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What has been your favourite season supporting Cardiff?
Even though we lost out to Swansea in the playoffs, 2010-2011 is up there for me
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2000-2001. First Sam Hammam season. A great team, full of Welsh players. Promoted to what was then Division 2. And I was 11/12 years old, so a good age to really enjoy it.
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Cardiff-Cal
2000-2001. First Sam Hammam season. A great team, full of Welsh players. Promoted to what was then Division 2. And I was 11/12 years old, so a good age to really enjoy it.
I agree and, as I’ve posted on here recently, this is my favourite City match ever.
https://www.11v11.com/matches/cardif...ber-2000-3099/
To score two goals in the last couple of minutes and come from behind to win was so special. It was a freezing cold Wednesday night in November, half the crowd had left but those that remained went bonkers.
Our team that season had a lot of quality with Gabbs and Earnie emerging as top players. We played some great football, Paul Brayson was like David Silva and LFW like Diego Costa.
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Last season. It epitomised Cardiff City for me in so many ways other than the fact that we got promoted...
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Armitage Shanks
92/93
This ^^^^
No other promotion, and we’ve had a few since then, comes remotely close.
We were taking thousands away in the dungeon and playing football with a swagger.
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Armitage Shanks
92/93
Correct. I can still name the starting XI from that season. I probably couldn't name more than a handful of players from any season you coose to mention since.
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Any year we weren’t red. Those were the only bad years for me.
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Optimistic Nick
Correct. I can still name the starting XI from that season. I probably couldn't name more than a handful of players from any season you coose to mention since.
18/19?
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The Alan Cork years. Best football played for me and Welsh players in our team to make you feel proud
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easy decision for me 2017/18 united club in blue to Prem :thumbup:
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07/08 and the march to the FA Cup Final.
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82/83
The hight of the casual era we got promoted and I didn't have a mortgage and responsibilities.
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Baloo
07/08 and the march to the FA Cup Final.
First half of that season was pretty grim.
After Christmas it felt like a dream.
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1970/71 when we beat Real Madrid at home. Ground had atmosphere and we had a magic team. Only downer was Tosh going.
Miss standing at NP, a real football ground NQAT!
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binman
1987-88
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92/93 sounds great. But I left Cardiff in 1992.
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WJ99mobile
Even though we lost out to Swansea in the playoffs, 2010-2011 is up there for me
2010/2011 for me, pressure's on Norwich et al, we played some fantastic football that season.
I can remember thinking that we were as good a side as I had seen in my lifetime, and there were many people who weren't enjoying the season one bit.
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2011/12 was pretty special. I haven't seen a City side play with that amount of heart and desire. Virtually all of our decent players had gone, yet Malky got us into the playoffs and to penalties in a cup final. It's true we never had the attacking swagger that we sometimes showed under Dave Jones (there it was either great for a while or utter shite for a while), but we stopped being a soft touch.
2010/11 was probably the most disappointing season. Easily our best starting XI in our history, arguably better our current first team, looked invincible early on, yet ballsed up yet another promotion bid with a string of gutless performances. That team would have stayed in the Premier League and we could have built so much from it.
I also remember fondly the 2000/1 season when we went unbeaten at home, thanks to so many late goals.
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Rjk
2010/2011 for me, pressure's on Norwich et al, we played some fantastic football that season.
I can remember thinking that we were as good a side as I had seen in my lifetime, and there were many people who weren't enjoying the season one bit.
Not for me unfortunately.
I thought that was Dave Jones’ worst season for the style of football (not that it was that bad!) with the best squad he had.
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The past two years, playing in our colours and fighting for the right to play in, then eventually playing in the most prestigious football table in the world.
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severncity
I agree and, as I’ve posted on here recently, this is my favourite City match ever.
https://www.11v11.com/matches/cardif...ber-2000-3099/
To score two goals in the last couple of minutes and come from behind to win was so special. It was a freezing cold Wednesday night in November, half the crowd had left but those that remained went bonkers.
Our team that season had a lot of quality with Gabbs and Earnie emerging as top players. We played some great football, Paul Brayson was like David Silva and LFW like Diego Costa.
Think we signed Gavin Gordan just after that game.
I also remember getting 2 goals near the end of another game quite close to this to win it.
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The Bob Banker Spanker
Not for me unfortunately.
I thought that was Dave Jones’ worst season for the style of football (not that it was that bad!) with the best squad he had.
Agreed 100%.
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insider
Think we signed Gavin Gordan just after that game.
I also remember getting 2 goals near the end of another game quite close to this to win it.
That was on the Saturday. We scored twice in injury time against Hartlepool the following Wednesday to win by the same scoreline. We also got last gasp equalisers against Leyton Orient and a Kevin Evans header against Chesterfield to preserve our unbeaten home record.
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3 2 wins back to back. Alan Cork years I believe
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Armitage Shanks
92/93
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Yep by a long way
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Another for 92/93. I’m not even sure how we swung it but we got tickets for the only side of the ground at Scunthorpe that wasn’t completely full of City fans, but the tickets we had also gave us access to the players bar after the game and the City team all came in - I’ve still got a picture of me and Nick Richardson somewhere.
JRH is right - we did it with a swagger
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lincoln blue
59/60/60/61
Yep, I was 13-15 years old and not a care in the world. 59-60 we had what seemed like a super team many of which were Cardiff born and bred and played their entire careers as Bluebirds - Vearncombe in goal, Ron Stitfall, Alan Harrington, Colin Baker, Frank Rankmore. A great season was capped off with a 1-0 NP win over Villa to confirm promotion to Div 1; young Graham Moore scored the winner in front of 60,000. Villa also went up (only 2 in those days) leaving Liverpool in 3rd and 8 points adrift.
60-61 saw City finish a creditable 15th (of 222 mind) with 37 points. Spurs won the League / FA Cup double, the first time it had ever been done but in doing so they lost an evening game 3-2 at Ninian Park, a game in which Derek Hogg scored 2; I was behind the Grange goal that evening going nuts when Hogg scored the winner. The following season 61-62 saw City relegated in 21st place, returning to the 2nd Division with Chelsea who finished 22nd and last.
Not sure why those seasons stay so vividly in my mind; I was young, went with a few pals from Llanrumney and we made it a full day out. Of course there was a certain innocence about life in those days as well, which elevates it in the memory. Great stuff.
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Last season has to be right up there, but, for me, it's a season that I don't think has been mentioned yet - 75/76.
Having watched my first game thirteen year earlier, I'd begun to think that City didn't do promotions, so it was great to finally experience one and it didn't disappoint in the slightest.
So many great games - beating Wrexham 3-0 early in the campaign was good, but it was on Halloween night that the season really began to click into gear. That was the night, the superb (at Third Division level at least) Alston/Evans partnership was launched with the former making his debut in a 4-3 win over Chesterfield.
Within about six weeks of that, there was a 3-0 thumping of an impressive and in form Shrewsbury team and a fantastic 6-2 triumph over Exeter in the FA Cup in which Alston scored a hat trick, but the real star was Willie Anderson who tore whoever was marking him (Exeter had two or three right backs in the ninety minutes) to shreds.
Christmas brought a 4-0 hammering at lowly Swindon on Boxing Day and when high riding Peterborough scored at Ninian Park the following day in the first few minutes, it seemed that the promotion bubble was about to burst, but City's response was to turn on probably their best performance so far as Phil Dwyer scored a beauty in a 5-2 victory. There was an FA Cup win at Second Division Orient and a case of daylight robbery shown on Match of the Day as Brighton won 1-0 at Ninian Park in early January and for a while City's form suffered - curiously, their best performance in that time was probably in a 1-1 home draw with Rotherham when they were foiled time and again by Tom McAllister with the best goalkeeping display I've seen in one of our matches.
The goals weren't as plentiful as the season came to an end, but a defence, which could be quite dodgy at times, tightened up considerably in sight of the finishing line with a series of clean sheets. One of them came at Selhurst Park where we absolutely battered Palace but only won by another Alston goal to nil as we proved we could cope on the big occasion. Palace manager Malcolm Allison was reduced to claiming that there wouldn't be 25,000 at Ninian Park in a few days time when they entertained Champions elect Hereford like there had been in the match his team had just been thoroughly outplayed in and he was right - the official attendance was 35,549 (there are those who were there who swear it was really a lot more than that)! Once again, City ended up convincing winners, this time by 2-0, with the goals coming from unusual sources as midfielders Doug Livermore and new signing Alan Campbell scored in the second half.
Palace still had a chance of overhauling us on the night of our final game, but promotion was clinched when we won 1-0 at Bury (thanks to probably the most scruffy goal Alston scored for us) and Palace were beaten at Chester - we then capped things off by beating Hereford to win the Welsh Cup.
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Eric the Half a Bee
That was on the Saturday. We scored twice in injury time against Hartlepool the following Wednesday to win by the same scoreline. We also got last gasp equalisers against Leyton Orient and a Kevin Evans header against Chesterfield to preserve our unbeaten home record.
No, the Lincoln game was on the Wednesday and the Hartlepool game followed it on the Saturday.
https://takemeback.to/22-November-2000
https://www.11v11.com/teams/cardiff-...s/season/2001/
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severncity
I agree and, as I’ve posted on here recently, this is my favourite City match ever.
https://www.11v11.com/matches/cardif...ber-2000-3099/
To score two goals in the last couple of minutes and come from behind to win was so special. It was a freezing cold Wednesday night in November, half the crowd had left but those that remained went bonkers.
Our team that season had a lot of quality with Gabbs and Earnie emerging as top players. We played some great football, Paul Brayson was like David Silva and LFW like Diego Costa.
Didn't we do the same thing 3 days later? Thinking against Hartlepool
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08/09 or 09/10.... By far the best team I've seen at that level, a half-decent manager and we'd have easily won the league for me.
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the other bob wilson
Last season has to be right up there, but, for me, it's a season that I don't think has been mentioned yet - 75/76.
Having watched my first game thirteen year earlier, I'd begun to think that City didn't do promotions, so it was great to finally experience one and it didn't disappoint in the slightest.
So many great games - beating Wrexham 3-0 early in the campaign was good, but it was on Halloween night that the season really began to click into gear. That was the night, the superb (at Third Division level at least) Alston/Evans partnership was launched with the former making his debut in a 4-3 win over Chesterfield.
Within about six weeks of that, there was a 3-0 thumping of an impressive and in form Shrewsbury team and a fantastic 6-2 triumph over Exeter in the FA Cup in which Alston scored a hat trick, but the real star was Willie Anderson who tore whoever was marking him (Exeter had two or three right backs in the ninety minutes) to shreds.
Christmas brought a 4-0 hammering at lowly Swindon on Boxing Day and when high riding Peterborough scored at Ninian Park the following day in the first few minutes, it seemed that the promotion bubble was about to burst, but City's response was to turn on probably their best performance so far as Phil Dwyer scored a beauty in a 5-2 victory. There was an FA Cup win at Second Division Orient and a case of daylight robbery shown on Match of the Day as Brighton won 1-0 at Ninian Park in early January and for a while City's form suffered - curiously, their best performance in that time was probably in a 1-1 home draw with Rotherham when they were foiled time and again by Tom McAllister with the best goalkeeping display I've seen in one of our matches.
The goals weren't as plentiful as the season came to an end, but a defence, which could be quite dodgy at times, tightened up considerably in sight of the finishing line with a series of clean sheets. One of them came at Selhurst Park where we absolutely battered Palace but only won by another Alston goal to nil as we proved we could cope on the big occasion. Palace manager Malcolm Allison was reduced to claiming that there wouldn't be 25,000 at Ninian Park in a few days time when they entertained Champions elect Hereford like there had been in the match his team had just been thoroughly outplayed in and he was right - the official attendance was 35,549 (there are those who were there who swear it was really a lot more than that)! Once again, City ended up convincing winners, this time by 2-0, with the goals coming from unusual sources as midfielders Doug Livermore and new signing Alan Campbell scored in the second half.
Palace still had a chance of overhauling us on the night of our final game, but promotion was clinched when we won 1-0 at Bury (thanks to probably the most scruffy goal Alston scored for us) and Palace were beaten at Chester - we then capped things off by beating Hereford to win the Welsh Cup.
This is the first season I truly remember and the one that got me totally hooked. If I’d been maybe 5 years older it may well have topped 92/93.
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No hesitation, 07/08 I saw every game and the FA Cup final run will forever stay with me, from the welcome of Chasetown, to the euphoria of the Riverside.
My first season of 68/69 is where my hero's came from.