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Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Mon Feb 21, 2022 7:23 pm

GENERAL CHAT wrote:Fantastic interview, especially for us fans of a certain age.
Your passion for our great club is unquestionable.
Shame we don't have you on the board of directors.. :lol:
Looking forward to the next one.. :occasion5: :occasion5:

:bluescarf: :bluescarf: :bluescarf: :bluescarf: :bluescarf: :bluescarf: :bluescarf:



I really really appreciate your words.

Glad it brought back memories.

Many don’t realise , I have love for one club only Cardiff City and only want us to succeed and become the sleeping Giant I always said we could be since I was a kid in school :bluebird: :bluebird:

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:12 pm

Great show of respect to us ‘valley boys’ top interview from a top man and a true leader (together stronger) :bluescarf: :ayatollah: :bluebird:

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:33 pm

Enjoyed listening to that, so true about Newport and Cardiff back then. I recall seeing it happen before I was really into football about 85 in town…crazy days…the jacks were nowhere to be seen :bluescarf:

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Mon Feb 21, 2022 9:28 pm

I enjoyed the interview Annis, really good insight.
Jacks really are pathetic wannabes :bluebird:

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:57 pm

Great interview Annis, brought back some memories.

Can you see our amazing and unique football club getting new ownership in the next few seasons?

I hate with a passion the silence from Tan regarding his intentions, our future, our philosophy, our targets. It would be something to have football Men on the board, another owner who has been stubborn and ignoring advice is Everton’s owner, Look at all the managers all with different styles he employed and fired! Millions wasted on inconsistent recruitment, current squad full of mismatched players because of this, look at their position. But he’s just recruited Tim Cahill and Graeme Sharp to the board, and apparently started listening! If only we could get proper football advisors to break through Tans stubborn ways and silence that would be a positive start!

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:54 am

lordllanbradach@icloud.com wrote:Great show of respect to us ‘valley boys’ top interview from a top man and a true leader (together stronger) :bluescarf: :ayatollah: :bluebird:
:bluebird: :bluebird:


Thank you , The Valley Boys are our backbone and that’s what’s makes us potentially a massive club :thumbright:

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:56 am

goats wrote:Enjoyed listening to that, so true about Newport and Cardiff back then. I recall seeing it happen before I was really into football about 85 in town…crazy days…the jacks were nowhere to be seen :bluescarf:



Newport and Cardiff was massive to a lot of us.

The Jacks were never seen in them days.


Cheers Goats :thumbright: :bluebird: :bluescarf:

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 7:29 am

Carpe Diem wrote:I enjoyed the interview Annis, really good insight.
Jacks really are pathetic wannabes :bluebird:

:bluebird:



Bobby,


Thank you and yes honestly years ago , I never even thought about them. :thumbright:

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 7:41 am

tangledupinblue wrote:Great interview Annis, brought back some memories.

Can you see our amazing and unique football club getting new ownership in the next few seasons?

I hate with a passion the silence from Tan regarding his intentions, our future, our philosophy, our targets. It would be something to have football Men on the board, another owner who has been stubborn and ignoring advice is Everton’s owner, Look at all the managers all with different styles he employed and fired! Millions wasted on inconsistent recruitment, current squad full of mismatched players because of this, look at their position. But he’s just recruited Tim Cahill and Graeme Sharp to the board, and apparently started listening! If only we could get proper football advisors to break through Tans stubborn ways and silence that would be a positive start!



Thank you for your feedback Stephen.


I feel someone out their will surely see our potential as it’s all set up for them, Championship status and a great ground.

Tan needs to move on as he has lost total interest despite Dalman and Media Wales saying different as they are both puppets.

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:39 pm

Forever Blue wrote:
goats wrote:Enjoyed listening to that, so true about Newport and Cardiff back then. I recall seeing it happen before I was really into football about 85 in town…crazy days…the jacks were nowhere to be seen :bluescarf:



Newport and Cardiff was massive to a lot of us.

The Jacks were never seen in them days.


Cheers Goats :thumbright: :bluebird: :bluescarf:

I remember in mid 70’s coming out of the ground and listening to fans with their radios reporting swansea winning which generated a smile as they were just a little welsh club down the road in the basement league.
Times changed once the board rejected Toshack.

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:49 pm

Would only count Newport as an off the field rivalry.we haven't played against them very much over the years especially compared to Swansea and bristol.a club with a dreadful history and a small fanbase.

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:26 pm

Danny Says wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:
goats wrote:Enjoyed listening to that, so true about Newport and Cardiff back then. I recall seeing it happen before I was really into football about 85 in town…crazy days…the jacks were nowhere to be seen :bluescarf:



Newport and Cardiff was massive to a lot of us.

The Jacks were never seen in them days.


Cheers Goats :thumbright: :bluebird: :bluescarf:

I remember in mid 70’s coming out of the ground and listening to fans with their radios reporting swansea winning which generated a smile as they were just a little welsh club down the road in the basement league.
Times changed once the board rejected Toshack.



Toshack should never have been sold.

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:28 pm

skiprat wrote:Would only count Newport as an off the field rivalry.we haven't played against them very much over the years especially compared to Swansea and bristol.a club with a dreadful history and a small fanbase.



Mike,

It was our personal rivalry, local Cardiff lads v County , but it became quite nasty.

Now we actually get on.

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:03 pm

Forever Blue wrote:
tangledupinblue wrote:Great interview Annis, brought back some memories.

Can you see our amazing and unique football club getting new ownership in the next few seasons?

I hate with a passion the silence from Tan regarding his intentions, our future, our philosophy, our targets. It would be something to have football Men on the board, another owner who has been stubborn and ignoring advice is Everton’s owner, Look at all the managers all with different styles he employed and fired! Millions wasted on inconsistent recruitment, current squad full of mismatched players because of this, look at their position. But he’s just recruited Tim Cahill and Graeme Sharp to the board, and apparently started listening! If only we could get proper football advisors to break through Tans stubborn ways and silence that would be a positive start!



Thank you for your feedback Stephen.

Personally Annis, I know this divides us fans, I would welcome Sam back, would love him on the board, I remember well how it was before he arrived, what a shift in energy! It was exciting. Yes he made financial errors, but no worse than Moshiri and others! and we never got a points reduction like what’s happened to clubs in recent years. He’s a football man I would love on the board because he loved this club, could he form part of a consortium to make an offer? With a wealthy investor? Or would Tan simply not sell to any offer that Sam is part of? Interesting the capacity potential at CCS, capital city, potential of converting plastic fans to Cardiff fans with premier league consistency increasing the fan base, potential is huge I think, always have! Would love to see Bellamy cut his teeth with us to as an assistant manager at least!


I feel someone out their will surely see our potential as it’s all set up for them, Championship status and a great ground.

Tan needs to move on as he has lost total interest despite Dalman and Media Wales saying different as they are both puppets.

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:07 pm

Thouroughly enjoyed the interview
so much so
i had to extend my dinner break to an hour
Well done lad.
BLUEBIRDS.

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:29 pm

Forever Blue wrote:
skiprat wrote:Would only count Newport as an off the field rivalry.we haven't played against them very much over the years especially compared to Swansea and bristol.a club with a dreadful history and a small fanbase.



Mike,

It was our personal rivalry, local Cardiff lads v County , but it became quite nasty.

Now we actually get on.


Didn’t J from Ely go down for stabbing one of them on a trip to Newport one evening? Late 80’s? One Newport lad worked in the rave shop in high st arcade too, forget his name, long curly hair and gold teeth….

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:36 pm

Forever Blue wrote:
Danny Says wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:
goats wrote:Enjoyed listening to that, so true about Newport and Cardiff back then. I recall seeing it happen before I was really into football about 85 in town…crazy days…the jacks were nowhere to be seen :bluescarf:

The board decided they didn’t want first division football and just kept the Liverpool money for themselves; or so I understand.
Old fans still allegedly say they’ve never been back down the City since he was sold.
Then a different board thought he’d be too big for his boots when he offered to come back with all his ex Liverpool players - and well the rest is history. That would have been us and not those down west.

Newport and Cardiff was massive to a lot of us.

The Jacks were never seen in them days.


Cheers Goats :thumbright: :bluebird: :bluescarf:

I remember in mid 70’s coming out of the ground and listening to fans with their radios reporting swansea winning which generated a smile as they were just a little welsh club down the road in the basement league.
Times changed once the board rejected Toshack.



Toshack should never have been sold.

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:41 pm

Enjoyed that mate

Made me laugh when you mentioned Jonathon, now theres a bloke I wouldnt want to have a fight with thats for sure lol, been in his company many times, a true legend

Re: CARDIFF SOUL CREW / HOW I FEEL ABOUT HOW OUR CLUB IS RUN

Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:57 am

RV Casual wrote:Enjoyed that mate

Made me laugh when you mentioned Jonathon, now theres a bloke I wouldnt want to have a fight with thats for sure lol, been in his company many times, a true legend


Cheers Steven, much appreciated.


Your not going to get many lads better than Johnathan :thumbright:

I’ve known him since we were kids.

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Wed Feb 23, 2022 2:33 pm

THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (Minus The Jacks :lol: )
https://youtu.be/ArK8e6Q1MlI
ON HERE TWITTER / FORUM / PM’S & A BIG THANK YOU TO Cullan Mais FOR LETTING ME TELL SOME OF THE STORIES FROM YEARS AGO & NOW
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Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:19 pm

Only listened today and thoroughly enjoyed. An honest and entertaining assessment on many things but it was your views on the so called 'Swimaway' and 'why we are where we are' that I enjoyed particularly :clap:

Well done, Annis; you'll need a bigger letter box for all the 'Jack' Xmas cards you're gonna get... :lol:

Have you ever thought of writing a book...?! ;) :laughing6: :laughing6:

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:23 pm

It's a great interview Annis, Cullan does a very good job in getting good guests on and fans want to hear and see more of it. I think he's had Bellamy, Ledley and a few others on too. I'd love to see an AFTV equivalent for City and Cullan's Central Club would do a great job of that.

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:47 pm

Annis excellent broadcast very informative and interesting.
But now that you are radio star does that mean we have to make an appointment to talk to you :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Wed Feb 23, 2022 4:48 pm

I've listened to half of it - good stuff so far. Looking forward to the rest of it.

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:01 pm

That was class, loved the honesty. Not like some other clubs lads stories of never been done never been run!

I was only involved in the scene from the age of 18 to 21, so 2004 to 2007, I finished when it dawned on me how easy it was to go to jail.

It was kind of over by then it terms of incidents, but like you said in that interview, it’s down to the bubbles and the level of policing. If all that was taken away it would have been carnage every week with the numbers we were taking away. And at home pubs like the nevill, the kings and the exchange were rammed full of lads. Proper grown men too who had been there and done it. I always felt like a child lol.

I always felt we were so unorganised though at times, could never understand why we seemed to travel in mass numbers for non bubble games making it so easy for the old bill to wrap us up. The best I ever saw us organised was when it was the first wales game at the liberty and everyone went up in separate cars, the jacks were nowhere to be seen that day, which was probably a good things as I have never seen a mob like that. Maybe not huge numbers all the right faces.

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Thu Feb 24, 2022 6:58 am

Sven wrote:Only listened today and thoroughly enjoyed. An honest and entertaining assessment on many things but it was your views on the so called 'Swimaway' and 'why we are where we are' that I enjoyed particularly :clap:

Well done, Annis; you'll need a bigger letter box for all the 'Jack' Xmas cards you're gonna get... :lol:

Have you ever thought of writing a book...?! ;) :laughing6: :laughing6:



Thank you Chris,

Yes it is my view on Swim away , but we were also their until they actually incident and the lads involved came back to the Railway Pub in Port Talbot that night and told us exactly what happened to them.

Ha ha the Jacks don’t like the truth and the truth is. We never rated them in the 80’s at all.






:lol:

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:34 am

GrangeEndStar wrote:It's a great interview Annis, Cullan does a very good job in getting good guests on and fans want to hear and see more of it. I think he's had Bellamy, Ledley and a few others on too. I'd love to see an AFTV equivalent for City and Cullan's Central Club would do a great job of that.



Thanks Paul.

Yes Cullan, is doing a great job and has plenty more lined up :thumbright: :thumbright:

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:36 am

Igovernor wrote:Annis excellent broadcast very informative and interesting.
But now that you are radio star does that mean we have to make an appointment to talk to you :lol: :lol: :lol:



Thank you Roger :thumbright: :bluebird



:lol: :lol:

Much appreciated, nothing would change the way I am , I will always be down to earth and honest :thumbright:

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:39 am

cs_original wrote:That was class, loved the honesty. Not like some other clubs lads stories of never been done never been run!

I was only involved in the scene from the age of 18 to 21, so 2004 to 2007, I finished when it dawned on me how easy it was to go to jail.

It was kind of over by then it terms of incidents, but like you said in that interview, it’s down to the bubbles and the level of policing. If all that was taken away it would have been carnage every week with the numbers we were taking away. And at home pubs like the nevill, the kings and the exchange were rammed full of lads. Proper grown men too who had been there and done it. I always felt like a child lol.

I always felt we were so unorganised though at times, could never understand why we seemed to travel in mass numbers for non bubble games making it so easy for the old bill to wrap us up. The best I ever saw us organised was when it was the first wales game at the liberty and everyone went up in separate cars, the jacks were nowhere to be seen that day, which was probably a good things as I have never seen a mob like that. Maybe not huge numbers all the right faces.




Yes it was virtually over by then.

Thank you for your comments. :thumbright: :thumbright:

I was their with you all at Wales gave at the Liberty.

You are right, Cardiff’s down fall was we never were organised properly.

Re: THANK YOU TO THE 100’S WHO LEFT SOME AMAZING COMMENTS (M

Thu Feb 24, 2022 3:31 pm

Forever Blue wrote:
cs_original wrote:That was class, loved the honesty. Not like some other clubs lads stories of never been done never been run!

I was only involved in the scene from the age of 18 to 21, so 2004 to 2007, I finished when it dawned on me how easy it was to go to jail.

It was kind of over by then it terms of incidents, but like you said in that interview, it’s down to the bubbles and the level of policing. If all that was taken away it would have been carnage every week with the numbers we were taking away. And at home pubs like the nevill, the kings and the exchange were rammed full of lads. Proper grown men too who had been there and done it. I always felt like a child lol.

I always felt we were so unorganised though at times, could never understand why we seemed to travel in mass numbers for non bubble games making it so easy for the old bill to wrap us up. The best I ever saw us organised was when it was the first wales game at the liberty and everyone went up in separate cars, the jacks were nowhere to be seen that day, which was probably a good things as I have never seen a mob like that. Maybe not huge numbers all the right faces.




Yes it was virtually over by then.

Thank you for your comments. :thumbright: :thumbright:

I was their with you all at Wales gave at the Liberty.

You are right, Cardiff’s down fall was we never were organised properly.


You’re welcome really enjoyed it. Yeah I remember seeing you there in Swansea, unreal turnout.