Quote Originally Posted by llan bluebird View Post
You can never dismiss the 1970~2000's. You were either a die-hard or in it for the trouble. Ninian Park was a doss house of a place so hardly attractive to newbies.
As a teen in the 80's I grew up with 4~6k crowds of either hooligans or old men, very few women or children, where was the next generation going to come from?
My nan used to live on Ninian Park Road and up to the late 60's was a regular, I used to find that amazing, a woman at the football !!, thats how bad we were in the 80's.
The club has done a lot to dispel the hooligan image, but since the new stadium its done next to nothing to grow our support. I believe it's amazing we have 18K regulars with the take it or leave it attitude.
Someone said Cardiff is an event city, Rugby, concerts, Football. I speak to loads of "soft" fans who say they watched us on the box and they kind of support the club, but from the sofa.
The marketing department and general commercial side is akin to a corner shop, its so poor. When you look at some of the social media output from other clubs we are barely national league level.
Loyal fans are made not born
This I completely agree with. The club is amateur at just getting the image of the club out there in the City. Something as simple as a couple of eye catching murals wouldn't go a miss, plenty of other cities have these - the only one we have in the bay, wasn't something the club were involved with (if I recall correctly).

Also agree with the above post that the club does seem to like their events in the valleys - not dismissing these areas, the fans are a credit to the club, but why not have these events in the city itself in addition, unless I've missed some.