' THE FULL TRANSCRPIT OF TAN'S SPEECH TODAY '

Bluebirds' billionaire owner makes plea for end to the negativity so we "can co-exist and be successful together"

Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan held court during a flying visit to Wales.

He agreed to a 30 minute Q&A session with supporters and commercial partners which was so compelling, it lasted almost an hour and a half.

As usual, Tan was brutally honest as he charmed the audience with his fascinating take on seven years at the Bluebirds helm.

He addressed a whole range of subjects, from the flak he and Russell Slade have taken from the fans and his commitment to the club, to the hefty wages Kenwyne Jones and Andreas Cornelius were on, a Premier League bid for David Marshall and his ‘shoot-on-sight’ pep talk to the Bluebirds players.

Tan was on his best form, genial, but also incredibly candid, particularly with a ‘Be reasonable’ call to the Bluebirds’ critics.

It made for an engaging cocktail, so much so that the lucky fans present hung onto his every word.

MediaWales’ Head of Sport Paul Abbandonato was amongst those invited into the inner sanctum. Here he reports on Tan in Tan’s own words....it’s an absolute must-read for sports fans.




WHAT CARDIFF CITY REALLY MEANS TO HIM

Tan: I got involved in 2007 so it’s fair to say it has been a seven-year rollercoaster. We’ve had good times, plenty of bad times, a lot of water has gone under the bridge.

It’s been difficult, but I felt responsible to try to make this work. I still do.

Only the other week I read about the Bolton owner who invested £180million into the club, but who was throwing in the towel.

We’ve made mistakes, some bad ones. People I relied upon gave me terrible advice. I was far too trusting, have lost a lot of money.

But my commitment is still full. We’re in much better shape today. I’m still very involved, speak daily on the phone to Ken Choo (chief executive) and Mehmet Dalman (chairman) .

I’ve not been coming to games because I’m very busy and time constraints don’t permit, but my spirit is always here with the team.

I watch every minute of every game. If it’s a 3pm kick-off over here on a Saturday, that means it’s 11pm back home in Malaysia. So the game doesn’t finish until 1am, then I’m involved in talks about what’s happened. So I don’t get to bed until well gone two in the morning.

If it’s a Tuesday night game at 7.45pm, back in Malaysia I have to set my alarm clock to get up in time for a 3.45am kick-off.

I’m 64 years old, older than most peoplein this room, but I’ve got the stamina to do this because that’s what Cardiff City means to me.

Already over the last two years I’ve converted some loans to equity. I’ve previously written off £13m of my debt. I’ve decided to convert a further £60m of my shares to equity. That shows my commitment to Cardiff City.

I want to be responsible, try to leave this business in a good shape.





ON SAM HAMMAM AND LANGSTON

Tan: I have resolved the issue of the outstanding creditor... and he’s the luckiest man in the world that Vincent Tan came to Cardiff. Frankly, I don’t think he deserves it. I believe I’ve been far too nice, too generous.

I’m not even going to mention his name, it spoils my day if I do so.

I could have walked away from this football club, but I feel I have a sense of responsibility. To Cardiff City and to my country’s name.

I don’t want people saying this guy from Malaysia came here, made the club bankrupt and walked away. There will be a day when I do leave, but I hope I leave the club in good hands.

If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, those close to me will at least be happy I won’t be putting any more money into Cardiff City. They keep asking ‘Why are you doing this?’

I do it because of my commitment to the club.





HIS AMBITION FOR THE BLUEBIRDS

We have stabilised this season, tried to curtail the huge overheads we had.

The two previous managers (Malky Mackay and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer) brought in so many players, paid them far too big a salary and called it a project.

Worst of the lot, we brought in a £10million striker from Denmark who didn’t even play 90 minutes for us and never scored a single goal.

Andreas Cornelius was on £45,000 a week, too.

Then, when I questioned the manager about it, I’m told ‘It’s a project’. At 45,000 a week. This is the great manager that the Welsh fans seem to love. I will never have managers like that again.

Sometimes I don’t understand it. £10m, £45,000 a week, no goals... and you love the manager. Maybe the fans get conned a little,.

Jordan Rhodes has just joined Middlesbrough... for less than £10m. That’s a good signing, a striker who does score lots of goals. And I bet he’s not on as much as £45,000 a week, either.

I have made mistakes, agreed to bad recommendations from people I trusted, but I’ve learned lesssons and understand better how to run this football business.

I’m convinced we can still get promotion and we’re still ambitious. We could have sold David Marshall for £7million, played Simon Moore in goal, got someone else in as back up.

Why didn’t we take the money? Because we want to go to the Premier League and David’s a big part of that.

He was disappointed. Arsenal and another Premier League club wanted him to go there. His salary would have gone up, people around the world would have seen him play at the highest level.

Yet we had to tell him ‘Sorry, we’re not letting you go’. We were literally begging him to stay. Is that not ambition?





ON UNDER-FIRE RUSSELL SLADE

Tan: Russell has been excellent, a lot better than the last two managers who I paid seven or eight times a higher salary to.

Did they do a seven to eight times better job? No, they did much worse, lost me tons of money with some of those signings.

If I listen to the so called ‘experts’ in Wales, and I deliberately use apostrophes there with the word ‘experts’, then I just hear Russell is terrible, Russell is this, Russell is that.

They forget he came in at a time when I told him to clean up the mess. We’d just had two very well paid managers who spent an awful lot of money, but in my opinion didn’t always do very well.

Everybody seemed to condemn me when I brought in Russell, saying ‘Oh he’s only from the lower leagues’. But if you always adopted that view, nobody would be given a chance. I gave him a chance and I’m glad I have done.

He is totally trustworthy and I believe he’s done very well.

When Cardiff City got promoted I put £20m in to buy players that season for that ‘great manager. The fans love the previous manager (Mackay), but sometimes football fans get emotional, not logical.

Please be reasonable, don’t always hammer Russell. Okay, he’s not Tony Pulis, who would have cost us an awful lot of money.

Okay, he’s not one of these big brand name managers. Well, they get sacked too. Who would have thought Jose Mourinho would be out of a job this season?

Sometimes you need to be given a chance and I’ve given Russell one.

Don’t worry about whether we will renew his contract or not. We will do what’s right for the club.

We do business on a handshake. We trust each other.






HIS ‘BE REASONABLE’ MESSAGE TO THE FANS

Tan: Some of them don’t come any more, they think we’re not playing attractive football.

Le me go back a little bit in recent history. When we came up into the Premier League, I put £20m in to buy the players.

I asked ‘Can I change the colour to red?’ The Supporters Trust and others agreed. Not at first, but the management here tell me finally people accepted it, provided I put in money.

Well, I did put in money, we were promoted and no-one said red was lousy. Red was great. Then they moan about the red, so I changed back to blue. I did what would make them happy.

Next they are not happy with Russell Slade. Not with him, nor his style of football. Maybe some of them should come and play themselves?

You know what, as an owner from a foreign country I feel some of the fans should be more supportive. To some, everything we do seems to be wrong. Some people out there seem to have a real attitude problem.

If I let these people affect me, I would throw in the towel like the Bolton owner did. But I carry on.

I spent £12m putting in 5,000 extra seats, expanding a stadium which enabled Wales to play World Cup matches there. But no-one says it’s nice.

My message would be just tell your friends and fellow fans to be reasonable. Then we can co-exist and be successful together.

Let’s encourage Russell... and that includes the media. Fulham and QPR are great clubs, but Russell is doing better than their managers have.

Am I being unreasonable to ask the fans to be reasonable? Maybe the club is lucky you’ve got an idiot like me who has come from far away and put in so much money!





HIS PEP TALK WITH A DIFFERENCE TO SLADE’S PLAYERS

Tan: I went to see them at the training base and gave them a pep talk, said they have GOT to start shooting more.

I told them we have kept David Marshall here and he is keeping clean sheets, yet look at the stats. There are more draws than wins. David is doing his bit of the bargain, I told them, so clearly you guys are not scoring enough.

In every match I want to see 30 or 40 attempts on goal. Just shoot from 25, 30 yards, I told them.

What’s the point of passing, passing, passing and hoping to get in the box that way. Unless you’re Lionel Messi looking for a tap in, it’s not going to work.

I watch every Cardiff match and I told them ‘You guys have no confidence’. Peter Whittingham is capable of shooting and scoring score goals from 30 yards, so have a go, I said.

Yet they get the ball and it seems to be like a hot potato. Pass it to somebody else straight away. As fans, you must see that, because I do.

The law of averages says the more you shoot, the more you’ll score. If you shoot 30 times you’ll get three goals, 40 times will be four goals, 50 times and you’ll get five goals.

Don’t respond by saying I know nothing about football. I’ve learned an awful lot, I see players regularly scoring in the Premier League from distance and we have to do that.

It’s very well passing, passing, passing, but do you get points for possession in football? No. When they change the rules, then pass the ball and keep passing the ball if you want.

But right at this moment the rules are you have to get the ball in the net. And you only do that by shooting.

You know when you see ugly men walking around with a very beautiful wife? Well, that’s because they’ve asked 30, 40, 50 times before getting a yes from her. They try, try and try again, even if they fail. The law of averages.

On the other hand, you’ll see a handsome man ask once, get a ‘no’ in response and that’s it. He doesn’t try again.

So the more you try, the more success you’ll have. We need a lot more goal attempts, we’ll score more and win games.

Not only that, the fans will love it, too.

I believe we can still make the play-offs, but we have to have more goal attempts.






THE TRANSFER EMBARGO

Tan: it came as a surprise to me. In the Premier League you have so many expenses, but when come down most of those expenses still stay. That leads to this sort of problem, but I think we were quite creative in the January transfer window.

Bringing in Tom Lawrence was a really good deal, he’ll score goals.

Wolves offered £3.5m for Joe Mason, some were disappointed he left, but we think it’s good business.

Okay, it wasn’t ideal Mason left after we also lost Kenwyne Jones. But we were paying Kenwyne £35,000 a week and that’s a lot of money for a Championship club.

Anyhow, if Joe hadn’t gone we would never have known Anthony Pilkington could be a good striker. But we’ve been forced to play him up front and he’s done really well.

Is their a full video on it?

Is their a full video on it?

Don't think there is one yet Ryan.

Sure it was recorded but yet to see a full video available.

Is their a full video on it?

Don't think there is one yet Ryan.

Sure it was recorded but yet to see a full video available.

Probably be on the player later.

Bluebirds' billionaire owner makes plea for end to the negativity so we "can co-exist and be successful together"

Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan held court during a flying visit to Wales.

He agreed to a 30 minute Q&A session with supporters and commercial partners which was so compelling, it lasted almost an hour and a half.

As usual, Tan was brutally honest as he charmed the audience with his fascinating take on seven years at the Bluebirds helm.

He addressed a whole range of subjects, from the flak he and Russell Slade have taken from the fans and his commitment to the club, to the hefty wages Kenwyne Jones and Andreas Cornelius were on, a Premier League bid for David Marshall and his ‘shoot-on-sight’ pep talk to the Bluebirds players.

Tan was on his best form, genial, but also incredibly candid, particularly with a ‘Be reasonable’ call to the Bluebirds’ critics.

It made for an engaging cocktail, so much so that the lucky fans present hung onto his every word.

MediaWales’ Head of Sport Paul Abbandonato was amongst those invited into the inner sanctum. Here he reports on Tan in Tan’s own words....it’s an absolute must-read for sports fans.




WHAT CARDIFF CITY REALLY MEANS TO HIM

Tan: I got involved in 2007 so it’s fair to say it has been a seven-year rollercoaster. We’ve had good times, plenty of bad times, a lot of water has gone under the bridge.

It’s been difficult, but I felt responsible to try to make this work. I still do.

Only the other week I read about the Bolton owner who invested £180million into the club, but who was throwing in the towel.

We’ve made mistakes, some bad ones. People I relied upon gave me terrible advice. I was far too trusting, have lost a lot of money.

But my commitment is still full. We’re in much better shape today. I’m still very involved, speak daily on the phone to Ken Choo (chief executive) and Mehmet Dalman (chairman) .

I’ve not been coming to games because I’m very busy and time constraints don’t permit, but my spirit is always here with the team.

I watch every minute of every game. If it’s a 3pm kick-off over here on a Saturday, that means it’s 11pm back home in Malaysia. So the game doesn’t finish until 1am, then I’m involved in talks about what’s happened. So I don’t get to bed until well gone two in the morning.

If it’s a Tuesday night game at 7.45pm, back in Malaysia I have to set my alarm clock to get up in time for a 3.45am kick-off.

I’m 64 years old, older than most peoplein this room, but I’ve got the stamina to do this because that’s what Cardiff City means to me.

Already over the last two years I’ve converted some loans to equity. I’ve previously written off £13m of my debt. I’ve decided to convert a further £60m of my shares to equity. That shows my commitment to Cardiff City.

I want to be responsible, try to leave this business in a good shape.





ON SAM HAMMAM AND LANGSTON

Tan: I have resolved the issue of the outstanding creditor... and he’s the luckiest man in the world that Vincent Tan came to Cardiff. Frankly, I don’t think he deserves it. I believe I’ve been far too nice, too generous.

I’m not even going to mention his name, it spoils my day if I do so.

I could have walked away from this football club, but I feel I have a sense of responsibility. To Cardiff City and to my country’s name.

I don’t want people saying this guy from Malaysia came here, made the club bankrupt and walked away. There will be a day when I do leave, but I hope I leave the club in good hands.

If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, those close to me will at least be happy I won’t be putting any more money into Cardiff City. They keep asking ‘Why are you doing this?’

I do it because of my commitment to the club.





HIS AMBITION FOR THE BLUEBIRDS

We have stabilised this season, tried to curtail the huge overheads we had.

The two previous managers (Malky Mackay and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer) brought in so many players, paid them far too big a salary and called it a project.

Worst of the lot, we brought in a £10million striker from Denmark who didn’t even play 90 minutes for us and never scored a single goal.

Andreas Cornelius was on £45,000 a week, too.

Then, when I questioned the manager about it, I’m told ‘It’s a project’. At 45,000 a week. This is the great manager that the Welsh fans seem to love. I will never have managers like that again.

Sometimes I don’t understand it. £10m, £45,000 a week, no goals... and you love the manager. Maybe the fans get conned a little,.

Jordan Rhodes has just joined Middlesbrough... for less than £10m. That’s a good signing, a striker who does score lots of goals. And I bet he’s not on as much as £45,000 a week, either.

I have made mistakes, agreed to bad recommendations from people I trusted, but I’ve learned lesssons and understand better how to run this football business.

I’m convinced we can still get promotion and we’re still ambitious. We could have sold David Marshall for £7million, played Simon Moore in goal, got someone else in as back up.

Why didn’t we take the money? Because we want to go to the Premier League and David’s a big part of that.

He was disappointed. Arsenal and another Premier League club wanted him to go there. His salary would have gone up, people around the world would have seen him play at the highest level.

Yet we had to tell him ‘Sorry, we’re not letting you go’. We were literally begging him to stay. Is that not ambition?





ON UNDER-FIRE RUSSELL SLADE

Tan: Russell has been excellent, a lot better than the last two managers who I paid seven or eight times a higher salary to.

Did they do a seven to eight times better job? No, they did much worse, lost me tons of money with some of those signings.

If I listen to the so called ‘experts’ in Wales, and I deliberately use apostrophes there with the word ‘experts’, then I just hear Russell is terrible, Russell is this, Russell is that.

They forget he came in at a time when I told him to clean up the mess. We’d just had two very well paid managers who spent an awful lot of money, but in my opinion didn’t always do very well.

Everybody seemed to condemn me when I brought in Russell, saying ‘Oh he’s only from the lower leagues’. But if you always adopted that view, nobody would be given a chance. I gave him a chance and I’m glad I have done.

He is totally trustworthy and I believe he’s done very well.

When Cardiff City got promoted I put £20m in to buy players that season for that ‘great manager. The fans love the previous manager (Mackay), but sometimes football fans get emotional, not logical.

Please be reasonable, don’t always hammer Russell. Okay, he’s not Tony Pulis, who would have cost us an awful lot of money.

Okay, he’s not one of these big brand name managers. Well, they get sacked too. Who would have thought Jose Mourinho would be out of a job this season?

Sometimes you need to be given a chance and I’ve given Russell one.

Don’t worry about whether we will renew his contract or not. We will do what’s right for the club.

We do business on a handshake. We trust each other.






HIS ‘BE REASONABLE’ MESSAGE TO THE FANS

Tan: Some of them don’t come any more, they think we’re not playing attractive football.

Le me go back a little bit in recent history. When we came up into the Premier League, I put £20m in to buy the players.

I asked ‘Can I change the colour to red?’ The Supporters Trust and others agreed. Not at first, but the management here tell me finally people accepted it, provided I put in money.

Well, I did put in money, we were promoted and no-one said red was lousy. Red was great. Then they moan about the red, so I changed back to blue. I did what would make them happy.

Next they are not happy with Russell Slade. Not with him, nor his style of football. Maybe some of them should come and play themselves?

You know what, as an owner from a foreign country I feel some of the fans should be more supportive. To some, everything we do seems to be wrong. Some people out there seem to have a real attitude problem.

If I let these people affect me, I would throw in the towel like the Bolton owner did. But I carry on.

I spent £12m putting in 5,000 extra seats, expanding a stadium which enabled Wales to play World Cup matches there. But no-one says it’s nice.

My message would be just tell your friends and fellow fans to be reasonable. Then we can co-exist and be successful together.

Let’s encourage Russell... and that includes the media. Fulham and QPR are great clubs, but Russell is doing better than their managers have.

Am I being unreasonable to ask the fans to be reasonable? Maybe the club is lucky you’ve got an idiot like me who has come from far away and put in so much money!





HIS PEP TALK WITH A DIFFERENCE TO SLADE’S PLAYERS

Tan: I went to see them at the training base and gave them a pep talk, said they have GOT to start shooting more.

I told them we have kept David Marshall here and he is keeping clean sheets, yet look at the stats. There are more draws than wins. David is doing his bit of the bargain, I told them, so clearly you guys are not scoring enough.

In every match I want to see 30 or 40 attempts on goal. Just shoot from 25, 30 yards, I told them.

What’s the point of passing, passing, passing and hoping to get in the box that way. Unless you’re Lionel Messi looking for a tap in, it’s not going to work.

I watch every Cardiff match and I told them ‘You guys have no confidence’. Peter Whittingham is capable of shooting and scoring score goals from 30 yards, so have a go, I said.

Yet they get the ball and it seems to be like a hot potato. Pass it to somebody else straight away. As fans, you must see that, because I do.

The law of averages says the more you shoot, the more you’ll score. If you shoot 30 times you’ll get three goals, 40 times will be four goals, 50 times and you’ll get five goals.

Don’t respond by saying I know nothing about football. I’ve learned an awful lot, I see players regularly scoring in the Premier League from distance and we have to do that.

It’s very well passing, passing, passing, but do you get points for possession in football? No. When they change the rules, then pass the ball and keep passing the ball if you want.

But right at this moment the rules are you have to get the ball in the net. And you only do that by shooting.

You know when you see ugly men walking around with a very beautiful wife? Well, that’s because they’ve asked 30, 40, 50 times before getting a yes from her. They try, try and try again, even if they fail. The law of averages.

On the other hand, you’ll see a handsome man ask once, get a ‘no’ in response and that’s it. He doesn’t try again.

So the more you try, the more success you’ll have. We need a lot more goal attempts, we’ll score more and win games.

Not only that, the fans will love it, too.

I believe we can still make the play-offs, but we have to have more goal attempts.






THE TRANSFER EMBARGO

Tan: it came as a surprise to me. In the Premier League you have so many expenses, but when come down most of those expenses still stay. That leads to this sort of problem, but I think we were quite creative in the January transfer window.

Bringing in Tom Lawrence was a really good deal, he’ll score goals.

Wolves offered £3.5m for Joe Mason, some were disappointed he left, but we think it’s good business.

Okay, it wasn’t ideal Mason left after we also lost Kenwyne Jones. But we were paying Kenwyne £35,000 a week and that’s a lot of money for a Championship club.

Anyhow, if Joe hadn’t gone we would never have known Anthony Pilkington could be a good striker. But we’ve been forced to play him up front and he’s done really well.

Carl

Whilst there is nothing inaccurate in what is reported here , it is not a full transcript, but extracts from what was said by Vincent Tan. The full criticism he made of previous managers and Sam Hammam is not included, nor his comments about his investments in his other three football clubs, some comments about other recent signings etc.

Keith

Did anyonelse read it in Tans voice or was it just me?

He speaks well, a very charismatic man. He's almost got me buying into Slade

It's nice to finally hear exactly what his take on things are. I don't agree with all of it but he does at least seem to show that he has learned from his mistakes (although he qualifies that by saying he was badly advised) and is committed to future success.

He absolutely HAS to keep away from the football side of things though, he is so naive, the way he talks about the game is like listening to my Missus

Did anyonelse read it in Tans voice or was it just me?

He speaks well, a very charismatic man. He's almost got me buying into Slade

How do you think he got his wives?

Did anyonelse read it in Tans voice or was it just me?

He speaks well, a very charismatic man. He's almost got me buying into Slade

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one.

He talks sense in fairness.

Did anyonelse read it in Tans voice or was it just me?

He speaks well, a very charismatic man. He's almost got me buying into Slade

100% his voice

Did anyonelse read it in Tans voice or was it just me?

He speaks well, a very charismatic man. He's almost got me buying into Slade

ha I did exactly the same, why is that??

Read on another thread we would be a laughing stock of a club if other clubs fans read what tan said
imo reading his transcript he spoke very well

We all have difference of opinions but you'd find it hard to heavily disagree with anything he said there.

Especially concerning Cornelius and the sale of Mason and loaning out of KWJ.

He was honest and open about his thoughts on Sam and he obviously really, really doesn't like Malky.

He makes a good point comparing Jordan Rhodes to Andreas Cornelius! And David Marshall did want to go. Interesting!

It's great to hear from him and people should really watch the video if they haven't as you can empathise a lot more with him than when you just read his comments where it is easy to take them out of context and also not see how sincere he is being.

Looking forward to seeing him at Charlton on Saturday. Hopefully he will get a really good reception from us and that this is the start of a much improved dialogue between him and the fans.

People say that they feel disconnected from the club, but is also clear VT feels the same too. If we can unite as one then this will only help both parties re-kindle their love for the club. Its time to let bygones be bygones and fans who can't will only be cutting their nose off to spite their face.

It would be great to see a passionate VT down the CCS again on a more regular basis along with passionate fans all shouting for the same cause. This is the only way we will move forward as a football club

Did anyonelse read it in Tans voice or was it just me?

He speaks well, a very charismatic man. He's almost got me buying into Slade

So weird i just realised i did.

It's great to hear from him and people should really watch the video if they haven't as you can empathise a lot more with him than when you just read his comments where it is easy to take them out of context and also not see how sincere he is being.

Looking forward to seeing him at Charlton on Saturday. Hopefully he will get a really good reception from us and that this is the start of a much improved dialogue between him and the fans.

People say that they feel disconnected from the club, but is also clear VT feels the same too. If we can unite as one then this will only help both parties re-kindle their love for the club. Its time to let bygones be bygones and fans who can't will only be cutting their nose off to spite their face.

It would be great to see a passionate VT down the CCS again on a more regular basis along with passionate fans all shouting for the same cause. This is the only way we will move forward as a footfall club

Well said

Can't argue with anything that he's said there, he's hit the nail on the head.

Did anyonelse read it in Tans voice or was it just me?

He speaks well, a very charismatic man. He's almost got me buying into Slade

Almost had me in tears

He's talking rubbish about Malky. The logic is if you win promotion and get the club to a Final in Wembley you are a success. He's still got a grievance against Malky. He signed Velikonja....He doesn't mention that total waste!

Read on another thread we would be a laughing stock of a club if other clubs fans read what tan said
imo reading his transcript he spoke very well

No you have missed the point I said we would be the laughing stock with the shoot, shoot ,shoot comments and stand by my remark, yes its all fine banging the ball at opposition goal from every conceivable distance and angle but any football fan with half a football brain would realise teams would lap this up and if this was such a good tactic don't you think every team in the football league would be employing it! the game would become a farcical .

I never commented on the other issues so I think you need to look at the thread again before jumping in with your ill thought out opinion, I am just as happy as any other City fans with news regarding the Debt but I think you are actually delirious and all I can suggest is you look in your medicine cabinet for some kind of sedative to calm yourself down

It's great to hear from him and people should really watch the video if they haven't as you can empathise a lot more with him than when you just read his comments where it is easy to take them out of context and also not see how sincere he is being.

Looking forward to seeing him at Charlton on Saturday. Hopefully he will get a really good reception from us and that this is the start of a much improved dialogue between him and the fans.

People say that they feel disconnected from the club, but is also clear VT feels the same too. If we can unite as one then this will only help both parties re-kindle their love for the club. Its time to let bygones be bygones and fans who can't will only be cutting their nose off to spite their face.

It would be great to see a passionate VT down the CCS again on a more regular basis along with passionate fans all shouting for the same cause. This is the only way we will move forward as a footfall club

Well said

Yes, indeed

No one moaned about the red when we got promoted ? Yeah right lol
Sorry but he sounds potty in most of what he says. The silly signings I agree with but he is the boss and he sanctioned it. Yes he gave us 5000 extra seats but they were 5000 extra red seats which just antagonised everyone.
Let's see where all this takes us ?

Couple of simple questions which I wonder if anyone on here could answer please ?

Did EUFA subsidise the building of the Ninian stand extension ?
Every time Wales play here, how much revenue is it worth to Cardiff City ?
How much would it cost the club to change those seats to Blue ?

Thanks