Bulut picks a team without centrebacks and Cardiff respond with their best Cup performance in years!
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It's difficult to say great report Bob, when most of us have seen very little action of the game, but going by the law of probabilities that your reports are usually excellent, then I've no doubt this one is too!
The only thing I would say though is having seen the Sky highlights the sending off did look harsh to me. The game has changed so much over the years, but the lad lost his head and threw himself into the tackle. I don't think it would have been a booking back in Chopper Harris / Norman Hunter's era.
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the other bob wilson
Having just seen the goal highlights, it was pleasing to see how many men we had, as available options, in the box for each goal.
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KingOfSiamIAm
Having just seen the goal highlights, it was pleasing to see how many men we had, as available options, in the box for each goal.
Some neat short quick passing too, very good on the eye, Cowlill's back heel was quick thinking and created the space!
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Hot Shot Hamish.
It's difficult to say great report Bob, when most of us have seen very little action of the game, but going by the law of probabilities that your reports are usually excellent, then I've no doubt this one is too!
The only thing I would say though is having seen the Sky highlights the sending off did look harsh to me. The game has changed so much over the years, but the lad lost his head and threw himself into the tackle. I don't think it would have been a booking back in Chopper Harris / Norman Hunter's era.
Probably not, but times have changed a lot since Harris and Hunter’s day - to use modern parlance it was an “out of control tackle”.
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Originally Posted by
Hot Shot Hamish.
It's difficult to say great report Bob, when most of us have seen very little action of the game, but going by the law of probabilities that your reports are usually excellent, then I've no doubt this one is too!
The only thing I would say though is having seen the Sky highlights the sending off did look harsh to me. The game has changed so much over the years, but the lad lost his head and threw himself into the tackle. I don't think it would have been a booking back in Chopper Harris / Norman Hunter's era.
The red card did seem harsh but from the off we maintained a possession ratio of 75/25 which is excellent and shows how comfortable we were throughout.
More quality footballers in the team last night. Anyway winning is good for moral and can become a habit
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For those of you who were not there, I thought I had walked into a different game.
I cannot remember a Cardiff team passing the ball like that, it was sublime !
You can only beat what is put in front of you, and the Cardiff lads absolutely battered them, from start to finish
Was a pleasure to be there and see it
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BLUETIT
For those of you who were not there, I thought I had walked into a different game.
I cannot remember a Cardiff team passing the ball like that, it was sublime !
You can only beat what is put in front of you, and the Cardiff lads absolutely battered them, from start to finish
Was a pleasure to be there and see it
well done for those who attended :thumbup:
sounds like us armchair fans last night missed out on a cracker
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DubaiDai
The red card did seem harsh but from the off we maintained a possession ratio of 75/25 which is excellent and shows how comfortable we were throughout.
More quality footballers in the team last night. Anyway winning is good for moral and can become a habit
In the initial tackle the Brum seemed to be looking for the free kick, he then got up and lunged with studs up in to our player. Red card all day long.
There seems to be a start of something here - they all now are starting to believe in themselves (well most of them).
Still have reservations about a few of our lot.
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The full game is now on the club website, think I’ll give it a watch - the extended highlights (about ten minutes worth) are on there as well.
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pipster
In the initial tackle the Brum seemed to be looking for the free kick, he then got up and lunged with studs up in to our player. Red card all day long.
There seems to be a start of something here - they all now are starting to believe in themselves (well most of them).
Still have reservations about a few of our lot.
Agreed we've had much softer red cards than that, it was I'm temper and right in front of the ref the dope.
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the other bob wilson
The full game is now on the club website, think I’ll give it a watch - the extended highlights (about ten minutes worth) are on there as well.
Free?
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BLUETIT
For those of you who were not there, I thought I had walked into a different game.
I cannot remember a Cardiff team passing the ball like that, it was sublime !
You can only beat what is put in front of you, and the Cardiff lads absolutely battered them, from start to finish
Was a pleasure to be there and see it
Exactly what I said as we were walking out last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it. And they got off lightly at 1-3. It was much more convincing than that, based around some lovely football.
On the back of 10 changes, some selection dilemmas? IMHO, Rubin stole the show but there were some very good performances all around - thought Adams at the back was excellent, but Sawyers and Rino were both very good. Although Etete's finishing let him down a bit!
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North Cardiff Blue
Free?
Yes.
Re: Bulut picks a team without centrebacks and Cardiff respond with their best Cup performance in years!
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the other bob wilson
Yes.
:thumbup: I'll have a look later
Re: Bulut picks a team without centrebacks and Cardiff respond with their best Cup performance in years!
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the other bob wilson
The full game is now on the club website, think I’ll give it a watch - the extended highlights (about ten minutes worth) are on there as well.
Cheers. Will give that a watch. Sounds pretty impressive.
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Well, that was very good. It might not have been Birmingham’s strongest team, but we’d have beaten full strength Championship teams playing like that - one thing that I ended the game thinking was that I wish Romaine Sawyers had played for us four or five years earlier because he’s a lovely player to watch when he’s playing well.
If anyone is debating whether it’s worth watching the whole game, I’d say to then watch, it’s well worth it, especially after the garbage we’ve had to endure in recent years.
Re: Bulut picks a team without centrebacks and Cardiff respond with their best Cup performance in years!
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BLUETIT
For those of you who were not there, I thought I had walked into a different game.
I cannot remember a Cardiff team passing the ball like that, it was sublime !
You can only beat what is put in front of you, and the Cardiff lads absolutely battered them, from start to finish
Was a pleasure to be there and see it
Same line up Saturday then?:shrug:
