Reply With QuoteI don't think our team are aware being that until today we had the 2nd best away record in the country since football came backOriginally Posted by BLUETIT
Plus they haven’t got 20,000 football managers getting on their backs
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The season we went up he spent over £10 million.
17 players came in permanently with a further three loans.
Some of the transfers were frees and included Craig Bellamy and Helguson who played a big part.
This, as you've touched on, to add to the quality players left from the Jones era.
He was certainly backed more than any manager since the Hammam spending splurge that's for sure.
I don't think our team are aware being that until today we had the 2nd best away record in the country since football came backPlus they haven’t got 20,000 football managers getting on their backs
Would still be manager today 🤔 if what went on behind the scenes didn't go on in my opinion.
Loved that period in our history 👏 getting promotion to the big stage for the first time and were competing for 17th at worst 👍
Cardiff had a very strong second half of the season last time around. So what’s gone wrong this season?
The facts do not support your assertion. He also put £120m in the plus column for promotion which you ignore. But even not adding that into the equation his transfer record stands up to scrutiny compared to the woeful Transfer Committee's dealings headed by Tan in the 7 years following Malky.
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I share your view that had Malky been able to sign the two players he wanted in January 2014 we would have had a far better chance of staying in the PL than the wreck-less transfer activity and management of OGS afforded. Alas we shall never know would we have stayed up, but we weren't just making up numbers as Warnock continually implied after his promotion.
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Malky one season wonder he's been garbage ever since and that has nothing to do with what happened at Cardiff
Who were the two players that he wanted to sign out of interest?
It was reported at the time that Malky wanted to sign two attacking players.
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Tomlin got injured. Harris will get results when Wilson and Tomlin are back because they’re too good not to.
‘Wreck-less’, Solksjaer’s transfer activity certainly wasn't that!!!
Comparing those fees to today's transfer fees it seems pennies.
I'm reality the 12m he spent on promotion was massive at the time, we out spent everyone if memory serves me right and by some distance.
The money spent after promotion I remember it being a record amount a promoted club had ever spent.
Comparing fees then to now makes a fake picture. Malky was very well back.
Oh dear. 🤦*♂️
You are deliberately ignoring the additional £10-15m paid out in signing on fees for the above. Plus your statement that the majority of the players fees were recouped on sale is patently incorrect. Peter Odemwingie left on a free transfer (£2m+ loss) , Theophile-Catherine was sold for a loss, Gary Medel was sold for a loss as was Cornelius. Moore, Brayford were sold for small profits. The main problem however was that he spent more than the budget he was given in the first place on players that generally weren't anywhere near good enough.
Moan, moan, moan. Nothing better to do. No recognition of the very difficult circumstances in which the club are operating at the moment, no recognition of what Harris has achieved so far with very little expense, no support for the players etc etc. Same old crap being peddled week after week by the same people.
The same difficult circumstances that every other championship club are experiencing and there's not many clubs that have paid £2m for a striker this summer so by and large Harris as been backed.
To be fair that was balanced by outgoings. Richards, Connolly, Bogle, Ward, NML all released and Paterson & Etheridge both sold
The simple truth is that Harris has to start winning games, or he'll be on his way.
The budget available to earlier managers is irrelevant - this is his team now, and he has brought in players that we never thought we'd see at Cardiff (Wilson, Ojo, Moore).
But it's a real penance to have to watch this side - the football on show is awful. It wouldn't be so bad if we were winning games, as we did in the Warnock era. But we're not.
Poor football and poor results usually means you have a poor manager.
Maybe it is time to go.
Question was Who were they?
Don’t be a politician you were given their names by AA
While I don't think Harris has been very strongly backed by the board financially in his two windows (possibly justifiably with the Nantes saga and COVID), I've never really had confidence he's the man for the job. The squad isn't the best, but he's getting very little out of it at the moment.
Our away form is (despite yesterday) still excellent, and that's a lot to do with the significant amount of work he's put in around shape and what we do off the ball. At home, this has become a huge problem though - we're far too rigid and cause next to no problems when teams are happy to sit back, and our struggle to create chances is exacerbated by the complete lack of quality and threat posed by our wingers.
Since Harris has come in we average 1.42 points per game at home, which works out at about 33 points a season. Nowhere near good enough to mount a serious promotion push (and even more problematic if we somehow managed to make it to the PL).
Ultimately what I find most concerning is how outplayed we look whenever we play a good side. The Fulham away game in the regular season and home game in the play offs showed up the gulf between the sides. It doesn't fill me with any confidence that we could get through the play offs, and even if we did somehow manage to get promoted, we wouldn't stand a chance of holding our own.
For me, he has to get at least 4 points from these next two home games.
I was not given their names by anyone. It was simply a comment made by Malky in December 2013.
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I've tried to give Harris the benefit of the doubt this season, but picking the same midfield yesterday after the performance at Derby was an awful decision.
Bobby, any comments?
Of course.Bobby, any comments?
Where was Tomlin again? Wasn’t he the man that we had ‘no option’ to give a contract to in your words?
Laughable.
PS. Harris will be gone soon enough - a fool will never know this of course.
How's it going Bobby!
My guess is if we lose our next game you will be back having a moan , if we win you keep quiet
Hopefully we keep winning
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