FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 2 MIDDLESBROUGH. Match thread

[City123]

I don’t think he’s (Colwill) good enough.

Really? I think its clear that he's a good footballer, but raw and needs work on his decisions

[goats]

Crikey, just got in thinking I’d follow the footy this pm just to find out we were on early and predictably lost already. Grim times. Was it on tv?

[Sparticus_Mills]

MM not available post match, twitter suggesting there'll be an announcement from the club shortly.

[BLUETIT]

MM not available post match, twitter suggesting there'll be an announcement from the club shortly.

He did a post match interview on Sky

[Tuerto]

He did a post match interview on Sky

Press conference is different.

[WJ99mobile]

Really? I think its clear that he's a good footballer, but raw and needs work on his decisions

He is not good enough for us at this time to ensure Championship football. Same for Bagan

[hueypianosmith]

Sacked, just announced

[ToTaL ITK]

Malky Mackay 17 June 2011 27 December 2013
David Kerslake * 27 December 2013 2 January 2014
Ole Gunnar Solskjær 2 January 2014 18 September 2014
Danny Gabbidon & Scott Young *[c] 18 September 2014 5 October 2014
Russell Slade 5 October 2014 7 May 2016
Paul Trollope 18 May 2016 4 October 2016
Neil Warnock 5 October 2016 11 November 2019
Neil Harris 16 November 2019 21 January 2021
Mick McCarthy 22 January 2021 23 october 2021

[Michael Morris]

These were the scenes at CCS today. Mick stoic on the touchline, Neil Warnock doing the ayatollah and punching the air to the cheers of the Cardiff fans. It's a tough but inevitable end to McCarthy's tenure here. pic.twitter.com/QXp877p6UZ

— Cardiff City Mad (@cardiffcitymad) October 23, 2021

[LeningradCowboy]

These were the scenes at CCS today. Mick stoic on the touchline, Neil Warnock doing the ayatollah and punching the air to the cheers of the Cardiff fans. It's a tough but inevitable end to McCarthy's tenure here. pic.twitter.com/QXp877p6UZ

— Cardiff City Mad (@cardiffcitymad) October 23, 2021

Our fans chanting Warnock's name are idiots. We're in this mess because of all the crap players he signed the summer after we got relegated from the Premier League.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Our fans chanting Warnock's name are idiots. We're in this mess because of all the crap players he signed the summer after we got relegated from the Premier League.

I had a poor reception on my Internet stream, so the sound quality wasn't so good.
I heard fans chanting "There's only one Neil Warnock" please tell me that was the Middlesbrough fans?
If it wasn't, then some of our fans are brain-dead! Just like when Bamba had stepped up for a Boro corner and the Canton stand asked him to do the ayatollah. I mean, if you're going to to do that, do it in the pre-match warm up, ffs.

[dembethewarrior]

I do think when we look back in a few years we’ll say, to be fair to mick he brought through a load of the youth. No other manager has even attempted when the pressures on he still does it

Because he has **** all else. How can you praise that. My ****ing lord.

[RichardM]

I had a poor reception on my Internet stream, so the sound quality wasn't so good.
I heard fans chanting "There's only one Neil Warnock" please tell me that was the Middlesbrough fans?
If it wasn't, then some of our fans are brain-dead! Just like when Bamba had stepped up for a Boro corner and the Canton stand asked him to do the ayatollah. I mean, if you're going to to do that, do it in the pre-match warm up, ffs.

They were chanting "You're a shit Neil Warnock" to McCarthy.
What's wrong with asking Bamba to do the Ayatollah? It's not our fault if he is stupid enough to do it during the game.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

I had a poor reception on my Internet stream, so the sound quality wasn't so good.
I heard fans chanting "There's only one Neil Warnock" please tell me that was the Middlesbrough fans?
If it wasn't, then some of our fans are brain-dead! Just like when Bamba had stepped up for a Boro corner and the Canton stand asked him to do the ayatollah. I mean, if you're going to to do that, do it in the pre-match warm up, ffs.

I should have added that I lay a lot of the blame for this malaise firmly at the feet of Neil Warnock.
He's set us back years with the players he brought and his 'short termism' approach to everything.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

They were chanting "You're a shit Neil Warnock" to McCarthy.
What's wrong with asking Bamba to do the Ayatollah? It's not our fault if he is stupid enough to do it during the game.

I didn't say there was anything wrong with asking Bamba to do the Ayatollah. Read what I said... "If you're going to ask him to do that, do it in the pre-match warm up". You don't do it when he's about to take up a position to score against us and make him feel 7 foot tall in the process!

[RichardM]

I didn't say there was anything wrong with asking Bamba to do the Ayatollah. Read what I said... "If you're going to ask him to do that, do it in the pre-match warm up". You don't do it when he's about to take up a position to score against us and make him feel 7 foot tall in the process!

Asking him to do it when he should be concentrating on the game might just distract him from the job he should be doing.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Asking him to do it when he should be concentrating on the game might just distract him from the job he should be doing.

It was while waiting for a corner to be taken. The ball wasn't in play.

[Dave Blue]

Shame we couldn’t score in the 10 minute purple patch. Apart from that, very little attempt to impose ourselves on the game. No wonder we haven’t scored in a first half, the mindset doesn’t even think about doing so.

[RichardM]

It was while waiting for a corner to be taken. The ball wasn't in play.

Haven't you noticed that players don't stand around having a chat waiting for a corner, they get in position, wrestle with defenders, try to work out where the person talking the corner is going to play the ball? Doing the ayatollah might just distract players.

[Vindec]

Perhaps the Board should think the unthinkable and take advice from whoever it is in Swansea who have appointed their series of excellent managers in the last few years.

[islandblue]

For me the most interesting thing about that game was that Warnock was not the long ball manager we all thought he was. Another of my observations is that Mark Harris reminds me of Derek Showers - all huff and puff with little else. Apart from that this is a game that will live in the memory for all of the wrong reasons.

At least "Danny Showers" occupied defenders and eventually found his level in whats now league 2 with Bournemouth and Pompey. Forgot Harris was on the pitch today to be honest.

[Dave Blue]

Perhaps the Board should think the unthinkable and take advice from whoever it is in Swansea who have appointed their series of excellent managers in the last few years.

Endless passing around the defence is as tedious as watching the ball being hoofed down the field to no one in particular.

[gabbsthenewt]

I didn't say there was anything wrong with asking Bamba to do the Ayatollah. Read what I said... "If you're going to ask him to do that, do it in the pre-match warm up". You don't do it when he's about to take up a position to score against us and make him feel 7 foot tall in the process!

Normally yes but very odd circumstances, the teams efforts were very much dead by then I don't think there was much risk of it throwing a draw or loss at the time. The bloke is an absolute legend treated very poorly by the club, Mick can say all he wants about telling him personally but after all he has been through the chap deserved feeling 7ft tall and there could be no better than during a match when your well on top already.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Normally yes but very odd circumstances, the teams efforts were very much dead by then I don't think there was much risk of it throwing a draw or loss at the time. The bloke is an absolute legend treated very poorly by the club, Mick can say all he wants about telling him personally but after all he has been through the chap deserved feeling 7ft tall and there could be no better than during a match when your well on top already.

How do you know he was treated very poorly by club?

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Haven't you noticed that players don't stand around having a chat waiting for a corner, they get in position, wrestle with defenders, try to work out where the person talking the corner is going to play the ball? Doing the ayatollah might just distract players.

It was an action that took all of about three seconds to perform, while the ball was out of play. That's hardly likely to distract a seasoned professional like Sol Bamba.