Match Day Thread Cardiff v Hull City

important game for Shota this and I would suggest he needs a win.
We should do too but the important balance in the team is all over the place currently.
Name your team

 

Hull City supporters who haven’t already purchased tickets for Saturday's match away to Cardiff City (KO: 3:00pm) will be able to pay on the day at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Pay on the day tickets will be available from the Away Ticket Office (Gate 12) at the Cardiff City Stadium, which is located next to the away turnstiles.

The Away Ticket Office opens at 1 pm on Saturday, with only cash payments accepted.


Matchday pricing:

£23 - Adults

£19 - Seniors 60+

£12 - 16-21s

£10 - Junior (Under 16's)

Tickets are still available through the club online, over the phone on 01482 505600, and from Tiger Leisure until 12 noon (9am online) on Friday 9th September.

 

Reading their local press and forums it sounds like they've been playing better than their league position suggests, and could thump someone soon...

 

Like Hull, parts of the City centre are reclaimed from the sea, and the surrounding area was formerly marshland. One of the areas where people drowned before the major works was called Dumballs.

One of Cardiff's busiest streets is built on four fields used to bury executed criminals. Gallows Pit, Defiled Pool, Cut Throats, Putrid Field. It's where the bodies of those executed at Death Junction were dumped. Cardiff has more deads than all of the Hotels in Portugal.

There is uncertainty concerning the origin of Caerdydd, which does not appear until the 16th century. “Caer” means “fort” or “castle” but “dydd” means “day”. So it could be that “Dydd” and “Diff” are a corruption or mutation of Taff. Before that, the Romans called it Tamium and Bovium. Another theory favours a link with Aulus Didius Gallus, a Roman governor in the region at the time the fort was established. The website visitcardiff.com suggests the name may have originated as Caer Didius – The Fort of Didius. Which is thought to be the origin of Ken Dodds Army.

The last man to hold the office of ale taster was a lucky man called Edward Philpot. The ancient, coveted role was exactly as it sounds: making sure that ales and beers were of good quality. The office disappeared in the mid 19th century.

The Real Captain (Henry) Morgan Was a Cardiffian. He was born in Llanrumney, East Cardiff in 1635.

On May 8, 1648 The Battle of St Fagans was the last big battle of the long-running English Civil War, the fight between parliamentarians and forces loyal to the king. By the time the battle was done, between 300 and 700 people were dead.

Cardiff was the first Fair Trade capital in the world.

The city has on average more hours of sunlight than Milan.

Cardiff is also known as the City of Arcades. It has the biggest concentration of Victorian, Edwardian and modern-day indoor shopping arcades in Britain.

The city has the oldest record store in the world. Spiller’s dates back to 1894 and it used to sell wax records for the newly invented phonograph.

Cardiff became the capital of Wales in 1955. It’s Europe’s smallest and one of its newest capital cities.

The first £1 million deal was closed in Cardiff Coal Exchange in 1907.

In the 20th century, it was the greatest exporter of coal in the world.

The city claims to have the largest concentration of castles of any city in the world.

 

Funny that, we've got Baxter and McLoughlin starting there, exactly what some would want this time round.

 

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Coyle Jones Greaves Elder
Tufan Seri Simons Slater Pelkas
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There are loads of capital cities in Europe which are smaller than Cardiff, DMD.

 

We need to be doing much more off the ball,we're too static and making little or no attempt to run into space,we're not trying to slip our markers? Arveladze will find himself under a bit of pressure if we don't get back on track(albeit injuries are playing a huge part in our lack of creativity).I'm hoping for an improved performance and would take a draw.

Decent ticket prices to be fair...

 

Well if you're going to be pedantic, Wales isn't in Europe, the UK is...or something, but in any event, it clearly relates to height, as shown with the reference to Ken Dodd's Fort Didius.

 

They’re 3rd from bottom, but if they win, which I expect them to, they’ll go above us.
I just hope I’m wrong on the result.

 

Interesting stuff again DMD.
Topical ...... "In the 20th century, it was the greatest exporter of coal in the world". Now I guess there's none exported, thousands of jobs gone, and instead we import the coal, oil and gas that we still need from abroad (with the consequent cost and the environmental damage from shipping it here). Clown world (or country in this instance) p.s. not a political comment as all parties are to be blame for us being in this mess.
Went to Cardiff a while ago. No idea why people say it's a great place to visit. Seemed mostly a dump to me and certainly no better than Hull.
Got a good feeling we will win this one as our new squad slowly but surely starts to take shape.

 

If Wales isn’t in Europe it definitely couldn’t have the smallest capital in Europe.

Best thing to come out of Cardiff- not Clapton!

 

If you don't like my facts, I can always make some more up.

 

Can’t have coal mining, and a lot of other things, we need to save the planet.it is all down to the UK, Meanwhile other countries are opening up new mines or expanding the ones the have.

 

But they don't have the challenge of loosing workers to the Jam Butty mines.

 

The demise of the British coalpits is the reason for me to emigrate here.

 

Same with your principles?

 

Funny, all miners said they didn’t want their kids going down t’pit. And now they aren’t…

 

Sounds like the madness might be about to end.
(Actions toward energy self sufficiency hand in hand with a continued steady drive toward renewables; just like it should have been from the start)
Anyway, back to Cardiff v City ...