Reply With QuoteHis brain may have been telling him to knock the ball to Colwill, but his feet just wouldn't allow it. I don't think that we should be to critical of Ikpeazu, he means well.Originally Posted by City123
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Well said Des, great bloke Nick and massive City fan RIP Nick
His brain may have been telling him to knock the ball to Colwill, but his feet just wouldn't allow it. I don't think that we should be to critical of Ikpeazu, he means well.
Someone I know went to the lav on 69 minutes......and came back on 74.
Is this turning into a positive season for Cardiff City with a number of youngsters breaking through?
Wonderful turn around .
I feel so hopeful for the future .
Let's see an over 20k crowd Saturday, and a sell out for the Jacks.
lovely strength and vision for the pass from Colwill for the early Hugill chance.
in hindsight Ng was a little unfortunate for their goal, it was an awkward ball to deal with and it could easily have fallen to one of the several Cardiff players around, but instead it found the only QPR player.
Great day out, it was more than 90 minutes in the middle of it. One point though, how does that ground pass every safety measure? It’s downright dangerous, from peering and leaning perilously to see the corner flags to the corridor concourse. It’s a disaster waiting to happen and has been for years.
No Nick lived in Jersey and travelled to every away game (almost).
Is DML is implying that Morison is a better manager than McCarthy or Harris. Disrespectful!
Nick Walker
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So was it a foul by Davies with the first goal? I honestly can’t make my mind up, bit surprised it wasn’t given - thought he was among the best refs I’ve seen at our games this season.
They said that on Quest last night but I just felt the defender wasn't very strong against one of our smallest attackers.
Some QPR fans not impressed with the ref, especially the ‘play on’ for Davies’ goal but there was also criticism for the weak defender being bullied by ‘the little scrote’ who’d came on as sub. In fact our changes were admired on their messageboard, bemoaning their lack of pace while our subs upped the ante considerably. Also a lot of embarrassed criticism of some of their fans giving it the ‘ole, ole’ during a thirty pass move that ended up with a pass back to Marshall. Their ‘impressive’ possession stats were widely decried as well, one poster suggesting that their defenders should take up walking football if they want to slowly exchange passes in their own half causing no distress to the opposition. Mind you the general opinion on their boards were that we crap, as did the messageboards of Derby, Barnsley, Coventry, Forest etc........one common denominator there though
We may be crap but we just beat a team in the play off places (5th in the table) away from home. I'll take that thank you.
I just don't understand why he doesn't support the club more lol
Exactly
Exactly
Table doesn’t lie, that’s impressive, fair play, and it’s not a 5 match stretch either, just a bit under a quarter of a season really.
It might be worth a look at the average number of points per game of all of the opponents of the sides who have won 19 points or more over the last 10 games:
1 Fulham 1.05
2 Huddersfield 1.16
3 Sheffield Utd 1.32
4 Cardiff City 1.35
5 Middlesbrough 1.29
6 Millwall 1.46
7 Luton Town 1.23
It would suggest we've had a tougher run of fixtures than them all, bar Millwall.
we've definitely improved, but I think the results have flattered us a bit - it doesn't feel as though we are playing like a top two side.
great to get an away win, but we were second best for a lot of the game. we've had a few games this season that we were a lot more competitive in and left with nothing, so perhaps we've just been due a result like that.
still, hopefully we keep improving, but we aren't there yet
I wouldn’t say we looked like a top two side for most of the 17/18 season - we did for the first two or three months of that season, but, to put it simplistically, we were a different team once Zohore got that injury in October. He was never the same player again and it was more spirit, a great mind set and momentum which carried us through the last six months of the campaign. Sides going away and winning 7-0 like Fulham have done are very much the exception in the modern day Championship, it’s more likely that more mundane qualities will bring you success because as a rule, the sides are so evenly matched that it’s what’s between the ears which determines how successful you are and this leads to a snowball effect be it positive or negative - Morison deserves credit for changing our mindset pretty quickly.
yeah that's fair enough, I am mindful of when Mick McCarthy took over and the results dramatically improved, something obviously clicked with the players and we had a great run of results - but, if you looked at the underlying stats, we weren't really any better than we had been under Harris, so a downturn in results was always likely to happen.
in assessing the manager, we should try to look beyond the short term form, and concentrate on the longer term direction, it is difficult to do that though, especially in a division where so many teams are so evenly matched as this one, most teams in the rather large midtable will go on some good runs at some point in the season, it's how to know what is genuine improvement and what is just rolling sixes.
I'd say that when you have an 'average' squad - which we do - the only things a manager can do is things like workrate, eliminating errors, and getting players to stick to a plan and follow instructions. Do we all watch the Sky Championship highlights on a Saturday evening/Sunday morning ? If like me you do, you'll see the gulf in pace, movement,passing, between us and even those a few places above. In the end it's all about players - better players make a better side, providing the manager gets the best out of them. We're doing well, competing against all and sundry, but over 46 games starting next season we'll need 4, maybe 5 players who are better that we've got now. [IMHO !]
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