12 June, the day Cardiff City finally started planning for 25/26?

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1. Dai Woosnam says:

   June 14, 2025 at 2:16 pm

   Thanks Paul… especially for doing the hard yards on BBM’s apparent coming to his senses after his hopeless time at Rochdale. (Gee how your initial words – viz… and a devotion to playing football ‘the right way’ – put a chill through me, for as you know, my take on these coaches who jump on the Total Football bandwagon, is that their kamikaze ‘playing out from the back’ style is not only not ‘right’, but is precisely the WRONG way…!!
   Nice of you to point out though that since the Rochdale relegation, he has had something of a Damascene conversion. So he should. And with a boy like Salech up the front, it is imperative we get the ball up to him and A.N.Other asap…. No passing square balls nonsense… let alone passing back.
   I note that BBM – who was tipped to go to Home Park – has now got the very personable Tom Cleverley as his rival at the Devon club. Methinks a vast majority of City fans would have gone for Tom if given the choice.
   The omens are not good: the last man who was at the helm of a club that got relegated – indeed falling out of the EFL altogether after 112 years, was a certain Mr Omer Riza…
   Btw, would you not bet your house on the chap behind him in this pic being Dave Jones? And yes it is… as Hartlepool manager who he too took out of the EFL when falling to ‘our’ late winner at Rodney Parade… and Jeff Stelling called on him to resign… which upset Jones mightily.
   https://tinyurl.com/5xac8vwf
   All these managers have a common link. Have Vincent, Mehmet and Ken got a secret death wish?

   TTFN,
   Dai.
2. Dai Woosnam says:

   June 14, 2025 at 9:54 pm

   Oh dear… what terrible bolloxio I came up with there about Dave Jones.
   I can put it down to three things…
   1. At 78 in a month, my memory is all over the place.
   2. I have been sending out my newsletter… and I have had email complications today.
   3. A riveting game on the TV from Twickenham just ABSORBED my attention.

   Let Wikipedia come to my aid here, to put the record straight… and I quote…

   ‘…

   On 18 January 2017, Jones returned to football management when he joined Hartlepool United of League Two.[18] Jones joined with the North-East club 19th in the table and four points clear of the relegation zone.[18] Jones lost his first game as Pools manager 3–1 to bottom of the table side Newport County.[19] Hartlepool’s form deteriorated further, winning only 13 points from a potential 51, and left the club by mutual consent on 24 April 2017.[20]
   During Jones’ last match in charge of Hartlepool, club president Jeff Stelling urged him to quit, in an impassioned speech on Soccer Saturday, following a home defeat to Barnet which had placed Hartlepool in the bottom two.[21] Notified of this public criticism afterwards, Jones told reporters that Stelling showed a “lack of respect” and accused him of being “hypocritical”, having been in his office when Hartlepool had gone five games without a loss.[22]
   Upon Jones’ departure, Hartlepool striker Billy Paynter criticised the manager’s tactics.[23] Despite Hartlepool winning their final game of the season against Doncaster Rovers, a late goal from Newport consigned Pools to relegation from the Football League for the first time after joining in 1921.[24]
   …’

   So Paul… the Hartlepool last game was NOT against Newport…!! Apols for my error.
   And Jones jumped the Hartlepool ship just before she sank out of the EFL for the first time in 96 years…. Add those years to Omer’s 112… and you have two ‘Cardiff’ managers surrendering two proud records of over TWO HUNDRED years of continuous representation in the EFL

   I note in 2017, Dave Jones did his equivalent of his shameful close season Cardiff City comments after he blew the chance of making the play-offs by not gaining the necessary 2 points from the final 4 games…. You will recall the astonishing chutzpah of his ‘I don’t know what Cardiff fans expect: we only missed out on the play-offs on goal difference’

   Gee… give me strength.

   And in 2017, as you see in the Wiki entry above, he famously said that Hartlepool fans were ungrateful… ‘after all, I went 5 games unbeaten’.

   And to think that some fans want him as Director of Football…!!

   DW