01 Aug 2008: Cardiff City - Ajax

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Bluebirds22
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Bericht door Bluebirds22 » zo aug 03, 2008 12:51 am

aveslacker schreef:
Bluebirds22 schreef:I must admit we were stretched numerous times during the game. Hunelaar runs are amazing. Our centre backs didn't know what hit them to be honest.

There was a lot of promising points from the game for the ajax players. Support play and passing was outstanding but lacking the end product at times really.

As for Cardiff it was a good run out against a top team like Ajax so it was great. I got into the ground 5 minutes after the kick off.

They only expected 5000 to turn up so they closed one seating area off so only one full stand of seating then 2 stands of terracing open. We didn't get tickets in the end, There were so many queing to get in outside, they just let people pay on the turnstile which was a bit mad.

I was impressed with the say 300/350 Ajax fans. Bit of trouble but what do you expect at football. No one is perfect. They had an escort in from the police from the city centre and back out so as far as I know no trouble.

This is what one Cardiff fan said about the ajax lot. Half time music

"Musical Youth - Pass The Duchie. Not only was it a quality track and hugely 'relevant' to the away fans, but it really seemed to lighten the atmosphere in the away end. At the end of the day it was a friendly and I was so chuffed to see the Ajax fans dancing and starting a conga! I'd rather see away supporters leave Cardiff and want to come back, not tear the place up and speak badly of us"

Hopefully Ajax will come back next year to play us as we both hold the cup or maybe we come out to Ajax and play you at your ground?
Thanks for the writeup. Glad to hear that (most) everyone had a good time.

Best of luck in the Championship!
As I said, no ones perfect. Our fans are certainly not! Cheers, hopefully we will push on last year after our FA Cup final defeat to Portsmouth.

It's a shame we lost our striker Chopra to Sunderland but the club were struggling for cash so sold him for £5million

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Bericht door SE6Ajacied » zo aug 03, 2008 7:23 pm

Bluebirds22 schreef:
As a Blackpool fan, get your chairman to drop the prices for away fans! £30 they want to charge us in October. I paid £17 last year to stand on a temporary stand with no cover on!
Yeah, that is a bit of a rip-off. I don't get to many home games any more so not sure how much it is for 'pool fans (no home games at all last season).

I suppose they need to get money for the new away stand from somewhere though :hypocrite.gif:
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Bluebirds22
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Bericht door Bluebirds22 » zo aug 03, 2008 11:37 pm

SE6Ajacied schreef:
Bluebirds22 schreef:
As a Blackpool fan, get your chairman to drop the prices for away fans! £30 they want to charge us in October. I paid £17 last year to stand on a temporary stand with no cover on!
Yeah, that is a bit of a rip-off. I don't get to many home games any more so not sure how much it is for 'pool fans (no home games at all last season).

I suppose they need to get money for the new away stand from somewhere though :hypocrite.gif:
Well that businessman promised you two new stands about 2 years ago didn't he? I noticed he built the hotel behind the one lot of goals but didn't do the stands as he stated he would get done.

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Bericht door aveslacker » ma aug 04, 2008 3:50 pm

I found some highlights of the match on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSdpClBzOvc
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Bericht door SE6Ajacied » ma aug 04, 2008 5:40 pm

aveslacker schreef:I found some highlights of the match on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSdpClBzOvc
Cheers Aveslacker - that looked quite a good game didn't it despite the score, and really whetted the appetite for the new season ahead. I take it that Cardiff had a player called Kennedy too unless there's another reason why ours is now "Ajax Kennedy" (they tried to pronounce his second name only once..).

Interesting that the cup was shared at the end of the match - pity as it's always nice to start the season with a trophy..... :smallgrin.gif:
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Bericht door aveslacker » ma aug 04, 2008 6:54 pm

SE6Ajacied schreef:
aveslacker schreef:I found some highlights of the match on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSdpClBzOvc
Cheers Aveslacker - that looked quite a good game didn't it despite the score, and really whetted the appetite for the new season ahead. I take it that Cardiff had a player called Kennedy too unless there's another reason why ours is now "Ajax Kennedy" (they tried to pronounce his second name only once..).

Interesting that the cup was shared at the end of the match - pity as it's always nice to start the season with a trophy..... :smallgrin.gif:
I noticed that as well (the Kennedy thing).

On the whole, I thought the team played well (based on the highlights) -- lots of precise passing, technically fairly sound. The defense was exposed a few times, but didn't seem as hopeless as it did at times last year. Would like to see them put some shots in the net, obviously, but it looks like they attacked fairly well.

Definitely whets the appetite for the upcoming season!
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Bericht door Jeroen126 » di aug 05, 2008 12:36 pm

On their website, it sais they have a midfielder by the name of Mark Kennedy.

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Bericht door 999 » di aug 05, 2008 12:45 pm

AJAX !!!!
Blij met de punten ...

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