Category Archives: Out on the pitch

Reports, analysis, news and gossip about the Cardiff City first team.

A perfect day.

Posted on August 9, 2009 by The other Bob Wilson

Teams sometimes have problems settling into a new ground and results suffer as the supposed home team find their new surroundings as strange as the visiting side (for example, it took Colchester until 25 October to win their first game at their new stadium last year and they only won there seven times all season). However, you have to wonder if there has ever been a more successful baptism for a new stadium than the one Cardiff City provided yesterday – the sun shone as the goals flew in to leave a crowd of 22,264 (the best opening day home crowd since 1971, the best crowd for a home Cardiff City league game since 23,438 watched a game with Swindon on 17 April 1976 and certainly two or three thousand more than I was expecting) in happy mood and dreaming of what might be possible over the coming nine months. Continue reading →

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The team in 2009/10

Posted on August 7, 2009 by The other Bob Wilson

Time was when you could make a fairly educated guess as to how your team would do over the coming season on the day before their first game, but then along came transfer windows! In many cases now you get sides muddling through with what they have got until the last week in August when you start to see something closer to the squad that you will spend the next eight months and more praising, abusing, defending and attacking in equal measure taking shape. Continue reading →

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