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Cardiff City 2008-09

I thought Cardiff were unlucky tbh. The Sky commentators were getting moist over Swansea in the first half, but I thought Cardiff were the better side in teh first 45 minutes. Flair pay Swansea did play well in teh second half, but I think you lot had a goal disallowed and it was an unfortunate way to concede (off a defenders studs)!

A good cup tie, with a bit of spice on teh sidelines.
 
phildwyer said:
This whole rivalry is stupid. Only two Welsh teams in the league and we decide to hate each other?
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Innit. I'm interested in the history of that rivalry as well. It seems that the Wurzels were traditionally our most hated team, and indeed was a title that they cemented when they allegedly started chanting 'Aberfan, Aberfan, Aberfan' at NP many years ago.

The rivalry with the Jacks is apparently more recent. Some claim that it first surfaced on our side when they were flying high under Toshack and we just couldn't cope with being Wales' first city, but easily its second team. Dunno about the veracity of that, mind.

Either way, you're bang on about the Welsh teams thing. I, for one, like to see all Welsh teams do well, including our six-fingered, chippy cousins ;), and feel that Jack success can only be good both for the national side and for Cardiff in terms of adding a competitive edge to the league we now share.

Most of my bile is saved for cross border clashes, and Brizzle most of all.
 
bendeus said:
Innit. I'm interested in the history of that rivalry as well. It seems that the Wurzels were traditionally our most hated team, and indeed was a title that they cemented when they allegedly started chanting 'Aberfan, Aberfan, Aberfan' at NP many years ago.
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I don't recall that, but I can certainly remember the Man Utd fans singing it.
 
Right back in the day (early 70s or thereabouts) according to some apocryphal stuff I've heard. I'm far more of a Johnny-come-lately so am not in any position to comment.
 
Relahni said:
I thought Cardiff were unlucky tbh. The Sky commentators were getting moist over Swansea in the first half, but I thought Cardiff were the better side in teh first 45 minutes. Flair pay Swansea did play well in teh second half, but I think you lot had a goal disallowed and it was an unfortunate way to concede (off a defenders studs)!

A good cup tie, with a bit of spice on teh sidelines.
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You must've been watching a different game to me, Cardiff had the better of a scrappy opening 20 but from then until the final whistle Swansea controlled the game.

The Swans bossed the midfield, were solid at the back and had a free reign going forward down the right what with Ledley forgetting to turn up and the left back, Commingues is it?, being one of the most dire players I've ever seen and I've seen some dross.
 
Buds said:
The only union jack I saw from my seat in the east stand was on the New Zealand Swans flag, all the others I saw were Welsh or Spanish.
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it's not that important, but there were two failrly large union jacks opposite and in line with the players tunnel, either side of the exit. not sure which stand that would have been. Did not spot any of the red hand of ulster flags that have been seen down there in the past.

as i say though, not really that big a deal.

bigger fish to fry on saturday
 
City Fans Let off

Several cardiff city fans were arrested in Sheffiled in february this year. I was not there but you can read the account of one of the boys arrested here

after missing the fa cup, being banned from going within 2 miles of a football ground on a match day for 8 months and countless journeys back and fore yorkshire, the judge today threw the case out and declared there was no case to answer.
 
birmingham city bounce back

time to bounce back after tuesday's hiccup. still unbeaten in any important game since the fa cup final last season, time to use the home advantage that is the dragons den of ninian park, time to finally give someone the hiding we have been threatening to do all season. :D
 
Clint Iguana said:
time to bounce back after tuesday's hiccup. still unbeaten in any important game since the fa cup final last season, time to use the home advantage that is the dragons den of ninian park, time to finally give someone the hiding we have been threatening to do all season. :D
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or maybe not:mad:
 
Playing it in the air against a team better in the air than us. Was never going to work was it?

Only goal came from putting it through on the ground. Co-incidence?
 
I thought box to box we were the better team today, but we havent got a clue close to gaol. McNaughton worked his bollox of, but when he did get a cross in there is noone there. Our forwards line up on the 18yard line and seem scared to venture any further forward. Bothroyd gives 110%, but 100% of fuck all is fuck all.

Having said that I think we will play a lot worse than today and give teams a tonking.

I didnt get into the game til 5 past and really enjoyed the first half. Imagine my surprise when Ali announces...Birmingham's SECOND goal was scored by...
 
Think that we may see our hungry Hungarian tomorrow thanks to the public spat between DJ and Purse.

Staged to give an excuse to rest an in form Purse?

Think DJ is very silly to say:

“There are one or two who need to be shook up a little bit and say, ‘hey if you don’t want to give the shirt away to somebody then buck up, because you’re going the right way about it’.

After our frist league defeat. Is he finanlly acknowleging than everything isn't all rosey in the garden despite them previously bigging up how good our team is because of the unbeaten run?
 
1927 said:
Hardly. You made a statement and I told you that you were wrong, hardly pedantic!

Pedantic would be stating, correctly, that Cardiff City have never won the FA Cup!
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you knew fully well i was referring to six evening games left (five now)

Not sure what you mean by the last paragraph... was it called something else when we won, what is now referred to, the FA cup?

Anyway...... a half decent game I thought, had my heart in my mouth a few times cos we are still not genuinely dominating things, but we got there in the end. Lots of posession around thier goal, but no-one seemed to want to shoot.

That disalowed goal thing was a bit mad, I dont recall seeing anything like that before, and certainly never heard a cheer go up like that when the ref finally made his decision.

16,312 crowd for an evening game, not bad at all
 
editor said:
Well predicted sir!
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:)

It could have been a very high scoring game. Their goalie had 3 excellent saves. Thought he might have saved the pen the form he was in.

Bothroyd had a good game and took his goal nicely. The meagre away contingent had been baiting him just minutes before he scored with a rendition of 'there's only one lazy bastard'. T'was nice to give it straight back to them with cream on top when Big Jay netted.

As for Eastwood's disallowed goal, it was the right decision but after the linesman had put his flag back down I didn't think the decision was going to be reversed. There were some poor decisions by all 3 officials last night but the result was about right after a much improved 2nd half from City. Ledley still needs to up his game a bit though.
 
Miracles do happen. The red reversing the decision our way. Wow I never thought I'd live to see that happen.

Even though it was the right thing to do refs just don't do that for Cardiff.
 
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