Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
I’d say there’s a bigger issue here than the current City manager. Four years ago this summer when attention switched to club football following Wales’ heroics, the talk was of the “Cardiff way”. In truth, there already was a Cardiff way = it was bought here by Sam Hammam and was based on the antiquated Wimbledon style of the eighties and nineties. That style has been less prominent during certain periods of the last twenty years, but it’s never gone away completely .
There was a discussion on here last night if it has been a deliberate policy to play for attacking set piece situations by City - my answer would be, of course it has been, even when we have tried to play a bit more football, we have never been a side that treats set pieces merely as a way of restarting the game.
However, there was a time under Russell Slade’s management when they seemed to be our only attacking ploy and, to a lesser extent, it’s felt like that sometimes under the two Neils.
We failed to have a single goal attempt of any kind until the very last minute of added time at the end of the first halfyesterday. Our manager described our performance as “excellent” and talked of how we stopped our opponents playing. If it had been a National League or League Two team playing a Premier League side in a cup tie, then I would have said fair enough, but when it’s the man in charge of a club that has had all the advantages we have in the past decade compared to many who are currently above us saying it, I think there’s something wrong here- why are we so afraid of these teams we should be at least the equal of?