Weekly review 20/06/2015.

4 Responses to Weekly review 20/06/2015.

1. Dai Woosnam says:

   June 22, 2015 at 12:12 am

   Thanks as ever, Paul.

   I am loath* to comment on the merits of selling this player or that one: other than to say that a squad needs no more than two players for every position…perhaps three for the goalkeeper slot. The size of the squad under OGS at the start of last season was frankly …disgracefully wasteful.

   But, rather than hear me moan, I will instead give your readers some light relief here!

   CCS…the gift that keeps on giving !! Check out this link:

   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3133783/Footballer-arrested-pitch-Player-held-two-officers-scene-described-like-Carry-film-missing-court-appearance.html

   * Steve Tucker please note the spelling !! Do you reckon they have subeditors any more at the Echo?

   LITERATE people like your goodself should be their journalists. The current crop – plus their sleep-inducing bloggers – are not fit Paul to fill your INKWELLS.

   Kindest, as ever,
   Dai
   daigress@hotmail.com
2. Adrian Lloyd Pickrell says:

   June 22, 2015 at 8:50 am

   Hello Paul,

   superb post as always.(and thank you Dai for that link 🙂

   Firstly, let me apologize for not being a regular commenter on this blog. I live abroad and I do not get to see many games, I usually end up glued to the radio and I feel that the other “commenters” are in a much more qualified position to comment on the games than I am.

   However I can assure you all that this blog is my “first port of call” on the day following a game and I enjoy reading the sensible and well written comments as much I enjoy reading Pauls superbly written und thoroughly informative blog postings.

   I just wanted to give my opinion on the new kit. I am, of course, delighted that it is blue. I am personally a fan of simple kits and for me, a royal blue T-shirt with a bluebird badge and white shorts would be enough to keep me happy.

   I was a little worried at first as I heard that Adidas were making the kit as over here in Germany they tend to go a little overboard with some of their kits, adorning them with patterns and stripes galore, so I was very pleased when a relatively simple shirt was released. I don’t mind the shirt getting slightly darker the higher you go but it does seem to look like the lads have either been sweating buckets or its been raining heavily as the shirt looks quite “wet” to my eyes.
   The overall darker appearance would have been improved and brightened up with white shorts but that’s just my taste I suppose. I am just happy that we haven’t got a fire breathing red dragon climbing over the left shoulder with its tongue between the bluebird badge and “visit Malaysia”.

   As for the coming season I am more excited about it than I was about the last season. I have rarely felt such a disinterest in a football season as I did last season. Maybe it was the high expectations at the seasons beginning (expectations I never really shared for some reason) and all the squabbling off the pitch. It looks like we are “starting new” and nobody can guess how things will go. So here’s to an exciting new season with hopefully more action on the pitch than off it…and everyone getting behind the team.
   All the very best to you all.

   Adrian
3. Anthony O'Brien says:

   June 22, 2015 at 2:41 pm

   How good to hear Adrian’s “glass-half-full” comments re the coming season. Foolishly or not, I share his optimism – but isn’t that what being a football fan (even of Cardiff City) is all about! Roll on 8th August.
4. The other Bob Wilson says:

   June 23, 2015 at 10:37 am

   Good to hear from you again Adrian and thanks as well to Dai and Anthony for their comments. I’m sure you realise already that you were not alone in feeling disinterested last season. I suppose it would be wrong to say that I’ve never experienced anything like it before because there have been times when our gates have been about a sixth as high as the real attendances for last year (as opposed to the “official” ones), but so many of those who were still going to games seemed to have little interest in what was happening out on the pitcb. I can only guess as to the reasons for this, but one of my strongest feelings would be that the rebrand has turned out to be just one of many symptoms of a, fairly obvious, loss of faith in the club by what I would now say is a majority of those who were regular attenders in the two seasons before 14/15 – the rebrand may have been the catalyst for this process, but it’s reached a stage where many supporters now seem to relish the opportunity to knock the club despite us being back in blue. Is this fair? Probably not, but I’d say so many of the wounds which have created the current apathy were self inflicted.
   As for the coming season, the release of the fixture list always has me looking forward to what is to come and it was no different last week. We are getting very close to the stage when Russell Slade was saying we should expect some new signings and I’m almost as interested in the sort of player we sign as I am in how good or bad they may be because it will tell us whether our manager plans to play a more attacking game than the turgid stuff his team tended to serve up even when results weren’t too bad.
   Dai mentioned a few weeks ago that we may not need new players and I could see the point he was making, but a couple of signings that would excite the fans could yet see season ticket sales climb to a level which I very much doubted we’d reach when 14/15 ended – conversely I think staying with what we have will lead to a situation where Russel Slade and the players will be under pressure from day one as they perform in front of a crowd that will have little patience if they do not hit the ground running.
   One last thing for Dai. You’ve mentioned the comments section on Wales Online two or three times on here in the last few weeks and so I decided to have a look at it a couple of days ago – all I can say is I see what you mean, is it compulsory that the replies have to end with the words “Slade (and Young) Out”?

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