Cardiff City Post Match Thoughts

[MILLERSTALE]

We should give MT the benefit of the doubt.He has had his hands tied all season with the many injuries in what will be the smallest squad in this division.Listening to his post match interview, he says Cafu and Hall will be back for the next match, which has to be a major boost.LI never thought we'd get anything today but our next match we will be a lot stronger and we must get the right result.

The injuries are all apart from Humphries self inflicted ?
Smallest squad ? every team can register 25 players which we have !

[Jimmy Badfellow]

The injuries are all apart from Humphries self inflicted ?
Smallest squad ? every team can register 25 players which we have !

I think the only injuries that can be considered self inflicted are Hall,Morrison and Peltier,which many on here questioned when contracts were offered to them in the Summer.That argument I get.I'm not sure you can apply that to,like you say,Humphreys,Odoffin,Lindsay,Ferguson and Cafu.The 'small squad' idea doesn't wash with me either.ALL teams have to register 25 players.....end of! The injury situation has to be simply down to the fact that the squad as a whole has to over compete physically to attempt to match the opposition who,more often than not,are better players. For reference,the last time we were in League 1,we hardly had any injuries.

[Derbymiller]

I think the only injuries that can be considered self inflicted are Hall,Morrison and Peltier,which many on here questioned when contracts were offered to them in the Summer.That argument I get.I'm not sure you can apply that to,like you say,Humphreys,Odoffin,Lindsay,Ferguson and Cafu.The 'small squad' idea doesn't wash with me either.ALL teams have to register 25 players.....end of! The injury situation has to be simply down to the fact that the squad as a whole has to over compete physically to attempt to match the opposition who,more often than not,are better players. For reference,the last time we were in League 1,we hardly had any injuries.

I don't think our players over compete physically at all, Rathbone puts a shift in but who else does? They don't look fit at all even the manager has said that the players are fatigued before the end of a game. Fergie and Lindsay were both injured at the start of the season, Fergie is at the backend of his career, has had long injuries last season as well and this one there was no idea what it was and he had to go to a specialist in germany, we could have left him out of the 25 knowng if he gets fit he could come in again in January, that is another place wasted. Sending McCart out on loan and Kioso were insane decisions, not saying they are first choice but in a 25 man squad they provided cover especially when we had 3 CBs out at tha time. Don' play the hindsight card as many people said the decisions were poor when they were made. The recruitment and squad selection decisions sit at MTs door, he got it wrong and unless the injured players come back quickly and turn our season around it will cost him. We need three or fours games unbeaten with a couple of wins to build believe and confidence, players won't rush back to play in a losing team at the bottom end of the league.

[HensonsPRman]

The injuries are all apart from Humphries self inflicted ?
Smallest squad ? every team can register 25 players which we have !

You are so wrong read the rules it's 25 players plus club grown players, have a look at the actual squad sizes most teams are around 35 to 38 players.
We have a small academy set up and no under 21 or under 23 development teams (old reserve teams). That is a big part of the problem.

[Derbymiller]

You are so wrong read the rules it's 25 players plus club grown players, have a look at the actual squad sizes most teams are around 35 to 38 players.
We have a small academy set up and no under 21 or under 23 development teams (old reserve teams). That is a big part of the problem.

I agree with the sentiment of what you say here, TS has been at the club a long time now and our academy and youth development hasn't been able to produce any sort of production line of young players capable of play L1 nevermind championship football. This is a huge failing by the club, as these young player mean a reduction in wages, reduction in recruitment cost and are a source of revenue as well. I am sure we will get some on here that go into excuse mode and take the world is against us view, but we have to be honest and accept our failings and learn from them not find excuses why constantly failing at something is someone elses fault.

[flourbasher]

You are so wrong read the rules it's 25 players plus club grown players, have a look at the actual squad sizes most teams are around 35 to 38 players.
We have a small academy set up and no under 21 or under 23 development teams (old reserve teams). That is a big part of the problem.

That’s a good point. Thanks for clarifying
So I think what you are saying is that with the quality of our home grown talent none of them are really cship quality so we only have 25 to choose from, less injured players.
Whereas a club like Birmingham or Norwich might have 10 or so home grown players who could play at cship level.
So they have a squad of say 35 to choose from whereas we’re picking from about 18 -25 depending on the walking wounded
That’s a big gap in available resources

[HensonsPRman]

That’s a good point. Thanks for clarifying
So I think what you are saying is that with the quality of our home grown talent none of them are really cship quality so we only have 25 to choose from, less injured players.
Whereas a club like Birmingham or Norwich might have 10 or so home grown players who could play at cship level.
So they have a squad of say 35 to choose from whereas we’re picking from about 18 -25 depending on the walking wounded
That’s a big gap in available resources

Flour that's exactly the point, have a look on this link thses are the initial squads that went into the efl once the transfer window closed, before anyone signed any free agents.

https://www.efl.com/news/2023/septem...eason-2023-24/

I will give you one example QPR tipped by many to be down there with us have a squad of 22 players BUT also have a squad of 21 under 21 players on professional contracts, so they can choose from a squad of 43 players.

[MillerBill]

You are so wrong read the rules it's 25 players plus club grown players, have a look at the actual squad sizes most teams are around 35 to 38 players.
We have a small academy set up and no under 21 or under 23 development teams (old reserve teams). That is a big part of the problem.

That's where we are going wrong with the youngsters coming through.We should be in an under 21 league like Barnsley,Blackpool and Bolton where they get more football time and we can monitor their progress,not sending them out to non league clubs.Our squad size would be more on a par with most clubs then.

[Lolmorgan]

I think this is one of the reasons Warnock didn’t want the job full time,we look good on the outside but in the inside we a years behind we haven’t even got our own training ground.

[Scum-Triumphant]

Remember the Podcasts that Paul Warne did during his last promotion season?
He speaks about begging the chairman for an under 21 squad because of how much it helps the first team.