Football 365 article

[tforturton]

Interesting point of view. I tend to think any promotion is a good promotion, but not everyone agrees with me...

https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-cardiff-mccarthy-promotion-too-much-soon-championship

[Shrewsbury Blue]

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Interesting point of view. I tend to think any promotion is a good promotion, but not everyone agrees with me...
https://www.football365.com/news/opi...n-championship

He seems to be saying we will be getting promoted in the wrong way if we achieve it under Mick McCarthy. The problem is almost every team who goes up from the playoffs are automatically relegation favourites no matter what there style of football is and there is no right or wrong way to do it. The bottom line is go up cash the cheque for £100 million and use it to buy some really good players. If you spand well and pick the right players to buy you will have a chance of staying up. At worst if you go down you will have a stronger team and a big cash injection which will give you a big advantage over most of the rest of the championship teams.

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

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we completely outplayed fulham in the second leg..tomlin ran the show..lazy journalism

[surge]

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Yet just like last year, this is a Cardiff side so unprepared for the Premier League. Last season, it was a blessing in disguise for Harris’ Bluebirds that it was Fulham who bounced back at the first attempt

I'd agree with that, but they say our low position in the table was right for how were were performing under Harris and a number of stats suggests that isn't wholly accurate.

We're probably a little bit away from being optimistic of staying up if we got promoted so I can sort of see where they're coming from, however there is scope for significant surgery to the squad this off-season, wasn't last year, which would benefit from increase to budget and while still not enough would give us the opportunity to plan and better our floor in similar vein to Norwich last year. Just as long as we didn't panic as West Brom have done and call Big Sam in.

[the other bob wilson]

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we completely outplayed fulham in the second leg..tomlin ran the show..lazy journalism

Maybe he didn’t realise there was a second leg. Too me, the article is almost like a template which could have applied to about twenty of the seventy two Football League by just changing a few of the names around - it’s hardly as if what he is saying applies only to City.

[jon1959]

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Interesting point of view. I tend to think any promotion is a good promotion, but not everyone agrees with me...
https://www.football365.com/news/opi...n-championship

I read it earlier today and thought it was a load of rubbish - especially on our 'proper' league position and on the Fulham semi final.

If (big if) we get into the play offs and if (much bigger if) we were to get promoted, the club would need to work very hard to strengthen the squad and settle on a style of play that can be effective for Premier League survival. There have been changes on and off the pitch in the last 18 months and although I don't think the club is where it needs to be I am more confident than I was that we are getting recruitment, the academy and support services right. Mick McCarthy's comments about the professionalism of CCFC should not be dismissed as just new manager spin.

To argue that the club would be in a better place to survive in the Premier League after another season or two in the Championship (with our Board, with our newish recruitment and scouting system, with Mick and TC, with the emerging talent in the academy) is totally unconvincing to me. If the chance comes up, take it now. What does s/he expect to be so dramatically different in 2 years time?

The author has also got Mick's contract extension wrong. It is to 2023 - if that mean anything.

[Trigger]

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Never a right time. Take any success when you can, it's certainly been few and far between for us over the years.

[tforturton]

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Never a right time. Take any success when you can, it's certainly been few and far between for us over the years.

Yes, I tend to agree. But I know a fair few people who think we're better off staying in the Championship. Shades of the Seventies...always the bridesmaid, and all that. If nothing else, the cash injection (and parachute money if we were to go back down) would surely make it all worthwhile?

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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Never a right time. Take any success when you can, it's certainly been few and far between for us over the years.

Completely agree. Get up, try and put the right building blocks in place, pray you stay up but don't stretch yourself so that if the likely relegation happens you're in a good position to come back.

You can't say, we won't go up this year, we'll do it next season because more often than not, promotion never comes.