“ A CRISIS IN THE CAPITAL “
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=231668The fans are calling for protests to start:
Tuesday 17th January 2023
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=231668From an outside perspective, it is sheer chaos. From top to bottom, Cardiff City is riddled with issues and zero sense of direction or ambition whatsoever. We’ve asked the fans for their views of the club and what needs to be done to bring change.
Travis has followed the club for all of his life. “...just an absolute mess, the club is being run by clowns. Every Cardiff fan dreading the next appointment. We’re not an attractive club for someone to manage anymore.”
Stu says “You can go back further than that (2010). The finance of the club have been an issue for years. 2 stints in the Prem, we should be on an even footing. But we’ve pissed away millions over the years. Add in the rebrand and many more things…”
Founder of Alternative Wales, Ryan March had plenty to say… “Cardiff has never been the sanest of clubs but the last 10 years have really taken the piss. Post-rebrand I think Tan and co have overseen a managed decline. They were lucky that Warnock hit gold and got us promoted, they didn't have the foresight to capitalise on it and build on it. They knew Warnock wasn't going to stick around forever and they should've had a plan in place as soon as he walked away, they didn't and since then they've mad bad decision after bad decision on the playing side of things. But I think their biggest crime is the apathy that they've caused across the fan base. We should be protesting at the state of the club but people have just stopped caring. People haven't come back after the pandemic, because why should they? In these difficult times, why should fans keep putting their hand in the their pocket to watch a football club that is being run by people who don't care. Why should we care when they don't? They'll put another manager in charge in the coming weeks and hope they happen upon another Warnock, or it even could be Warnock himself and hope he can replicate what he did in 2017. There's no plan, there never has been. We're treading water but sinking at the same time. And the way things are going the club is only going one way, it's just a matter of time. What a sad state of affairs.”
Sloper Road Blues, a fan page dedicated to the city also had a lot to say about the club. “The issues surrounding the club at the moment is the lack of engagement between the club and the fans. This has been non existent for years, we have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes from the Debt we are in to their ambitions for this football club. The easy solution for this would be to hold regular open Meetings which are very easily done! Then we would have an idea of what is going on and there would be a clearer picture of the whole situation! But the board don’t want any sort of communication it seems. Some more issues surrounding the club are the lack of football brain on the board, year after year we are either recycling assistant managers or hiring managers for cheap! We want a long term project!…Well we thought we was going to get a long term project when Morison was appointed manager and overhauled the squad massively in the summer, The board let him sign 17 players then sacking him 11 games later…Where’s the sense in that? Players take time to gel. We’ve asked about a potential DOF but Tan and the board very quickly shut that down due to it “Interfering” to much, But surely that’s the whole point of a DOF? if a DOF was in place during the Warnock era we wouldn’t of splashed millions on the players he signed. That’s only some of the issues that we’ve got with the board! I could on for ages so I’m going to leave it to the others to explain the other matters. The atmosphere down the CCS these days is non existent, From the music being played before the game to the noise generated by the crowd. The Canton stand has become a library in recent years, Yes this may be because of the state of the club and rightly so but the canton stand has become the family stand in a sense, Parents moaning if you start swearing and people just folding their arms when chants get started. A lot of Abuse has been thrown at the drummers behind the Canton stand but in my opinion without them drums no chants would get started. There was talk about a potential singing section being introduced “Adar Glas” but that was quickly shut down when fans started to moan about the idea! Fans were abusing the person for trying to create a actual atmosphere. But looking back at the idea now it more than likely would of made a huge difference!”
These are just a handful of fans’ views but they all share the same principals. Cardiff City is rotten to the core and those fans who follow the side wherever they go are getting sick of everything going on
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