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Sunday was so bad we might see a response, Tomlin and Hoilett back, Bamba in the team. 2 scrappy home wins against probably no better than average championship opposition and we’ll be back on the fringes of the play offs and with that some returning optimism
what is the reason for these third/fourth playoffs? I get it in the olympics but for any other event, who cares? The players won't want to be in it and the fans won't want to watch it. Apparently they used to have it in the FA cup until everyone realised it was a waste of time so scrapped it. Especially in a game like rugby where injuries are so likely - why waste time on a pointless match like this?
If I'm honest I don't care if there's a reaction or not.
I'm fed up with our turgid football. It's ****ing painful to my eyes and I lost all my enthusiasm the day we let Bobby Reid go to Fulham then listening to Warnock blab on how he's been chasing Marlon Pack all summer.
The days when I blindly stick up for Cardiff cos I've supported them for 30 years are long gone.
They're taking the piss out of us and everyone at the club is pulling Tans pants down and no doubt making a nice little earner out of it
If it’s any consolation chaps, I’m enjoying it.
We could go top Friday night...
And we are coming to you soon :)
Been a strange season for Cardiff.
Started with signing Aden Flint and the club site trying to wind us up with a head tapping pic - the week after we had signed Tamas Kalas so absolutely nobody cared....
Then the one player who is proper class that really did wind me up that they took off us.... they shipped off to Fulham on the last day.
In saying that I do feel for Flint. He can click with a fast player next to him because that offsets his awful lack of pace and he can focus on his game (heading and tackling).
I think a Manga-Flint pairing would actually work.
Interested to see in a few weeks.
I’m sure he or Pack will score.
Manga was a bit marmite with our support, but boy, we are missing him. He wasn't perfect, did like to dwell on the ball at times and liked to take the odd touch to much, probably down to the fact that he'd been brought up giving the ball to a team mate after he'd won possession and not just giving it back. He was very good at mopping up after Morrison and bennett, he had decent awareness and anticipation. As it stands neither of those traits exist within our back four. Flint and Morrison as a pairing doesn't work, they sometimes go for the same ball and take up the same positions, they are both incredibly slow and it looks like they lack confidence as a pairing because their frailties are similar, and they know it, that must play on their confidence. If i was a defender i'd like to know that my partner had the ability to anticipate my shortcomings, and vice versa, Manga and to a certain extent, Bamba have that ability. Morrison and Flint don't, playing them together is a disaster.
did you lot do the double over us when (and only because) slade was our manager? This season feels a bit like that to me.
Actually, good that you are here. Obviously you've never threatened to get promoted so have been stuck in this division for long enough to be able to offer some insight here. Is the championship just a bit crap this season? there is normally at least one side that looks decent but this season it's just a sea of mediocrity. Reading looked good against us (who doesn't?) but are hovering above relegation; the teams on form at the moment are in the bottom half and other than West Brom who I think won 4 on the bounce, nobody seems interested in going on a run. It's there for the taking, but nobody is good enough to do it. Worst standard you have seen?
I can’t remember us doing the double over Cardiff City, actually I can’t recall it ever.
We’ve won a few encounters at Ashton Gate but can’t remember us winning at Cardiff.
I take your swipe at us being nowhere near promotion to one side.... I don’t think we’ve been in the Championship that long to be honest but I guess it’s all relative.
I learned recently that with the resignation of Neil Harris, Johnson is now the longest serving Championship manager and he joined us in our first season back....
Your point though on this being a league without an obvious contender is true.
In the summer when Steve Lansdown was asked about the signings we were making (Massengo, Kalas, Nagy, DaSilva etc) he made the point that they felt this was the year when there was all to play for.
The biggish boys who had come down had run out of parachute payments (Boro and WBA). Leeds selling Janssen to Brentford, Villa had gone up....
Then of the three coming down (yourselves, Huddersfield and Fulham) - nobody struck you as going to bounce straight back up with ease like a Newcastle.
So I think you’re right, this is the most even Championship I think I’ve seen.
Take the fact as well we had played awful for 75 mins v Charlton and Wigan and got 4 points from 6....
I sit here in a Sheffield hotel bar hoping to see us go top tonight in Barnsley... Says much.
Still expect to lose in Cardiff mind.
Joint top yeah.
As shit as Barnsley are, I can’t see us knocking 7 or 8 past them...