BREAKING BRIAN BARRY-MURPHY : “ THURSDAY 5TH FEBRUARY 2026 “
Thu Feb 05, 2026 7:23 am
“ BRIAN BARRY-MURPHY WILL TODAY UPDATE CARDIFF CITY FANS “ Thursday 5th February 2026
BBM: “ YOUSEF SALECH / DYLAN LAWLOR / RUBIN COLWILL “
"Yousef [Salech] is improving day by day. There's no timescale on him, due to the nature of his injury.”
“The players that we won't have available are: Dylan Lawlor, who is expected to be back next week.”
“Rubin [Colwill] is back in training, but not available for Saturday. It's early stages for him.”
BBM:
“I'm very pleased with the response at Burton, to what by our standards was a below par first half. The players implemented from the first minute of the second half what I wanted.”
BBM:
"The players have had a really good week, hopefully train as well today as we have done earlier in the week, and physically we're seeing big improvements which we hope we will also see in games moving forward."
BBM:
"It's easy to forget how young the majority of our squad is and where they've come from, because they've done so well. We're so pleased with those guys.”
“19,20,21, 23 years old playing in a tough league.”
"The different situations that they've faced in this stage of the season, you want to see clear signs that we've improved and learned from earlier in the season, and I include myself in that. Like I said, I feel as if we are, but we have to continue to strive to do better all the time.“
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BBM:
"Calum [Scanlon] has already shown this week how ready he is. It took me by surprise a little bit, because he hasn't had a lot of action.”
“He's not played 90 minutes yet, but he looks in a really good place.”
“He's an elite player with an elite mentality. He wants to improve, and we feel as if we can help him enormously to improve."
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 7:24 am
BBM:
"The different situations that they've faced in this stage of the season, you want to see clear signs that we've improved and learned from earlier in the season, and I include myself in that. Like I said, I feel as if we are, but we have to continue to strive to do better all the time."
"The different situations that they've faced in this stage of the season, you want to see clear signs that we've improved and learned from earlier in the season, and I include myself in that. Like I said, I feel as if we are, but we have to continue to strive to do better all the time."
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 7:30 am
BBM:
"We feel as if we can play a lot better than we did at Burton." Brian began. "The game didn't go how we wanted it to, but it's just a reminder of how difficult the division is, and how bumpy the road will be along the way. But overall the players are doing fantastically well, and we're looking forward to Saturday's game with renewed optimism.”
"Rotherham played really well in the game against Exeter, a huge result for them. They're predominantly always a team who play with a back five and wing backs, but in recent weeks have changed to a back four, so we're a little bit unsure of what they'll do in the game on Saturday. But, we're pretty well prepared for all eventualities, based on how many times we've faced different systems and different types of teams.“
"We feel as if we can play a lot better than we did at Burton." Brian began. "The game didn't go how we wanted it to, but it's just a reminder of how difficult the division is, and how bumpy the road will be along the way. But overall the players are doing fantastically well, and we're looking forward to Saturday's game with renewed optimism.”
"Rotherham played really well in the game against Exeter, a huge result for them. They're predominantly always a team who play with a back five and wing backs, but in recent weeks have changed to a back four, so we're a little bit unsure of what they'll do in the game on Saturday. But, we're pretty well prepared for all eventualities, based on how many times we've faced different systems and different types of teams.“
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 7:33 am
“ 17 REMAINING CCFC FIXTURES “
Sat Feb 7 Rotherham United v Cardiff City Crowd Away Supoort
Sat Feb 14 Cardiff City v Luton Town
Tue Feb 17 Cardiff City v AFC Wimbledon
Sat Feb 21 12:30pm Plymouth Argyle v Cardiff City Live Sky Tv
Sat Feb 28 - Doncaster Rovers (A)
Sat Mar 7 - Lincoln City (H)
Tue Mar 10 Barnsley (A)
Sat Mar 14 - Exeter City (A)
Tue Mar 17 - Wycombe Wanderers (H)
Sat Mar 21 - Blackpool (H)
Sat Mar 28 - Huddersfield Town (A)
Fri Apr 3 - Port Vale (H)
Mon Apr 6 - Peterborough United (A)
Sat Apr 11 - Bolton Wanderers (H)
Sat Apr 18 - Reading (A)
Sat Apr 25 - Northampton Town (H)
Sat May 2 - Mansfield Town v Cardiff City Crowd Away Support
Sat Feb 7 Rotherham United v Cardiff City Crowd Away Supoort
Sat Feb 14 Cardiff City v Luton Town
Tue Feb 17 Cardiff City v AFC Wimbledon
Sat Feb 21 12:30pm Plymouth Argyle v Cardiff City Live Sky Tv
Sat Feb 28 - Doncaster Rovers (A)
Sat Mar 7 - Lincoln City (H)
Tue Mar 10 Barnsley (A)
Sat Mar 14 - Exeter City (A)
Tue Mar 17 - Wycombe Wanderers (H)
Sat Mar 21 - Blackpool (H)
Sat Mar 28 - Huddersfield Town (A)
Fri Apr 3 - Port Vale (H)
Mon Apr 6 - Peterborough United (A)
Sat Apr 11 - Bolton Wanderers (H)
Sat Apr 18 - Reading (A)
Sat Apr 25 - Northampton Town (H)
Sat May 2 - Mansfield Town v Cardiff City Crowd Away Support
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 7:36 am
BBM:
"During the week, you're always trying to improve the players physically. Because so many of the players are so young, they have so much room for improvement - technically and tactically is obvious, but physically as well. The way that Kevin Gibbins structures training physically over the course of the season, I know from experience that we'll be at our best in the closing months of the season. That offers us great confidence moving forward."
"During the week, you're always trying to improve the players physically. Because so many of the players are so young, they have so much room for improvement - technically and tactically is obvious, but physically as well. The way that Kevin Gibbins structures training physically over the course of the season, I know from experience that we'll be at our best in the closing months of the season. That offers us great confidence moving forward."
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 7:40 am
BBM:
“I'm very pleased with the response at Burton, to what by our standards was a below par first half. The players implemented from the first minute of the second half what I wanted.”
“They’re a very direct team and create good momentum in their home stadium with direct play, long throws and free kicks.”
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“I'm very pleased with the response at Burton, to what by our standards was a below par first half. The players implemented from the first minute of the second half what I wanted.”
“They’re a very direct team and create good momentum in their home stadium with direct play, long throws and free kicks.”
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 7:41 am
BBM:
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 8:08 am
BBM:
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:08 am
Another Cardiff player goes out on loan:
Ewan Griffiths aged 20, has joined Cardiff Met FC on loan for the remainder of the 2025/26 campaign.
Ewan Griffiths aged 20, has joined Cardiff Met FC on loan for the remainder of the 2025/26 campaign.
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:28 am
BBM:
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:29 am
'The problem will always be the owner'
Jason Perry:
"We're doing well, playing a brand that we identify with and everybody's happy.”
"But you've only got to look around the football club and I still see the same mistakes."
BBC
Thursday 5th February 2026
Cardiff owner Vincent Tan has not attended a home game since December 2023
As much as the mood has undoubtedly improved this season, the root causes of Cardiff's recent troubles have not simply disappeared.
Tan remains a divisive figure, as do chairman Mehmet Dalman and chief executive Ken Choo.
They were the target of numerous protests last season, some of which saw hordes of supporters marching to Cardiff City Stadium, holding banners and singing songs demanding that Tan and his fellow board members leave.
Some of the ill feeling can be traced back to Tan's highly controversial rebranding of the club's colours from blue to red in 2012, even though he reversed the decision three years later.
More recently, the anger relates to his perceived lack of interest, with Tan having not attended a home game for more than two years.
Then, perhaps most damningly, there is the way he, Dalman and Choo have run the club.
Fans, former players and pundits have all highlighted the startling lack of football knowledge at board level, with no layer of expertise between Tan and the many managers he has hired and fired.
Cardiff at least tried a new method in their appointment of Barry-Murphy, forming a one-off sub-committee which included the club's academy manager Gavin Chesterfield, former Swansea City sporting director Mark Allen and members of the Wasserman agency. However, the final decision still belonged to Tan.
JASON PERRY:
"They didn't plan to get relegated," says Perry. "And in hiring Barry-Murphy, is it really a thorough process that we've got to the outcome of getting him? I don't think so.”
"It's a filtering system, a few people narrowing it down to five choices, and those five choices go then to the owner.”
"The problem will always be the owner, simply because he hasn't got that knowledge to pick out of those five. Nathan Jones was in there [on the shortlist], there were others who weren't similar to Barry-Murphy.”
"I'll only start calling it a process if Barry-Murphy goes and the next appointment is very similar. Then it becomes a process, get another coach who puts a team out that we can identify with as supporters and is also successful.
“But you must have knowledge of what you're looking for. The same problems are here at this club, and they need to change for us to have success continuously."
Given how well the Barry-Murphy appointment has gone so far, then, might Tan be convinced to use a director of football or similar on a permanent basis?
"The total opposite," Perry says. "I think he'll get carried away, so much so that it will reinforce his own opinion of himself, that he is the right man because of what we're seeing now.
"He will not look at the process and put his hands up and go, 'possibly we're fortunate here because it wasn't our first choice'.
"You have to be honest, reflection is a key part of football or any big business, but when you reflect you have to be honest and you have to look at your skillset. Then you have to either improve that skillset or you bring somebody in that has those skills. Unfortunately, at City we don't have that and that is my concern."
There is no guarantee of an instant return to the Championship. It took Cardiff 18 years to get back to that level when they were last relegated to the third tier in 1985.
Of the 30 teams to have been in the Premier League and relegated to League One, six have never made it back to the Championship.
Given how Cardiff are going this season, they should not add to that number.
Promotion will not fix everything, though.
"I came into this season determined to enjoy it," says Perry.
"We're doing well, playing a brand that we identify with and everybody's happy.
"But you've only got to look around the football club and I still see the same mistakes."
Jason Perry:
"We're doing well, playing a brand that we identify with and everybody's happy.”
"But you've only got to look around the football club and I still see the same mistakes."
BBC
Thursday 5th February 2026
Cardiff owner Vincent Tan has not attended a home game since December 2023
As much as the mood has undoubtedly improved this season, the root causes of Cardiff's recent troubles have not simply disappeared.
Tan remains a divisive figure, as do chairman Mehmet Dalman and chief executive Ken Choo.
They were the target of numerous protests last season, some of which saw hordes of supporters marching to Cardiff City Stadium, holding banners and singing songs demanding that Tan and his fellow board members leave.
Some of the ill feeling can be traced back to Tan's highly controversial rebranding of the club's colours from blue to red in 2012, even though he reversed the decision three years later.
More recently, the anger relates to his perceived lack of interest, with Tan having not attended a home game for more than two years.
Then, perhaps most damningly, there is the way he, Dalman and Choo have run the club.
Fans, former players and pundits have all highlighted the startling lack of football knowledge at board level, with no layer of expertise between Tan and the many managers he has hired and fired.
Cardiff at least tried a new method in their appointment of Barry-Murphy, forming a one-off sub-committee which included the club's academy manager Gavin Chesterfield, former Swansea City sporting director Mark Allen and members of the Wasserman agency. However, the final decision still belonged to Tan.
JASON PERRY:
"They didn't plan to get relegated," says Perry. "And in hiring Barry-Murphy, is it really a thorough process that we've got to the outcome of getting him? I don't think so.”
"It's a filtering system, a few people narrowing it down to five choices, and those five choices go then to the owner.”
"The problem will always be the owner, simply because he hasn't got that knowledge to pick out of those five. Nathan Jones was in there [on the shortlist], there were others who weren't similar to Barry-Murphy.”
"I'll only start calling it a process if Barry-Murphy goes and the next appointment is very similar. Then it becomes a process, get another coach who puts a team out that we can identify with as supporters and is also successful.
“But you must have knowledge of what you're looking for. The same problems are here at this club, and they need to change for us to have success continuously."
Given how well the Barry-Murphy appointment has gone so far, then, might Tan be convinced to use a director of football or similar on a permanent basis?
"The total opposite," Perry says. "I think he'll get carried away, so much so that it will reinforce his own opinion of himself, that he is the right man because of what we're seeing now.
"He will not look at the process and put his hands up and go, 'possibly we're fortunate here because it wasn't our first choice'.
"You have to be honest, reflection is a key part of football or any big business, but when you reflect you have to be honest and you have to look at your skillset. Then you have to either improve that skillset or you bring somebody in that has those skills. Unfortunately, at City we don't have that and that is my concern."
There is no guarantee of an instant return to the Championship. It took Cardiff 18 years to get back to that level when they were last relegated to the third tier in 1985.
Of the 30 teams to have been in the Premier League and relegated to League One, six have never made it back to the Championship.
Given how Cardiff are going this season, they should not add to that number.
Promotion will not fix everything, though.
"I came into this season determined to enjoy it," says Perry.
"We're doing well, playing a brand that we identify with and everybody's happy.
"But you've only got to look around the football club and I still see the same mistakes."
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:34 am
BBM:
"The players have had a really good week, hopefully train as well today as we have done earlier in the week, and physically we're seeing big improvements which we hope we will also see in games moving forward."
"The players have had a really good week, hopefully train as well today as we have done earlier in the week, and physically we're seeing big improvements which we hope we will also see in games moving forward."
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:37 am
BBM:
"It's easy to forget how young the majority of our squad is and where they've come from, because they've done so well. We're so pleased with those guys.”
“19,20,21, 23 years old playing in a tough league.”
"The different situations that they've faced in this stage of the season, you want to see clear signs that we've improved and learned from earlier in the season, and I include myself in that. Like I said, I feel as if we are, but we have to continue to strive to do better all the time.“
"It's easy to forget how young the majority of our squad is and where they've come from, because they've done so well. We're so pleased with those guys.”
“19,20,21, 23 years old playing in a tough league.”
"The different situations that they've faced in this stage of the season, you want to see clear signs that we've improved and learned from earlier in the season, and I include myself in that. Like I said, I feel as if we are, but we have to continue to strive to do better all the time.“
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:41 am
BBM: “ YOUSEF SALECH / DYLAN LAWLOR / RUBIN COLWILL “
"Yousef [Salech] is improving day by day. There's no timescale on him, due to the nature of his injury.”
“The players that we won't have available are: Dylan Lawlor, who is expected to be back next week.”
“Rubin [Colwill] is back in training, but not available for Saturday. It's early stages for him.”
"Yousef [Salech] is improving day by day. There's no timescale on him, due to the nature of his injury.”
“The players that we won't have available are: Dylan Lawlor, who is expected to be back next week.”
“Rubin [Colwill] is back in training, but not available for Saturday. It's early stages for him.”
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:13 pm
BBM:
“Rubin [Colwill] is back in training, but not available for Saturday. It's early stages for him.”
"He'll want to play straight away; he's flying, and in a really good place. As he goes through the rigours of the next week or so, we'll get a better idea.”
“Rubin [Colwill] is back in training, but not available for Saturday. It's early stages for him.”
"He'll want to play straight away; he's flying, and in a really good place. As he goes through the rigours of the next week or so, we'll get a better idea.”
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:14 pm
BBM:
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:17 pm
BBM:
"Calum [Scanlon] has already shown this week how ready he is. It took me by surprise a little bit, because he hasn't had a lot of action.”
“He's not played 90 minutes yet, but he looks in a really good place.”
“He's an elite player with an elite mentality. He wants to improve, and we feel as if we can help him enormously to improve."
"Calum [Scanlon] has already shown this week how ready he is. It took me by surprise a little bit, because he hasn't had a lot of action.”
“He's not played 90 minutes yet, but he looks in a really good place.”
“He's an elite player with an elite mentality. He wants to improve, and we feel as if we can help him enormously to improve."
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 12:38 pm
CHRIS WILLOCK:
“I’m really enjoying it,” Chris began. “I think we’ve done well and we need to keep working and hopefully things will continue this way.
“I think it’s been a long season already but we have a lot of games to go. We have to keep producing the goods to keep winning. Training hard is the most important thing and surely then the results will take care of themselves.
“I’m just enjoying it; when I’m playing well I’m enjoying myself, playing how I can at the top end of the pitch with freedom.
“We’ve got a lot of talented players who are thriving in this system. We’re enjoying ourselves and you’re seeing performances week in, week out, so we’re expecting a lot more.
“We’ve showed in the past that if we’ve had a little bump, we’ve been back at it and ready to go, where everyone is hungry.
“It would be terrific if we win on Saturday, and I’m looking forward to it.”
Concluding, the forward discussed City’s approach fixtures one match at a time, as we continue further into the second half of the campaign.
“I think that teams up their game when they look to play us,” Chris explained. “We’ve got a squad to deal with it, and we don’t focus too much on who’s at the top of the table, we’re really focussed on each game and everything game is different.
“It’s been difficult, but I’m sure that we’ll still be there at the end of the season, hopefully
“I’m really enjoying it,” Chris began. “I think we’ve done well and we need to keep working and hopefully things will continue this way.
“I think it’s been a long season already but we have a lot of games to go. We have to keep producing the goods to keep winning. Training hard is the most important thing and surely then the results will take care of themselves.
“I’m just enjoying it; when I’m playing well I’m enjoying myself, playing how I can at the top end of the pitch with freedom.
“We’ve got a lot of talented players who are thriving in this system. We’re enjoying ourselves and you’re seeing performances week in, week out, so we’re expecting a lot more.
“We’ve showed in the past that if we’ve had a little bump, we’ve been back at it and ready to go, where everyone is hungry.
“It would be terrific if we win on Saturday, and I’m looking forward to it.”
Concluding, the forward discussed City’s approach fixtures one match at a time, as we continue further into the second half of the campaign.
“I think that teams up their game when they look to play us,” Chris explained. “We’ve got a squad to deal with it, and we don’t focus too much on who’s at the top of the table, we’re really focussed on each game and everything game is different.
“It’s been difficult, but I’m sure that we’ll still be there at the end of the season, hopefully
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Thu Feb 05, 2026 5:12 pm
CARDIFF CITY FANS CAN PAY ON THE DAY AT ROTHERHAM (3pm Kick Off )
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