Vardy would have fitted our style very well.
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Vardy would have fitted our style very well.
Given under 90 minutes of game time in his cardiff career. And coming off an injury. One start in the cup if I remember correctly. Then the rest subs.
Think about that before claiming he was awful.
Then flogged so tan could build a legal case against mackay.
People were glad gestede was sold, look how that turned out.
Bear in mind we were in the premier league when he was being tested in UK football.
Everyone fell for tans fire sale, claiming every mackay signing was crap. When they were all good. The atmosphere tan created killed our chances.
Corn dog could have been good. But in the circus that was our premier league year he was always a goner being a perfect scapegoat.
If we could sign him for £500k now I would be quite happy!
I agree with the comments that the transfer simply turned out to be rubbish and not some kind of Malky/Moody scam but for me, it was clear that while Malky was a decent manager in the championship, he was not the rising young manager that many thought he would be. He was badly found out in his one season in the Premiership and has since simply drifted out of sight.
It is always difficult for any newly promoted championship team to survive the premiership, but Tan gave him every opportunity with the budget at his disposal.
Unfortunately, playing Campbell up front on his own and ensuring 10 men behind the ball (even at home) was a sure fire recipe for relegation.
Strange then that we weren't in the bottom 3 until the Tan / MM fall out really kicked in.
Malkys sides were not great to watch but we had the ability to grind out results and were solid throughout the team. We'd have lost plenty no doubt but our togetherness would have seen more Man City type results and more importantly a constant flow of points. We certainly wouldn't have been conceding like we were in the latter parts of that season.
Cornelius was an awful signing but Mutch alone makes up for it!
I don't think for a minute that we'd have gone down under Malky and nor do I think he did much wrong
He managed 44 minutes at the Store First Stadium against a very depleted Accrington Stanley side on 28 August 2013.
Dreadful.
The highlights that night were the youth match behind the away stand, Tom Heaton and his girlfriend/wife coming along to support City, and Rugy Gestede (who replaced Cornelius) showing that he was back to fitness and very sharp (so inevitably he was loaned out and then sold off cheap!)
http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/fixtu...=full#anchored
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/f...f-city-5799667
http://accringtonstanley.co.uk/match/378/
He was supposedly fit to play and Malky had put him on for Fraizer Campbell in the 90th minute against Man City three days earlier.
There can be all sorts of explanations or excuses, but for that half he was the worst player on the pitch. Stanley were scraping the barrel to get a team out as well.
I agree. We won just three matches after the middle of December (three wins from more than half the season) and yet we weren't completely out of touch. That's how bad the bottom half dozen teams were.
If we had the same record but beat Hull and Palace at home (two games I think Malky would have won) then we would have stayed up.
How was Malky badly found out? We were surviving until Tan decided to start interfering. We beat the eventual champions! Sure, we were defensive, but our defence and organization was our strength. Malky probably saw our mission as survive and consolidate (as most promoted managers do). Tan (wrongly and naively) expected far too much. The only reason that Makay has "drifted out of sight" is because Tan made it his business to ruin his career.
And because he sent some very unsavoury texts and then got Wigan relegated.
I was a huge Malky fan but I think we'd have gone down with him in charge, we just didn't have enough goals in the team however you try to spin it.
Malay was seen by many on the MB as some kind of "young pretender" on his way to bigger things.
No matter how you spin everything the statement of "we were not in the bottom 3" when he departed is a thin veil over the form we were showing and the next 3 fixtures after he left.
I have no doubt we would have been relegated even if would have stayed. None of us can prove anything but just my opinion.
Don't forget, by championship promotion standards, Malky was given a considerable budget to add strength to the team to stay up.
I agree Tan did have a personal vendetta after he left but he did land another job at Wigan, who were subsequently relegated and sacked him.
I am not advocating Malky to be a poor manager. What I am saying is that he was out of his depth when in the Premiership.
I don't agree with any of that.
Nearly everyone at the time including myself thought that it was VERY odd to be spending so much money on someone that most people had never ever heard of.
We all hoped for great things from him but he turned out to be rubbish, sadly.
I have no idea where your version of events comes from.