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Cardiff City 2 Bristol City 0
That was the last time the Bluebirds managed to keep a clean sheet. The side is currently on a run of 14 league games without a clean sheet (15 matches if you include the cup game against Colchester). Only two sides in the top five divisions are on longer runs of league games without a clean sheet – Hartlepool (21 games) and Southampton (15 games).
The victory over Bristol in the first week of March was also City’s last home Championship win. The scorers were two players who are no longer with the club – Sory Kaba and Jaden Philogene. Since then, City have played a further six home league games and picked up just two points.
It goes without saying it’s high time City won a home game and kept a clean sheet, and let’s be honest here – while it may be tempting fate, the truth is there won’t be many better opportunities than Saturday’s fixture against pointless Sheffield Wednesday.
The problem with this sort of initial statistic is that we have had a 10 week close season break between May and August
Therefore the 6 home games since this march win ....resulting in just 2 points out of 18 ....puts things in a more proportionate and realistic perspective
In other words crap .....but it could be worse
Home form is becoming a big concern. Need the crowd to be a bit more patient on Saturday
I should have mentioned that City are one of only two current Championship sides who have not won a home league game since the first week of March. The other is Southampton, whose last home win was a 1-0 victory over Leicester, also on 04/03/23. They ended the 22/23 campaign rock bottom of the Premier League, 11 points from safety.
Even QPR have managed to win a home game since City last did. They beat Watford 1-0 on 11/03/23.
It's a massive concern, we have been gifting a goal or two per game for the new Manager in friendlies and league games, even though we are looking better further forward we need three goals a game to have any chance of a win.Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
We should have smashed QPR they are terrible, so are Wednesday but will they make the same stupid mistakes again, probably.
Need the team to come out firing on all cylinders for once.
No wonder its so lifeless at the ground for large periods of the game
Silence is golden etc etc
Here’s another date to consider, 7 December 2019. On that afternoon, Lee Tomlin scored a goal in added time to secure a 3-2 win over Barnsley at Cardiff City Stadium. In the fifteen home league matches that remained in the season after that, only four were won. Since that season ended, we’ve played seventy Championship matches on our own ground and won twenty one of them.
So, that’s twenty five wins in eighty five games (thirty three having been lost) - we’ve had about three and three quarter years of mediocre, to put it mildly, home form - Covid had barely been heard of when we last had the sort of home record that could be called normal (i. e. when a win was the most likely result for the home team).
It’s the sheer longevity of our poor spell that is most damaging for the club in terms of the atmosphere, or lack of it at the ground. My view is that, apart from one or two matches where the manager was the target, the City home crowd have been very tolerant given how little there’s been to get them excited. This makes me think that the crowd would really get behind the team if they could just show they were on it from the start, but the trouble is it usually only takes about five minutes for the realisation to dawn that it’s going to be yet another one of those days.
The best opportunity since the last home game.
For the last 12 months we've tried to play a style of football which the squad have been incapable of playing just because that's the way football is supposed to be played.
What a load of bollocks, which apply names what has happened. Lethargic passing across the pitch with little or no pace anywhere.
It's been a hard watch for longer than I can remember if you took away the pub visits before and after the game I would have probably gone to b n q of a Saturday afternoon instead.
Shef wed in disarray. Only team to have lost every game. Sacked their manager for getting them promoted. Couldn't be an easier game. Relax everyone!
In the past we seemed to be the club that would the one to end another's bad run.
I'm not counting any chickens just yet.
At least we're a while away from any club records here - between August 2021 and Jan 2022 we went 27 games under McCarthy and Morison without a clean cheet. Even that couldn't beat the record set between November 1933 and the opening game of the 1934/35 season of 29 without a clean sheet. We conceded 76 in those 29 games and "only" 50 in the 27 games a couple of seasons ago. 28 from 15 doesn't seem quite so bad.
Our club record of conceding 2 goals in consecutive games stands at 7, set in 1975 over the end and start of the two seasons.
In the never ending period of insipid performances, I’d say the fans’ patience is the last thing to have a go about.
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