Harris - you've got 90 minutes to save your job

[surge]

Things will only change if people vote with their wallets. If we go on a dismal run and end up nearer the relegation zone than the play offs by the end of the season, I feel as many as up to ten thousand might not renew their season tickets next year. Especially if we continue to play at home in the extremely poor manner we have. Tan is a businessman first and foremost, and will be horrified at the number of "customers" he will have lost. Then and only then, will he act accordingly.

What should he be doing? We clearly don't have the players to fast-track a more possession based, technical style so either nothing changes or things change slowly with mixed results until the summer. Some quotes to consider from Wayne Routledge:

"What he is doing with the club is the right thing to do," Routledge told BBC Sport Wales.
"It's not as easy as picking up a team and saying do this and do that and it works.

"You have managers like Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho who can go out and buy £50m, £60m or £70m players and maybe it's a bit easier.
"Here it's different. Sometimes you have to have a bit more patience and realise it's not a short-term process. It's going to be a long-term process but if that process gets you to where you need to be, it's worth sticking with."

Do our fans have the patience required? Some grumble when ball is passed back to the keeper to reset...

[Mr Soul '68]

What should he be doing? We clearly don't have the players to fast-track a more possession based, technical style so either nothing changes or things change slowly with mixed results until the summer. Some quotes to consider from Wayne Routledge:



Do our fans have the patience required? Some grumble when ball is passed back to the keeper to reset...

One thing that did get my goat yesterday was the fact that we still hoofed it up from the back to the forwards, thus bye-passing our midfield. I was kind of hoping, perhaps way too optimistically, that Harris would have been training with the players during the week, to actually play a much more passing route from the defence up to attack considering the lowly position of our opponents. Hoofball is all well and good when you are winning games, but when you are not, it's diabolical and embarrassing to watch

[AntEvans]

One thing that did get my goat yesterday was the fact that we still hoofed it up from the back to the forwards, thus bye-passing our midfield.

We all knew when Harris was appointed he was Warnock-lite. He managed that way at Millwall, his only prior managerial experience to date, and there is nothing to suggest he will change that approach at Cardiff. Warnock certainly has a lot to answer for re the unbalanced and pedestrian current squad, but if Harris is given the time to add to/change the squad, I'll be stunned if he significantly deviates from a "let's bypass midfield (other than Tomlin)" approach.