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AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 57,829
in Other Football and Sports
Was thinking to myself how on the up it appears to be with Bale and Ramsey looking world class, Swansea and Cardiff pushing on etc.

Then had a look at the two clubs first team squads. Cardiff, 42 players, 2 Welshman, Swansea 45 players, 3 Welshman.

Just five players out of 87.

Unbelievable.

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  • AdamAddick
    AdamAddick Posts: 953
    Most welsh players are not good enough for the prem thats why the starting 11 are mainly prem every other player is in the championship or below
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    England has 17 times the population. Basic arithmetic that they will need to look to a wider pool to compete. Arsenal and Chelsea have 4 and 5 English, Spuds 7. Proportionately far worse. Both teams play attractive football with a reasonable budget. It's not that unbelievable with a bit of thought applied.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,602
    AFKABartram said:

    Was thinking to myself how on the up it appears to be with Bale and Ramsey looking world class, Swansea and Cardiff pushing on etc.

    Then had a look at the two clubs first team squads. Cardiff, 42 players, 2 Welshman, Swansea 45 players, 3 Welshman.

    Just five players out of 87.

    Unbelievable.

    And only 2 of them are toilet trained.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    AFKABartram said:

    Was thinking to myself how on the up it appears to be with Bale and Ramsey looking world class, Swansea and Cardiff pushing on etc.

    Then had a look at the two clubs first team squads. Cardiff, 42 players, 2 Welshman, Swansea 45 players, 3 Welshman.

    Just five players out of 87.

    Unbelievable.

    Where did you look? Checked Wiki for both clubs and your figures appear way wrong.

  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,829
    Wiki. What should it be ?
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Cardiff 8, although only Bellamy plays.
    Swansea 15, Williams, Taylor and Davies play.
  • WelshAddick
    WelshAddick Posts: 1,321
    but we are a population of 3mill. We are never going to produce enough qualty players at the same time. If only we had a british team in the world cup!!!
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,357
    It's still the case that for many Welsh young men, playing Rugby Union for Wales is the ultimate. Wales has produced only a few true football 'greats', but umpteen superb R U players
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    What is the most popular sport in Wales in terms of participation? What sort of crowd figures to the union teams get?
  • AdamAddick
    AdamAddick Posts: 953
    Well in high school we didnt have a football team (this was only 3 years ago) i had to leave and do my education while i played for newport county. Rugby is so much better structured with the welsh union clubs having feeder clubs in every city so the players from the age of 18 dont just sit on the bench, they train with the dragons, scarlets ect full time then play for feeder clubs on a saturday until theyre ready to push for the first team
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  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    The Welsh league is on par with the Kent League and even they have a load of non Welsh players in their sides.
  • AdamAddick
    AdamAddick Posts: 953
    Last season i was playing welsh premier and was getting payed 30 quid a game and a bonus of 30 if we won haha
  • AnAppyAddick
    AnAppyAddick Posts: 46
    Wales is the best place to live in the UK.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,866
    AnAppyAddick said:

    Wales is the best place to live in the UK.

    If you're Welsh.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    The Welsh league is on par with the Kent League and even they have a load of non Welsh players in their sides.

    Didn't we have a player in on loan from the welsh leagues under parky? Holden? How did that happen??
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,886
    kentaddick said:

    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    The Welsh league is on par with the Kent League and even they have a load of non Welsh players in their sides.

    Didn't we have a player in on loan from the welsh leagues under parky? Holden? How did that happen??
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Holden
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Off_it said:

    AnAppyAddick said:

    Wales is the best place to live in the UK.

    If you're Welsh a sheepshagger.
  • uncle
    uncle Posts: 4,209
    AnAppyAddick said:

    Wales is the best place to live in the UK.

    Not if you are a sheep
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    AnAppyAddick said:

    Wales is the best place to live in the UK.

    Large chunks of mid Wales I will agree - most of the South and a large part of the North are total holes.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    PL54 said:

    AnAppyAddick said:

    Wales is the best place to live in the UK.

    Large chunks of mid Wales I will agree - most of the South and a large part of the North are total holes.
    Agreed. Anyone that has been to Swansea will vouch for that.
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,874
    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    PL54 said:

    AnAppyAddick said:

    Wales is the best place to live in the UK.

    Large chunks of mid Wales I will agree - most of the South and a large part of the North are total holes.
    Agreed. Anyone that has been to Swansea will vouch for that.
    The Gower coast and the coastline past Swansea is very attractive though, and once you get past places like Rhyl, the North Coast is very nice too.
  • HardyAddick
    HardyAddick Posts: 1,638
    Recently moved from a very nice gaff in Blackheath to a very nice gaff in South Wales that cost me 70% less. No mortgage and still got my season ticket but 8 hour round trip for home games.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    killerandflash said:

    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    PL54 said:

    AnAppyAddick said:

    Wales is the best place to live in the UK.

    Large chunks of mid Wales I will agree - most of the South and a large part of the North are total holes.
    Agreed. Anyone that has been to Swansea will vouch for that.
    The Gower coast and the coastline past Swansea is very attractive though, and once you get past places like Rhyl, the North Coast is very nice too.
    I was talking more about the city centre and surrounding suburbs. Horrendous to say the least! (I hope that doesn't sound too snobby, but it is horrid there).
  • AdamAddick
    AdamAddick Posts: 953
    You dont want to come to newport, theres been a six month investigation into people being used as slaves hahaha

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