Complete opposites – Wales heroic in defeat in Belgium v the continuing Cardiff City clown show!

5 Responses to Complete opposites – Wales heroic in defeat in Belgium v the continuing Cardiff City clown show!

1. Dai Woosnam says:

   June 10, 2025 at 12:39 pm

   Paul, compadre,
   Thanks for that. You are right to find it a most noble defeat… and also right to pinpoint our slack defending.
   I agree with you on both penalties: neither should have been given. And the thought occurs to me that mass player protests often prove fruitless (as in both penalty decisions)… but my goodness, if Bellers had not flipped his lid over that touchline incident, we would never have got that second Lukaku ‘goal’ overturned… VAR would never have looked at it even. So to those folk who say ‘let the referee and VAR make their decisions unprompted’, I say well okay, in this case we’d have ended up losing by two goals not one.
   As for their winner: Roberts has lots of qualities, but he is no full back. Forget a wizard like Doku: Connor is too often skinned near the byline just by speed over 10 yards and basic trickery. To me he is a midfield player. At the back he too often isn’t looking over his shoulder… like sadly last night he did not see KDB.
   But talking of that winner: big praise should go to the BBC’s co-commentator, Nia Jones. Gee, I was impressed that instantly in commentary, she put her finger on Mark Harris’s momentary dereliction of defensive duties as being the cause of that fatal cross coming in.
   She did not have 4 hours like the MotD team to study the VT of the incident like it was the Zapruder film. Her insight was delivered INSTANTLY.
   The more I hear from this Wrexham girl, the more impressed I am.

   TTFN,
   Dai
2. Steve Perry says:

   June 10, 2025 at 5:52 pm

   I am at a total loss to string anything coherent down in print about Cardiff City anymore. The leadership has just exhausted me and I go from apathy to anger. Suffice to say: Would you go on a cruise liner to the Norwegian fjords if the Captain is in Tasmania, the First Officer is in Cape Town and the Chief Engineer is in the Falklands? Well, that’s Cardiff City.
3. Dai Woosnam says:

   June 10, 2025 at 8:43 pm

   Witty stuff, there, Steve. Bravo!
   The moral of your analogy is the team are… ALL AT SEA…!!
   If only Bellers could forgive Vincent, Mehmet and Ken for pushing him under the bus on the bullying thing, and become first team coach while continuing in his role with the FAW… which I have always maintained is a part time job.
   DW
4. Steve the Tea says:

   June 11, 2025 at 8:33 am

   Some decades ago, Dai, during the achingly bad decades towards the end of the 20thC, I called out at one forlorn episode at Ninian Park: “We are like a ship without a captain!” My mate Arthur, who always possessed a wit for above our station retorted: “What? A raft!”

   Such is the fruit of the terraces when the stuff on the pitch and behind the scenes is dire.
5. Steve Perry says:

   June 11, 2025 at 8:34 am

   Some decades ago, Dai, during the achingly bad decades towards the end of the 20thC, I called out at one forlorn episode at Ninian Park: “We are like a ship without a captain!” My mate Arthur, who always possessed a wit for above our station retorted: “What? A raft!”

   Such is the fruit of the terraces when the stuff on the pitch and behind the scenes is dire.