Wilfried Kanga

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Originally Posted by Hilts

Reindorf looks much better and do you really think we score v Swansea if Kanga is on and not Robinson.

Earnie summed it up. Sometimes as a striker you have to create something yourself.

He just looks useless. He could yet prove everyone wrong but it really doesn't look good and Reindorf should be replacing him.

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Agree, he's not worked hard enough when the teams has been struggling, Reidorf will give us 100%, he surely has to start, or Robinson, he may come good after some time out.

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Originally Posted by Hilts

Reindorf looks much better and do you really think we score v Swansea if Kanga is on and not Robinson.

Earnie summed it up. Sometimes as a striker you have to create something yourself.

He just looks useless. He could yet prove everyone wrong but it really doesn't look good and Reindorf should be replacing him.

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There's a big difference between playing striker for City in a Cup match and a league game under this manager, I'm sure Reindorf would have struggled on Saturday in that starting line up.

Kanga didn't look too impressive with his finishing when he had a a quarter chance in the second half on Saturday, but I'm not going to say he wouldn't have scored at Swansea if he'd had Robinson 's chance because he's barely had a goal attempt since he joined us, none of our forwards have in a league game as far as I can remember apart from Meite at Burnley and Robinson at Swansea.

For what it's worth, I'd have Robinson as our centre forward at the moment, but, as I've said before, playing as the striker in an Erol Bulut team in a league game is a thankless task.

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Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue

Agree, he's not worked hard enough when the teams has been struggling, Reidorf will give us 100%, he surely has to start, or Robinson, he may come good after some time out.

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I’ll repeat what I said about the first half v Southampton. Colwill and Reindorf looked just as lethargic when (not) pressing as Bulut’s first half plan is to do naff all. We are talking about 2 players here who we feel would be a huge change from Kanga and it wasn’t, it was exactly the same.

He's no Iwan Redan or Michael Boulding

There's a pattern with our striker signings.

-City sign striker I've never heard of
-I Google him
-Career stats:
Club 1 - Apps 30 Goals 3
Club 2 - Apps 87 Goals 12
Club 3 - (Loan to equivalent of Championship somewhere) Apps 38 Goals 6
Club 4 - Cardiff City
-He looks shite and doesn't score and we're all surprised and disappointed

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Originally Posted by delmbox

.....He looks shite and doesn't score and we're all surprised and disappointed

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I'm not entirely surprised that Kanga's been poor so far - I said from day one that he could be absolutely anything based on the erratic nature of his career to date. But I'm definitely disappointed by his lack of movement and mobility. I didn't expect him to be anywhere near as static.

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

I'm not entirely surprised that Kanga's been poor so far - I said from day one that he could be absolutely anything based on the erratic nature of his career to date. But I'm definitely disappointed by his lack of movement and mobility. I didn't expect him to be anywhere near as static.

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The bloke is 26 years old. There is no excuse for his lack of effort.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

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Has any striker who’s played under Bulut’s management received praise from the fan base? I’m not saying the likes of Etete, Diedhiou, Ugbo and Kanga are world beaters, but three of them have been better players elsewhere than they looked at Cardiff. Maybe Diedhiou can be put down to age, but Ugbo looked a lot better at a side struggling near the bottom of the Championship than he did here and although the early evidence with Kanga doesn’t look good, his figures last season show he’s better than he’s looked for us so far.

Unless or until we have a striker who can score at an acceptable rate under Bulut’s management, I’m not going to dismiss the notion that he is the problem - would Kiefer Moore have been able to maintain his 20/21 scoring rate if he’d have come here in January? No one can say for sure, but my admiration for Moore would have been increased if he had managed to do so under this manager.

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Thing is, if McCarthy or Harris had inherited any combination of these strikers they would have set the team up to get crosses into the box to them. Bulut plays them as if they're Son or Salah..

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

Every football player you ever speak to will tell you there’s a difference between being fit and being match fit. As someone who was never any good at football I can’t vouch for the validity of that suggestion, but pretty much every manager, coach and player says it’s the case.

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I always thought (rightly or wrongly) that match fitness was more about regaining the touch, anticipation, and awareness that you lose from not taking part in games.
However, surely stamina shouldn't be an issue? Kanga looks completely unfit (as does Meite to a lesser degree).

There is so little for our LONE (I said loan before) striker to feed on, the almost total lack of crosses into the box due to Bulut being obsessed with inverted wingers, (I can't recall Willock getting a cross into the box) the midfield is so deep they leave the striker isolated and when the rare cross does come in, there is rarely more than one player in the box to receive it. I'm not saying Kanga is a good striker, but he's feeding off scraps, it's been the same for Reindorf, the difference being he works his socks off to close down, which is to be applauded.

It's far too early to dismiss Kanga but he seems like another in the list of nothingness strikers this club has signed over the last 5 or 6 years

Give Robinson the gig ff sake

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

It's far too early to dismiss Kanga but he seems like another in the list of nothingness strikers this club has signed over the last 5 or 6 years

Give Robinson the gig ff sake

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You’ve more or less dismissed him and I have to agree. How many times can you see a useless lump before giving a verdict?

He has a brilliant name if nothing else