New manager appointment imminent? Have the Cardiff hierarchy listened?

3 Responses to New manager appointment imminent? Have the Cardiff hierarchy listened?

1. Dai Woosnam says:

   May 26, 2025 at 1:56 pm

   Thanks Paul for the assessment of the probable candidates. Looks an underwhelming lot to me… but as long as we adhere to my ABB principles*, then I will take any of the four, providing he is not given anything better than a 1 year rolling contract

   What did you make of this…
   https://tinyurl.com/pt3mbtn2 …?

   How great to see Jay Bothroyd again… I swear he could still do a job for the last 25 minutes in Div 1, if only he’d come out of retirement…!! Such an elegant player.

   Mind you, what I have seen of his TV punditry makes me think he may have a big future there.
   * = Anyone But Bilic…

   TTFN,
   Dai.
2. The other Bob Wilson says:

   May 27, 2025 at 9:50 am

   Thanks Dai, if our next manager is one of the four I mentioned in my piece I won’t be disappointed as I think theuy all have more potential to do a good job here than Riza, Bulut, Hudson, Morison and McCarthy (not so sure about Lamouch). Don’t think Bilic is in the running – he probably thinks he had a lucky escape!

   I did a piece for the City Trust magazine a few months ago in which I picked the best City, goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and forward of the twenty first century. I’d say two of the choices were easy to predict (Marshall and Whittingham), but I reckon many would not have gone for Danny Gabbidon or Jay Bothroyd. Having to watch our various teams of the last five years or so, I’ve come to appreciate all four of them all the more, but none of them moreso than Bothroyd – if his head was right, he would have made an enormous difference to so many of our recent teams.
3. Dai Woosnam says:

   May 27, 2025 at 12:48 pm

   You are right about Bothroyd. He was so gifted
   I reckon that if Jay had not gone off injured at around the quarter of an hour mark, we might not have lost to Blackpool at Wembley.
   Egg on my face though, in that I must admit that at the time I was a bit angry with Jay, wrongly concluding that he should never have declared himself fit enough to play on the day.
   It is all a bit hazy in my memory now… my aphasia RULES alas. I know that in the post mortem on the game, there were stories of madcap partying in the nights running up to the match: but I think they were later discounted as being below the belt.
   But I seem to think that he did not get crocked by Evatt & Co, nor did he pull a muscle. I ought to ask Mr Google to tell me the facts… but I am starving hungry and lunch calls.
   But one thing for sure: Bothroyd was our MOST ELEGANT centre forward in my lifetime … equalled only by the young Graham Moore who of course attracted the attention of Chelsea and later saw Matt Busby taking him to Old Trafford.
   DW