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Good post....No solutions and a big bit of "I told you so" but the problem the club faces succinctly framed.

No solutions because I haven't got any (assuming that some exist) and I did tell you so.

Seriously though, if you'd have told me as I travelled home from the play-off semi defeat to West Ham that within a couple of years I and hundreds if not thousands of others like me would feel the way we currently do about the football club we had supported passionately all of our lives, I'd have laughed in your face.

The re-brand, combined with Tan's antics and the reactions of a large percentage of the fanbase, has provided a very significant watershed for many formerly dedicated Cardiff City supporters. The events of the last few years have literally been life-changing. Attitudes have changed significantly, as have lifestyles. Amazingly, a man from Malaysia has managed to cure plenty of Bluebirds of their football addiction. And once the kind of bond that many of those fans felt with the club has been broken, it's going to be very difficult to repair.

I would argue that cancer or losing a limb at war is life changing. The colour of a team's shirt and the badge they wear is not life changing.

I would argue that cancer or losing a limb at war is life changing. The colour of a team's shirt and the badge they wear is not life changing.

You could argue that until your bollocks drop off, but it won't make what I said any less true.

I would argue that cancer or losing a limb at war is life changing. The colour of a team's shirt and the badge they wear is not life changing.

You could argue that until your bollocks drop off, but it won't make what I said any less true.

Bloody life changing. Football is not that important. Surely you must realise that having given it up for a few years?

Good post....No solutions and a big bit of "I told you so" but the problem the club faces succinctly framed.

No solutions because I haven't got any (assuming that some exist) and I did tell you so.

Seriously though, if you'd have told me as I travelled home from the play-off semi defeat to West Ham that within a couple of years I and hundreds if not thousands of others like me would feel the way we currently do about the football club we had supported passionately all of our lives, I'd have laughed in your face.

The re-brand, combined with Tan's antics and the reactions of a large percentage of the fanbase, has provided a very significant watershed for many formerly dedicated Cardiff City supporters. The events of the last few years have literally been life-changing. Attitudes have changed significantly, as have lifestyles. Amazingly, a man from Malaysia has managed to cure plenty of Bluebirds of their football addiction. And once the kind of bond that many of those fans felt with the club has been broken, it's going to be very difficult to repair.

I would argue that cancer or losing a limb at war is life changing. The colour of a team's shirt and the badge they wear is not life changing.

Not just Tan, I think us fans have been a part in our own destruction, constant digging at each other on message boards, you ask a lot of people what changed, answer I got was that fed up of the in house arguing amongst the fans. It will come back, football has changed, look at Boro attendances, poor for top of table. Maybe we have lost fans that won't come back, but give it a season or two to steady ship and hopefully we will start climbing again.

Bloody life changing. Football is not that important. Surely you must realise that having given it up for a few years?

I do indeed realise that. Football is not that important. Cardiff City Football Club is even less so.

Both used to be very important to me, but life has changed following the re-brand. You could say it's been life-changing.

Bloody life changing. Football is not that important. Surely you must realise that having given it up for a few years?

I do indeed realise that. Football is not that important. Cardiff City Football Club is even less so.

Both used to be very important to me, but life has changed following the re-brand. You could say it's been life-changing.

So true, as a City supporter of around 35 years the colour change didn't affect me like it did you and others.
I like my football but it has always come second and as funny as it sounds I reckon your in a better frame of mind now after the rebrand. Not that you'll ever forgive tan, I know you won't but he's probably done you a favour in a strange sort of way

So true, as a City supporter of around 35 years the colour change didn't affect me like it did you and others.
I like my football but it has always come second and as funny as it sounds I reckon your in a better frame of mind now after the rebrand. Not that you'll ever forgive tan, I know you won't but he's probably done you a favour in a strange sort of way

That's absolutely, 100% true and it's one of the many problems Cardiff City is currently facing. Incredibly, the club and its idiotic owner deliberately alienated a considerable number of dedicated supporters whose lives used to more or less revolve around it. Getting those fans to support the club again either at all or on any kind of a regular basis is going to be an uphill struggle to say the least.

So true, as a City supporter of around 35 years the colour change didn't affect me like it did you and others.
I like my football but it has always come second and as funny as it sounds I reckon your in a better frame of mind now after the rebrand. Not that you'll ever forgive tan, I know you won't but he's probably done you a favour in a strange sort of way

That's absolutely, 100% true and it's one of the many problems Cardiff City is currently facing. Incredibly, the club and its idiotic owner deliberately alienated a considerable number of dedicated supporters whose lives used to more or less revolve around it. Getting those fans to support the club again either at all or on any kind of a regular basis is going to be an uphill struggle to say the least.

I'd say it's a lost generation that the club will never totally get back, they may dip their toe back in now and again, but for them like yourself it'll never be the same club again.
The club now has to do its best to attract the next generation of fans and treat them and the current fans with a bit more respect than they've been doing. Somehow I just can't see it

It was the first time I noticed that the attendance numbers wasn't announced!

I thought it was...during a noisy part of the match!

I may be wrong, but the guys around me had a laugh at the crowd just before it came up on the big screen

Yes Chris it was announced.

I stand corrected, I didn't hear it