Planet Swans ArchivesI hope it will be okay but I cannot help but have this nagging doubt that it won’t be. I am grateful to Sam Hamman and all he has done for the club and being in the first division certainly beats being down there in the basement with our joke of a neighbour. But I cannot be the only one that to a degree has some envy for the Jacks. They are being managed and built gradually. The last few years here have been absolutely brilliant but at the same time, we are a big enough sized club to have let the process of building be a gradual one and not accumulate an eight figure debt in the process?
You only have to look at the example of Leeds United to realise what can happen. They gambled their existence on future success and when that success was not forthcoming then just look at what happened. They are a league club now the same as us and yet it is, what three or four years since they stood on the brink of the Champions League final. That is scary.
Surely I cannot be the only one out here who is worried? I have tried to bury my head in the sand over this one but I want a Cardiff City for my children and their children after that to support. I don’t want them looking at me in fifty years, as the reborn City struggle through the Welsh Leagues, as if I was senile as I tell them about this once great club that took the FA Cup out of England for the only time in it’s history (bar of course Final day now!)
There can only be a matter of time before the funds dry up. Our lack of transfer activity so far this summer suggests that already there are people wary of throwing money at us. I wonder if/when Earnie and Danny whether the money will be swallowed up just to cover the interest on the debts and nothing goes back into the team. I worry that this bubble could burst at any moment and, to be fair, if it did then a slide down the league ladder beckons. I also worry when I look at Wimbledon they were awful last season and deserved what they had got. It’s not that long since Sam was their saviour? What’s to stop that happening again here at Ninian.
Please can someone tell me that they either agree with me or that I am not indeed going mad. Am I alone or is someone else out there feeling that uneasiness in their stomach at this moment in time?
Help me?
