Rick Wright's idea of joining the League of Wales is hard to take seriously, except that he sounds serious about it. The main thing that rankles is that consultation with supporters is not on the agenda. In fact, Wright has cleared off for a holiday during which he will make up his mind.

The Echo poll showed 1450 opposed the plan with a measly 127 in favour (how many of those were genuine?) Wright commented that this was a fair reflection of what he would expect from the fans. But it these aren't the people he is expecting to support City in the League of Wales, then who are ?

The Echo showed 93% opposed to the plan. If that figure was translated across the board it would result in City playing their home games in front of crowds of less than 600. So much for City attracting 10,000 a week!!!.

Wright may dismiss the ambitions of Newport AFC and Merthyr as foolish. No doubt their fans know deep down that they will never play in the Premier League. But at least those clubs are striving for what every one of their supporters wants - to play League football.

Cardiff City have played at the very highest level in Britain - the old Division One -and everyone wants to see them do so again
(given the success of Clubs like Wimbledon during the last 10 years. does that seem like such a wild ambition?.

Wright must bear in mind that although he may own all the shares, the supporters are the spiritual backbone of the club He must respect the wishes of the fans.

The problem with the LoW proposal is that it is based on misconceptions and false assumptions. It is a conceit to believe that we would win the title every season.

Perhaps we would. Think of it this way: Rick Wright, wants to take us into the Beazer Homes League, and from there, into Europe. The simple fact is that the LoW is a much lower standard of soccer, it's on a par with football well below the GM Conference.

We'd be playing the Welsh equivalents of Hayes week in, week out (And they beat us!). Comparisons to Glasgow Rangers are laughable. Wright would do well to take in a visit to Ibrox during his holiday. Rangers' success is not built on crowds of 10.000 nor by fleeting appearances in the European Cup. Despite their domestic record Rangers have only scratched the surface of European success, though perhaps their time will come.

But in the meantime Rangers achieve success by playing at the highest level domestically. If a British league were formed, would they hang about in the dregs of the Scottish league trying to win that every year just to gain European entry?

Successful European teams are built in strong domestic Leagues and the LoW is just not strong enough.

This season's Admira games proved, if nothing else. that we don't play at a high enough standard as it is. Avidly awaited since City beat the Swans in February, the European dream was short-lived, seemingly over in a moment. A small statistic in the history of the Club and a speck of dust in the records of UEFA competitions. City competed with, but failed to beat, a third-rate Austrian outfit -Imagine how they would have fared against a crack Italian team? (Don't, it hurts too much)

It's not plausible to build a team on the promise of one big match a year. League of Wales teams will be Euro fodder.

Team building will be joke. Eddie May finds it difficult to bring players to Ninian as it is.
To compete in Europe we would need some Welsh internationals. The chances of even attracting one to Ninian are so small
they cannot be measured by conventional science.

Our current players who were signed to play in the Football League. would have signed their contracts under false pretenses, if a move to the LoW goes ahead. and they would have every right to leave

Of course, the suspicion remains that Wright might be making threats in order to force potential buyers to come forward. If so. he is treading on very thin ice with this misguided brinkmanship

We think that the reason no one else has come forward to buy the Club is that Rick Wright has done too good a job. His reign has been full of clever ideas. City have been transformed from laughing stocks to trendsetters. Wright must face the fact that he is the man for the long-term job even though he doesn't recognize him self as such. (The true sign of a messianic figure!) This time he has got wrong. Don't be thick, Rick.