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I'm not sure that the average 'City' fan wants revolution and I dont think we necessarily need one.
I've been a City fan for more years than I remember and we have never, apart from short spells been a free flowing, footballing side.
Attack minded yes, but tippy tappy no.
I would argue that the type of football best suited to us is being big, strong, direct, attack minded. I dont think there is anything wrong with that. Unfortunately with the present limitations probably only parts of that analogy apply. With the addition of 3 or 4 of the right players and a manager who is capable of harnessing all those 3 things together, we would soon be shooting up the league.
Suddenly I am thinking of Malky Mackay in our Championship winning team. Dont know why. ��
I think you may have been watching us play a little longer than me, but I think we've both seen an awful lot of City teams down the years so are well placed to say whether there is a typical Cardiff way of playing. I tend to agree with you that City have favoured physical football with a direct style and at least one big centre forward - I wouldn't say we've always been that attack minded though.

What makes the current situation a bit different for me though is that right from someone like Barrie Hole, I can remember City teams with a technical footballer somewhere in the central midfield. Poorer teams than this one had, for example, Johnny Vincent, Alan Campbell, Billy Robson, David Tong, Brian McDermott, Jason Fowler and Gareth Whaley in there - players who were comfortable with the ball and able to give and receive passes without their technical limitations being exposed.

It's different with recent teams where so many times you say the ball hooked over a midfielders head into "an area" - with resources and facilities that are so much superior to what the players I listed saw at the club, I find it sad that we're so bad at certain aspects of the game.

You rather give the game away by referring to "tippy tappy" football. So many talk as if there are only two ways to play the game, tippy, tappy or direct, but most sides play something in between these extremes. That's what I want to us become better at, because it would be daft to suddenly do away with the things we're good at, but, season after season, the stats show we're poor at passing the ball and keeping it and it seems equally daft for us to not to try to improve this part of our game.