Cardiff City from around 1999/2000 started to become

A properly run serious football club. They moved up through the leagues, the attendances increased massively, the squad improved, the management started to get things right and more professional, the academy flourished, we started winning big matches, we started getting a lot of relative success from what we had been generally use to.

Eventually we appeared in two major cup finals, and a play off final, we reached Wembley four times, and eventually we matched our neighbors from the West and reached the promised land of the Premier League playing to 28,000 home gates and taking thousands and thousands of fans to away matches.

This all took about fourteen years to achieve. My question is, have the antics of Tan and his board of Directors wrecked all the good work in about 24 months?

We are now going faster backwards than an out of control freight train which is hurtling head long into league one or may be even league two eventually. Our crowds are dwindling, our away support is shot, interest in the club is at an all time low, we have a cheap option for our management, and we have off loaded all our price asset players, opinions please?

Also when we were rubbish we were only famous off the pitch. If we become rubbish again for generations, will the new generation of young support repeat that of the dark old days?

That period of time heralded in the arrival of Sam Hammam, with his unorthodox approach, & contagious enthusiasm, he really did stoke the fires of our "sleeping giant" of a club, controversially, more often than not.

What a pity, it all ended the way that it did!

Also when we were rubbish we were only famous off the pitch. If we become rubbish again for generations, will the new generation of young support repeat that of the dark old days?

No

Properley run football club? We spent money we didn't have for almost a decade wirh first Sam, and then Riddler, taking us to the brink of liquidation!!!
Well run my arse.

Also when we were rubbish we were only famous off the pitch. If we become rubbish again for generations, will the new generation of young support repeat that of the dark old days?

We're rubbish now!
But seriously, if we did go into freefall and struggle in league one or two I worry for our support. I think it will be just a few thousand old guys and diehards with little or no youth coming through.
I don't think that will happen though.

Don't want to sound pedantic, but how does a freight train hurtle headlong backwards into a football league.

A properly run serious football club. They moved up through the leagues, the attendances increased massively, the squad improved, the management started to get things right and more professional, the academy flourished, we started winning big matches, we started getting a lot of relative success from what we had been generally use to.

Eventually we appeared in two major cup finals, and a play off final, we reached Wembley four times, and eventually we matched our neighbors from the West and reached the promised land of the Premier League playing to 28,000 home gates and taking thousands and thousands of fans to away matches.

This all took about fourteen years to achieve. My question is, have the antics of Tan and his board of Directors wrecked all the good work in about 24 months?

We are now going faster backwards than an out of control freight train which is hurtling head long into league one or may be even league two eventually. Our crowds are dwindling, our away support is shot, interest in the club is at an all time low, we have a cheap option for our management, and we have off loaded all our price asset players, opinions please?

Great post, but I have to agree with polo. The club wasn't run that well, but we were heading in the right direction as far success. Unfortunately for any good Tan has done most of us fans can only see the bad, and we are falling pretty fast at the moment. I do think in football things can always change though, there was a time when we had 50k watching city then about 2k so we've been there before hopefully things can turn around soon.

A properly run serious football club. They moved up through the leagues, the attendances increased massively, the squad improved, the management started to get things right and more professional, the academy flourished, we started winning big matches, we started getting a lot of relative success from what we had been generally use to.

Eventually we appeared in two major cup finals, and a play off final, we reached Wembley four times, and eventually we matched our neighbors from the West and reached the promised land of the Premier League playing to 28,000 home gates and taking thousands and thousands of fans to away matches.

This all took about fourteen years to achieve. My question is, have the antics of Tan and his board of Directors wrecked all the good work in about 24 months?

We are now going faster backwards than an out of control freight train which is hurtling head long into league one or may be even league two eventually. Our crowds are dwindling, our away support is shot, interest in the club is at an all time low, we have a cheap option for our management, and we have off loaded all our price asset players, opinions please?

Great post, but I have to agree with polo. The club wasn't run that well, but we were heading in the right direction as far success. Unfortunately for any good Tan has done most of us fans can only see the bad, and we are falling pretty fast at the moment. I do think in football things can always change though, there was a time when we had 50k watching city then about 2k so we've been there before hopefully things can turn around soon.

Yep I hope your right