Watched your game today in bar in Ibiza - with 2 lads from Barry and Cowbridge who were as angry about that performance as what I see on here.

The performance of Flint was alarming to me.
I spent a good part of last season batting back the comments of our security bloke at work who is from Middlesbrough.
He told me we “should be ashamed selling us that ****ing donkey and should take him back out of General shame...”

I don’t think I even saw Flint last year.
I missed both games v Boro and I can’t remember seeing them on TV, so I was struggling to reconcile the player we’d had for seasons v what I was reading and hearing from Boro fans.

For us Flint always had the negatives.
He wasn’t quick and he had a tendency to get caught flat footed against fast nippy strikers.
He also had tendency to go route one or just blindly head forward without looking (much to annoyance funny enough of Marlon Pack often...).
BUT he got away with it because of his strengths. He can put in some superb tackles, he cares and he don’t half win a lot of headers.
He also had super high confidence because of all the goals he scored.
I think it added 20% to his game the confidence alone.

Now what I saw today.
Hardly recognizable but what I can see v what I used to watch is that his confidence is shot to shit.
This isn’t Cardiff’s fault. It’s from his season at Boro.
He is slower - he is gonna be though as he’s 2-3 years older than his prime season with us.
I think possibly the game is passing him by because the Championship now seems to prefer fast small strikers - hence why the **** did you get rid of Bobby Reid but that’s for another time....

With Flint I think he needs confidence. He dithered today several times, he was the wrong side of the man for the goal and other times. He needs a faster player alongside him, he also needs some goals to get the confidence back.
I know he got one last game but he needs to score a few and get the confidence up.
I think dropping him is the worst thing you could do.

Marlon Pack looked tidy. But I saw him recently anyway and I knew he was going to strengthen Cardiff.
I thought you looked much weaker when he went off.

That Aden Flint though.
Hardly recognize him.
He looked a right clogger!

Hope Pack is alright though. Love Marlon to still do well.