City support from the Cardiff area's?

[stan butler]

Back in the 80s and 90s i remember City having a very good following from the Docks , Ely and Llanrumney area's.
Do these places still have a big interest in watching the city?
What other parts of Cardiff follow us in good numbers?

[goats]

Back in the 80s and 90s i remember City having a very good following from the Docks , Ely and Llanrumney area's.
Do these places still have a big interest in watching the city?
What other parts of Cardiff follow us in good numbers?

Groups from the areas you mention also had significant issues with each other back then too, you could throw Fairwater/pentrebane into that scenario too.

[stan butler]

Groups from the areas you mention also had significant issues with each other back then too, you could throw Fairwater/pentrebane into that scenario too.

Do the docks lot still go?
They had quite a scary following once upon a time..

[goats]

Do the docks lot still go?
They had quite a scary following once upon a time..

Most are either dead, in jail or banned….. I’m sure a few still go but don’t see many of them. A guy I knew from fairwater back in the late 80’s said he stopped going as it was just too much hassle with them.

[Tuerto]

Most are either dead, in jail or banned….. I’m sure a few still go but don’t see many of them. A guy I knew from fairwater back in the late 80’s said he stopped going as it was just too much hassle with them.

They'd all be in their 50's now

[goats]

They'd all be in their 50's now

Most about that, I’m not sure most of them went for their love of football so might not be inclined to go the ccs these days!

[Fine Lines]

I moved to Heath 18 months ago. It doesn’t appear to be a hotbed for City fans.

[Tuerto]

I moved to Heath 18 months ago. It doesn’t appear to be a hotbed for City fans.

Well, i'm just around the corner from you, so there's at least 2 of us The Youngers Chippy on Caerphilly Rd is kitted out in City pics etc.The Barbers shop opposite the Birchgrove pub has a City themed stain glass window and a little further north is the butvhers arms in rhiwbina which used to be packed out with City memorabilia. North cardiff is a hotbed

[goats]

Well, i'm just around the corner from you, so there's at least 2 of us The Youngers Chippy on Caerphilly Rd is kitted out in City pics etc.The Barbers shop opposite the Birchgrove pub has a City themed stain glass window and a little further north is the butvhers arms in rhiwbina which used to be packed out with City memorabilia. North cardiff is a hotbed

I live in Heath, city fan next door and 4 doors along ( I don’t know anyone past this far anyway )

[Tuerto]

I live in Heath, city fan next door and 4 doors along ( I don’t know anyone past this far anyway )

There's a healthy contingent from the flyover up to the deri pub.

[goats]

I don’t think we get much support from the people who live in cardiff anyway, we never really have if you consider the city’s population (say 380,000), we dont even get 5%.

[Fine Lines]

Well, i'm just around the corner from you, so there's at least 2 of us The Youngers Chippy on Caerphilly Rd is kitted out in City pics etc.The Barbers shop opposite the Birchgrove pub has a City themed stain glass window and a little further north is the butvhers arms in rhiwbina which used to be packed out with City memorabilia. North cardiff is a hotbed

Ha yes forgot about Youngers chippy. Forgot about that !

[bobh]

I haven't seen any City fans in St Mellons area, apart from my sons (and one of them now lives in Roath)

[goats]

Used to be a healthy contingent from llanishen and Whitchurch

[Tuerto]

Used to be a healthy contingent from llanishen and Whitchurch

Yup, a good few from Whitchurch. Whitchurch is a football suburb, no doubt about that.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Poor support from Cardiff

We are lucky CCFC has a big catchment area or things would be even worse

Barry , Bridgend , Maesteg , Porthcawl , Caerphilly, Pontypridd , The Valleys

Porthcawl has loads of Cardiff City fans

A lot of Cardiffs feeder towns have a real affinity for the football club

Sadly I don't think that's mirrored by the population locally

Now of course we are not a very successful club but there just doesn't seem to be that pride in coming from Cardiff that Swansea people have for example

Maybe it's just my take on things but if a small town like Porthcawl can regularly arrange coaches for away matches then you have to ask why most of the suburbs of Cardiff don't have a pub or social club or supporters branches ?

There are websites for Porthcawl , Maesteg supporters , I don't know of a Grangetown , Canton or Roath branch ?

I have always found that a bit odd

But both Liverpool and Man United have coaches going to see them from Cardiff I believe

[Eric the Half a Bee]

there just doesn't seem to be that pride in coming from Cardiff that Swansea people have for example

Really? I've always thought Cardiff people have great pride in the city, mirrored by those who come to Cardiff from outside.

[alfie]

Back in the 80s and 90s i remember City having a very good following from the Docks , Ely and Llanrumney area's.
Do these places still have a big interest in watching the city?
What other parts of Cardiff follow us in good numbers?

Back in the 70's there was a massive contingent from Llanrumney but sadly no interest anymore.

[Canton68]

Back in the 70's there was a massive contingent from Llanrumney but sadly no interest anymore.

Some are still following City but moved away from Llanrumney

[alfie]

Some are still following City but moved away from Llanrumney

Not many. Im from Llanrumney originally and down the city every week.Well at least the crowd i used to go down with dont bother.

[MOZZER2]

Back in the 70's there was a massive contingent from Llanrumney but sadly no interest anymore.

agree alfie a very healthy following back in the day from east Kairdiff ( rumney , llanrumney and trowbridge too ) st mellons was an overspill back then

my first away day in 1979/80 swindon away had a couple of coaches from that area gave me a rude awakening -lol

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Back in the 70's there was a massive contingent from Llanrumney but sadly no interest anymore.

This is the thing I don't understand , we are more successful now , an established second flight team , yet there was more support when we were crap

I don't get it

[WJ99mobile]

This is the thing I don't understand , we are more successful now , an established second flight team , yet there was more support when we were crap

I don't get it

Combination of things -

My opinion is people are suckered into an identity regardless of the success

Went to Newcastle away once, it's night and day in terms of support. Everything was geared towards being Geordie and a toon supporter - shirts were worn with pride everywhere. They also don't have a hotbed of Liverpool/Man Utd etc supporters because they've always had some level of success, nor do they compete with rugby.

It's more difficult here in Cardiff, but we can do more

[nomad blue]

Not sure how anyone can tell unless you define a city fan as someone who walks around with a city top on. Only people who would really know will be those that have access to the ticket/members database.

[the other bob wilson]

Not sure how anyone can tell unless you define a city fan as someone who walks around with a city top on. Only people who would really know will be those that have access to the ticket/members database.