Quote Originally Posted by horse_face View Post
I agree, sustained success would see a rise on the base line again as we've seen in the last 15 years. We've just hit a plateau.

I don't know what constitutes a football town, but they (Derby) are surrounded by more successful teams and hold their own, same as Coventry. I'd imagine fans come from the city itself. As I keep saying even a small % increase from the people of Cardiff would see a jump in attendances.

The fact you can wander around Grangetown, Canton or Riverside on a Saturday and have no idea that there's a football club ten minutes away is crazy. There must be a reason why the people who live so close to the ground have no appetite?

If we can convince lads to drive down from the Rhondda etc then surely convincing someone to walk over to the ground should be easy?

That's the bit which doesn't make sense for me, seems counter intuitive?
Clubs who did ok in the 70’s/80’s all have a core following, all those midlands clubs for example, Derby, forest Leicester. Even Coventry were in the top division forever when I was growing up. Both Sheffield clubs, Ipswich, Norwich too. The generations follow on in those places, we haven’t got that here as we were terrible for 25 yrs….and before that crowds were never great (70’s)…the odd big one.
Nevermind grangetown and riverside, two of cardiffs poorest area’s, I doubt we are going to attract much support from there less we give away free tickets, it’s way too expensive. Wander around the city centre in a match day, there must be 1000’s of potential fans just milling about…..The club should be giving away tickets to schools to fill the red seats every game, they’d still make money from all the other stuff families buy and then you might hook them in, not by playing like we have of late mind.