Cardiff City, the club that has never heard of the term "middle ground".

[the other bob wilson]

Not one of your better articles that Bob.

No real balance and just looks like a negative pop at anything the club does.

I gave up half way down, after you failed to see the reasoning over the Connolly move, blamed the club for the Rhys Healey issue, and started talking about the subjective and romantic term 'philosophy in football ' and saying you could name what this was for most clubs, which to me is not true. What's more relevant is the club having a plan, communicating it to fans and then sticking with it for long enough to assess whether it works.

You and other writers constantly overlook FFP and when the current rules came in and where we were at the time and don't see the link with the change of plan.

Also the change of plan was the sensible one many fans have been calling for, but now every move toward stability is slated.

As for the club's plan, well after three years or so of "boom", we are now in a "bust" period, just like we were in 2005 and 2010 (City do have a five year plan it seems!) - the difference between now and ten years ago is that we are in hock to the Sam Hammam replacement figure to a far greater extent than we ever were to the man himself.

[NECS]

People can argue whatever they like. The bottom line is that this club has been totally mismanaged for years and under the latest owner so much so that we have become a laughing stock. To get into the position of having to loan out three players in the first team squad because we can't afford to pay them is unique in my experience of over fifty years of following this sport.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

There are lots of negatives, true, but there are also positives. Our obscenely bloated wage bill was always going to be a problem for a relegated Premiership side - especially when those huge wages were being paid for very average footballers. Our 'squad' at the start of the season was barely mid-championship standard, whatever the London-based journalists and media were saying, and losing a whole team of players could have had disastrous consequences . Yet our form is good - almost excellent. The last 10 games we are the 8th best in the Championship, and the last 6 games we are 6th best. We are also playing better - better, but not that well, however I think the club can argue that in playing terms we are heading in the right direction.

Let's see what happens next August. All the big wages will have gone hopefully, and Slade will have brought in a few more players.

Maybe Slade does know what he's doing - the last 6 months would certainly point to that..