Talent is not enough in this league. You need fight as well. Our team as it stands is bang in trouble as this lot lack any sort of fight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der Kaiser
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Talent is not enough in this league. You need fight as well. Our team as it stands is bang in trouble as this lot lack any sort of fight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der Kaiser
Sadly this is bang on the money, most of the current bunch lack any bottle, I can’t remember a time in all my years of following the City where we have seen such a collection of players who were so gutless!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Barry Bastad
There’s zero fight in a lot of them, no passion and mainly they don’t give a toss
Some of these clowns will be looking to their agents to get them out and onto another gravy train somewhere else
First thing they should be doing is looking at the table to see where we finished, they won’t as they couldn’t care less
In league one, most of them would get kicked off the park, we need a manager who can identify the 4-5 battlers we’re desperately going to need to hold our own in this league
Vitor Campelos whoever he is has now entered the betting at 7/2.
Don`t know if someone at the club has leaked some stuff out (again) but a couple of things to considerQuote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
1. In the published minutes of the May 2025 FAB meeting with the club, Chair Mehmet Dalman states that he would like a couple of continental managers to be on the shortlist to be our new manager.
2.According to Wikipedia, Campelos says he was 99% certain he was going to join us as manager when he was managing Chaves in Portugal but Vincent Tan chose someone else - strong hint of another example of ignoring professional football expertise?
Campelos sounds like Bulut 2.0. Going to be another guy they dupe into taking the poisoned chalice for their leadership because the British managers know to avoid Tan/demand more money for a harder job.
Tan and the Cardiff brass undoubtedly have a reputation locally. But on a European scale, not as much.
Born in the city where we won a European trophy :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
Algavre Cup?Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
The glory days! :ayatollah::hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninian1962
Sorry, would have to disagree. There's **** all talent in League 1 to begin with, and the 2 most 'talented' teams went up automatically this season, even if they spent a bucket load between them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Barry Bastad
Other forum on "a very good source" is claiming Buckingham has been selected. Could be bogus of course, as they can often get things wrong.
He'd have probably been my second choice behind Selles, seems like probably the best choice we could agree upon and the best out of that final batch of names (him, Evatt, Murphy, Ramsey). I'll back this appointment, Oxford were pretty upset to see him go.
Murphy did not score or assist under Manning, it was all Buckingham (and Murphy himself of course). Manning left after 15 games that season, Buckingham hardly tanked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
That was Bulut, though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninian1962
Our 24/25 side, for all of their alleged talent (I accept they had some, but believe our supporters over rated us in that department - or, at least, we barely ever saw it winning us games) would have had to have produced qualities we seldom saw during the regular season to have made any progress in this season’s League One Play Offs, for all that there wasn’t a great deal of good football on show in them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der Kaiser
If it is Des Buckingham as has been stated, I think his priorities will beQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Bring in his own back room staff
Do you keep anyone out of contract?
How can he move out those players, who clearly aren’t up for the task
Identify and sign some experienced league one battlers who know their way around this division and some wingers who can actually beat a defender and deliver a cross
It’s a big task and good luck to him (if it’s him)
I sincerely hope you didn’t engrave the trophy:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninian1962
Buckingham has gone odds on overnight.
The ITK wannabes claiming their reliable sources saying hes actually our manager is the funniest part of this.
Does every club have these posters.?🤣
They exist everywhere in all walks of life. Commonly known as influencers or as I like to call them self obsessed arseholes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
Would you bet against Buckingham ?Quote:
Originally Posted by PontBlue
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
It does look like the paid experts have come up with him and Evatt.
More money pissed away.
The desperate trying to be in the know about the appointment or signings is always a laugh.
Sabri, Erol, Omer, then Des, gone are the days or Dave and Steve as Managers.
Or JimmyQuote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
have they updated with a get out clause yet:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
These type of things usually leak near the very end, so it probably is him, he's also favoutirte for the Plymouth Managers job, if it's not him that will be the get out clause.Quote:
Originally Posted by poc
I'm just reporting what I see, I'm not the one "in the know".Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
Buckingham plays good football and got Oxford promoted with Mark Harris up front. He took over with 30 games to go for Christ's sake. It wasn't handed to him on a plate, there's negativity and then there's thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
From memory wasn't bulut's appointment kept under wraps or did his name pop up at the end?
I just remember everything indicating it was someone else and then googling bulut for the first time on announcement
Yes, he came out of nowhere. I think we were linked to Oscar Garcia heavilyQuote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
I think Paul Abbandonato Tweeted we were choosing Bulut an hour or two before the official announcement - before that, I’d never heard of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
Buckingham was left without any significant backroom staff for the first few months at Oxford. No Assistant Manager or Senior Analyst, Manning took everyone to Bristol City with him. I suspect that also had an impact on initial form.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
Please don’t say it’s going to be Buckingham because he knows how to work with a “skeleton staff”.Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfcwelshlad
Champions of the Algarve, you'll never sing that.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
The one time I didn't want my spell checker to correct something. :facepalm:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
Manning is said to be going to Norwich. Not in our division I know but would you be impressed if you were a Norwich fan? Although his Bristol City side finished above them last season.Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfcwelshlad
I thought today may have been the day.
Well, if they offered the job yesterday, based on the timescale of Bulut's appointment we could be waiting another 2 weeks. As others have pointed out, a few vacancies/opportunities out there for aspiring managers. I doubt he's going to have any influence on transfers anyway as Deboys and his team of analysts will be working hard on improving the squad in the meantime.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
Well, if nothing happens in the rest of today and tomorrow, the club will have missed the target it set itself for appointing a new manager a few weeks ago. I would have hoped that they’d be working flat out to keep to the deadline - if they can’t, then I reckon something’s gone wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
Not going to be Selles according to the BBC - wants to stay in the championship.
Possibly, I thought today would be the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Or Tan's got the shortlist, and doesn't like it...Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Here’s the article, seems there’s a split among the Board (for what that’s worth) - it reads as if a Murphy or Ramsey appointment would entail the sort of changes Tan has been advised to make by what seems the rest of the world, so does that mean a Buckingham appointment wouldn’t?Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/c4g6rlg6d63o