Cardiff City Post Match Thoughts

[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.