Cardiff City Post Match Thoughts

[CAMiller]

the match officials and assessors. usually have a pre match drink and laugh together. they all know each other.
so are biased before kick off.
Don't tell me I am making it up . seen it within hearing distance for years.

I think you are making it up. How do you know them having a drink and a laugh together makes them biased? Maybe it makes them work together better as a team? What did you specifically hear to corroborate your case?

[BigLadonOS]

I think you are making it up. How do you know them having a drink and a laugh together makes them biased? Maybe it makes them work together better as a team? What did you specifically hear to corroborate your case?

Really CAM? After what you said to me and Wan you dare ask what he heard? Shame on you

[CAMiller]

Really CAM? After what you said to me and Wan you dare ask what he heard? Shame on you

Contrary to popular belief, everybody should expect The Spanish Inquisition on MM

[avondalemiller]

Quite frankly the "officials" are ruining the game of football.

You can train all week, practising free kicks, corners etc etc, but it all counts for nothing if that inept tw*t wearing the black kit has an off day and waves away what everybody else can see is a certain penalty. The same can be said for the tossers who run up and down the touchline who can't even recognise when a player is offside or not. I feel sorry for our players who must be banging their heads on a brick wall after that game. We should have got three points but we got nothing, and it's all down to part timers masquerading as officials. Something needs doing about it, but what?

That's ok, BUT, you have to remember that every player, all 22 of them are trying to con the Ref from kick off till the whistle. It's great to take the knee and wear "Respect" but then cheat.....................

[avondalemiller]

the match officials and assessors. usually have a pre match drink and laugh together. they all know each other.
so are biased before kick off.
Don't tell me I am making it up . seen it within hearing distance for years.

Crash, would you "rock the boat" if you was getting paid maybe a decent salary for doing fu*k all.......?

[CAMiller]

Just seen the highlights and the snowy scenes for their winning goal brought back bad memories of that MOTD thrashing at Watford around 50 years ago.

[Nardendee]

I remember that CAM
It was only one of 4 games that survived the weather.
Lost 5-1.

This was our first season after relegation from level 2 ( Division 2 at the time)
I went to the home game v Watford earlier in the season and we lost that 2-0. I remember them being a very good side and I think they went up with Swindon (Danny Williams came back as Swindon boss in our last home game 1-1 draw)

Do you remember the other game selected for Match of the Day? It involved last night’s’ opponents Cardiff, who, like Watford, scored 5 in their 5-0 win over Oxford United.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/r...ate=1969-02-08

[Ronners]

I cant say that the ref definitely cost us the game with the bottled penalty decision, but it's a big call that would almost certainly have seen us go in front. What got to me about the decision was that in the previous 5 mins, he had given Cardiff 2 free kicks from our corners for fouls (allegedly) on their keeper and on one of their defenders, with the most minimal of contact, and yet he didnt deem it a foul, when their defender, who cant possibly get to the ball, clatters in to smithys back and knocks him down inside the area.
However, that alone doesn't excuse our defending for their first goal, and whilst some have been quick to blame Harding losing his man for their winner (and no not his best game btw) I personally believe we should have cut the cross out, and gave their lad way too much time to put the ball in.
I think Cardiff are a decent side and will bully most teams, but we could and should have had something from the game UTM

[CAMiller]

I remember that CAM
It was only one of 4 games that survived the weather.
Lost 5-1.

This was our first season after relegation from level 2 ( Division 2 at the time)
I went to the home game v Watford earlier in the season and we lost that 2-0. I remember them being a very good side and I think they went up with Swindon (Danny Williams came back as Swindon boss in our last home game 1-1 draw)

Do you remember the other game selected for Match of the Day? It involved last night’s’ opponents Cardiff, who, like Watford, scored 5 in their 5-0 win over Oxford United.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/r...ate=1969-02-08

Thanks Nardendee. 52 years ago yesterday, doesn't time fly?

[frogmiller]

It was a shocking match with shocking officials making shocking decisions.

A premiership team from a couple of seasons ago brought us down to their level.