Morrisons contact extended until 2023

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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I know that you don't like engaging with me on here and I can assure you that the feeling is mutual but really, has there ever been a time when you haven't continually moaned about the team and manager ? If you think that we haven't been stringing passes together recently or providing some entertainment, you obviously weren't watching Doyles lovely goal at Huddersfield last week or Hughill’s goal against Peterborough or Bagans goals against Coventry and Blackpool etc etc. If you really believe what you are posting then you are obviously never going to enjoy watching City and should give it up as a bad job.

Doyle - good goal
Hugill - cross
Bagan - individual brilliance from a throw in

I backed Harris heavily. Mick deserved the job and was cracking at the start. 8 of our goals under Morison have been from set prices. 9 are from crosses. 6 other goals are from general play. Morison has gone a decent job, I don’t like him but that’s that. I’d like to watch good football. Most teams plays half decent stuff. I’m not asking for the world.

[Rjk]

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Doyle - good goal
Hugill - cross
Bagan - individual brilliance from a throw in

I backed Harris heavily. Mick deserved the job and was cracking at the start. 8 of our goals under Morison have been from set prices. 9 are from crosses. 6 other goals are from general play. Morison has gone a decent job, I don’t like him but that’s that. I’d like to watch good football. Most teams plays half decent stuff. I’m not asking for the world.

Our goals have been heavily reliant on set pieces for years, before Warnock's time even.
It has been a major strength of ours, and I think 8 / 23 being from set pieces is lower than it has been.

Im not convinced that mick was cracking at the job. We immediately went on a fantastic run, but we had had good and bad runs under Harris that same season and the previous one too, we were just that kind of side.
Nothing was fundamentally changed by McCarthy, we just happened to not concede early for a few games for a change and managed to get some confidence. Once the run was over we were just as average as we were under Harris that season.

[life on mars]

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If you read the question again, I was exclusively referring to the 2019/20 campaign when Harris guided the team to the play-offs. Moore wasn't in the side then.

Point taken, still think we look better and their is hope it will get better .

He did sign him though didn't he , due to Covid its all a blur to me ??

[The Lone Gunman]

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Point taken, still think we look better and their is hope it will get better .

He did sign him though didn't he , due to Covid its all a blur to me ??

He did, before the start of the 2020/21 season.

[Jordi Culé]

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I think extending Morison's contract us a statement of intent by the club to continue doing things on the cheap and to tread water in the current league.

He deserves the chance but a lot is going to depend on loan signings next season as I don't see City looking to pay silly wages.

He's passed the remit of keeping City up and I'm sure the powers that be will be happy with the same next year?

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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Our goals have been heavily reliant on set pieces for years, before Warnock's time even.
It has been a major strength of ours, and I think 8 / 23 being from set pieces is lower than it has been..

I know but I don’t have to like it. I’m sick of it. If we are going to tread water, let’s do it with a little bit of style. Let’s hope Morison gets us to play some football, as I don’t enjoy watching us have 30% possession. Morison has undoubtedly benefited from Harris and Mick lowering expectations, I wonder if that will last if we are still playing this way and are in a similar position in 12 months time?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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No arguments from me regarding the team under McCarthy this season, but a question for you and anyone else who cares to answer: is the football the side has been playing in recent weeks really any better than the football under Harris in 2019/20?

Not particularly in my view, though I think we're more exciting to watch when we're on the break. We have got a starting XI that is far cheaper than the one Harris had.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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I know but I don’t have to like it. I’m sick of it. If we are going to tread water, let’s do it with a little bit of style. Let’s hope Morison gets us to play some football, as I don’t enjoy watching us have 30% possession. Morison has undoubtedly benefited from Harris and Mick lowering expectations, I wonder if that will last if we are still playing this way and are in a similar position in 12 months time?

I don't have a problem with scoring from set pieces as long as it is part of an attractive game. The top sides score from set pieces but also score some great goals and play good football. I think, in the past at least, for us the issue has been that we've not had much of a clue in open play and have actively looked for set pieces.

[Former Labour leader]

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I think extending Morison's contract us a statement of intent by the club to continue doing things on the cheap and to tread water in the current league.

He deserves the chance but a lot is going to depend on loan signings next season as I don't see City looking to pay silly wages.

He's passed the remit of keeping City up and I'm sure the powers that be will be happy with the same next year?

I think Morison has already said that next year will be a mix of loans and younger players. Hopefully the loans he gets will be of the standard we have now and younger players continue to progress.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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I don't have a problem with scoring from set pieces as long as it is part of an attractive game. The top sides score from set pieces but also score some great goals and play good football. I think, in the past at least, for us the issue has been that we've not had much of a clue in open play and have actively looked for set pieces.

Of course, we absolutely should work on set pieces as we're good at them, and they happen regularly. Without them, we'd be in real bother! I just want us to play some half decent football on the front foot. We've got a real chance to do whatever we want in the summer, Morison has a pretty blank canvas so I hope he can put together a team that can play. We're pretty well set up and that's great, so hopefully we try to build on that.

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I think extending Morison's contract us a statement of intent by the club to continue doing things on the cheap and to tread water in the current league.

He deserves the chance but a lot is going to depend on loan signings next season as I don't see City looking to pay silly wages.

He's passed the remit of keeping City up and I'm sure the powers that be will be happy with the same next year?

I reckon he's powerpointed them to within an inch of their lives with how he's going to transform the club and what his vision is. Hopefully he'll be proven correct.

I do worry about how he'd handle a lengthy patch of bad form that is exclusively on him though (as in without the caveat of "the squad is terrible" or "he's changing the playing style" etc), I just imagine him to get angrier and more resentful of the squad and the press and end up fighting everybody.

Time will tell!

[Jordi Culé]

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I reckon he's powerpointed them to within an inch of their lives with how he's going to transform the club and what his vision is. Hopefully he'll be proven correct.

I do worry about how he'd handle a lengthy patch of bad form that is exclusively on him though (as in without the caveat of "the squad is terrible" or "he's changing the playing style" etc), I just imagine him to get angrier and more resentful of the squad and the press and end up fighting everybody.

Time will tell!

I'm with Pedro on this.

As a club City are where they are. They've invested poorly for a number of years and now need to consolidate their position.

That being considered, I got no real issue with Morison as he's done what the club have needed but if they are going to tread water I'd like to see the product improve.

As a paying customer I'm not prepared to part with my dough to watch some of the dishwater displays we've seen for the last few years. Fingers crossed we see a big improvement with the style of play.

As you said "Time will tell."

[Citizen's Nephew]

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I reckon he's powerpointed them to within an inch of their lives with how he's going to transform the club and what his vision is. Hopefully he'll be proven correct.

I do worry about how he'd handle a lengthy patch of bad form that is exclusively on him though (as in without the caveat of "the squad is terrible" or "he's changing the playing style" etc), I just imagine him to get angrier and more resentful of the squad and the press and end up fighting everybody.

Time will tell!

Great line! I think your post has just described next season. It's going to end in tears. The club will be putting far more effort and money into the court cases. That's the only reason he's been given an extension. It's a clear indication we have no ambition anymore and will be in the same situation next season. All pretty miserable to be honest.

Morison's Neil Harris's understudy. They both have Millwall written through them like a stick of rock. That's their reference point. It's Morison's reference point. He doesn't know anything else except the school of hard knocks. The football is still rubbish and the minor improvements we have seen are there because our expectations and standards are now so low we describe Uche as a legend when his biggest skill is being able to master the Ayatollah.

Last night the football was sh*t. It was cold and wet. A pretty crappy player scored a goal. We won. The football was sh*t though and will be sh*t next season. If we're reliant on loans we're f*cked. It won't be a Cardiff City side, it'll be another bunch of mercenaries brought in. Morison won't be here this time next year. The task he's got is way too big for him. He's already lined up as the board's next sacrificial lamb.

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

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Given our record, there's still a suspicion that this is a Slade-like/my mum said give him a chance/we couldn't be bothered looking elsewhere appointment. It seems a little baffling there's no-one else out there who'd make a better option. This summer could set the tone for the next five years and we have a rookie in charge who seems of fairly standard character.

Perhaps I'm doing him a disservice and just have a subconscious bias against a south east accent. And maybe this is just our first properly modern appointment - one part of the structure rather than the whole self-serving, crooked, eyebrow-less foundation. Not really enamoured by this but I hope there's a lot more than meets the eye and ear and he surprises me. (And by that I mean he nudges us in the right direction - I'm not expecting a promotion push next season).

[Nobody's Rep]

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Great line! I think your post has just described next season. It's going to end in tears. The club will be putting far more effort and money into the court cases. That's the only reason he's been given an extension. It's a clear indication we have no ambition anymore and will be in the same situation next season. All pretty miserable to be honest.

Morison's Neil Harris's understudy. They both have Millwall written through them like a stick of rock. That's their reference point. It's Morison's reference point. He doesn't know anything else except the school of hard knocks. The football is still rubbish and the minor improvements we have seen are there because our expectations and standards are now so low we describe Uche as a legend when his biggest skill is being able to master the Ayatollah.

Last night the football was sh*t. It was cold and wet. A pretty crappy player scored a goal. We won. The football was sh*t though and will be sh*t next season. If we're reliant on loans we're f*cked. It won't be a Cardiff City side, it'll be another bunch of mercenaries brought in. Morison won't be here this time next year. The task he's got is way too big for him. He's already lined up as the board's next sacrificial lamb.

No one I know or sit by in games has described uche as a legend - he has become a comedy figure who has scored some crucial goals for us

As for Morison I'm delighted at both his appointment and the fact that it is for 1 year only - gives him a chance but motivation to succeed - as he said in his post match conference contracts mean nothing except if we need to pay him off as it is for short period rather than the nonsense we have with mccarthy and Harris

Looking forward to next season already