Quote Originally Posted by rich munn View Post
How did Warnock turn our players into good players tonight, having had just one week to try to do it?

His plan seems to be simple. When you get the ball, go forward if you can.

How many times was the ball passed between our back four tonight? I don't think it was. So we were on the front foot and even when defending against a good side we were trying to be on the front foot.

There's obviously a great more to it than this, but Warnock's plan is easily understood. He puts round pegs into round holes. Gunarsson was outstanding tonight because he knew exactly what he was supposed to do. Ralls had his best game this season because he knew his role. Noone looked like a man reborn.

And how, as someone asked in the pub, has he made them all fit?

Great stuff, and more to come.

It's not all about keeping possession.

Under Trollope we dominated possession but could not score or not defend so we got beat. Week after week. That had such a detrimental affect you could see the players were fearful of everything.

Then last night players working like trojans, everyone putting a shift in. It was so refreshing and the outcome was what I had hoped it would be but was scared to believe it would actually be like that.

Last night Cardiff 40% possession Bristol 60%. Result Cardiff 2 - 1 Bristol.

It's what you do with it and in a results driven business the final score is the most important stat.