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Some of the things the club are doing to boost crowds
Cheap season tickets
Cheap half season tickets
Half price tickets for the Hull home game. Cheapest being £7.50 for an adult £2.50 for a kid.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A SEASON TICKET HOLDER TO GET THIS DEAL
Half price Golden Membership after Xmas (gets you £2 off every home ticket you buy). Gives you access to away tickets as well.
This is £20 adults, £10 kids.
After the Fulham game it's £10 adults and £5 kids.
We can't say the club aren't trying.
Apparently sales have been decent for Hull and Fulham, so hopefully we will get reasonable crowds for that.
For Hull there is a Family ticket- 2 adults, 2 kids for £18
Get the message out.
Even for someone who only wants to see top level football a half season ticket isn't a big gamble, with the chance of priority should we go up
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I agree club is doing everything on and off the field right. It is difficult to know why crowds have remained poor. Perhaps now the egg is out of the way for a couple of months, things will look up.
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If they cannot get over 22009 then we do not deserve to have a team in the top two of the Championship
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Rocco Siffredi
If they cannot get over 22009 then we do not deserve to have a team in the top two of the Championship
Is that the old Ninian Park capacity?
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Bit pissed off to have missed the date that Fulham and PNE went on sale... When were the Xmas period tickets released?
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fair play to the club, as you said, they are doing everything they can
If these deals do not entice the people back, they just are simple not city fans and deserve nothing
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Vinny will be in attendance for the Hull game. He always turns up when there's cheap tickets on offer.
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Penarth Blues
Bit pissed off to have missed the date that Fulham and PNE went on sale... When were the Xmas period tickets released?
Don't know, but there's plenty left, so you won't miss out 👍
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Lawnmower
Don't know, but there's plenty left, so you won't miss out
I was looking to buy seats around mine for both games - both of which appear to have been sold now weirdly as they are never usually sold...
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blue matt
fair play to the club, as you said, they are doing everything they can
If these deals do not entice the people back, they just are simple not city fans and deserve nothing
Agreed.
Short of picking the feckers up, driving them to the ground and giving them free beer, there’s nothing the club can do.
The team are doing well, we really can be the twelfth man.
The players are running through walls for us, yet a lot of fans can’t be arsed to walk across the rec.
It’s like something out of a David attenburgh documentary - the lesser spotted Cardiff city fan, most of the time, invisible to the naked eye. You can sometimes tempt them out of hibernation with a cheap hull ticket. But once every few years something remarkable happens. The planets align and with the prospect of a trip to Wembley thousands of these fans, known by their Latin name of gloryhuntus plasticus will clamour all over each other to make the trip before disappearing again into their holes, not to be seen again until the next time.
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I'm looking to get 2 half season tickets this week or next in the family stand. Looking at the games it's worth my money as I'll only miss the one tues night game.
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I believe a big part of the problem is ignorance. I’ve said before on here that, on many occasions, I have been met with genuine surprise when I’ve told people that my season ticket works out at £13 a game and the kids one at just over £2 a game. As far as prices and deals go the club are really trying, but the only place I’ve ever seen it advertised outside of the stadium is on Facebook.
I think what would help is a blanket awareness campaign across the City. Radio adverts, Flyers, billboards, buses, trains, posters in pubs and shops, City players visiting schools and turning up at kids football training / matches etc etc
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TH63
Agreed.
Short of picking the feckers up, driving them to the ground and giving them free beer, there’s nothing the club can do.
The team are doing well, we really can be the twelfth man.
The players are running through walls for us, yet a lot of fans can’t be arsed to walk across the rec.
It’s like something out of a David attenburgh documentary - the lesser spotted Cardiff city fan, most of the time, invisible to the naked eye. You can sometimes tempt them out of hibernation with a cheap hull ticket. But once every few years something remarkable happens. The planets align and with the prospect of a trip to Wembley thousands of these fans, known by their Latin name of gloryhuntus plasticus will clamour all over each other to make the trip before disappearing again into their holes, not to be seen again until the next time.
It's a shame that the gloryhuntus plasticus did not breed in sufficient numbers to replace the principalus boycotterus. Isn't it a pity that the easilyus replacedus were named incorrectly and are now known as the wemissus themus terribulus.
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jeremy corbyn
I agree club is doing everything on and off the field right. It is difficult to know why crowds have remained poor. Perhaps now the egg is out of the way for a couple of months, things will look up.
Tan told his customers that he could live with 25% of them not showing up, and about 40% took him at his word.
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ninianclark
Come on , he f ucked up, he knows it, he's changed, man up and do the same.
So far this year I have brought 12 new people to the stadium , and they have all been back on a
regular basis.
The problem the club has is that regular 'customers' need to make the 'customer experience' , they go for somewhere to eat first, they walk to the ground together, they meet friends there , they get behind the team and they share in the wins and defeats.
That takes time to get back, we are halfway through a seemingly successful season, if the ultimate goal happens, then getting the big crowds back wont be a problem
Man up? Feedy, you've been fraternising with the plebs for too long. He f ucked up, then used his mummy as an excuse. If that's manning up, I'll stick to being a childish tw@t if it's ok with you.
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Badly Ironed Shirt
Tan told his customers that he could live with 25% of them not showing up, and about 40% took him at his word.
I know you desperately want that to be true, but it just isn’t.
Ten years ago, without a red shirt in sight, we were averaging 15,000, less than this season. In fact you have to go back to the early 70’s before average attendences were where they are now. This is a fact.
Attendances only started going up when it looked like city might be going up.
They went down again when we went down again.
The figures just don’t support your assertion I’m afraid. It really is that simple.
I would argue that we’ve lost about 7,000 glory hunters who appeared in our championship winning season, with any who stayed being cancelled out by boycotters.
Mate of mine who is a long term fan that boycotted is getting a half season ticket.
The club is doing everything that it can to encourage new, and old, fans to come to games. If those fans still don’t want to, then, with regret, that’s their loss.
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We had more support when we went up in red so no one can use the rebrand as an excuse
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WJ99mobile
We had more support when we went up in red so no one can use the rebrand as an excuse
Exactly, if people are not attending as a matter of principle because of the rebrand, then the huge majority of them are doing it retrospectively and I would guess that these virtuous souls came to their decision some time around our relegation from the Premier League - no two ways about it, our crowds are poor this season and our manager passed comment on it last week in his meeting with supporters.
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Badly Ironed Shirt
Tan told his customers that he could live with 25% of them not showing up, and about 40% took him at his word.
Maybe this is the case.
Living in Cardiff I often think that apart from those who are going anyway, most people would be un aware of a game even going on. There are tens of thousands of people walking through the city centre every day and nowhere advertising Cardiff City or selling tickets? Surely a small booth or outlet in another store etc would cost that much to run. Always think we are missing a trick in getting our very lazy fan base to come.....
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WJ99mobile
We had more support when we went up in red so no one can use the rebrand as an excuse
You can if you take away the Gloria’s, of which, we have more than any other place in the uk
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TH63
I know you desperately want that to be true, but it just isn’t.
Ten years ago, without a red shirt in sight, we were averaging 15,000, less than this season. In fact you have to go back to the early 70’s before average attendences were where they are now. This is a fact.
Attendances only started going up when it looked like city might be going up.
They went down again when we went down again.
The figures just don’t support your assertion I’m afraid. It really is that simple.
I would argue that we’ve lost about 7,000 glory hunters who appeared in our championship winning season, with any who stayed being cancelled out by boycotters.
Mate of mine who is a long term fan that boycotted is getting a half season ticket.
The club is doing everything that it can to encourage new, and old, fans to come to games. If those fans still don’t want to, then, with regret, that’s their loss.
He said it when crowds were 26000. Crowds are now 16000. Let's not change the chronology of events - if he'd said it when crowds were 15000 fair enough.
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goats
Maybe this is the case.
Living in Cardiff I often think that apart from those who are going anyway, most people would be un aware of a game even going on. There are tens of thousands of people walking through the city centre every day and nowhere advertising Cardiff City or selling tickets? Surely a small booth or outlet in another store etc would cost that much to run. Always think we are missing a trick in getting our very lazy fan base to come.....
We used to say the same in the 90s and 00s. I'm staggered the club have only ever given lip service to such schemes.
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goats
Maybe this is the case.
Living in Cardiff I often think that apart from those who are going anyway, most people would be un aware of a game even going on. There are tens of thousands of people walking through the city centre every day and nowhere advertising Cardiff City or selling tickets? Surely a small booth or outlet in another store etc would cost that much to run. Always think we are missing a trick in getting our very lazy fan base to come.....
Some good awareness raising ideas you floated there. Several people wearing sandwich boards or holding banners high in the air advertising in the busy shopping streets would be worth a try. Another is having a couple of cars fitted with tannoys whizzing round the capital in the days preceding home games as political candidates do before elections.
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Barry Shitpeas
I believe a big part of the problem is ignorance. I’ve said before on here that, on many occasions, I have been met with genuine surprise when I’ve told people that my season ticket works out at £13 a game and the kids one at just over £2 a game. As far as prices and deals go the club are really trying, but the only place I’ve ever seen it advertised outside of the stadium is on Facebook.
I think what would help is a blanket awareness campaign across the City. Radio adverts, Flyers, billboards, buses, trains, posters in pubs and shops, City players visiting schools and turning up at kids football training / matches etc etc
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Badly Ironed Shirt
We used to say the same in the 90s and 00s. I'm staggered the club have only ever given lip service to such schemes.
I remember it being mentioned many times in the past, however, things are very different, as is the city of Cardiff. It never ceases to amaze me how busy the city is these days, even evening times after work. It used to be dead until people came clubbing but not anymore. Plenty of families out, old young etc....it’s a growing city, a booming place, people with money, which lets be honest you need to follow football as it’s not cheap to take a family for a game is it?
A city pushing towards 400,000 people, growing every week and what do the club do to remind all these people? They send coaches to the valleys!!!
Not knocking the valleys, but we already have what I consider good loyal support from these areas, areas that aren’t flush with cash or booming either.
Are they blind to what’s on the doorstep?
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Badly Ironed Shirt
He said it when crowds were 26000. Crowds are now 16000. Let's not change the chronology of events - if he'd said it when crowds were 15000 fair enough.
You kept going the season we went Red.
Stop taking the moral high ground as you did nothing. 96 of us gave our tickets back and it cost us a £30 admin fee.
Your excuse that you couldn't afford to give it back is bollocks as you would have spent more than that travelling. You did nothing.
Some of us came back others didn't, cest la vie. I think the fact you are on here posting in City related matters means you want to go back down, but you don't want to cut your nose off to spite your face.
Also if the crowds pick up, the pressure will increase and we have form for bottling it then. Keep the crowds low I say :thumbup:
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I think most people are over analysing this. Crowds traditionally drop away in the 4-6 week period before Christmas, as there is considerable pressure on time and finances during this time of year. If we carry on being sucessful they will grow again in the new year and the ground will be full if we are still top four in April. Our attendances are still well above what they were last season and the year before.
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Badly Ironed Shirt
He said it when crowds were 26000. Crowds are now 16000. Let's not change the chronology of events - if he'd said it when crowds were 15000 fair enough.
Yes he did. But where do you think those extra 10,000 people came from that weren't going when we were playing in blue?
Do you think, just maybe, they suddenly appeared when it looked like we'd get promoted and be able to watch Liverpool, Man U and Chelsea?
Certainly the hospitality boxes were rammed during the premiership
My point is that before the rebrand we had about 15,000. We rebranded, were cantering to promotion and had a seaon in the prem where crowds sudenly went up by 10,000 coincidence?
We then got relegated, and crowds quickly returned to pre-rebrand, pre-promotion contending, numbers.
I'm sure there are still some who continue to boycott/have lost interest, but 10,000 of them?? Give me a break.
We're playing in Blue, the team spirit is great, the football is entertaining (despite what Wolves would have you believe) and it feels more like "our" club again.
Do yourself a favour, get down there, watch a game and see how you feel. You will be welcomed back with open arms. If you don't enjoy it or feel comfortable with it then fine.
But honestly, there is no way that 10,000 people stopped going because we played in red for a couple of seasons.
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Barry Shitpeas
I believe a big part of the problem is ignorance. I’ve said before on here that, on many occasions, I have been met with genuine surprise when I’ve told people that my season ticket works out at £13 a game and the kids one at just over £2 a game. As far as prices and deals go the club are really trying, but the only place I’ve ever seen it advertised outside of the stadium is on Facebook.
I think what would help is a blanket awareness campaign across the City. Radio adverts, Flyers, billboards, buses, trains, posters in pubs and shops, City players visiting schools and turning up at kids football training / matches etc etc
Good post. Agree 100%.
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Steve R
Good post. Agree 100%.
And me
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Apart from the advertising of games and tickets I reckon th8ngs are really good at the club these day, better and more stable than I can ever recall I think. I don’t think we were ever stable under Sam h, and before that we didn’t have 10 pence in the bank.
A cursory look down west at the meltdown should make us all feel quite fortunate at the mo, they gave it to us in bucketloads about selling out and hedge fund foreign owners and now look at them, spunking 75 million on dross and a crap team and manager. I’d love to draw them here in fa cup for the first time in years....
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goats
Apart from the advertising of games and tickets I reckon th8ngs are really good at the club these day, better and more stable than I can ever recall I think. I don’t think we were ever stable under Sam h, and before that we didn’t have 10 pence in the bank.
A cursory look down west at the meltdown should make us all feel quite fortunate at the mo, they gave it to us in bucketloads about selling out and hedge fund foreign owners and now look at them, spunking 75 million on dross and a crap team and manager. I’d love to draw them here in fa cup for the first time in years....
I can agree with all of that
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All these ticket offers are great etc for people who don't have a ST.
Just seen the price of bolton tickets - £30. With qpr always an expensive one as well, wonder if the club have considered putting on free coaches for this one? At an expensive time of year I guess it'd be most welcome, plus probably be a big uptake with families able to go for relatively little.
Having a good number at bolton would be a huge advantage whereas at the moment I'd be surprised if we topped 600 unfortunately.
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Badly Ironed Shirt
It's a shame that the gloryhuntus plasticus did not breed in sufficient numbers to replace the principalus boycotterus. Isn't it a pity that the easilyus replacedus were named incorrectly and are now known as the wemissus themus terribulus.
Do you think you're a principalus boycotterus? Because we all remember you saying the colour of the shirts didn't matter and keeping your season ticket for at least a year.
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SunderlandBluebird
All these ticket offers are great etc for people who don't have a ST.
Just seen the price of bolton tickets - £30. With qpr always an expensive one as well, wonder if the club have considered putting on free coaches for this one? At an expensive time of year I guess it'd be most welcome, plus probably be a big uptake with families able to go for relatively little.
Having a good number at bolton would be a huge advantage whereas at the moment I'd be surprised if we topped 600 unfortunately.
Gold QPR tickets are £33
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BLUETIT
Gold QPR tickets are £33
Fair play Tony, that's not bad if they're real gold 😂😂
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TH63
Yes he did. But where do you think those extra 10,000 people came from that weren't going when we were playing in blue?
Do you think, just maybe, they suddenly appeared when it looked like we'd get promoted and be able to watch Liverpool, Man U and Chelsea?
Certainly the hospitality boxes were rammed during the premiership
My point is that before the rebrand we had about 15,000. We rebranded, were cantering to promotion and had a seaon in the prem where crowds sudenly went up by 10,000 coincidence?
We then got relegated, and crowds quickly returned to pre-rebrand, pre-promotion contending, numbers.
I'm sure there are still some who continue to boycott/have lost interest, but 10,000 of them?? Give me a break.
We're playing in Blue, the team spirit is great, the football is entertaining (despite what Wolves would have you believe) and it feels more like "our" club again.
Do yourself a favour, get down there, watch a game and see how you feel. You will be welcomed back with open arms. If you don't enjoy it or feel comfortable with it then fine.
But honestly, there is no way that 10,000 people stopped going because we played in red for a couple of seasons.
You appear to be adding things to my post that I have not actually said myself.
If an owner comes out into the national press and says he can cope with losing 25% of the fanbase (which, at the time, was 26,000) it has quite a significant effect. Have you ever heard a CEO make such claims in other industries?
The fact is, Tan made that statement when crowds were 26,000. He didn't make the statement when the club were averaging 15,000. It's his attitude during those years that has, effectively, driven people away. Where did I say that the rebrand was the reason for people staying away? People were boycotting over the rebrand, over Tan's antics, over Slade, over Trollope. Many on this board said that the stay aways would not be missed. How wrong they were.
I am not contemplating attending a game until Tan leaves. I have not put a penny into the club since March 2012. I gave the club a chance following the rebrand (I really thought that the fans would be vociferous, and I wanted to be a part of that). Tan won't get a penny out of me - that's what makes me comfortable. I'll start going to games once he's left - but he's kicked my habit and I doubt I will ever hold a season ticket again.
Tan achieved something quite remarkable. My granddad started watching games in 1945, he may even have seen some games during the war. from 1945-2013 there was someone from my family at a game, regardless of which league they were in. From 1986-2000 there were three generations of us at every home game - regardless of division, manager, owner. I honestly couldn't tell you who they are playing Saturday - I doubt if my old man can either. My old man, pre illness, left work early to watch Cardiff v Exeter in the LDV. This is anecdotal, but it is significant. Tan still seems to be exempt from blame for the low crowds. Why?
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Badly Ironed Shirt
You appear to be adding things to my post that I have not actually said myself.
If an owner comes out into the national press and says he can cope with losing 25% of the fanbase (which, at the time, was 26,000) it has quite a significant effect. Have you ever heard a CEO make such claims in other industries?
The fact is, Tan made that statement when crowds were 26,000. He didn't make the statement when the club were averaging 15,000. It's his attitude during those years that has, effectively, driven people away. Where did I say that the rebrand was the reason for people staying away? People were boycotting over the rebrand, over Tan's antics, over Slade, over Trollope. Many on this board said that the stay aways would not be missed. How wrong they were.
I am not contemplating attending a game until Tan leaves. I have not put a penny into the club since March 2012. I gave the club a chance following the rebrand (I really thought that the fans would be vociferous, and I wanted to be a part of that). Tan won't get a penny out of me - that's what makes me comfortable. I'll start going to games once he's left - but he's kicked my habit and I doubt I will ever hold a season ticket again.
Tan achieved something quite remarkable. My granddad started watching games in 1945, he may even have seen some games during the war. from 1945-2013 there was someone from my family at a game, regardless of which league they were in. From 1986-2000 there were three generations of us at every home game - regardless of division, manager, owner. I honestly couldn't tell you who they are playing Saturday - I doubt if my old man can either. My old man, pre illness, left work early to watch Cardiff v Exeter in the LDV. This is anecdotal, but it is significant. Tan still seems to be exempt from blame for the low crowds. Why?
It feels like I’m banging my head against a wall here, but one last time.
You’re now saying that it’s not the rebrand that has driven people away????
My point, my ONLY point is that a few years ago we were averaging 15,000 a game.
We then had a promotion push and eventual promotion where crowds rose to a 40 year record of 26,000.
We then got relegated and crowds subsequently dropped back to where they were.
If we do go up, I’d expect to see crowds back up to 25,000.
My conclusion is that irrespective of what tan said or did, 10,000 fans came and went because of our promotion and relegation. Personally give me 15,000 fans who want to support city any day, the 10,000 who want to watch Liverpool can watch it in the pub for all I care.
Fwiw I hated the red, I made damn sure I wore blue to every game, I joined in the “always be blue” chant. I honestly believe that did more to reverse the rebrand than any boycott.
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What the **** does the past matter when the futures looking so bright?
Like the sad old bloke down the pub who still talks about his missus cheating on him in July 1984. **** sake let it go :hehe:
If the crowds come back great. If not then sludge was right all along.