MY VIEW " CARDIFF CITY TODAY GET NO WHERE & WHY "

" CARDIFF CITY TODAY GET NO WHERE & WHY "

Cardiff were ravaged with injuries,small squad and no quality striker against a Norwich team who don't usually do well away from home.

My View/Opinion

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CARDIFF CITY TODAY WONT GO ANYWHERE WITH OUT BACKING & IT WAS PROVED YET AGAIN

Clubs like Norwich,Reading and Brighton and they are not even the big clubs have all spent money and we have just lost to the three clubs.

In the second-half we huffed and puffed and without any quality we were never going to win this game.


Personally I thought the first-half was evens and Cardiff losing 0-1 at half-time was a bit harsh,but ex Cardiff striker came back to haunt Cardiff yet again.
Thats what happens when you have a quality striker.

Cardiff's first home defeat since December 17th and Norwich have been bad away this season.

CARDIFF CITY 0 NORWICH CITY 1
Crowd 15,901
Away Support 1,020 fans


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CARDIFF McGregor, Richards, Connolly, Morrison, Bamba, Ralls, Gunnarsson, Whittingham, Hoilett, K Harris, Zohore

Subs: Murphy, John, Halford, Noone, M Harris, Healey, Gounongbe




For me the first half was an even game and the best chance came to Norwich after Sean Morrison played a weak back pass and Cameron Jerome intercepted and it was one on one, but thankfully McGregor made a good save

In the 39th min ex Cardiff striker Cameron Jerome, headed the ball beyond a stranded Allan McGregor and made it 0-1 to Norwich.

Personally I thought Norwich going in at half-time 0-1 was a bit harsh on Cardiff.


H/T Cardiff City 0 Norwich City 1



Cardiff attacked more in the second-half,but to no avail.



Craig Noone came on for Hoilett, who got a high five from Neil Warnock.


In the 72nd min - Cardiff made another change: Whittingham came off and Rhys Healey came on.



Penalty??? NO, the referee gave a free kick the other way and shows a yellow card to Rhys Healey! The entire stadium was convinced he was foul, I can't wait to see the play back on tv later.

Minutes later City called for another penalty,Ref was not interested, Warnock was left fuming.

City never really looked like winning this game

F/T Cardiff City 0 Norwich City 1



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I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

Frustrates the life out of me when we can all see with backing we'd be challenging! We werent at our best today but did well apart from that final ball and final bit of class. Harris looks lively but the final ball lets him down. Zahore looking sharper every game he plays but some people just have tha natural goal instinct like chopra did , earny did. He works hard (zahore) and i take my hat off to him for that but unless we start finding goals from elsewhere we could certainly slip bk down the table if results go against us!

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

We were the only ones - those tinted specs are no good - we have seen it all before

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

I just hope that Warnock's inability to strengthen his squad will not come back to bite us

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

Have we? I stand by what I said, we didn't need it and that January is for emergencies. Don't believe we're in danger of going down so no need to pay over the odds for the same quality players we can get cheaper in the summer.

You can say Norwich were average, but at the end of the day they're in 7th and only three points off the play-offs.

Personally, I don't think we'll be in a relegation fight and I'm not worried at all that we didn't recruit in January - other than the players we brought in.

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

Have we? I stand by what I said, we didn't need it and that January is for emergencies. Don't believe we're in danger of going down so no need to pay over the odds for the same quality players we can get cheaper in the summer.

You can say Norwich were average, but at the end of the day they're in 7th and only three points off the play-offs.

Personally, I don't think we'll be in a relegation fight and I'm not worried at all that we didn't recruit in January - other than the players we brought in.

I would say we are in a relegation fight. Eight points above Blackburn who have a game in hand, and with the fixtures coming up we could easily be drawn closer to the bottom three. I have said all season that we will finish between 12th and 15th, but I never anticipated our squad being this small, and a run of injuries or suspensions and we could be in trouble.
I know this will upset those who think the club can do no wrong, but without someone to put the ball in the net we are going to have some tough times. I blame the transfer committee 100% for this, I could see from the day we signed Lambert that he was going to be a waste of money. I said on this forum that he would struggle to get into double figures, and would spend a lot of time out injured. Did'nt need much knowledge of the game to work that one out, and if I could anticipate this surely our esteemed transfer committee could have done the same thing. As usual, I was accused of being a pessimist by all those who thought Lambert was going to fire us towards the top, but I don't see so many on here raving about him any more.

as i said earlier the lack of knowledge of those 3 is painfully obvious...the responsibilty lies squarely withem

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

Wont go down Annis, need 12 points from 16 games, if NW cant get those, id be shocked I aint disappeared, leave strengthening until the summer

We are in a relegation fight we all know that, Zohore in all fairness to him does his best however he is a lone striker seeing names like Earnshaw and Chopra is unfair as they played a 442 system and had strikers laying the ball to them like Thorne for earnshaw and Bothroyd for chops I wonder how any of the 4 strikers names would do any better than Zohore as a lone striker.

If we had a really good midfield then we can play with a lone striker but we need to look at getting support to zohore Gunnerson is doing his job but is Ralls and Whits? plus Kadeem needs a bit more experience some his touches are not good but you can see the potential

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

Wont go down Annis, need 12 points from 16 games, if NW cant get those, id be shocked I aint disappeared, leave strengthening until the summer

We are averaging 1.2 points a game. That should take us to 55 points, a slight drop in that average because of injuries or suspensions and we will be right in the thick of it.

We're in relegation fight well if that's case so is every team below us plus sides slightly above us! We had one chance to score and Harris blew it they didn't really have a chance jarome was opportunistic!

I was one for not spending unless a real bargain came along,yes the squad is a bit light but I'm confident we have more than enough in our locker to starve off a relationship fight.As for today too many players not quite on their game,struggled in midfield and really didn't create chances.
Today mind you I have to agree Gunnarsson should be made captain,organised things and forever barking at players.

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

Have we? I stand by what I said, we didn't need it and that January is for emergencies. Don't believe we're in danger of going down so no need to pay over the odds for the same quality players we can get cheaper in the summer.

You can say Norwich were average, but at the end of the day they're in 7th and only three points off the play-offs.

Personally, I don't think we'll be in a relegation fight and I'm not worried at all that we didn't recruit in January - other than the players we brought in.

Agree - we were always going to struggle to pick up too many points with our current run of games - 2 of the top three, both away, a Norwich City side still very much in the hunt for the play offs, a Preston side who were also in touching distance of the playoffs themselves until we beat them - and it's not over yet with tricky away trips to Leeds and Derby who are also both in the running for the playoffs.

After that we have played almost all of the top 10 twice with the exception of Fulham, Wednesday, Newcastle and Huddersfield - and the last two of those will be our final two games by which point for us at least i don't there'll be much left to play for other than pride.

I really don't think we are in any danger of going down - yes we obviously can't get complacent - but the fact is we are playing enough of the sides around us in the run in that only a few wins against the likes of Rotherham, Forest, QPR, Blackburn Wolves, Wigan etc will see us get enough points and hurt those around us enough that we will be more than safe in my opinion.

From that point of view it is almost the perfect second half of the season for us to blood some youngsters and see if they are good enough to be competitive at this level, which will of course allow Warnock a much better understanding of what he has at his disposal before he looks to strengthen in the summer.

With that perspective spending anything in the over inflated January window is pointless. Get rid of the deadwood, save money, reduce the debt and give the youth a chance. This is what a lot on this board have been calling for, for a very long time - is it not?

For me there is absolutely no need to panic right now. In fact it's all actually very sensible and pragmatic from the club for once.

But the simple fact is that they absolutely do have to back Warnock in the summer

Opportunities to get your house in order like we have this season are very rare these days and we should really be looking at the end of this season as a chance to make sure we have a head start over the rest of the division next year and have a real crack at it getting targets in early for a full pre-season and hit the ground running with a blistering start.

It would help if we never just kicked the ball anywhere

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down ,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

Wont go down Annis, need 12 points from 16 games, if NW cant get those, id be shocked I aint disappeared, leave strengthening until the summer

I've never believed we would go down under Warnock Never

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

Wont go down Annis, need 12 points from 16 games, if NW cant get those, id be shocked I aint disappeared, leave strengthening until the summer

We are averaging 1.2 points a game. That should take us to 55 points, a slight drop in that average because of injuries or suspensions and we will be right in the thick of it.

Alan, all the teams below us are in a relegation fight at the minute. There are only eight teams below us, and three are going to be unlucky. I don't think we will go down, but I am less confident now than I was a couple of weeks ago. I know we will be playing a lot of the teams around us, and we know better than anyone what often happens when we play the likes of Rotherham, Wigan etc. I still think these two plus Burton will go down, but I also think we could struggle more than a lot of fans think if we get a few injuries to key players, we have no strength in depth and how many times do we hear how important it is to have a strong bench.

We should effectively write this season off other than allowing Neil Warnock to work out who should and should not stay next season when he can work his magic on re-shaping the squad

We know what is missing. A consistent forward line for a start, although I have to say that I can see an improvement occurring if the coaching staffs can get Harris, Noone and Hoilett to finish their often impressive runs with a decent ball into the box with far more regularity

Overall, not a 'bad' performance from Cardiff City against a team who were in the Premier League last season. I thought the keeper and the defence did well as a unit (Morrison and Richards in particular) and a draw would have been a far more just result

Frustrates the life out of me when we can all see with backing we'd be challenging! We werent at our best today but did well apart from that final ball and final bit of class. Harris looks lively but the final ball lets him down. Zahore looking sharper every game he plays but some people just have tha natural goal instinct like chopra did , earny did. He works hard (zahore) and i take my hat off to him for that but unless we start finding goals from elsewhere we could certainly slip bk down the table if results go against us!

Just a little backing that's all Warnock asked for

I stick by my decision that we will stay safe despite these injuries and there was no need to strengthen in the transfer window.

What frustrates me is this constant bashing of the club that we did not back Warnock in the transfer window. If Tan is still putting in money each month which was last posted on here at a million a month then he has no right to put in more. On here people are saying it's only 300,000 and 600,000 but that does not include wages. When everyone was slagging the club for the Immers deal wages were included.

For me Warnock will keep us up and I am confident that Tan will back Warnock in the summer where we know better players will be available and for a fraction of the price.

Warnock has disappointed me - if he really wanted players the transfer window was open for a month why is he blaming the FA, the agents for not returning calls, then calling whilst sleeping. He wants the business done early in the summer let's hope he don't sleep then

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

I haven't disappeared mate and I was happy not to have spent during the last window. I'd have been ok if Warnock had brought someone in but the play offs were never, ever, ever obtainable this season.

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

I'm still here. We have enough to stay up. We aren't going to reach the playoffs. There was very little between the teams, and Norwich could make the playoffs. Warnock has the contacts to complete a squad at the end of the season. We didn't need to strengthen now.

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

I just hope that Warnock's inability to strengthen his squad will not come back to bite us

Thankfully it won't happen this season but I don't have faith at this moment,he will want to stay next season.

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

Have we? I stand by what I said, we didn't need it and that January is for emergencies. Don't believe we're in danger of going down so no need to pay over the odds for the same quality players we can get cheaper in the summer.

You can say Norwich were average, but at the end of the day they're in 7th and only three points off the play-offs.

Personally, I don't think we'll be in a relegation fight and I'm not worried at all that we didn't recruit in January - other than the players we brought in.

Ned, Our manager is Neil Warnock, he can't perform miracles every week with such a small,weak squad, he was excited about January and was let down by our club.

Some on here talked about promotion with this current squad,madness,we should be happy to make mid table,if he had been backed we could of made 5th or 6th.

I dont think we are anywhere near safe Annis

Squad is wafer thin and tough games coming up

We won't go down,but we are going to struggle,funny those who said we should not have strengthened have all disappeared today.

Have we? I stand by what I said, we didn't need it and that January is for emergencies. Don't believe we're in danger of going down so no need to pay over the odds for the same quality players we can get cheaper in the summer.

You can say Norwich were average, but at the end of the day they're in 7th and only three points off the play-offs.

Personally, I don't think we'll be in a relegation fight and I'm not worried at all that we didn't recruit in January - other than the players we brought in.

I would say we are in a relegation fight. Eight points above Blackburn who have a game in hand, and with the fixtures coming up we could easily be drawn closer to the bottom three. I have said all season that we will finish between 12th and 15th, but I never anticipated our squad being this small, and a run of injuries or suspensions and we could be in trouble.
I know this will upset those who think the club can do no wrong, but without someone to put the ball in the net we are going to have some tough times. I blame the transfer committee 100% for this, I could see from the day we signed Lambert that he was going to be a waste of money. I said on this forum that he would struggle to get into double figures, and would spend a lot of time out injured. Did'nt need much knowledge of the game to work that one out, and if I could anticipate this surely our esteemed transfer committee could have done the same thing. As usual, I was accused of being a pessimist by all those who thought Lambert was going to fire us towards the top, but I don't see so many on here raving about him any more.

Steve,We have been in relegation fight from day one of the season and if we had a bad run we could soon be dragged in to it, our fans need to open their eyes,thankfully, I believe Warnock will keep us up,but No thanks to our club.

We should effectively write this season off other than allowing Neil Warnock to work out who should and should not stay next season when he can work his magic on re-shaping the squad

We know what is missing. A consistent forward line for a start, although I have to say that I can see an improvement occurring if the coaching staffs can get Harris, Noone and Hoilett to finish their often impressive runs with a decent ball into the box with far more regularity

Overall, not a 'bad' performance from Cardiff City against a team who were in the Premier League last season. I thought the keeper and the defence did well as a unit (Morrison and Richards in particular) and a draw would have been a far more just result

Chris, the last three seasons we have said the same.

Norwich/Reading ordinary teams, if we had fire power we would of won both games

We should effectively write this season off other than allowing Neil Warnock to work out who should and should not stay next season when he can work his magic on re-shaping the squad

We know what is missing. A consistent forward line for a start, although I have to say that I can see an improvement occurring if the coaching staffs can get Harris, Noone and Hoilett to finish their often impressive runs with a decent ball into the box with far more regularity

Overall, not a 'bad' performance from Cardiff City against a team who were in the Premier League last season. I thought the keeper and the defence did well as a unit (Morrison and Richards in particular) and a draw would have been a far more just result

Chris, the last three seasons we have said the same.

Norwich/Reading ordinary teams, if we had fire power we would of won both games

Annis, our play up until the 18-yard box is often better than good but so often goes to waste. The obvious improvement in 'game' coaching by New Warnock, Kevin Blackwell, Ronnie Jepson and their team is plain to see and I feel we are not too far short of a team able to hold our own fighting for at least a Top 6 place next season and beyond

The mood of many is often set purely by whether City win, draw or lose rather than how the team actually performed in the game itsel

A 1-0 win is greeted by "We'll make the play-offs", whilst a 1-0 loss is greeted with "We're being dragged back into the relegation fight!"

Thanks to Neil Warnock and his coaching team, it is unlikely that we'll be troubled by being too involved at either end of the table and I feel sure 'due diligence' is being carried out right now with regard to what is needed for a big improvement next season

In Neil Warnock we trust...and so should Vincent Tan

Bloody hell, apart from Gunnarsson that midfield was awful. Surely we should make that a priority to get right?