Paul Abbo seems up beat...

[Carl Dale's Mole]

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Abbandonato's a clueless ****.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...-done-24562324

No no but TLG, that was just what he wrote professionally. It wasn’t how he reeeeeally felt:

I certainly wasn't Peter, not deep down!!! I did commend Morison for revamping the squad in trying circumstances because of what you point to above, credit where credit is due, but I never ever had belief in him producing good results. Chalk & cheese for me, last summer to this

— Paul Abbandonato (@PaulAbbandonato) June 27, 2023

[the other bob wilson]

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Bulut may prove to be an inspired choice, nobody knows yet - it would be wrong to write him off with no evidence to back you up. Conversely, the article linked (and the one Paul Abbandonato wrote when we appointed our new manager) makes him sound like someone who has the rest of the Championship in awe of us for such a virtuoso appointment (the word "visionary" can only be used about the appointment when Bulut has us finishing in the top six surely?).

Looking at City at the time that article was written, the logical thing to say has to be that we may or may not have a manager who is an upgrade on recent appointments, but, even if he is, he still has what looks like a relegation squad (based on the fact there's no new players come in and, arguably, our three most influential performers in 22/23 have all left) to work with at the moment.

[Trigger]

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Everything I've seen seems to indicate another season of struggle.

I think the unknown element of Bulut potentially offers something but then I just look at the squad with the club under a transfer embargo.

As it stands if he even keeps us up it's a good season and that's not what I really want to be thinking.

[Carl Dale's Mole]

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To be a threat in this league, we need to be adding good players to go alongside the likes of Kipre / Philogene / Kaba.

We've lost them three and have done nothing to even replace them, let alone the above.

Right now it's got relegation struggle written all over it. Still cautiously optimistic that we will have a European revolution that can spur us on towards a mid-table finish.

[LA Bluebird]

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Bulut may prove to be an inspired choice, nobody knows yet - it would be wrong to write him off with no evidence to back you up. Conversely, the article linked (and the one Paul Abbandonato wrote when we appointed our new manager) makes him sound like someone who has the rest of the Championship in awe of us for such a virtuoso appointment (the word "visionary" can only be used about the appointment when Bulut has us finishing in the top six surely?).

Looking at City at the time that article was written, the logical thing to say has to be that we may or may not have a manager who is an upgrade on recent appointments, but, even if he is, he still has what looks like a relegation squad (based on the fact there's no new players come in and, arguably, our three most influential performers in 22/23 have all left) to work with at the moment.

As usual I agree with almost everything you’ve said - there was a poll on Twitter and something like 70% last I checked were optimistic about the upcoming season.

More power to them and I wish I could be that optimistic but realistically all we have so far is a weaker squad and a manager who is a total unknown. We will see if any of the rumored big exciting signings actually come off in the next week or so.

[TheGoose]

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As usual I agree with almost everything you’ve said - there was a poll on Twitter and something like 70% last I checked were optimistic about the upcoming season.

More power to them and I wish I could be that optimistic but realistically all we have so far is a weaker squad and a manager who is a total unknown. We will see if any of the rumored big exciting signings actually come off in the next week or so.

"football twitter" tends to be inhabited mostly by the younger generation, they havent had the optimism beaten out of them like the rest of us

[Hilts]

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All the Walesonline journalists have been appalling in holding the regime at this club to account. Its been feck up after feck up.

As it stands we have a weaker squad than a side which would have been relegated last season if there hadnt been points deductions are under an embargo because of that regimes feck up and have a manager virtually no one had heard of.

As it stands we have to be relegation favs.

Over the weeks to come hopefully we get players in who significantly improve us. For starters we need 3 of the quality of those we have lost to put us on a par with last season.

[TWGL1]

Re: Paul Abbo seems up beat...

All the Walesonline journalists have been appalling in holding the regime at this club to account. Its been feck up after feck up.

As it stands we have a weaker squad than a side which would have been relegated last season if there hadnt been points deductions are under an embargo because of that regimes feck up and have a manager virtually no one had heard of.

As it stands we have to be relegation favs.

Over the weeks to come hopefully we get players in who significantly improve us. For starters we need 3 of the quality of those we have lost to put us on a par with last season.

The days of the investigative and insightful journalism has long gone, so what’s he’s reporting on is as good as it gets.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Walesonline and all the other Reach group papers/websites (Bristollive, Birminghamlive, Yorkshirelive) are all the same. Very little journalism in the traditional sense. Most of their stories seem to come from press releases or are cobbled together from stuff already out there on social media. It's all about getting clicks so they can make money from advertising (the journos are targeted on hits for their articles), hence all the clickbait headlines, regurgitated "stories" that tell you nothing new and syndicated stories that are about something the other side of the country when you click on them.
Don't think you can really blame the journos themselves - they're just doing what they're told to do to stay in a job. Probably isn't what they had in mind from a career in journalism though.

[dml1954]

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Collins looked very good but has been out for a year, will he be the same?
Colwill and Davies were poor, Robinson is average and let us down by missing penalties and getting sent off, and Adams hasn't played for a year and was a 2nd division player out of contract.

No one has heard of the Manager and he hasn't got a clue about the League, we can't sign players for a fee or even borrow them for a fee.

19th Look a bit generous considering we have just let go of a Manager who knew the league well and the three best players returned to their clubs, and we only avoided relegation by a point or two when two teams had big points deductions. The teams coming down and coming up look good and I think it's a tougher league this season.

Obviously, we could somehow sign players (fiddling things) and the Manager could be a magician, but I can't see it right at this moment.

FFS.

[dml1954]

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"football twitter" tends to be inhabited mostly by the younger generation, they havent had the optimism beaten out of them like the rest of us

When you say ‘the rest of us’, do you mean the twenty or so people on this board who continually look on the negative side of everything (including you by the look of it) or do you mean the 18/19000 people who regularly go to games or the nearly 14000 people who have just bought season tickets ? If the latter two, then that is a rather sweeping statement to make with very little evidence to back it up.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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FFS.

Positivity is a great thing, but you know in your heart that it is a true reflection of the current position.

[Carl Dale's Mole]

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FFS.

What positions (if any) do you think need strengthening dml? Any priorities?

[Carl Dale's Mole]

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I guess WOL has to do all it can to get people to click before they get people to pay:

For those who complain about the @WalesOnline website's performance (pop-ups, jumps, reloads, etc) the Manchester site (owned by the same company, Reach) is trying a paywall.

£3 a month, £20 a year.

How much do you value, eg, your Cardiff City news?https://t.co/9PALM6FlcU

— Gavin Allen (@Gavinallen) June 29, 2023

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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What positions (if any) do you think need strengthening dml? Any priorities?

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