Quote Originally Posted by surge View Post
Firstly, we don't know that at this time. We have 5 winnable games left and winning 3/4 of those is likely to at least see this come down to the final weekend.

Secondly, the main issues with our squad have been obvious from the start and it wasn't really the pool of players we were buying from. We've had two games of Manga and Bamba at CB and they performed well together, but we've had almost 29 games of playing all of CB's at once and this has lead to Morrison's limitations being picked on more obviously, deficiency in the balance of our defence and limitations in attacking output and finally a situation where one of our better players gets injured and could be out for the rest of the season. Signing a RB at the start would not have broken the bank and even someone at standard of Cunningham would have improved our base and therefore our season. Likewise, signing proper cover for Gunnarson at the start could have done the same thing.

I do feel sorry for some of our players though. At times Murphy has been protected if he's had an off week the week before but at times he's had a good game and then is dropped without too much explanation so cannot get into a rhythm. I don't accept that we don't have the attacking skill necessary seeing as our lot have done (thus far) better than the champions league players Fulham have. At the end of December we're talking about Warnock being manager of the year so to come to this point so quickly suggests that it's one or two things that need to be tightened in several areas rather than everything being undone.

Still, if we do go down then we have learnt a lot of lessons ready to bounce back and from what the manager was saying one of those could be for the fans: a lot easier to play football if you have a crowd who recognise one poor performance/a run of poor performances does not end a season (see Christmas period last year, for example) and are willing to stay and be supportive throughout.
I think that the crowd have been very supportive at home and away so far, but, Bournemouth apart, home performances since the Manchester United match have been awful judged by the standards we set for ourselves at Cardiff City Stadium up to shortly before Christmas. We've beaten Wolves and Leicester this season and, broadly speaking, they are sides that are of a similar standard to the Watford and Everton teams that walked all over us in our last two home matches - in such circumstances, even allowing for the awful events of January 21, I'm not surprised that some expressed their disappointment before and during the Everton game.