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

[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

[GlennMiller]

Simply came up against a class outfit who were both technically and physically superior. We looked better against 11 men but the amount of space we gave their ten men was incomprehensible.

Cardiff were 50% quicker to every ball and we gifted them goals from our inability to move the ball swiftly.

One positive, I thought Cover looked very good.

We won't come up against that quality for the rest of the season and I'm confident we will avoid relegation as long as we keep Martha and McWlliams away from the playing surface!

[avondalemiller]

Well well well. Were Cardiff that good or did we make them look good?

I said before KO that Willock and Tanner will have a birthday today with out set up, and boy did they cause havoc.
If Gray had popped that chance in just before H/T things might have been different?
They showed us how to play "give and go" and made us look static, but i think we helped with that.

MH kept them locked in the dressing room for ages, the MOM never came up to the lounge, King Ronnie did the presentations instead.

If we'd drawn against Exeter and Cardiff some would have been happy, but now we're 1 point and +1 goal better off, but todays performance was poor.........UTM.

[mellowmiller]

That was so disappointing.
We knew Cardiff would be technically superior so I was hoping for a battling performance where we would challenge for every ball and harass them into making mistakes.
What we got was a shambles with no apparent game plan and we actually got worse when they went down to 10 men. Men against boys.
It's true that this game won't define our season but I just hope it doesn't leave too many scars because the lack of shape, effort and commitment was simply unacceptable.
Losing to the champions elect should not be surprising but losing in such an inept manner is unacceptable.
Lots of work to do to put things right for the next game.....and please, please, please stop persisting with this bloody stupid defensive formation!!

[Shark27]

Unfortunately, and I hate to say it, this game shows that MH has to go. Once they were down to ten men we should have gone for it.

[Tigerish]

For months I've been saying that the dumplings in the dugout are taking us down.
I'm still right.
Can anyone seriously disagree with me after that apology of a performance?
Sideways passing, powderpuff tackling, players too frightened to express themselves. Wings totally exposed to counter attacks.
This lies at Hamshaw 's door and he really has to go.
His signings are not going to get us out of this mire. Trust me
Mr Stewart, you saw that abject display against ten men. What did you think?
This manager is taking us down in our centenary year.

[Old_time_miller]

Goal 1. Terrible lack of organisation, play reading and positional sense to allow freedom to cross and pass. Baptiste.
Anyone else in the box watching?
Goal 2. Dawson, yet again out in no mans land then stops. Dead easy to score. Blames defender for not playing keeper on goal line.
Goal 3. Dawson, again, dumped on his arris trying with legs akimbo to stop a ball.
Still, it saves the cleaner serious washing of his kit by being dive shy. Can this guy actually dive? An age thing? Bruises easily? Can?t think fast enough?
Goal 2 really killed the game. Time for Mr. Cann.

[Timbertop]

If the (alleged) new owners turned up today a new manager will be their immediate priority.

[Old_time_miller]

If the (alleged) new owners turned up today a new manager will be their immediate priority.

And a shed load sent packing and half a squad brought in. Which is in the summer.
Too much is heaped on Hamshaw, some of the individual performances were dreadful, outclassed. Performances of the likes of Jules, McWilliams, many more speak for themselves. The manager does not kick the ball. That is not to say he is faultless, but remember also who we were playing. But, now, I would not have gone 3 at the back or have Agbaire on the bench when defending like that is going off.