Cardiff Post-Match thoughts.....retire to a safe distance

[mygiddypant]

We were poor but by eck Cardiff were excellent.

That's the standard we want to be next year.

[frogmiller]

That's the standard we want to be next year.

It would be nice.

I doubt if we can afford the experienced players that will be needed.

[Townerslovechild]

Oh dear....Cardiff are a very good team at this level,but we were so far of the pace all over the pitch.
The 10 man thing,obviously logic should dictate that if a team has 1 player less for over an hour should make some difference,but I honestly thought they`d sneaked another player on at half time !
When we "Attacked" they put 10 men behind the ball and closed off any space to get forward,when they attacked us they always had a spare man....how does that work ?
We gave the ball away far too cheaply,and Spence does it,and it leads to a goal,but prior to that he had a good game,one of very few who had,but honestly we never looked like scoring.
Losing to Cardiff won`t get us relegated,but we MUST be the teams around us to have any chance,which starts with the next 2 games.
Highlight was the reception for Ronnie,what a star,stay well sir.

[Back of the net]

The great lie.
They aren?t my players.
Injuries.
There?s stuff going off behind the scenes

The great Hamshaw cover up nothing to see here just a man blaming everything else apart from himself facilitated by journalists and deluded supporters.

[Brin]

Hammy's interview on P or G. About 50 mins in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li...adio_sheffield

Quite honest assessment imo

I'm in full agreement on Hamshaw's assessment about the team not giving their all but you left out the major factor which was, Hammy got it all wrong today in the first half. He set up with Rafferty to play right wing and he played far too much up the pitch. This left Jules far too exposed against a class act in Willock who dominated him all the game until Willock was subbed late on.

James was put in a similar position on the left and time and again Tanner just tore past him and Adegboyega, who by the way didn't have a good game at all. He should have pulled both Raffs and James back making it a back four and making us more resilient with Raffs and Jules doubling up on Willock and James and Baptiste on Tanner, things will have looked a lot better.

Had Hammy done that then Adegboyega would have had to be subbed but it would have allowed Yearwood to come on and bolster up what was a weak midfield, with McWilliams sat in front of mid three and Gray/Nombe up front.

Maybe that was too much for Hamshaw to even consider after only 20 minutes.

I said we would lose today as Cardiff are a very class act but never did I expect us to put on a display, if you can call it a display, like that. Inept in all departments and when they announced the MOTM, I personally couldn't have picked one out such was the poor performance our lot showed today.

[Derbymiller]

Cardiff were very good and fully deserved their victory, when they went down to 10 they raised their game, 10 minutes before half-time we said we will do very well to go in level, and we didn't. It is easy to hide behind the fact that they are top of the league and we were not expected to win, but that view masks a lot of issues that reinforce the reality that it is difficult to see how we will stay in l1 this season.

He keeps saying when all his players are fit, but that isn't going to happen. Today we lost Powell to a hamstring, Spence is having to have injections in his knee just to play and Gore is out for at least two more weeks. So it is likely we could go into two critical games with no Powell, no Spence and no Gore in midfield.

As for MH, well the man never learns. He started with 3 at the back and our best two full-backs as wing-backs, which they are not. He will have known that Cardiff play with two wide players, he does know that worse teams than Cardiff have exploited the gaps behind the wing-backs in many games this season, and yet he stuck to his favourite formation. That is where the first goal came from and they got behind us in the first half so many times.
So he then changed to a 4 and took off a FB and put a CB there, he brought on a FB and played him on the wing????? Powell had to go off, but he didn't have to bring on Martha, what a shocking decision.

In his interview the manager of our team openly admitted, that he didn't see that performance coming, and that the players didn't follow his instructions both whilst on the pitch and those given at half-time. So basically the players are not mentally in the right place and he didn't know and they don't listen to him and his coaches. That is a huge admission to make.

Statistically we had a better chance of staying up if he had gone before the window, now changing the manager after the window has closed is unlikely to bring the bounce needed to stay up, so we are stuck with him.

In my opinion he isn't good enough and I see little to change my mind, we are now at a very critical time of the season and a minimum of 4 points is needed from the next two games.

Hopefully Spence and Powell will be fit for those games and the new lads can bring something to our performances that give us a lift, the little we saw of them today, they looked up for it and capable, so there is always hope.

[RU66]

Adegboyega another dodgy centre back signing. We needed a big forward we aren't a good enough side to play without one.

[Brin]

Adegboyega another dodgy centre back signing. We needed a big forward we aren't a good enough side to play without one.

This rather silly obsession of needing a big centre forward, are you suggesting, IF we had brought one in we revert just to hoofball it to him?

Before today, we didn't have a big centre forward but against Wimbledon we scored a goal, Northampton 2 goals and Exeter 4 goals.
We took 7 out of 9 points without a big man up front so do we really need one has desperate as you keep posting?

[RU66]

This rather silly obsession of needing a big centre forward, are you suggesting, IF we had brought one in we revert just to hoofball it to him?

Before today, we didn't have a big centre forward but against Wimbledon we scored a goal, Northampton 2 goals and Exeter 4 goals.
We took 7 out of 9 points without a big man up front so do we really need one has desperate as you keep posting?

How do we play? Eventually revert to lumping the ball up with no one to win it. Nombe he's getting nothing to feed off.

[uttis]

Nombe doesn’t need a big man to feed off he thrives on running the channels and through balls to latch on to, for this to happen we need a midfield that can create, also he is decent in the air should a cross come in of decent quality to finish