I sent Jamie a reminder to jog his memory over the weekend, really disappointing that he hasn't followed up his 'words' with 'actions' in this respect.Originally Posted by Blue in the Face
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I sent Jamie a reminder to jog his memory over the weekend, really disappointing that he hasn't followed up his 'words' with 'actions' in this respect.
Last edited by emjayblue; 14-03-17 at 12:40.
Nice one
Hopefully the fella is trying somehow but doesn't have results yet.
What are your thoughts on Rabbi Matondo finally being given clearance to play for Manchester City? Do you think he would have been better off staying and playing in the revamped Development structure?
Definitely, but maybe I'm biased! That said, I truly believe that Matondo will have to be a truly outstanding talent if he is to make a first team career for himself at Man City and, although he stood out because of his pace and, to a lesser extent, skill at Cardiff, I didn't see the all round game to believe that he would be that good. For example, Aaron Ramsey played most of his Under eighteen team football for Cardiff before he was seventeen and impressed me far more than Matondo did - I think he'll make a good career for himself somewhere if he can add physical strength and more game awareness while keeping his pace mind.
Finished 1-1 - Jamie Bird put us ahead, but Sheffield equalised deep into added time, maybe a draw was a fair result, but missed some great opportunities as their opponents pushed men forward in the closing stages and were a bit naive in the way they played the last five minutes or so.
As for Jamie Veale, I don't really see him as a first team possibility this season, he's had almost a year out with injury and my guess is that the plan is more for him to get back to where he was before his injury in the coming weeks.
Last edited by the other bob wilson; 30-03-17 at 16:39.
Team today....
Byrne, Coxe, John, Veale, Blaise, Young, Harris, Humphries, Meite, Rosenthal, Bird.
Burwood, Abbruzzese, Southam, Weymans, Waite.
Some kid called Rosenthal in the team tonight. Never heard of him....
There's a guy called Dean Rosenthal mentioned in this article...
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/f...gents-11228386
Or maybe it's Tom Rosenthal, recently on trial at Brum, as metioned here...
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/spor...-over-12739291
"....However, neither Tom Rosenthal nor Jevani Brown were involved in the match and neither will stay with Blues.
Former Watford youngster Rosenthal, son of ex-Liverpool striker Ronnie, played a couple of matches during his trial over the last fortnight."
EDIT: Think it it the latter....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ro...l_(footballer)
Last edited by Blue in the Face; 30-03-17 at 17:57.
Yes, it was Tom Rosenthal - here's my piece on yesterday's game.
Team today....
Byrne, Coxe, John, Veale, Blaise, Young, Harris, Humphries, Meite, Rosenthal, Bird.
Burwood, Abbruzzese, Southam, Weymans, Waite.
Some kid called Rosenthal in the team tonight. Never heard of him....
There's a guy called Dean Rosenthal mentioned in this article...
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/f...gents-11228386
Or maybe it's Tom Rosenthal, recently on trial at Brum, as metioned here...
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/spor...-over-12739291
"....However, neither Tom Rosenthal nor Jevani Brown were involved in the match and neither will stay with Blues.
Former Watford youngster Rosenthal, son of ex-Liverpool striker Ronnie, played a couple of matches during his trial over the last fortnight."
EDIT: Think it it the latter....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ro...l_(footballer)
http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/
Thanks for the report Bob. A good read as always. What have you made of Meite so far? He doesn't seem to have had much of an impact.
Thanks, I thought there were signs that he had benefited from full time training during yesterday's match, but he is still very raw. We played a kind of 4-5-1/4-2-3-1 with Meite, Harris, Bird and Rosenthal our attacking foursome and I thought Harris and Bird were the ones who looked most like potential first team players.
I'm not saying Meite is going to become another Zohore, but, like him, you can see that some of the raw ingredients are there for him to be an effective player at a decent level, but, even when Zohore was not doing much and was generally being written off, the signs that he could amount to something were easier to spot than they are with Meite - he's got another year left on his deal and maybe the best time to judge him is after he's had a pre season as a pro and some work has been done on strengthening him up a bit.
Warnock in this morning's press conference said of Rosenthal
.... nice lad... we said we'd give him a game... he's not better than what we've got.... I'm sure he'll find a club somewhere...
So that's a 'no'.
Great write-up, thanks. That last paragraph is very heartwarming, kind of sums up the relaxed, positive feel around the club at present. Warnock will be soon be rethinking that sitting among the fans idea when he ends up next to Dai Hunt.
Finally caught up with your write up. Thanks! As Loramski says, great NW is showing up and showing interest. And not being patronising in the process. I guess you were behaving yourself at the game this time.
Another positive here is perhaps Ollie Byrne. In an ideal situation our DVP no.1 would be good enough to at least be no.3 for the first team. We've wasted a fair bit speculating on sub standard goal keepers this season.
I was going to suggest that I hope Cardiff take a look at Billy O'Brien who's leaving Man City at the end of the season. I've seen him play quite a few times and he reminds me a lot of Tom Heaton. O'Brien is ahead of the talented Michael Crowe for the Welsh under 21's despite Crowe making the bench for Ipswich a fair few times.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/f...brien-10112327
But hopefully Mr Byrne comes good for us instead.
DVP playing Huddersfield at the CCS tonight @ 7. Little write up here from a Huddersfield perspective...
http://www.htafc.com/news/article/20...l-3654271.aspx
In the end that dispute came down to my word against that of Messrs Nicholson and Johnson - I'll be there watching tonight, where will they be!
Yes, I've been quite impressed with Crowe when I've seen him for Ipswich Under 23s (daresay I saw him play for their Under 18s as well), so if O'Brien is getting selected in front of him, he would be worth a look at. Everybody talks about us needing a first team keeper for next season, but we are also probably going to need a reserve one as well (I'm presuming Murphy is only on a one year deal), so a young keeper that's been released by a Premier League club would probably be a decent signing.
I agree with you about Wilson and, seeing as Murphy has another year left on his deal, we may well decide not to go for two keepers in the summer - it's hardly as if he let us down in those matches he played around Christmas/New Year.
Does anybody know if anything happened about the three gormless buffoons who ran onto the pitch during play last night? The two who simply looked stupid were ejected but the other one who attempted to get to the ball was frogmarched up the steps in an arm lock.
One of them went home and wrote in his yellowy mauve blog
#nicholsonwasright
I wondered if it was him again. A banning order may be the only answer.
I've only just read these scurrilous lies spread by you and Blue in the Face - my solicitors have been informed.
Final game of the season today for the Under 18s who face Nottingham Forest in a game which is being shown on hte club website as being an 11 o clock kick off at Leckwith.
Just seen on Twitter that Jamie Bird is playing as a trialist for Nottingham Forest today in their U23 match against Huddersfield. Given that he scored for us last week, this seems a little strange. Mistaken identity perhaps or more to it?
More to it I believe.
This is from the Nottingham Post website: "Forest quite like the look of the winger or forward, Jamie Bird. He's a first year pro at Cardiff. But they are partially disbanding their under-23 squad next season and he is likely to be available. He is very quick and technically adept, aparently. We will see in the next two hours or so, I guess." (Nice to see journalists being unable to spell)
Bird was taken off after 73 minutes and the match report makes it sound like he played fairly well
An Under 23 team featuring six Under 18s and three Under 16s (sixteen year old Sion Spence started) in the squad drew 1-1 at Colchester this afternoon - another goal for James Waite.
Nice one Sion!
I wonder what Waite's goal ratio is now for this season. Looks like a player who has great positional instincts in the box.
Strange one on Bird given his start to the season. Good luck to him.
Eli Phipps started for Colchester. Lloyd Humphries for us, I find that bizarre. Surely he's playing too much at present?
Surely the fact that Forest want him is enough to show the club that we should keep him?
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