We played the leaders and lost at thier ground 3 nil that's about what was expected. How we perform against the likes of the Brizzies, Preston will tell us more.
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We played the leaders and lost at thier ground 3 nil that's about what was expected. How we perform against the likes of the Brizzies, Preston will tell us more.
I wasn't expecting Whyte to come back either, but another assist for him today - 4 in his last 3 games now. He was whoscored's star man last time out too, so he might if he keeps that form going.Originally Posted by jon1959
How much League 1 and 2 football is on TV? Championship football is shown all over the world. I should imagine that there's a significant drop-off in TV money.
I think the bigger drop off will come from massively reduced EPL payments in League One. Championship clubs without parachute payments got about £4.5m this season. Not sure of the figures for L1 and L2 but there is a steep reduction.
TV revenues are in the range of £10-100,000 per match in the Championship (I think £10,000 to away teams) but the amount depends on the day and time slot, and probably an assessment on attraction to neutrals.
Star man again today, and he only played half an hour. He's on fire!
we will be fine
Half way through the season and it's difficult to see us getting enough form to pull away. But also we shouldn't lose 8 on the bounce again.
How costly it could prove that they didn't just get rid of MM after the West brom match.
Even if we do stay up, which I think we will, I am sceptical about Morison's ability to take us further forward.
The same issues will be here in a year's time. We need an overhaul and someone who's qualified to oversee the clubs long-term direction in terms of recruitment and playing style. You can't rely on a novice coach to install the type of structure that the club needs.
Part of me feels we'd be closer to getting the antidote to the clubs dithering if we went down. Stay up and stagnate until we eventually stumble upon the right manager (the likes of Cooper) who can put together a decent team on a tight budget, or stagnate and eventually end up going down anyway.
I don't think Morison keeping the club in the Championship would represent a successful season.
The position Cardiff currently find themselves as we all know was heavily impacted by Mick McCarthy's questionable approach to management up until his final game where Cardiff found themselves 21st on 11 points with 14 games played.
10 games on, Cardiff are still under performing but there are definite signs of improvement under Morison. Yes, 12 points from a possible 30 is not fantastic, but on the form table for the last 10 games that Morison has been in charge, Cardiff have a better return on points than Coventry/Birmingham/Bristol City (11) Blackpool (10), Reading (9), Peterborough (8) and Barnsley (6). And also have the same point return than Bournemouth/Millwall/Luton. It's lower mid table form but still enough to keep Cardiff's head above water.
The original post voiced concerns regarding Derby, who have picked up 3 more points than Cardiff over the last 10 games and have a further 12 points to make up before seasons end. I have reasonable optimism that Cardiff can distance themselves from the relegation zone, a faltering Peterborough and Barnsley is certainly a big help. But I am not too concerned by Derby, who have been outperforming expectations but still have an almighty battle on their hands.
Biggest concern for me is the loss of Giles, who after being deployed at left wing back proved himself to be a key component to the majority of the better displays coming from the Bluebirds. I have not seen enough from Bagan to suggest he can plug that gap so will likely need Morison to perform some magic in the transfer market to fill the position vacated by Giles.
We did lose 8 in a row which hopefully was our blip for the season.
We still kept out of the bottom 3 after these loses so if we can keep our away form which isn't too shabby and improve our abysmal home form then I'll think we'll be ok.
It's going to a bumpy ride but I'll stick my neck out and say we'll be a championship club next season.
Not sure you have the maths right.
If you add 21 points onto Derby they will have 32 and be in 13th.
A bit short of being in playoff form.
The points requirement for play offs and survival alters Season by season.
If you look at the 19/20 championship the point difference between 6th and 21st place was 21 points and relegation was 22.
I think you get the point I’m trying to make. If Derby get themselves into a final day shootout then in theory they won’t have struggled this under the circumstances and not written themselves off like a lot on here seem to be doing.
Derby motivate themselves by following the 2 league tables they put up on the walls (with and without the deductions and chasing a play off) and on the basis that the actual table and survival will take care of itself.
I hope City do the same to remind them of the scale of the task we really could have been in.
Reading are in big trouble as well, they had a good start, but have really dropped off and could conceivably lose someone like Swift in this transfer window. they have a small squad.
Derby might also sell players if they get offers in the window, if their management think they are basically down anyway.
Barnsley and Peterborough are poor
I think we will be ok.
if one or two of the youngsters start influencing games with more consistency then we will make it.
They say the target to stay up is 50 points. After 23 games, we had 22 points. So we had played half the season, including an eight-game run of defeats, and we were still only 3 points off target. We need another 28 points - now 27, after West Brom. That's 7 wins and 6 draws. We can manage that, surely? W7 D6 L9 ? I think we'll be okay, if only because I can't see the second half of the season being anywhere near as poor as the first half.
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