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Agreed with Bob Wilson that we won at a canter in 2013, 20 more points than Palace who are still in the Premiership, if we’d appointed Pullis instead of Ole we would still be in Premiership and still playing in red?
Sadly the scale of what Malky did has been submerged underneath a pile of revisionism. Warnock has done a fantastic job these last 18 months, however he did take over a mid-Championship team that was underachieving. Malky, after taking up the reigns from Dave Jones, only had SIX outfield players contracted for the following season. Within two seasons we were PL bound. No-one moaned about the football as we won the league by EIGHT POINTS with a GD of +27. Whilst the squad this season is much better than Malky's there clearly are more big spenders that we've had to contend with this time around.
The ludicrous rebrand and subsequent implosion never made it feel that I was watching Cardiff City. At least it again looks and feels like we are watching the Bluebirds this season.
Whatever happens in our last four games: well done Neil and Cardiff City.
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Spot on.
Malky came in with a strict plan of what type of players he wanted to bring in. Each had their own dossier, each had to fill criteria. It was a methodical and effective approach. Let's not forget how well he did at Watford beforehand.
After a very successful first season, the board demanded promotion the following season. After a 5-4 defeat at Charlton, Malky realised that the brand of football he had employed to that point wasn't going to endear himself to the board and owner, so it became far more defensive. This was probably aided by Nicky Maynard's injury (which he never fully recovered from). We eventually ground out promotion; it certainly wasn't pretty at times. Hardly fair to blame Malky, he was under orders. The plan, which worked so well in his first season, was suddenly out of the window. It crashed all together in the Premier League because the club no longer had a plan, other than to get promotion.
Let's be honest, this method and dossier chat is all bo**ocks ain't it.