FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 1 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY. Match thread

If Ashford and Davies aren't in every starting lineup for the rest of the season it will really tell us all we need to know.

I'd love to hear Riza's answer on why the one player who can put his foot on the ball, push us forward, beat a man and create chances and has done in basically every chance he's been given has not been in the side for all these critical games. No doubt something about hexagons and dodecahedrons or some shite.

Threw another 2 pts away, failing to score a 2nd goal and defending badly at a corner.

It is a waste of time us taking corners. ODowda not good enough. Turnbull was taking them earlier in season. Only decent corner taker we have is Ralls and I'm not sure we'll see him again.

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Originally Posted by LA Bluebird

Shit result made slightly better by Swansea and Oxford losing late. Riza did himself no favors with the subs and second half adjustments again - has Ollie Tanner ever trained at right back, because if he has it didn't show. Usual players haphazardly thrown on and hardly got into the game, as right as he got the first half second shows how out of his depth he is.

Worth noting we've now won less games than every team except Plymouth, I think that about sums it up. Think we're favorites to go down at this point seeing how Derby and Luton have picked it up.

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The JBs equalised in the 96th minute :-/

At Leeds. Where we conceded seven…..

Looking very bleak for us now. Think we need to get something from every game from now on.

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Originally Posted by Former Labour leader

Threw another 2 pts away, failing to score a 2nd goal and defending badly at a corner.

It is a waste of time us taking corners. ODowda not good enough. Turnbull was taking them earlier in season. Only decent corner taker we have is Ralls and I'm not sure we'll see him again.

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Doesn't help when we put five in the six yard box including two on the keeper, Ng and others doing their shithouse routine to delay the take and then after all that give a free kick away every time. What the hell was that all about.

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Originally Posted by Blue blood

I reckon so. Lost count of the number of times we have drawn or lost this season from being 1-0 up. So frustrating!

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Agreed.

Frustrating is an understatement.

Looks like we need 9 pts now, which is more than i thought a couple of weeks ago.

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Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff

The JBs equalised in the 96th minute :-/

At Leeds. Where we conceded seven…..

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Unlikely they were going to get dragged back into it, and I'd love to see Leeds cock it up as usual, so torn on that one. But yeah, shows just how poor we are this year the contrast in results, Swansea are crap and totally directionless.

Another clown of a referee. Gives the same foul to them that he doesn’t give on NG before their goal. Neither was actually a foul but what’s the difference? El Ghazi was a waste of a sub today. We had to score a second when were dominating the first half

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Originally Posted by LA Bluebird

Doesn't help when we put five in the six yard box including two on the keeper, Ng and others doing their shithouse routine to delay the take and then after all that give a free kick away every time. What the hell was that all about.

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Yes, compare with their goal. Pinpoint cross from Bannon with hardly anyone in box for them.

Derby win their game in hand and we’re in the relegation zone

**** off is the only way I can describe how I feel

ElGhazi. What a load of rubbish. What has he done to deserve to play?

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Originally Posted by BlueArmy 86

Derby win their game in hand and we’re in the relegation zone

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Would be very surprised to see us above Derby again this season if that happens. We need two of five teams to be worse than us over the last 7 games or it's looking very grim. Can't see where 3 wins are coming from... we just don't capitalize enough when we are on top of games and the manager and the squad aren't good enough tactically to hold onto leads if we do get them.

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Originally Posted by Former Labour leader

Yes, compare with their goal. Pinpoint cross from Bannon with hardly anyone in box for them.

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When we didn't do that we did the same and Salech really should have scored. Then did that stupid routine every time the rest of the game.

Weak minded group of players.

We are going down. All on the board.

Top to bottom, they’re all culpable:

Tan, the other 2 clowns, the rest of the board, Riza, coaching staff, medical/fitness staff, the players.

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Originally Posted by LA Bluebird

Doesn't help when we put five in the six yard box including two on the keeper, Ng and others doing their shithouse routine to delay the take and then after all that give a free kick away every time. What the hell was that all about.

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This, all day long

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Originally Posted by Former Labour leader

Looking very bleak for us now. Think we need to get something from every game from now on.

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You reckon? i'm all for leaving it to the last game of the season where we need to win by 8 clear goals

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Originally Posted by LA Bluebird

Unlikely they were going to get dragged back into it, and I'd love to see Leeds cock it up as usual, so torn on that one. But yeah, shows just how poor we are this year the contrast in results, Swansea are crap and totally directionless.

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At one point in the first half, with us winning and the JBs losing, they were only 2 points ahead of us.

But we cocked it up and they dug deep.

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Originally Posted by BlueArmy 86

Derby win their game in hand and we’re in the relegation zone

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And you know that is going to happen

I enjoyed that, despite the result. I thought we looked really good in the first half, and very exciting to watch.

they had a 15-20 minute spell in the second half and then it was more even until the end of the game.
we had like 8 or 9 corners and didn't do much with them, while they scored from their first?
you could tell they would score too, our defenders didn't seem to know how to deal with it.

if we play like that until the end of the season I think we will be ok. massive overreaction on here and other social media

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Originally Posted by bluesp

Another clown of a referee. Gives the same foul to them that he doesn’t give on NG before their goal. Neither was actually a foul but what’s the difference? El Ghazi was a waste of a sub today. We had to score a second when were dominating the first half

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Referee was an absolute joke but he's not the reason we didn't win. That was down to a lack of ruthlessness to put away the decent golden chances we had. That first half should have seen us go in at least 2 or 3 up. As for second half, you could see the goal coming and for much of that half we were lucky not to concede another.

Agreed El Ghazi is a waste of space, a bit like the ref🤣 Thought the movement of Davies, Alvez, Ashford & Salech in the first half was excellent.

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According to Riza that entire second half performance was down to the team and the team alone, not one hint that he was at all at fault for Cardiff falling away after what was a solid first half showing.

He was out coached, failed to react adequately to the changes made by Wednesday and his first round of subs Turnbull and El Ghazi were well wide of the mark of what the team needed at the time.

Riza, his staff and the team just cannot collectively put it together for a full 90. And that is on all of them, and it's about time he stood up to be counted.

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Originally Posted by Rjk

… massive overreaction on here and other social media

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I admire your positivity, but I can’t agree.

We have been sleepwalking for years towards this situation, and we still do not appear to show the urgency needed to avoid what is becoming inevitable.

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Originally Posted by Rjk

I enjoyed that, despite the result. I thought we looked really good in the first half, and very exciting to watch.

they had a 15-20 minute spell in the second half and then it was more even until the end of the game.
we had like 8 or 9 corners and didn't do much with them, while they scored from their first?
you could tell they would score too, our defenders didn't seem to know how to deal with it.

if we play like that until the end of the season I think we will be ok. massive overreaction on here and other social media

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So massive over reaction. But being out of the drop zone is out of our hands. We are no threat from set plays but you know we will concede from one.

It's now done to 7 games to get at least 3 wins with this coaching set up. We are in serious shit.

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Originally Posted by Crisp White Lines

I admire your positivity, but I can’t agree.

We have been sleepwalking for years towards this situation, and we still do not appear to show the urgency needed to avoid what is becoming inevitable.

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Agree. We are going down.

Clueless board have caused this.

I don't think it was the substitutions that Wednesday made that brought it into their favour, more that they came out in the second half with a lot more zip than they had in the first. they were getting to a lot of balls first, taking free kicks and throwins really quickly and our players didn't react.

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Originally Posted by Rjk

I don't think it was the substitutions that Wednesday made that brought it into their favour, more that they came out in the second half with a lot more zip than they had in the first. they were getting to a lot of balls first, taking free kicks and throwins really quickly and our players didn't react.

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The subs made a difference and we were out managed. It really is that simple. Riza is so out of his depth it's embarrassing. The board should be ashamed - they've caused this.

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Originally Posted by Tuerto

Weak minded group of players.

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Physically weak too

You could see for their goal they were stronger in every battle

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Originally Posted by WJ99mobile

Physically weak too

You could see for their goal they were stronger in every battle

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Yeah the squad is weak.

We were once a physically imposing team. We now have a weak squad as well. Probably gone from the best at set plays to the worst in a couple of seasons.

Say this and some fans will claim you just want long ball though and be glad we are trying something different even if it's crap.🤣

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Originally Posted by Hilts

Yeah the squad is weak.

We were once a physically imposing team. We now have a weak squad as well. Probably gone from the best at set plays to the worst in a couple of seasons.

Say this and some fans will claim you just want long ball though and be glad we are trying something different even if it's crap.🤣

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Indeed. Why can’t we be technically good and physically imposing?

They’re not mutually exclusive.

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Originally Posted by Rjk

I enjoyed that, despite the result. I thought we looked really good in the first half, and very exciting to watch.

they had a 15-20 minute spell in the second half and then it was more even until the end of the game.
we had like 8 or 9 corners and didn't do much with them, while they scored from their first?
you could tell they would score too, our defenders didn't seem to know how to deal with it.

if we play like that until the end of the season I think we will be ok. massive overreaction on here and other social media

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A crucial home game against a bog standard mid table side and, perhaps we shaded it over the 90 mins, but did we deserve to win? We created very little. That performance, and particularly that result, doesn't give me any confidence that we're staying up.

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Originally Posted by Crisp White Lines

Indeed. Why can’t we be technically good and physically imposing?

They’re not mutually exclusive.

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The irony is Warnocks promotion side would pass this side off the park without the need to go long if they had to.

Everyone in the ground except Riza could see within 5 minutes of the restart that they had changed shape and we were getting overrun in midfield but every sub was like for like until late on. Those two dropped points are on him.

We are only going one way with this amateur in charge

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Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK

And you know that is going to happen

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They are playing Preston at home Wednesday after they play Villa in the cup tomorrow. Nailed on win for Derby. .

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Originally Posted by PentyrchBlue

Referee was an absolute joke but he's not the reason we didn't win. That was down to a lack of ruthlessness to put away the decent golden chances we had. That first half should have seen us go in at least 2 or 3 up. As for second half, you could see the goal coming and for much of that half we were lucky not to concede another.

Agreed El Ghazi is a waste of space, a bit like the ref🤣 Thought the movement of Davies, Alvez, Ashford & Salech in the first half was excellent.

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Yes the first half was about as positive one at home as I can remember this season. The first worry was that we wouldn’t take advantage and score at all and then we had to get a second as you couldn’t expect Wednesday to keep playing as they were.

Whilst relegation is feeling more and more likely, looking at Oxford's fixtures I think we might somehow just about survive as I personally do not think both of Luton and Derby will survive.

That was a huge opportunity for 3pts and we ****ed up. However positive the performance was, with 7 games to go we can't afford to **** up like that. Simples!