Steve Morison, 21st best manager in the Championship?

How many in the league? 24. What’s his position? 21st. Seems 3 places too high.

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Originally Posted by 2b2bdoo

To be fair to Morison yes it couldn’t have been much worse than MM but the squad was a disgrace, I honestly couldn’t see how many manager was going to get a balanced team out. He worked the transfer market exceptionally imo in January. I’m not sure how much of a turn around in performance people expected but we got the points and it improved.

I’m intrigued at what happens next, I expected a 4-2-3-1 but we seem to have to many defensive players for that unless Wintle moves on or unless Ralls plays as a good 10 or a mix.

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the way I see it, in terms of Central midfield we have:

rinomhota and Wintle as defensive midfielders

Ralls and Adams as more box to box players

and Eli King as a youngster to come through.

so that's either one more defensive.minded player and one box to box with cover if those get injured. or some permutations of that where we play 3 in central midfield

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Originally Posted by Rjk

the way I see it, in terms of Central midfield we have:

rinomhota and Wintle as defensive midfielders

Ralls and Adams as more box to box players

and Eli King as a youngster to come through.

so that's either one more defensive.minded player and one box to box with cover if those get injured. or some permutations of that where we play 3 in central midfield

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And all the creativity of Willie Boland.

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Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee

And all the creativity of Willie Boland.

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There's more than one way to skin a cat - there have been plenty of teams in the past that have had artisans instead of artists in the centre of midfield and have played some pretty exciting football. The flair can come from elsewhere.

Not saying that we will be like that though, we could easily be terrible

More often than not, good players make good managers.

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Originally Posted by 2b2bdoo

He worked the transfer market exceptionally imo in January. I’m not sure how much of a turn around in performance people expected but we got the points and it improved..

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At the start of the 2021/22 January transfer window, Cardiff City were 20th in the Championship. When the season eventually finished, they were 18th.

Is that exceptional?

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

At the start of the 2021/22 January transfer window, Cardiff City were 20th in the Championship. When the season eventually finished, they were 18th.

Is that exceptional?

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Last 12 games of the season, which I guess is somewhere close to the transfer window and we were 13th over that period.

Don't know who we played or who the others did but it's not exceptional, but its better than we were doing previously.

He had a good window and a decent end to the season.

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Originally Posted by olderblue

The 5 loan signings will dictate how are season goes I believe
We need a couple of flare players and forwards who can actually score goals.
1st of July and I'm reasonably happy with the signings so far
Let's see what we have bought in for Saturday 30th.

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We have the cone sorted but what flavour ice cream will we get, if any

It’s only fair to judge him after this coming season. He’s had the chance to build a squad, his squad, and I’m interested to see what happens.

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

At the start of the 2021/22 January transfer window, Cardiff City were 20th in the Championship. When the season eventually finished, they were 18th.

Is that exceptional?

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I said he worked the transfer market exceptionally and I stand by that. With the little time, huge gaps in the squad and little or no money I thought he did a lot better than expected.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

There was a discussion as to whether they were being fair in placing Bowyer so low and they didn’t really convince me that they were right to have him there - there was some vague reference to “strange decisions” he made in terms of transfers and selections and talk of him not getting some of the Birmingham team to play to their potential,

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A number of press reports this afternoon saying Bowyer about to be sacked.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/bi...on-lee-bowyer/

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Originally Posted by jon1959

A number of press reports this afternoon saying Bowyer about to be sacked.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/bi...on-lee-bowyer/

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John Eustace lined up as successor?

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/bi...yer-successor/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61144145

Birmingham City have sacked head coach Lee Bowyer after 16 months in charge at St Andrew's.