" Many City fans have never experienced what lies ahead "

It's hard to say the fans should stick together when there is this attitude of "I'm a real fan because I have been to every game since......" Or "anyone wearing red is a plastic..." (Not exact quotes) Just look at the divisiveness of the headline. Everyone blames tan for the division amongst fans but maybe we need to look at our own attitudes.
There are many good reason as to why people don't go to every game so why be so elitist about it? It seems a bit hypocritical to call for unity with this underlying attitude.

Your twisting the whole topic.

No one is saying they have to go to all the games, I dont anymore, my family come first.
The topic was about this now being the toughest times on the pitch for 13 years and many,many fans have never experienced that. We sell out for Man United/Man City/Arsenal home etc etc so lets all still be there if we can during the relegation fight, its easy to support a winning team or just watch the big name teams, its all about supporting the team through the troubled times, dont you agree?

Cheers Annis loved the old aways.

Cheers Annis loved the old aways.

It's going to be an interesting couple of months. Man City will be tough but I can't wait to go there, it's all part of the fun, and you never know

"Many City fans have never experienced what lies ahead"

In the last 13 years Cardiff City Football Club has really had nothing but Success and has never had a real fight on their hands on the pitch. Years ago, We would have a relegation battle virtually 2 out of every 3 years, never pretty football, dire games, but the loyalty and passion from the fans that went got us through many of them.

Now is not the time to desert, at least we are playing top Quality sides, not Rochdale and Barnet, so there are no excuses,every seat should be filled from now till May at the Cardiff City Stadium and all the away games, they were virtually full in August/Sept/Oct and November. If u cant go give your ticket to another City fan.


This hurt reading this
Vince wrote 'Coach 4 not looking good for Man City dropping like flies may have to share some with other coaches'



Its easy to support a Successful team, the real fans stay with your club no matter what.

Yes we have different opinions,about the team/manager/owner etc but we still All Support Cardiff City Football Club and so no reason why the Support should drift away.

" BLUEBIRDS BLUEBIRDS "

Been like that in the 80s and 90s all clubs support are the same. i remember going to nearly every away game in 90/91/92 and the same 2 or 300 used to go then we got successful under ricky wright and we were taking 1000s away..

The way of allocating away tickets is shocking, everyone I speak to, who by the way have been following City away for 30-40 years are pissed off with how difficult and conveluted it is to buy a ticket, unless you travel on a coach. Also, its got to the stage that you have to keep on going or at least buy away tickets so that you can carry on building up enough games to be liable for a ticket in future games. There is little new blood being brought into the away following, who will get the bug. To rely on the same supporters week in week out becomes a stretch for some, Im sure some are basically bankrupting themselves! but are afraid to miss a game,as they will lose out on future tickets. I will by the way be at both Manchester games

My son asked me yesterday - how do you get a ticket to an away match ?

I said you have to prove you have been to 5, 6 or 7 previous away matches.

He replied - how do you go to your first away match if you cannot qualify for one ?

mmmmmmmmm ?

So the people who have let vince down are not the so called plastics as they are referred to on here, but established supporters who most probably are the ones bragging about rochdale etc on a wet and windy tuesday night.

How can u say they are the ones who went to Rochdale on a Tuesday night, just over 100 fans attended. How can u belittle loyal fans from the old days


All u to do to get on the ladder was to have gone to so many away games last season etc or so many this season, say like Man City now they are on Sale to Silver members, Fulham/Villa went on sale to Away members etc. Yes there are games like Swansea for example when they make it harder as they then go down the ladder from those who have attended the most this season and last season.

thanks Annis - I knew you'd have the answer about getting on the
ladder ! I shall pass it on to my son.

They have only had good times.
Johnny owen quote.....
Thats why they cant fully appreciate the good when never experienced the bad.

cardiff city in my blood and in my soul . forever

AMEN! Through thick and thin, good and bad.

The way of allocating away tickets is shocking, everyone I speak to, who by the way have been following City away for 30-40 years are pissed off with how difficult and conveluted it is to buy a ticket, unless you travel on a coach. Also, its got to the stage that you have to keep on going or at least buy away tickets so that you can carry on building up enough games to be liable for a ticket in future games. There is little new blood being brought into the away following, who will get the bug. To rely on the same supporters week in week out becomes a stretch for some, Im sure some are basically bankrupting themselves! but are afraid to miss a game,as they will lose out on future tickets. I will by the way be at both Manchester games

My son asked me yesterday - how do you get a ticket to an away match ?

I said you have to prove you have been to 5, 6 or 7 previous away matches.

He replied - how do you go to your first away match if you cannot qualify for one ?

mmmmmmmmm ?

So the people who have let vince down are not the so called plastics as they are referred to on here, but established supporters who most probably are the ones bragging about rochdale etc on a wet and windy tuesday night.

How can u say they are the ones who went to Rochdale on a Tuesday night, just over 100 fans attended. How can u belittle loyal fans from the old days


All u to do to get on the ladder was to have gone to so many away games last season etc or so many this season, say like Man City now they are on Sale to Silver members, Fulham/Villa went on sale to Away members etc. Yes there are games like Swansea for example when they make it harder as they then go down the ladder from those who have attended the most this season and last season.

thanks Annis - I knew you'd have the answer about getting on the
ladder ! I shall pass it on to my son.

It does work
Your welcome

The way of allocating away tickets is shocking, everyone I speak to, who by the way have been following City away for 30-40 years are pissed off with how difficult and conveluted it is to buy a ticket, unless you travel on a coach. Also, its got to the stage that you have to keep on going or at least buy away tickets so that you can carry on building up enough games to be liable for a ticket in future games. There is little new blood being brought into the away following, who will get the bug. To rely on the same supporters week in week out becomes a stretch for some, Im sure some are basically bankrupting themselves! but are afraid to miss a game,as they will lose out on future tickets. I will by the way be at both Manchester games

My son asked me yesterday - how do you get a ticket to an away match ?

I said you have to prove you have been to 5, 6 or 7 previous away matches.

He replied - how do you go to your first away match if you cannot qualify for one ?

mmmmmmmmm ?

So the people who have let vince down are not the so called plastics as they are referred to on here, but established supporters who most probably are the ones bragging about rochdale etc on a wet and windy tuesday night.

How can u say they are the ones who went to Rochdale on a Tuesday night, just over 100 fans attended. How can u belittle loyal fans from the old days


All u to do to get on the ladder was to have gone to so many away games last season etc or so many this season, say like Man City now they are on Sale to Silver members, Fulham/Villa went on sale to Away members etc. Yes there are games like Swansea for example when they make it harder as they then go down the ladder from those who have attended the most this season and last season.

thanks Annis - I knew you'd have the answer about getting on the
ladder ! I shall pass it on to my son.

It does work
Your welcome

It didn't for villa!

The ticket office gave us no notice and didn't even have the decency to record a phone message once they'd sold out. Spent 15 quid trying to buy tickets only to find they'd sold out an hour before

First relegation battle that I remember was in 73/74. The previous seasons had been quite successful, and we nearly went up to Division 1 in 70/71. To cut a long story short, we had to draw the last game, home to Malcolm Allson's Crystal Palace, to stay up. We went one down early on, but Tony Villars scored in front of the Grange End just before half time, and that's how it stayed, somehow.

It was a midweek game, and my dad drove up from Carmarthenshire after I had got home from school. 27k crowd. Afterwards, it felt like we had won the league, everybody on the pitch. Palace went down to Division three instead of us.

We got relegated the next season, though, but then straight back up in 75/76. That was my best season ever. We moved up to Cardiff in 76 too. Happy days!

The point is, that relegation, and promotion, are part and parcel of football. Ups and downs. Most seasons following a promotion are difficult, and are usually a relegation battle, or at least touch and go until late on. Sometimes the last day.

No real City fan will consider walking away now. My dad is 85, and I'm 56, and were both ST holders. If we can stay up this season, then we will have that much more experience next. If we go down, well so be it. Life goes on. But we need to pull together to make sure that we do stay up!

I remember those games well my first game was in '69 but didn't start going regular until around 73/74 season what a lot of our fans want to remember is your Club is for life not just the Premiership. Let's get behind the players and manager home and away if you can afford it but one thing I would say that the cost of an away match is horrendous these days at £47 a ticket plus £25 for the bus throw in food and drink and you can be looking at £100 which for a lot of our fans is not far off half a weeks wages

Personally i can only afford a certain number of away matches so try and pick either grounds I haven't been to or some of our l less glamorous fixtures like Accrington, Stoke and Palace which are the games I have been to this season. Would love to go to the Man Utd game because I have never seen City play at Old Trafford but I doubt very much that I will get a ticket.

Don't miss a home game and although I hate the rebrand I go along to support Cardiff city which to me is the team and the manager just as I have always done regardless of what Division we are in

The way of allocating away tickets is shocking, everyone I speak to, who by the way have been following City away for 30-40 years are pissed off with how difficult and conveluted it is to buy a ticket, unless you travel on a coach. Also, its got to the stage that you have to keep on going or at least buy away tickets so that you can carry on building up enough games to be liable for a ticket in future games. There is little new blood being brought into the away following, who will get the bug. To rely on the same supporters week in week out becomes a stretch for some, Im sure some are basically bankrupting themselves! but are afraid to miss a game,as they will lose out on future tickets. I will by the way be at both Manchester games

My son asked me yesterday - how do you get a ticket to an away match ?

I said you have to prove you have been to 5, 6 or 7 previous away matches.

He replied - how do you go to your first away match if you cannot qualify for one ?

mmmmmmmmm ?

So the people who have let vince down are not the so called plastics as they are referred to on here, but established supporters who most probably are the ones bragging about rochdale etc on a wet and windy tuesday night.

How can u say they are the ones who went to Rochdale on a Tuesday night, just over 100 fans attended. How can u belittle loyal fans from the old days


All u to do to get on the ladder was to have gone to so many away games last season etc or so many this season, say like Man City now they are on Sale to Silver members, Fulham/Villa went on sale to Away members etc. Yes there are games like Swansea for example when they make it harder as they then go down the ladder from those who have attended the most this season and last season.

thanks Annis - I knew you'd have the answer about getting on the
ladder ! I shall pass it on to my son.

It does work
Your welcome

It didn't for villa!

The ticket office gave us no notice and didn't even have the decency to record a phone message once they'd sold out. Spent 15 quid trying to buy tickets only to find they'd sold out an hour before

Anyone could virtually buy for Villa thats what I mean, it then registered u that u had done an away game.
I agree the club made a farce of Fulham and Villa away, they lost control.