" AVERAGE AT BEST "

Here is a blog by an Ipswich fan who believes we are average, had huge slices of luck to win the Championship.

Is this how we are perceived I wonder by other clubs fans.

" When the likes of a very average Cardiff City team wins the Championship with consummate ease it must raise the hopes of clubs such as ours that the promised land of the Premiership can be a reality.

It proves that an average side amongst 23 other very average sides can win the league with the right manager, a good team spirit and a big dollop of luck.

At a time when relegated clubs leave the Premiership with a barrow load of parachute cash one is forced to ask how Wolves can be relegated and Bolton and Blackburn struggle to aspire to mid-table mediocrity.

It seems such a fine line between the correct investment to maintain Premiership status or being too frugal and coming straight back down.

We have all seen how big spending to stay in the Premiership does not always work and without a rich benefactor it can push a club to the brink of meltdown and back to back relegations.

Do ITFC fans realise just how close we were to becoming another Sheffield United or Wednesday this season? It seems implausible to think that Sheffield United could not turn over Yeovil in a two-legged semi-final to climb out of League One, it must be galling for Blunts' fans, but this is reality and could easily have been ourselves if MM had not rescued us when he did.

I have to agree wholeheartedly with the players MM is shedding and feel that the likes of Lee Martin and Michael Chopra in particular are symbolic of the Keane/Jewell shambles that was Ipswich Town.

MM and TC will produce a well-organised, hardworking, if not flamboyant brand of football. Put this together with a strong team spirit and the slice of luck that has been missing for the last few years (something MM seems to have brought with him) and we will have a very real chance this coming season. It’s going to be tough, but if Cardiff can do it then why can't we?"

http://www.twtd.co.uk/blogs/21336

I read something similar in the mail on line;


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... Canio.html

The Championship was a "Sea Of Mediocrity" according to Adrian Durham.


But then again I supose the author is nothing more than the spawn of "Modern Football"

Ignore the jealous tossers,Durham is a tw*t anyway,I remember this font of football knowledge slagging of CCFC once when we signed Bellers first time, saying how can it be right that a side, once in administration sign him. As for ipswich, they were the shit of the championship, and lucky they got a boring manager to stay up. Tossers of the highest order.

Here is a blog by an Ipswich fan who believes we are average, had huge slices of luck to win the Championship.

Is this how we are perceived I wonder by other clubs fans.

" When the likes of a very average Cardiff City team wins the Championship with consummate ease it must raise the hopes of clubs such as ours that the promised land of the Premiership can be a reality.

It proves that an average side amongst 23 other very average sides can win the league with the right manager, a good team spirit and a big dollop of luck.

At a time when relegated clubs leave the Premiership with a barrow load of parachute cash one is forced to ask how Wolves can be relegated and Bolton and Blackburn struggle to aspire to mid-table mediocrity.

It seems such a fine line between the correct investment to maintain Premiership status or being too frugal and coming straight back down.

We have all seen how big spending to stay in the Premiership does not always work and without a rich benefactor it can push a club to the brink of meltdown and back to back relegations.

Do ITFC fans realise just how close we were to becoming another Sheffield United or Wednesday this season? It seems implausible to think that Sheffield United could not turn over Yeovil in a two-legged semi-final to climb out of League One, it must be galling for Blunts' fans, but this is reality and could easily have been ourselves if MM had not rescued us when he did.

I have to agree wholeheartedly with the players MM is shedding and feel that the likes of Lee Martin and Michael Chopra in particular are symbolic of the Keane/Jewell shambles that was Ipswich Town.

MM and TC will produce a well-organised, hardworking, if not flamboyant brand of football. Put this together with a strong team spirit and the slice of luck that has been missing for the last few years (something MM seems to have brought with him) and we will have a very real chance this coming season. It’s going to be tough, but if Cardiff can do it then why can't we?"

http://www.twtd.co.uk/blogs/21336

I wonder on average how many championship winning teams hit the top three in September and stay there for the rest of the season.
I wonder on average how many championship winning teams hit the top of the league in November and stay there for the rest of the season.
The championship was not average but more competitive this season than ever before. Who would have thought a team would be sweating over relegation the last day of the season with 55 points in the bag.
Just a lot of bitter fans out there who despise the fact that there are two welsh clubs in the English premier league.
I wonder what we would have achieved points wise if we had Maynard fit and available all season. It was a remarkable achievement based on not having a first choice striker fit and available most of the season.

f*cking spot on.

Cardiff average,do me a favour.If Ipswich were in our position i bet it would be a different story.It takes more than an average side to win the championship like we did.

Jealous English c**t, nuff said

I wouldn't say average in the slightest but, let's face it, City were hardly consistently entertaining on the field. Malky's men got the job done by grinding out results, and that's what was needed after so many years of wait.

There are only a handful of games from which I emerged truly satisfied in the season just passed. The rest were well-fought clashes.

Now we're in a league allowing us to bring better talent in, offering a better quality style of play - even if Malky does decide to keep to his tactics. I, for one, am ridiculously excited.

Oh look, another blinkered blog

I can't wait to prove every one of these wrong. This Ipswich fan watched us how many times?! - the same goes for Adrian Durham. We won a decent championship on merit. We broke records left right and centre. 10 home wins on the bounce at the start, EIGHTEEN different scorers throughout the squad and we didn't even have a recognised striker until January!!

The work ethos Malky instills from every single player make us extremely difficult to beat, and I honestly can see us taking that to the top flight. We defend in packs smothering teams. How many sides throughout the season had long periods of possession? Hardly any. Defensively we're sound, but Malky will know what's needed up top and out wide. Of course we need to strengthen but I'm putting a wedge on us surviving before a few of the quality signings announced next month

Bring it on

Don't care what this or any other bitter fan thinks, we dominated a league that is deemed one of the toughest in the World to get out of.
All 3 of the relegated sides from the Prem from previous season failed to reach the playoffs, one getting relegated again.

Drive on Tractor boy!

Spurs are an 'average' club.

The only trophy in the last 10 years they've won of any significance is the League Cup. The Jacks won that after 3 years in the PL FFS and in better fashion, credit where its due.

Durham is a bitter Arsenal hating jealous idiot who takes his frustration out on everyone else because he knows deep down his whole club is a load of shite.

Arsenal may have not won anything for years but Spurs will forever be in their shadow and that hurts Durham loads. He's the Spurs version of Piers, an absolute joke.

Everyone is quick to slag off the Championship but the reality is different, isn't it Bolton, Blackburn and Wolves?

Cant wait until Bale moves to a club more his level and leaves Arsenals shadow in the gutter where they belong.

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Its an interesting thought that being average can result in success. There is a statistical error in assuming that CCFC were average, we were not! Clean sheets? the team to beat! Home win runs? the team to beat! Poor result runs? the team to beat!
Our Ipswich colleague is confusing unspectacular with average!

It is rare for a team to stay at the top for so long and attract so little attention, while everyone waited for our unspectacular series of results to slip away we kept grinding out those odd goal victories. Net result promotion.

I am not complacent and feel that this will not be enough next year when no team will quietly slip *under the radar" for £60m plus we will need to stand up and be counted.

More shite written by a middle class wanker.The only thing I agree with in that piece is that team spirit wins championships.
Rival supporters go on about Cardiffs luck really? At the start of the season we had all our best players out injured and main striker out with an ACL,we showed we had a superior squad,manager and team than any other side,hence the reason why we were top for so long

I laughed when I was reading the article by the Durham tosser where he says Peterborough went down despite losing only 2 of thier last 13 matches.

The thing is the season is 46 games and not 13 and Peterborough lost 16 of thier first 21 games


That's why they went down because they were shite.

Right up to the last games, midweek,cundy and goldstein were talking about cardiff bottling it again,well we didn't, and they can look elsewhere now.Try sheff united for gods sake.

Bar a few games its true what he says " AVERAGE AT BEST "

Bar a few games its true what he says " AVERAGE AT BEST "

If we were average ian the rest were a shower of shit

"Average at Best", well we did have the Best points per game Average !

Good. I hope everyone believes we are average. They will then be in for a shock and we can get a good number of points on the board, nice and early

I don't think we won the league at a canter, and maybe at times we were average and we really had to dig in and grind out some results but at the end of the day WE WON THE LEAGUE

Don goodman also said it was a poor championship league this season, and was worried for all the teams going up.

I agree that it was a poor league. Poorest in a while, but the premiership was also poor

1977 average just won't win the championship like we did.

Bar a few games its true what he says " AVERAGE AT BEST "

If we were average ian the rest were a shower of shit

We was average and the rest was a shower of shit.

Who cares....

They're Championship and we're Champions.


Premier League status suggests we're not Average, We're slightly better...

Their Championship Status suggests they're average, and slightly bitter...

That is the most bitter think I have ever read.

Only need to be better than 3 over the season. There will be two leagues, one playing for Europe the rest, more than half, playing to stay up.

Surely its the opposite? If we are seen as a "poor" choice of champions (who won the leauge by quite a gap) then it means that none of them teams below us are that good or even a good championship standard, specially of Ipswich's quality? The way they act its if the majority of the league are nothing more than leauge 1 standard. To me the whole football league isnt up to the standard it used to be but on the other hand the fact that this season clubs needed one of the hightest amounts of points to avoid relegation showed how competitive this league is.

The standard of the Premier League is dropped signifcantly, by the fact the United won it with ease and also the fact Swansea (this is not a dig at them before I upset the jacks) were able to sustain 9th place whilst only winning 3 times since their Carling Cup win. No I don't think any praise can be taken away from our club due the fact that we sustained 1st place since November. The criticism should be looked at the other clubs in the league if they believe we are poor champions.

lets be honest the fan is right, first of all i think it was a shit league. your wolves . bolton. blackburn, birmingham etc. never produced, i think we were a poor team. the football at times was? but hay. we made it . but lets not be fooled in to something were not, i think we need 6-8 players of quality to stay up

Its not our fault other teams never performed.don't put Cardiff in the same bracket as them because we had a very good side good enough to win the championship.of course we have to strengthen for the premier that's going to be a different ball game altogether.

People are so fickle.

They only say this because ourselves and Hull struggled over the line.

If we took five of our wins and stuck them at the end of the season nobody would be saying this about us.

At the end of the day just look at the quality in this years play-offs and think we comfortably beat all of them points wise