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Re: What other Clubs would you compare to Cardiff for potential?

Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:19 pm

Cheers :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: What other Clubs would you compare to Cardiff for potential?

Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:39 pm

taffyapple wrote:
EddieEdwards wrote:Bristol City

Plymouth

Brighton

Any others...

I think all 3 along with Cardiff would average 35,000+ if they became established Premier League Clubs with Good backers due to their fan base and catchment areas.

Any others?


I would say there aren't any that could match our 'potential'

Plymouth will never take loads of support from Exeter or Torquay, the only other
large-ish population areas down there. Bristol City have got Rovers and the closest
area of any other significant population is S Wales. Brighton? biggish town on its
own, but again, Portsmouth aint far, nor is London

No other Club in Britain has a catchment area of over 1.5 million and no rivals!!!
I'm not in any way knocking the jacks here, but when they were playing top flight
football in the early 80's they never really made a dent in the Cardiff City support.
They ARE our rivals, but support-wise they haven't got a prayer, never have, never
will. Our only rival is the egg, but there will be a lot less kids wearing Cardiff Blues
or Wales shirts once we reach the promised land.

Will we ever fulfill our true potential?? 35,000 crowds week in week out??

We may soon find out :ayatollah:


got to disagree with you on the jacks playing in top flight not making a dent in the ccfc support
a whole generation of fans turned to the dark side during the early 80's and in one or two cases they changed sides
the areas in question maesteg pencoed porthcawl and to a lesser extent bridgend
these areas have strong ccfc following again but we lost a lot of fans my age who are now in their late 30's early 40's during that period


i think we are a on a par with boro or bolton for size