FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

[RichardM]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

I didn't say there was anything wrong with asking Bamba to do the Ayatollah. Read what I said... "If you're going to ask him to do that, do it in the pre-match warm up". You don't do it when he's about to take up a position to score against us and make him feel 7 foot tall in the process!

Asking him to do it when he should be concentrating on the game might just distract him from the job he should be doing.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

Asking him to do it when he should be concentrating on the game might just distract him from the job he should be doing.

It was while waiting for a corner to be taken. The ball wasn't in play.

[Dave Blue]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

Shame we couldn’t score in the 10 minute purple patch. Apart from that, very little attempt to impose ourselves on the game. No wonder we haven’t scored in a first half, the mindset doesn’t even think about doing so.

[RichardM]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

It was while waiting for a corner to be taken. The ball wasn't in play.

Haven't you noticed that players don't stand around having a chat waiting for a corner, they get in position, wrestle with defenders, try to work out where the person talking the corner is going to play the ball? Doing the ayatollah might just distract players.

[Vindec]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

Perhaps the Board should think the unthinkable and take advice from whoever it is in Swansea who have appointed their series of excellent managers in the last few years.

[islandblue]

Re: CARDIFF CITY v MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

For me the most interesting thing about that game was that Warnock was not the long ball manager we all thought he was. Another of my observations is that Mark Harris reminds me of Derek Showers - all huff and puff with little else. Apart from that this is a game that will live in the memory for all of the wrong reasons.

At least "Danny Showers" occupied defenders and eventually found his level in whats now league 2 with Bournemouth and Pompey. Forgot Harris was on the pitch today to be honest.

[Dave Blue]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

Perhaps the Board should think the unthinkable and take advice from whoever it is in Swansea who have appointed their series of excellent managers in the last few years.

Endless passing around the defence is as tedious as watching the ball being hoofed down the field to no one in particular.

[gabbsthenewt]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

I didn't say there was anything wrong with asking Bamba to do the Ayatollah. Read what I said... "If you're going to ask him to do that, do it in the pre-match warm up". You don't do it when he's about to take up a position to score against us and make him feel 7 foot tall in the process!

Normally yes but very odd circumstances, the teams efforts were very much dead by then I don't think there was much risk of it throwing a draw or loss at the time. The bloke is an absolute legend treated very poorly by the club, Mick can say all he wants about telling him personally but after all he has been through the chap deserved feeling 7ft tall and there could be no better than during a match when your well on top already.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

Normally yes but very odd circumstances, the teams efforts were very much dead by then I don't think there was much risk of it throwing a draw or loss at the time. The bloke is an absolute legend treated very poorly by the club, Mick can say all he wants about telling him personally but after all he has been through the chap deserved feeling 7ft tall and there could be no better than during a match when your well on top already.

How do you know he was treated very poorly by club?

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

Haven't you noticed that players don't stand around having a chat waiting for a corner, they get in position, wrestle with defenders, try to work out where the person talking the corner is going to play the ball? Doing the ayatollah might just distract players.

It was an action that took all of about three seconds to perform, while the ball was out of play. That's hardly likely to distract a seasoned professional like Sol Bamba.

[gabbsthenewt]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

How do you know he was treated very poorly by club?

He was promised a coaching role

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

He was promised a coaching role

By who?

[gabbsthenewt]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

Ask him

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

Ask him

So, you don't know?

[gabbsthenewt]

Re: FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

So, you don't know?

I have faith in his word