Complete turnaround.Originally Posted by Des Parrot
It's gone from Ralls being one of our best to Ralls being one of our worst which is exactly how it should be to compete in this league.
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Complete turnaround.
It's gone from Ralls being one of our best to Ralls being one of our worst which is exactly how it should be to compete in this league.
This is just totally wrong. Wintle ran the midfield from start to finish. Best player on pitch by a country mile again. How you can say that any of our team was ‘anonymous’ after that performance in 35 degree heat is beyond me.
I agree entirely with your comments. Wintle was everywhere and deserved to be MOM in my opinion. He certainly wasn’t anonymous second half, but Birmingham did put us under slightly more pressure and the midfield were not so dominant. However, he still got through a tremendous amount of work, and was always in the right place to snuff out any danger. It was a real Captain’s performance.
Why is it totally wrong, because you have a different opinion to me? Wintle was anonymous second half, there, I’ve said it again. Birmingham switched from trying to go through the middle to playing out wide. He had a excellent game first half but hardly had a touch second half. O’Dowda, Collins & Rinamhota the pick of the bunch for me.
I just don't get why you would say he was anonymous in the second half. You obviously weren't watching him or are using that word deliberately just to incite a reaction on here. I am not the only person who thinks he wasn't - he was fully involved in the game from start to finish. I can think of at least three occasions second half when he was involved in interplay on the edge of their area and slid passes into the box for O’Dowda and others to run on to. As someone else said above, he was also involved in the move that set up Etete’s header at the far post. He also covered every blade of grass chasing and tackling and breaking up their play. Why would anyone say that any of our players were anonymous after the performance and win - everyone contributed for the full amount of time they were on the pitch. And thats my opinion.
it seems that people are not allowed to have a different opinion to you, what’s it like to be so self righteous? Please reread my original post it seems you like to cherry pick. seems Glen Williams also shares a different opinion to you as well.
Thought we were excellent and well deserved the win. We need to sort things up front but I trust in Morison.
I can't fault much with that performance, other that not scoring more goals. Once again I thought Collins was outstanding, we looked like we could get in behind them down the left every time, him and Philogene look like they could be a real partnership.
West Brom up next. Kipre won't be able to play against his parent club. Debut for Simpson?
It is also worth remembering that these players are just getting to know each other....strengths...weaknesses etc. You have to give credit to SM in getting these players in - and when they finally gel - and with the addition of a goal scorer (easier said than done....) we will be a force to contend with this season.
My glass is actually two thirds full.....
Very good performance overall, but the lack of quality from all our centre-forwards is painfully obvious.
Lack of goals yes, but I thought all three of them had their moments today.
How the hell did we lose to Reading….3 down to Rotherham already
Think Watters time is up. Did himself no favours today, can't complain about not having chances he just simply didn't take them.
His first touch looks woeful
I wish that people would lay off Watters. He did a lot of good things today and worked hard in searing heat. He is young and relatively inexperienced and just needs a goal. Their goalie made two good saves from him today, both were going in the net. It was an excellent TEAM performance and everyone contributed. Harris hasn't contributed goals either recently but he doesn't get the constant criticism that Watters does. Watters looked out on his feet at half time and I wouldn't be surprised if he was substituted due to heat exhaustion. Stick with him and I think he will come good.
Relatively inexperienced? He's played over 100 professional games.
I'm pretty sure the likes of Barking, Ashford Utd, Mickleover Sports and Grantham Town are semi-professional at best.
Watters has started 26 Football League matches and made sub appearances in a further 19.
He's now started nine Championship games for Cardiff City. He's been taken off in every one of them and the latest he's been subbed in any of those games is 66 minutes. He's been taken off on 55 mins, 57 mins, 56 mins, 37 mins, 66 mins, 63 mins, 60 mins, 52 mins and 45 mins.
Some highlights https://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...hip-highlights
Steve Morison waxed lyrical about his Cardiff City players after a bodies-on-the-line performance helped them beat Birmingham City on Saturday.
The Bluebirds were more than decent value for their 1-0 win, thanks to Jaden Philogene's first-half goal. In truth it should have been a lot more, but a number of big opportunities were missed against the Blues.
But defensively they were fantastic and no one embodied that more than Mahlon Romeo, the player who earned the star man accolade in WalesOnline's player ratings, which you can read here.
"I thought he set the tone today," the Bluebirds boss said of Romeo. "That tackle in the first few minutes got everyone off their seats and I thought he was excellent.
"He's solid. He is a different player to the one I played with, he is a bit more defence-minded than he was previously. We are actually trying to bring out a bit of old Mahlon, the one who is galloping, and I thought he did that at the start of the game. He travelled with the ball really well.
"I thought he was excellent and I thought JC (Jamilu Collins) was excellent. Perry came back in, we saw how much we missed him when he didn't play.
"The pleasing thing is we didn't score the chances but we created them. If we keep creating chances like that I'm sure we will score more than we don't."
Cardiff displayed a swagger which was pleasing for both the manager and the 18,000-plus in attendance at Cardiff City Stadium. And Morison thought his side were good value for the win.
"The first half we were tremendous and the second half we started on fire and should have scored another one," he added.
"We went a bit flat, they got half a foothold in the game. But the changes worked in our favour, but we should have had a couple more, but on the whole I'm really pleased.
"I enjoyed the whole thing. I got more anxious as it went on, because we were so dominant but then I kept thinking, 'Oh, they're going to score here'.
"I just said to them in there, that's what it takes. It's no different to the Norwich game, we did the same thing and we created a few more chances. People are getting more confident. Fitter, stronger. And we have to limit other teams. We limited Norwich to a very small number of chances to score goals and we limited Birmingham to a small number of chances to score goals.
"I'm pleased as punch now sitting here. Because if I was sitting here with a draw now I'd have been devastated."
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...rdiff-24749808
Excellent performance
I'm encouraged by the fact Watters is getting himself into positions to have chances. He obviously knows where the back of the net is, his goal record shows that. I'd be more worried if he wasn't getting into the good positions.
Thought Harris was absolutely brilliant when he came on
I think he just needs a bit of luck,Harris was very good this is a making of a good team.
I thought some of the passing in the first quarter of the game was worse than conference level
We really came into the game later on I felt
Is that supposed to be a wind up???
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