Cardiff city post match thoughts

[PeteWaller]

Great to hear from you mate. I’m still plodding on home and away. I think TS has certainly decided to close the cash register and tbh I understand he’s not getting any younger.
We are what we are that said we’ve wasted some opportunities to kick on.
I think MH given time will get it right. Although reading some of the stuff on here I’d check his tyres in the morning 😁 if I were him.
I hope you and the good lady are well mate. Great to hear from you.

Keep smiling mate and continue with your predictions 👍🤣

[kentmillerman]

Ayup Pocket how u doing?

Good to see you are still holding the baton up for your club. Don?t let the b******* grind you down. It will be a sad day if you ever lose the faith.
We all know deep down that football has changed and it?s all down to the money. Rotherham have never been a rich club and now it appears TS has lost interest so tough days ahead most likely.
Being a fan is tough but doable. Being on message boards with invisible keyboard nutters can be mentally draining.

All the best

How you doing Pete. Good to see your post and agree with Pocket and you.Methinks the 3 of us, and some other on here are in for the long haul.Shame for all the negatives.

[NorthWestCorner]

May I say you seem a tad disgruntled with everything related to the club at the moment. Please tell, will you carry on watching them ,after all there is still a long way to go .

Was there before this current regime and will be there long after they have gone.

Please do not interrupt my views as a lack of care for the club. I?ve missed 5 matches since Christmas and will continue to as many games between now and the end of the season as possible. But I won?t keep quiet about the mismanagement I see.

[PeteWaller]

How you doing Pete. Good to see your post and agree with Pocket and you.Methinks the 3 of us, and some other on here are in for the long haul.Shame for all the negatives.

Ayup mate. I?m good thanks, hope you are too? It?s always easy to be on the neg side of life I guess.

Good luck for the season

[UlleyMiller]

I must be watching a different season unfold to some, because the one I've seen has:

Us having played three (JUST three) league games.
Winning the home game.
Losing two away to the teams who are literally first and second in the table.
Four young players brought in for a fee (three of them less than a month ago).
Green, JCH and MacDonald farmed out.
Many gaps we had filled - and still the CB and CF missing who I think most agree we sorely need.
A lack of creativity remaining (was there before, still need to either drop in a legit number 10 or ease this team into a system where we can attack as a unit).

Other complaints seem to be around TS's lack of interest (see four bought players point - he may not care like he did, but wealthy men don't spend a penny when they're really given up); ownership of assets (covered extensively in prior posts around liabilities and standard risk averse set-up of clubs - also largely immaterial to a three game position); dwindling to mediocrity (we're bang on for where attendance level would put us in a league table, and I personally believe the mistake remains lack of investment in Warne/the ground under Warne - also immaterial to this season, we need to get this project of younger saleable players coming through to fund the next rise); Rob Scott/Management structure (impossible to judge Scott on three games, but we look to have some talent in Martha and Hall at the absolute least, and I'd imagine very few of us would know what influence RS/each manager respectively had over some of the signings we've made that hurt us (Hugill, JCH, Jules, etc) - but retention has remained an issue and this is a management problem)

Do we have problems? Yes, a few. Problems relative to the size of a small northern club which is trying to move from one football model to another. We were never likely to go up or challenge, and I'd voiced my own guess that we'd start erratic and find our feet, likely hitting promotion form in 2026, ready to tweak and push next season. Nothing has changed for me after two losses to teams placed at the top of L1.
Is MH way out of his depth? Honestly, I doubt it. He's been professionally involved in more games than (at a guess) 99% of the entire forum roster combined. Is he right for us as a manager (which seems a more sensible question)? Three games with his players is absolutely nowhere near enough to know.
Are Rotherham fans fickle? They f***ing moan a lot, but I don't know about fickle. Most (in my experience) are more likely to stick to a point of view on a player, manager, etc despite anything, so I don't think I'd call them fickle in the sense that they switch loyalties - be honest, most football fans will whinge about a player for 89 minutes then sing his name if he scores (I'd count myself out on that front with Hugill though).

[Townerslovechild]

To think about sacking anyone after 2 defeats is moronic.
How many times has Hamshaw said he's rebuilding the squad, and it will take time.
Warne was an amazing manager, pity lots on here couldn't see that,but we got really lucky with him,an instant return to the championship isn't normal, lots of teams bigger than us struggle to get out of league 1.

[RU66]

Not working especially recruitment ground will half empty again. Give it while October if no improvement there's only one option take Rob Scott with them this he's not delivered on signings enough over recent seasons.

[mygiddypant]

Not working especially recruitment ground will half empty again. Give it while October if no improvement there's only one option take Rob Scott with them this he's not delivered on signings enough over recent seasons.

If anyone is looking for a definition of a fickle fan, here it is.

Many fit the category of 'miserabilist'.

[UlleyMiller]

The ground won't be close to full this weekend because of Sky. Rob Scott getting a loan sorted for Etete may be many things, but it can't hit an attendance like Sky can.

[RU66]

If anyone is looking for a definition of a fickle fan, here it is.

Many fit the category of 'miserabilist'.

I'm not a fickle fan they've got my money for the season same as for long enough back than I care to remember. My choice of manager last time Artell started season well at Grimsby.

[frogmiller]

Changing the manager now would be a very difficult thing to do but, it is becoming obvious that MH is totally out of his depth. Recruitment, shape, tactics and authority are clearly missing.

So what does TS do? Sit back and let the car crash happen or intervene? The next set of fixtures are coming thick and fast. I can’t see a point, never mind a win.

Adding to that, I’d be surprised if TS will sanction any further spending based on the dross MH and RS has brought in.

The transfer window makes he chairmans job very difficult nowadays. He either pulls the trigger now or he has to ride it out. For me, he would be gone as there are zero signs of a clear way forward.

I think that the players like Hall and Martha are an improvement on what we had last season.

The car crash as you say will be what exactly?

Is he really out of his depth? What are the clubs ambitions this season? Do you know? I don?t remember any mention of promotion in fact the only thing said really is that we are in transition.

The crap put together last season is the problem, it was last season and will be until they have gone.

[Jocksgloves1]

I thought we'd kind of decided that MH was taking on a project that could take a few years to sort. Did we not?

[millersrus]

I thought we'd kind of decided that MH was taking on a project that could take a few years to sort. Did we not?

Indeed we did.

[RU66]

We haven't got years unless you've noticed we've lost over 1,000 season ticket holders through terrible last few seasons we've had.

[mygiddypant]

I thought we'd kind of decided that MH was taking on a project that could take a few years to sort. Did we not?

Yeah, but that was three weeks ago. They say a week in politics is a long time; apparently in football it's a lifetime.

I haven''t checked, but I would guess that the 'supporters' venting their collective spleen are the same who wanted Labour to have pulled

the economy round and improved spending on services one week after taking power, after 14 years of Tory mismanagement and the

disaster of Brexit.