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It might have been a better performance last night but still no flare dont know where the goals are coming from. Fear for Cardiff if Slade stays. It is lovely being in blue but would prefer if I didn’t feel Blue.
Another perceptive commentary. We certainly need “flair” players – but even someone with as much flair as, say, Silva of Man City would be much less effective if he did not have players capable of seeing opportunities where his passes could reach them. I see little evidence of men with such footballing brains at Cardiff. Let me give one small example regarding our throw-ins. Just about the first thing I learned as a young boy was, whenever possible, throw the ball to a team-mate’s foot so that he could easily control it or play it back to the man taking the throw-in. As a second option aim for that team-mate’s head for him to return the ball. Do you see this happening at Cardiff? Almost invariably, the ball is thrown into the air in the hope that it will somehow fall at the feet of a Cardiff player. In reality, however, a member of the opposing team tends to win the ball and – too often – do something useful with it. Surely it is not beyond the wit or wisdom of the coaching staff or – horror of horrors – for the players themselves to work out a strategy for something as simple as a throw-in? And don’t get me started on the futility of the constant up-and-unders which are as ineffective as the throw-ins! There are plenty of other areas where a more thoughtful approach might bear fruit, including – dare I say it – the inevitable sameness of our corner kicks which also tend to get cleared easily! Etc, Etc.
Thank you both for your replies. I just think that the way we’re playing currently makes us so easy to play against. I realise that we were playing two promotion chasing sides and, if I’m being honest, I expected us to lose both matches by more than the one goal, but I keep on coming back to the same thing – is this all that all of that money spent in the last year and a half gets you? All of those millions to end up with a group of players with fitness issues, who are unable to win or retain possession and, evidently are so poor that the only way our manager thinks we might achieve something is by utilising tactics that had their day when our manager was about half the age he is now – there’s so much wrong with the club on and off the pitch that I’m beginning to think the return to blue was a ploy to try to deflect attention away from what a shambles it has become.
Thanks Paul for your usual detailed analysis.
You get no money for all this work: it is a real Labour of Love on your part.
You are the sort of person who should be getting the MBE, not the sort of person who currently gets it… for doing an already well-remunerated job.
Yes you are right that Brayford is not doing what he WAS doing: but “give the bloke a chance”, I say! Two Cardiff managers treated him like dirt, and the current one wants to play him out of position!
The proposed selling of Brayford is criminal. I reckon in fact, HE is the obvious choice for club captain. He is the only defender sure of his place, and incidentally, it is RIGHT back, Russell, not LEFT back.
Until a Wales Online reader mentioned it, I had not twigged the Yeovil link with Peltier. Yes, it is the same old syndrome that OGS exhibited: hire guys who once called you “sir”. (In one OGS case, it even went so far as to hire a guy who allegedly once wrote him a fan letter saying he was his hero: I refer to Le Fondre.)
The crying shame in all this is that when RS was hired, Neil Lennon was also on the market.
That decision alas, may come back to haunt us for years to come. I hope not, because RS is patently not a scoundrel, and one wants him to succeed.
But judging by his strained countenance of late, it seems the pressure is already getting to him (as evinced by this MAD decision re Brayford, who is/was true “captain material” in the tradition of great full backs and captains like Philipp Lahm, Mick Mills, Stuart Pearce, Jimmy Armfield, Peter Rodrigues, Berti Vogts, etc. Just look at his TWITTER pics in Wales Online. There is a real EGO here …in the best sense of the word. You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud’s personal assistant to realise that this is a personality that would THRIVE on the extra responsibility!).
But what seems obvious to me, is not obvious to Russell.
One fears there will be tears before bedtime with RS.
Oh…and a final point re Anthony’s perceptive comments re a lack of coaching at Cardiff City: was this ever better highlighted by the proposed sale of Gestede for £6m …a year after City let him go for £200K?
At Cardiff nobody showed him how to head a ball PROPERLY …I guess they we re too busy teaching him English.
Blackburn immediately taught him how to TIME and DIRECT his headers.
It makes one want to cry.
Kindest,
Dai.