FT: FOREST GREEN 1 - 2 CARDIFF CITY. Match thread

[dml1954]

How can I over analyse a game I’ve not seen? What I said is based on Mick McCarthy’s post match comments and what the person doing the interviewing asked him.

That makes it worse for me. You have criticised the team, manager and the way we play, said that City are basically unwatchable and given the opinion that we are and will in future carry on playing a certain (unattractive) way, based solely on absolutely nothing other than what you have heard second hand in a tv or radio interview after a meaningless friendly when half the first team weren't even available. If thats not being ‘over analytical’ I don't know what is.

[surge]

That makes it worse for me. You have criticised the team, manager and the way we play, said that City are basically unwatchable and given the opinion that we are and will in future carry on playing a certain (unattractive) way, based solely on absolutely nothing other than what you have heard second hand in a tv or radio interview after a meaningless friendly when half the first team weren't even available. If thats not being ‘over analytical’ I don't know what is.

I think you partially have a good point but can you tell me why it matters if the game was watched or whether comment has been made based on post-match interviews if you think friendlies themselves are meaningless?

Friendlies can suggest to us some things, the Pack at CB experiment seems to have been dropped, and they can be the first hint of how we might play going forward but they will be largely forgotten about come first games of the new season and forgotten completely 11 games in.

[the other bob wilson]

That makes it worse for me. You have criticised the team, manager and the way we play, said that City are basically unwatchable and given the opinion that we are and will in future carry on playing a certain (unattractive) way, based solely on absolutely nothing other than what you have heard second hand in a tv or radio interview after a meaningless friendly when half the first team weren't even available. If thats not being ‘over analytical’ I don't know what is.

Can I ask you why you think it was that Mick McCarthy kept on emphasising that we won despite him stating that we probably played better against Cambridge than we did last night and why did the interviewer bring up our lack of possession in one of his questions? Do you not trust their judgement on those matters? I do and they sound like they are talking about another case, albeit a not too important one, of us “winning ugly” with limited possession - something that we have tended to specialise in for getting on for a decade. Do you see anything in our transfer business so far this summer to suggest we’re going to see a more entertaining style of play from the team in 21/22?