+ Visit Cardiff FC for Latest News, Transfer Gossip, Fixtures and Match Results |
Were either of the Dynamic Duo at the game yesterday or did they drop Hudson a text or something?
Apparently Hudson was called into a meeting with Ken Choo at the stadium, according to Glen Williams of WalesOnline.
“He spoke then with BBC Radio Wales in the club's radio room, deep in the belly of the stadium, before being called into a meeting with Ken Choo, who delivered the bad news to the manager. The backroom staff also had meetings and Dean Whitehead made it known that he would be open to taking the role on a temporary basis.”
I was thinking about the transfer window too.
Will the transfer committee just bring in any players Hudson was looking at, which might not be (probably won't be) players the new manager wants?
Will they let the new manager bring some loans/frees in, assuming someone's appointed before the window shuts?
Will they let the interim manager (who was appointed as assistant manager by the last interim manager) decide who to bring in?
Will they bring nobody in because the new manager isn't appointed in time/doesn't know the current squad/hasn't been scouting for what's needed?
What an almighty mess.
Any chance the board realised they had to pay Nantes to get out of the transfer embargo to give a manager they had discussed taking over the ability to bring in loan signings ? I know this is Cardiff City and probably it was decided on the 96th minute equaliser ?
It’s clear that Hudson had to be sacked but what worries me is that it just seems there’s no plan
I wouldn’t be surprised if they are now sitting round a table ringing round to see who’s available
There’s lots of candidates on SkyBet but I do wonder who actually would consider the vacancy.
There are two issues here; how the club is run ("what is the plan" is this mornings soundbite) and Hudson's ability as a manager.
Whatever the answer to the first is, the second has to be that Hudson clearly wasn't up to it. Whilst I don't believe in the chopping and changing of Managers, there appears to have been little tactical nous under Hudson and we have been completely shapeless going forward.
With hindsight, the Morison sacking as a joke. Getting rid of him with no replacement lined up was just plain stupid. Whatever the rights or wrongs of Morison as a manager, we would be higher up the table if he he hadn't been sacked,
It baffles me how some fans still think our board has a plan.
Correct, the evidence (results) during Morison’s time suggest we’d be, more or less, in the same position. There weren’t any pointers during his tenure that we were improving, certainly not improving enough to now be in a comfortable position in the table as some posters allude to. It’s not as if he was snapped up by another struggling club and turned them around to allow the pro Morison posters to say ‘I told you so’. Seems like he’s on ‘ignore’ in football circles.
Changing the manager in the style that we are, a cheap stab in the dark and that's being kind, is just putting a plaster on a gaping wound.
We need a huge rethink of how things are done at the club or a personnel change, however that comes about.
Carrying on as we are and running things on a shoestring with people with no footballing experience picking people with hardly any to manage us is going to end one way.
I agree with much of that. However the immediate priority must be to avoid relegation. So what do we need? A rookie manager or a man with experience? Surely the club can't continue with their continual sackings of people with no experience. I believe the Board must know that. I don't think either there was no substance in the Warnock rumours last week. It seems obvious to me that Warnock is the man if he agrees to come. That may well be the best we can get at the moment and let's face it he has a pretty good record.. At least a Warnock appointment until the end of the season would give the club time to find a longer term appointment.
Tan is probably wondering if we need a manager anyway. He's one of these Blue Sky radical thinkers
After all it would save him a couple of quid and if all the rumours are to be believed he picks and controls the team anyway.
For me, we have 3 players who have to start. Kipre, O'Dowda and Robinson. I think when McGuinness officially comes back, he will join that 4. He's the best player in League One and he has to come back in. For me, Wintle and Romeo should, and given our predicament, probably Davies to utilise his pace.
We absolutely have to open up and try to score more often, it is a risk we have to take. Sorry if I wasn't clear I was trying to say I don't believe our defenders are as good as believed. I think they're very well protected and we are genuinely pretty hard to break down and that helps them no end. I'm not a huge fan of Ng.
Re Hugill, he's not had a sniff at Norwich, has he? He's played 62 minutes this season and he rarely makes the bench. If he's on about 20 grand a week as has been reported, we could save Norwich 500k over the course of half a season. He can't play against Norwich and in all honesty, we are far more likely to take points off their playoff rivals than catch them. I think it makes a lot of sense. It probably won't happen, we've got 16 days left of the transfer window and we haven't started looking for a manager.
Maybe we can hope Forest sign another 20 players or so and we can get some of their cast offs on loan.
I really, really hope we get a new manager to tells Tan he will take the job if Tan takes a back seat. I'm fed up to the back teeth of inexperienced managers and clueless board members making terrible decisions.