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Today's defeat was City's fourth in the last five league matches and let's be honest here - the team's performance in the first half of the one game they have managed to win recently was utterly awful.
Mick McCarthy's reign as Cardiff manager began brightly enough, but the team's record in the last 20 league games under him is as follows:
Won 6, drawn 7, lost 7.
The six teams City managed to beat during that run were Swansea, Wycombe, who are now in League One, a Birmingham side that was full of youngsters and reserves, newly-promoted Blackpool, draw specialists Millwall and struggling Nottingham Forest. Not the the toughest of opponents at this level
Meanwhile, Neil Warnock's Middlesbrough slumped to another defeat at Reading earlier today. Boro have won just one of their last seven Championship games - a 2-0 victory at Nottingham Forest.
While the Championship looks weak this season, it seems the prehistoric football served up by Messrs McCarthy and Warnock is cutting little mustard.
People are talking about the possibility of City being dragged into a relegation scrap. Middlesbrough fans must be thinking the same about their team. In their last seven games, Boro have played QPR, Derby, Blackburn, Coventry, Nottingham Forest, Blackpool and Reading. The only side out of that lot they managed to beat was Forest.
I've long been of the opinion that the ideal time for Warnock to retire would have been straight after guiding City to promotion in 2018. Things could have been very different for both the Bluebirds and Warnock had that happened. But he just couldn't leave it there. Instead, City are still paying a heavy price for his poor purchases and he's almost certainly going to end up having been sacked from his final two jobs in football.
Giving Warnock another year after relegation just summed up the knowledge of the board members, absolutely zero.
It effectively wasted our parachute payments on another whole load of Warnock ball players.
I've got to be honest the man didn't give a fack about Cardiff City it was all about his ego.
I've was never taken in by the spiel he spews out at every club he goes to.
I think you can get away with what's called Dinosaur football if you add pace and the odd fella like Tomlin who has exceptional flair.
It won't provide a long term development though, modern football has to come from the development squads and mindset of the boardroom ( see Brentford for way forward and reference )
Was Warnock saying it, not sure if Dalman followed up with the same
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You're probably right, which further underlines how clueless Tan and his minions are. Whatever the actual circumstances of Warnock's departure, the fact is that he left while the team was on a significant downward spiral. No doubt the same will be true when he departs Middlesbrough, which may not be long the way things are going.
Bob Grogan and Tony Clemo both kept our football club going through the bad times and the reality was there was nobody else out there prepared to invest in this club
I was a young man when I took part in a clemo demo as it were at Ninian Park . In hindsight if it hadn't been for him we would have folded
Tan is far from the perfect chairman and MM far from a great manager but what do people have an alternative , right now ?
Some names?
I just want our owner to realise that the people he puts in positions of power at this club are costing him far more to run this club than it should do. To realise that he should have had a far greater return on the money he has paid.
Ridiculous to ask for names but let's go and get Man City's owners why don't we.