Quote Originally Posted by Fulham traveller View Post
Been very impressed with Cardiff this season, since turn of the year been in most games, just not had a goal scorer to win those close games, would not be relegated if Cardiff had someone like mitrovic up front, he’s like deeney
Thank you, it often takes someone from the outside looking in to see something that those closer to the action either cannot see or refuse to acknowledge. My own view is that of course we're not anything else but bottom six material, but I do think that people have accepted the Warnock line about how it would be an absolute miracle if a bunch of hicks from the sticks like us managed to stay up.

We'd been knocking on the door of the Premier League for years before our first promotion and had a manager who specialises in Football League promotions for our second one - we were also many people's dark horses for a top six finish. Going up last season wasn't some sort of freak event, it happened because we proved ourselves to be the second best side in a very competitive league over a forty six match period.

That stat Father Douglas produced about our record against the current top ten was very telling, but did have the effect of showing that our record against those teams from tenth downwards is a good one, we've also got an impressive number of clean sheets for the position we're in. We were far more competitive in our last two home games against top six clubs than we were in our previous three and we played well at Arsenal, there are clear signs of an improvement in recent months, but, as I said earlier, they probably aren't going to be enough to save us.