City eventually get it right to finish off a fine week.

6 Responses to City eventually get it right to finish off a fine week.

1. Graham says:

   March 22, 2015 at 8:49 am

   Well yes, but .. we will have got it right only if from now on Ralls and Kennedy and Fabio start, no matter who doesn’t because they do .. and Jones “played” throughout as if he not only didn’t expect to be there but didn’t want to be .. Revell and Doyle please from now on until Mason is fit enough, but I hope I never have to watch Jones in a City shirt again ..

   .. and Connolly on loan for “business reasons” isn’t really bizarre since Mr.Tan is a business man, and football is, and always has been, for him a newly discovered way of making more money – hasn’t worked out so far but if we still have Marshall and Manga [and a few others ..] in City shirts next season, we’ll be lucky!
2. Anthony O'Brien says:

   March 22, 2015 at 12:22 pm

   Much better from Cardiff – and from the Cardiff fans! As I’ve mentioned several times Fabio’s performance showed he is more at home as a right back than a left back, and from this point of view the loan deal for Connolly makes sense not only for financial reasons but football ones too. Cardiff now have two good right backs who can also play on the left when needed. Having said this, I was also pleased with Malone’s performance, although there still seems to be a lack of support for him from others in the team. This is something which Bournemouth tried to exploit, especially in the first half, on Tuesday, and which Birmingham tried with less success on Saturday. In the seventeenth minute, for example, Malone was defending on the outside when the ball was passed inside to a Birmingham player. Peter Whittingham stood off and failed to close down that player, who was then able to get a telling cross into the Cardiff box. Joe Ralls, too, while doing well generally seemed at times to be pushed off the ball rather too easily.

   I’m also still somewhat puzzled why we continue to use a left-footer on the right and vice versa, although I must admit that Noone’s crosses from the right and with his right foot are sometimes very good. Personally, I like to see wingers get to the corner flag and cross the ball into the box without hesitation, but this rarely happens.

   Such crosses would bring the best out of Revell. In my opinion, he can do all that Kenwyne Jones does – and much more. I’d really like to see a forward partnership of Revell and Doyle, as Graham suggests. Indeed, the only point I’d take issue with in Graham’s excellent and pithy summing up is Joe Mason who I remember as being able to run all day and into intelligent positions but without any change of pace – and also his tendency to duck under high balls.

   My apologies for going on at length again, but how lucky I feel to be able to contribute to such a site as this.
3. Blaine says:

   March 22, 2015 at 3:14 pm

   Like everybody and their dog I also thought the 1st half was disapointing but thought city were the better team.in the 2nd half we improved greatly after the substitutions and would like thank Mrs Gunnarson for picking half time for going into labour which led to her hubby Arron having to go to the hospital and allowing young Ralls to go into midfield and showing mr slade what he can do there.
   Being freed from his usuall holding midfield role Whitts also looked much better and allthough he didn’t realy need to make a save felt happier

   that Marshall was back.
   It was nice to see Fabio going back to the right side and staying back showed why man u bought him in,maybe one game he could play in a wingers role just to satisfy my belief that he could be good there also.
   Is it a coincident that all our improvments have started since Trollop came in as a coach? I dont know but it seems to be true.
4. The other Bob Wilson says:

   March 23, 2015 at 10:47 am

   Thank you for your replies. I must say I disagree about the Connolly loan – I believe it sends out complete the wring signals at a time when the club are trying to sell season tickets for 15/16. I was talking to someone before Saturday’s match who mentioned that he’d heard City were making £250,000 from the deal. Now, that sounds a lot on paper, but if it’s a contributory factor towards 1,000 people deciding not to renew, then we will have lost a fair bit more than that.
   Kenwyne Jones certainly divides opinions – Nathan Blake is always praising him, but I’m closer to Graham and Anthony’s view of the player than his. Admirable though Alex Revell is in many ways, I’m not convinced that he is a top end Championship player and still cling to the probably forlorn hope that we would play with two smaller, more mobile strikers (two from Mason, Doyle and a reinvigorated LeFondre?) rather than have this perennial need for a target man – we might see some “proper” football then!
   Anthony, sadly, I think the days of wingers going on the outside of full backs to get to the bye line and deliver crosses on their natural foot are almost gone – the instruction nowadays is more cut inside and get a shot away, so I suppose left footers on the right and vice versa makes more sense.
   Blaine, I don’t know if you’ve got Cardiff City Player, but there’s an interview with Joe Ralls after Saturday’s game on there where he talks about how we are playing more football since Paul Trollope came on board – to my mind, we were really poor at the long ball game and so any reversion to a more considered approach was always likely to see some sort of improvement in results.
5. Anthony O'Brien says:

   March 23, 2015 at 1:33 pm

   Paul, Very sensible and convincing comments but in reply I’d like to suggest that may be – only may be – the imminent return of Turner helped Cardiff agree to Connolly’s loan move. I fully accept your observation that the day of old-fashioned clinging to the touchline wingers is virtually over but in the case of Noone, in particular, he rarely manages to get a shot in or an incisive pass when he comes in from the right, and as I noted, his right-foot crosses from the right are often excellent.For Kennedy, I think it’s too early for me to comment.

   Incidentally, I added a comment on the infamous Denis Law to the tail-end of a recent post. I’m convinced that when he deliberately lashed out at Steve Gammon’s leg, I heard the crack above the roar of the crowd. Can anyone confirm this or was I dreamimg (ie. having nightmares) after the event?
6. The other Bob Wilson says:

   March 24, 2015 at 8:47 am

   Agree about some of Noone’s crossing with his right foot from the right Anyhony. I get an excellent view of this when we are attacking the Canton Stand and I always have the feeling that something good might happen here when he does it – sadly, the same doesn’t apply to his shooting, but he wasn’t far away with a good effort against Bournemouth. Thinking about it, a fairly recent goal when he got to the byeline and crossed with his left foot came against Charlton – actually, I think Noone has been playing a lot better in recent weeks, but nobody seems to agree with me, so I’m beginning to think that I’m imagining it!

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