So what happens now?

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1. Dai Woosnam says:

   May 11, 2025 at 2:23 pm

   Paul compadre,
   Just back from the best part of a week in a Sussex caravan and am rushing things a bit here as I am trying to put out a DAIGRESSING to my faithful* in 28 countries. So forgive me if this is a shorter contribution than normal.

   A very thoughtful piece from you Paul about the future. Am I playing devil’s advocate when I say the following about that very ‘future’? I think not… nor is the inside of my cheek suffering from internal bruising. Here goes…

   1. Far from NOT employing caretaker managers, would it not be great if Vincent said “I am proud to say that Cardiff City will be the only club out of the 92 to be bold enough to ONLY employ a manager on a three month rolling contract… that contract only renewable if he meets his targets’. That way absolute CADS like Bilic will steer well clear, and we would have young eager HUNGRY managers applying. Certainly we would not be employing a chap who was at the helm when Orient finally left the Football League after 101 seasons… true he was only manager for the last seven games that season, when they dauntingly needed at least 15 points out of 21 to survive… a tough task for even God Almighty. But there is ‘failing’ and there is ‘dismally failing’… and Omer** failed dismally alright… just amassing a paltry 4 points… 3 of them against fellow fallers through the trapdoor, Hartlepool.

   So surely it should have been ‘caveat emptor’ for Vincent there after that evidence? But no, apparently not.

   * that should more properly be ‘UN-faithful’… since methinks the majority of folks consign my efforts to their trash… which alas is THEIR loss as well as mine.
   ** I often wonder about the spelling. Why was he not named after my boyhood hero Omar Khayyam? Instead he is named apparently after a French Christian saint…!!
   But as a Turkish Cypriot North Londoner, surely he was – if of any faith – then that of the Muslim religion?
   Could it have been a spelling error when his parents registered his birth?
   That his name ends up like being Homer pronounced in the best working class Cockney as ‘Omer’… makes me think of that pleasant yellow-coloured patriarch cove of ‘The Simpsons’…!! And let’s be fair, there was nothing disagreeable about Omer was there? Apart from his performance that is. Indeed, on reflection I even commend him for calling some of fans ‘clueless’: those were the blighters who insisted Vincent give him a contract. Had Omer stayed a caretaker, he might have pulled off an escape.

   2. I love you dearly Paul, but thou canst not be serious when you say that initially you thought Daland an upgrade on Mark McGuinness? Look, Mark was no Danny Malloy, maybe not even an upgrade on a Don Murray, but c’mon… Without him, Goutas went backwards and City lost what bit of a spine they had. I know that Mark did not save Luton, but he was MotM in several games after they’d correctly positioned him at the centre of a three…
   3. Training staff. It always amazes me the size of our what Shankly called his ‘boot room staff’ far exceeds his. Yes I know it is the modern trend, but to me it is just so much trendy bolloxio. Me? I’d get rid of 80% of them… not the tea ladies like Ratcliffe is doing at Old Trafford.
   4. I note you mentioning paying inflated prices for players. This is often based on doubtful third party evidence… never more apparent than in the Sala case where Neil Warnock was allegedly given info by Willie McKay that two clubs had bid ‘x’ amount for the poor doomed Emiliano… which both third party clubs later denied, and led to us overpaying by several million quid.
   5. A word on the Simic experience. I agree with you in theory, but please remember that this is what big clubs like Chelsea and Man city have been doing for many years now. Oh Jeez… so much for a ‘short contribution’ eh?!! Off to my DAIGRESSING. Too rushed to proofread. Apols in advance for typos.
   Salutations, Dai.