Originally Posted by Wolfmother
What do you want to do then ?
- start trying to play a continental style passing game and taking on Liverpool and Manchester City at their own game ?
Cardiff City have has a good measure of success by doing something different to most other teams. When it works, which is quite a lot of the time, it exploits the weaknesses in current footballing strategies and gets us much further than we've got any right to expect with our resources.
That's worth doing and gets results, and it's called Warnockball.
From my point of view it's far more creditable than just buying success as the big clubs do, and in the real world 90% of clubs including ourselves can't do that anyway.
There are many many clubs trying to play "quality" football and yielding nothing but frustrated mediocrity from their efforts.
Case in point: Bristol City.
Warnockball got us promoted with one of the lowest budgets in the Championship and very nearly kept us in the premiership.
There's a very good chance that Warnockball will get us there again this year.
Those who constantly moan about it, ( and I don't single you out because there are plenty here), are not being logical or wise.
I sometimes get a bit irritated in the other threads here with youngsters who don't acknowledge that experience of the real world counts much and think they're the first people to come up with theories which don't actually work.
Perhaps that makes me a bit rude and dismissive of them, which is probably wrong of me, but the fact is that I've been around the block a few times and in the process I hope I've learned the difference between a seductive argument and a workable policy. On this basis , I suggest that the manager we've got knows exactly what he's doing - what sounds like a nice idea and what will actually work to get the best possible outcome in an imperfect world.
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