At last, we look like a team.

4 Responses to At last, we look like a team.

1. Dai Woosnam says:

   September 28, 2014 at 10:21 am

   A good result, as you rightly point out Paul.
   I have a feeling that the 7-0 at The Etihad was a freak: The Owls may well be battling for the last play-off place, come the business end of the season.
   Congrats to Danny Gabbidon for persuading his old Hammers mate to come to Cardiff.
   And if Russell Slade is appointed as expected, all we can hope for, is that he finds a settled side very quickly, and that Ole’s nonsensical “cocktail shaker” approach to team selection, is NEVER repeated at CCS.
   Yes, City have far too bloated a squad, but hey if a player cannot get a game, then he cannot get a game! All the more reason for him to instantly take his chance if and when it comes.
   And anyway, it is not as if these non-active players are starving while on the sidelines. They are hardly on national minimum wage!
   So Mr Slade: do not please chop and change your team, even if you get a couple of immediate reverses.
   As long as there are no clear cases of managers’ pets keeping a manifestly unwarranted regular place in the team, I would say that STABILITY should be one’s watchword when it comes to team selection.
   Kindest,
   Dai.
2. The other Bob Wilson says:

   September 28, 2014 at 10:28 am

   Having experienced nine months of Ole’s rotation policy Dai, I agree with you – I hope we can now see some stability in selection.

   I never believed that 7-0 would have much relevance to yesterday’s game – I’m not sure Wednesday will finish as high as the Play Off’s, but, that game at the Etihad apart, their away record this season is superb and so maybe it was a case of City making them look quite ordinary?

   One other thing, I don’t think Ravel Morrison would have been at West Ham at the same time as Danny Gabbidon.
3. Roy says:

   September 28, 2014 at 10:44 am

   Whatever Ravel Morrison has been found guilty of in the past, he has, presumably, paid his dues, as laid down by society through the legal system in this country. As such, we should move on, and stop raking up his past. As for his forthcoming trial, at the moment he is facing allegations and is not guilty. If that changes in January, then so be it, but until, and if, that happens, the man is innocent. My main worry is that the pressure of the forthcoming court case may cause him to lose form.
4. Dai Woosnam says:

   September 28, 2014 at 11:35 am

   Thanks for correcting me on the Gabbidon/Morrison “link”, Paul.
   I can – from memory – call out the school register for Standard One in Porth Rhondda junior school in the same alphabetical order that Mrs Jones did in Sept 1954. I can rattle off the FA Cup winners from 1953 to about 1995 …But ask me what occurred in 2011 (when Danny left West Ham) and what in Jan 2012 (when it appears Ravel arrived at The Boleyn)…and I would have to say that all the “two thousands” merge into one another!
   To be only a matter of a few months out on the Danny/Ravel “non-connection”, is, by my standards, “A RESULT”! Ha!
   The main thing is that Ravel is clearly a player, and let’s hope he will continue to show it more than the wonderfully talented Wilfried Zaha did.
   Thanks again, for making me wiser than I was when I awoke this morning!

   Kindest,
   Dai.

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