A Cardiff City crisis years in the making, but why have things come to a head so quickly?

[Nemo]

Funny thing is we're not even doing the basics of hoofball right

We're not pressing in unison, were not first to the second balls, we're not condensing when under pressure

Every single diagonal ball cuts us like a hot knife through butter and the whole premise of this kind of physical football requires everyone to give it all, it's been lost.

This is spot on. The first thing Mick did when he came in was getting the team to press high up the pitch. And when we won the ball there we had the quality in Wilson, Ojo and Moore to make use of it. The press has disappeared along with the quality. Teams are waltzing through us.

[the other bob wilson]

Three of our last five league defeats have been by four goals or more. We've conceded two fives and a four in our last sixteen league matches - those are relegation statistics.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Why so quickly ?
Whilst the old adage 'the table doesn't lie' is probably correct 95% of the time, in City's case it certainly does, and has been. Simply, by players coming in and going out, we've arrived at a squad that is bottom half league 1 at best. Stripped off the final remnants of pace and skill in the summer, there's nothing other than goals from crosses to threaten our Championship opponents. Heaven knows where the next point will come from, let alone a win !

[The Lone Gunman]

Three of our last five league defeats have been by four goals or more. We've conceded two fives and a four in our last sixteen league matches - those are relegation statistics.

Minor point, but it's three of the last six league defeats:

0-5 v Sheffield Weds
1-2 v Bristol City
0-1 v Coventry
0-1 v Bournemouth
1-5 v Blackburn
0-4 v West Brom

I reckon you've tried to erase the Bristol City defeat from you memory.