Sludge wrote:was reading one of the books the other day and he made a point about many of our so called fans letting down the club , especially the loads who wanted tickets for the FA cup, then vanished again
and hes right
even when sam hammam was running things a lot of our floating support just didnt bother
I remember a few weeks before the start of our first championship season after the QPR play off game
it was just as the season tickets went on sale
I was down at ninian park in the line waiting to buy season tickets with a few mates
big sam was in front of us and we were going on about how now we were in the championship we would be getting sell outs week in week out .....sam said to us lets keep our feet on the ground , a lot of people talk the talk , lets build up things slowly and be realistic....but we were not having any of it......we were saying first game will be a sell out, we will average 20000 gates
anyway , he was right, the fans didnt show up like we said they would
despite us getting back to this level for the first time in 17 years , yet again south wales let down the club...not us lot, we will always be there...but the so called city fans who even though we needed big gates , simply didnt bother
even at that first home game we didnt hit 17000 !!....within a few weeks we had crowds of 15000...and finished the season with an average of around 15500.....only a few thousand higher than the average we had the season before !!
whilst sam is no longer a part fo the club and I dont want him back, there is no doubt that many football fans in south wales failed to back the club in big numbers...of course we would still have had big debts...but lopking back on some of the crowds and big sam was right
our crowds increased but not in big enough numbers for all this sleeping giant talk to be used
we all love city I just wish some of the so called football fans in south wales supported the club in bigger numbers back then, who knows things might have turned out different
Forever Blue wrote:Sludge wrote:was reading one of the books the other day and he made a point about many of our so called fans letting down the club , especially the loads who wanted tickets for the FA cup, then vanished again
and hes right
even when sam hammam was running things a lot of our floating support just didnt bother
I remember a few weeks before the start of our first championship season after the QPR play off game
it was just as the season tickets went on sale
I was down at ninian park in the line waiting to buy season tickets with a few mates
big sam was in front of us and we were going on about how now we were in the championship we would be getting sell outs week in week out .....sam said to us lets keep our feet on the ground , a lot of people talk the talk , lets build up things slowly and be realistic....but we were not having any of it......we were saying first game will be a sell out, we will average 20000 gates
anyway , he was right, the fans didnt show up like we said they would
despite us getting back to this level for the first time in 17 years , yet again south wales let down the club...not us lot, we will always be there...but the so called city fans who even though we needed big gates , simply didnt bother
even at that first home game we didnt hit 17000 !!....within a few weeks we had crowds of 15000...and finished the season with an average of around 15500.....only a few thousand higher than the average we had the season before !!
whilst sam is no longer a part fo the club and I dont want him back, there is no doubt that many football fans in south wales failed to back the club in big numbers...of course we would still have had big debts...but lopking back on some of the crowds and big sam was right
our crowds increased but not in big enough numbers for all this sleeping giant talk to be used
we all love city I just wish some of the so called football fans in south wales supported the club in bigger numbers back then, who knows things might have turned out different
Sludge I totally agree we have to many floating fans and if they had turned out more when Sam was here we prob would never have got in to so much finnacial trouble.
Forever Blue wrote:Baz, If we could of averaged an extra 3,000 fans on every game when Sam was here I reckon we would of been in the Prem, Sams last words to me on the day he left was I wish could of had just £2 Million, I would of bought Koumas and he would of shot us to the Prem,We were 6pts clear at the top when Sam left.
bluebirdbaz wrote:Forever Blue wrote:Baz, If we could of averaged an extra 3,000 fans on every game when Sam was here I reckon we would of been in the Prem, Sams last words to me on the day he left was I wish could of had just £2 Million, I would of bought Koumas and he would of shot us to the Prem,We were 6pts clear at the top when Sam left.
so close yet so far, its a shame, there is so much distrust of the board and PR at moment its affectin ST sales
i am still undecided on what to do, we should not be in this state
Blue_Lloyd wrote:I get a feeling we are similar to Portsmouth.
bluebirdbaz wrote:annis financially for me theres no problem, but thousands of fans are very nervous of purchasing because of all the financial problems, nobody has come out and reassured us 100%
its a really strange time at the moment, no trust from us supporters
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