has to tell eventually.
Newcastle are now trying to compete with Chelsea and Man City + the traditional big clubs, so it is already a more crowded scene, and at a time when even a newly promoted side can splash 100m on players and go straight back down. suspect that they may take that little bit longer to establish themselves at the top.
Chelsea were already much improved on and off the pitch in the late 90s. Well before Abramovich showed up. Of course, his money pushed them over the hump. But they were streets ahead of where Newcastle are now when he took over.
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goats
We’ve barely skimmed the surface in Cardiff itself….if 10% followed us that would be 40,000 people, let alone Barry, penarth etc which are all but connected anyway. It’s hardly surprising, the club does little to market itself in the city, but it will put on buses to the valleys to get them here.
“to get them here.”
You’re making them sound like unwanted, illegal immigrants mun.:biggrin:
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Jordi Culé
“to get them here.”
You’re making them sound like unwanted, illegal immigrants mun.:biggrin:
When the Valley Rams were fully up and running the number of coaches running from all over South Wales showed what could be done and our support potential .
The club could do that but it simply cannot be arsed