What are the Slade boo boys going to moan about now?

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

Wasn't Gunnarrson injured? I'm sure that's the only reason Kennedy came on at half time. If I'm wrong then I will admit that it was a good tactical decision by Slade but if Gunnarrson was injured then it was forced on Slade and without the injury I really doubt that we would have seen Kennedy on at half time.

Gunnarsson might have been injured, I'm not sure. But Slade could have gone like for like and replaced Gunnarsson with Adeyemi or O'Keefe instead. But Slade chose to put Kennedy on and it proved the correct decision, so I'm giving credit to Slade for this one.

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

You maybe right, an awful first half but that was down to two poor teams and wrong selection. Thankfully injuries saved the day

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Mate that keeping possession is f*****g boring !
Just as the long balls
Just playing football and pass it forwards and pass and move then shoot not pass again no wonder we hardly score we don't shoot

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Malky and slade have got to you, they aren't the only two options

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Mate that keeping possession is f*****g boring !
Just as the long balls
Just playing football and pass it forwards and pass and move then shoot not pass again no wonder we hardly score we don't shoot

If only it was that simple.

You seem to fail to realise we have an opposition trying to stop us being able to go forwards and shoot.

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Mate that keeping possession is f*****g boring !
Just as the long balls
Just playing football and pass it forwards and pass and move then shoot not pass again no wonder we hardly score we don't shoot

If only it was that simple.

You seem to fail to realise we have an opposition trying to stop us being able to go forwards and shoot.

It is that simple
We had plenty of opportunities to shoot today but shit out and passed
Don't shoot don't score they say
And football is that simple
Managers over complicate it these days
Bournemouth showed how to play football the other night
At pace and pass and moving. and a lot of movement !

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Mate that keeping possession is f*****g boring !
Just as the long balls
Just playing football and pass it forwards and pass and move then shoot not pass again no wonder we hardly score we don't shoot

If only it was that simple.

You seem to fail to realise we have an opposition trying to stop us being able to go forwards and shoot.

It is that simple
We had plenty of opportunities to shoot today but shit out and passed
Don't shoot don't score they say
And football is that simple
Managers over complicate it these days
Bournemouth showed how to play football the other night
At pace and pass and moving. and a lot of movement !

Odd statement considering bmouth had only 3 shots on goal! What were they doing rest of game? Passing and moving in their own half!:o

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Mate that keeping possession is f*****g boring !
Just as the long balls
Just playing football and pass it forwards and pass and move then shoot not pass again no wonder we hardly score we don't shoot

If only it was that simple.

You seem to fail to realise we have an opposition trying to stop us being able to go forwards and shoot.

It is that simple
We had plenty of opportunities to shoot today but shit out and passed
Don't shoot don't score they say
And football is that simple
Managers over complicate it these days
Bournemouth showed how to play football the other night
At pace and pass and moving. and a lot of movement !

Bournemouth are able to do it because they have the personnel. We have Peter Whittingham who has a lot of qualities, but running forwards at pace isn't one of them. Harry Arter's run to win Bournemouth's penalty is something we don't have.

Made the point in another thread! Why is it when we do something useful its agains piss poor team? Ffs there must be 15 or 16 of them in championship according to people on here? come to conclusion this board is full of glass 1/4 full kind of people!

Yep course it is and only see David's when we are struggling! Am almost done with the forum which is shame as have enjoyed it. All for different opinions but most haven't a scooby doo

You obviously haven't seen my other posts this evening!

Don't get your panties in a twist Stringfellow - I thought we did ok today against a poor Birmingham team who, like us, had nothing to play for this season.

And I will give Slade credit for making the changes which changed the game, bringing on Kennedy and Doyle swung the game our way, even if his hand was forced by injuries, without which I doubt if we would have seen either of them until much later in the game, when it might have been harder to influence the game as much as they did.

I still fully expect to see the ineffective pairing of Whittingham and Gunnarrson starting in centr midfield against Reading despite another decent showing from Ralls today (also forced on Slade by the way).

Nothing personal am just so used to seeing a negative from you, no i I haven't seen many posts tonight. I never base things on one match, am looking at things over the last ten and the improvement.

Ralls should be a shoe in, was superb today and is definitely up for the job and has silenced many critics (surprise) on this forum who had him down as not up to it not so long ago.

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Mate that keeping possession is f*****g boring !
Just as the long balls
Just playing football and pass it forwards and pass and move then shoot not pass again no wonder we hardly score we don't shoot

If only it was that simple.

You seem to fail to realise we have an opposition trying to stop us being able to go forwards and shoot.

It is that simple
We had plenty of opportunities to shoot today but shit out and passed
Don't shoot don't score they say
And football is that simple
Managers over complicate it these days
Bournemouth showed how to play football the other night
At pace and pass and moving. and a lot of movement !

Odd statement considering bmouth had only 3 shots on goal! What were they doing rest of game? Passing and moving in their own half!:o

Oh not another statittion !
They hit tthe bar a few times
Dissaloud goal
Missed header at end
The list could go in
They were a great team
You clearly don't see good football when it's infront of you

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Mate that keeping possession is f*****g boring !
Just as the long balls
Just playing football and pass it forwards and pass and move then shoot not pass again no wonder we hardly score we don't shoot

If only it was that simple.

You seem to fail to realise we have an opposition trying to stop us being able to go forwards and shoot.

It is that simple
We had plenty of opportunities to shoot today but shit out and passed
Don't shoot don't score they say
And football is that simple
Managers over complicate it these days
Bournemouth showed how to play football the other night
At pace and pass and moving. and a lot of movement !

Bournemouth are able to do it because they have the personnel. We have Peter Whittingham who has a lot of qualities, but running forwards at pace isn't one of them. Harry Arter's run to win Bournemouth's penalty is something we don't have.

That's why we resort to playing long ball
And that hardly works
We need a new midfield from right to left
And a striker with pace

I'm not moaning but do have to point out that yet again we were piss poor. Just not the worst of the two teams on show. I was honestly fighting sleep in the first half.

I'd be glad if those points meant anything for our season but they just don't.

Most of us are clutching at straws.

When I read skewett I knew what would follow!! Piss poor? Did you go? I think you been watching to much match of the day. Controlled first half without creating. Second half didn't give them a sniff and created scored and won. Your expectations are ridiculous

I go to every game home and away and this season I've also been to all the Cup games, so for one thing I can be sure you haven't watched more games than me this season. I don't expect Real Madrid but I do expect value for money. If my expectations are too high then you must be satisfied pretty easily.

I suppose you're going to say Slade hasn't had a fair crack yet. I think he's had about 5 months and if you look carefully I'm not the only one disagreeing with you on here. In fact I'm not even the only one saying they practically fell asleep in that first half today.

Why should we settle for mediocrity.

I have always said Slade isn't the man to take us forward, I have always said we must judge and make a decision in the summer and I stick by that. We created nothing first half, we went sideways probed came back and sideways again but they have clearly been told if it's not on keep hold of it. Because while you have the ball the opposition can't hurt you, which they didn't.

Am I satisfied? Well he negative posters use the phrase" I am a realist" well I will use it today, considering the turmoil and major changes then being realistic you would do well to get better than that. Lots of work ahead, lots of improvements to come but yes I am satisfied with that today and once again the players wanted it

Why was Kennedy even on the bench? A good manager wouldn't have needed to address it.

And totally agree, awful in the first half.

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.

That's one way of looking at it.

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season!

Mate that keeping possession is f*****g boring !
Just as the long balls
Just playing football and pass it forwards and pass and move then shoot not pass again no wonder we hardly score we don't shoot

If only it was that simple.

You seem to fail to realise we have an opposition trying to stop us being able to go forwards and shoot.

It is that simple
We had plenty of opportunities to shoot today but shit out and passed
Don't shoot don't score they say
And football is that simple
Managers over complicate it these days
Bournemouth showed how to play football the other night
At pace and pass and moving. and a lot of movement !

Bournemouth are able to do it because they have the personnel. We have Peter Whittingham who has a lot of qualities, but running forwards at pace isn't one of them. Harry Arter's run to win Bournemouth's penalty is something we don't have.

That's why we resort to playing long ball
And that hardly works
We need a new midfield from right to left
And a striker with pace

I agree we need more pace, but until we bring more players in with pace, we're not going to be able to play this free flowing, pacey passing and moving attacking football. So currently, it's either hopeful long balls which are 70/30 in the defenders favour, or knock the ball around and keep possession. The team and Slade can never win because if we hoof it long, you moan and if we knock the ball around nicely to keep possession, you're bored!

How can you say we were awful in the first half? We stroked the ball around nicely but didn't have the cutting edge to create in the final third. Slade addressed this by bringing Kennedy on at half time, but Ralls had a good game and I thought it made sense to have Ralls' and Gunnarsson's energy in the midfield to start off, as this allowed Whittingham and Noone to have a bit more freedom. Once we were on top and realised how ordinary Birmingham were, Slade made the correct decision to bring Kennedy on to open them up and then Adeyemi came on to tighten it up later on, which was another good decision. I couldn't fault Slade today and it was a good performance.[/quote]

That's one way of looking at it. [/quote]

I wouldn't say we were awful in the first half
We were boring I could of played in the team
I can pass it sideways or backwards[/quote]

I would rather us keep possession and "bore" the fans than lump aimless balls up the pitch like we were earlier this season![/quote]

Mate that keeping possession is f*****g boring !
Just as the long balls
Just playing football and pass it forwards and pass and move then shoot not pass again no wonder we hardly score we don't shoot[/quote]

If only it was that simple.

You seem to fail to realise we have an opposition trying to stop us being able to go forwards and shoot. [/quote]

It is that simple
We had plenty of opportunities to shoot today but shit out and passed
Don't shoot don't score they say
And football is that simple
Managers over complicate it these days
Bournemouth showed how to play football the other night
At pace and pass and moving. and a lot of movement ![/quote]

Bournemouth are able to do it because they have the personnel. We have Peter Whittingham who has a lot of qualities, but running forwards at pace isn't one of them. Harry Arter's run to win Bournemouth's penalty is something we don't have.[/quote]


That's why we resort to playing long ball
And that hardly works
We need a new midfield from right to left
And a striker with pace[/quote]

I agree we need more pace, but until we bring more players in with pace, we're not going to be able to play this free flowing, pacey passing and moving attacking football. So currently, it's either hopeful long balls which are 70/30 in the defenders favour, or knock the ball around and keep possession. The team and Slade can never win because if we hoof it long, you moan and if we knock the ball around nicely to keep possession, you're bored![/quote]

That's wrong as towards the end we played well
At ran at the team and caused abit of trouble
But as for the rest of the game it was boring yes and the side ways passing game
That's why I said we need a new midfield

Ralls time has come...At 21 he is mature enough to deal with the championship midfield.

Through injuries many careers kick on. I just widh Slade would ditch 442 to a 433 with

Kennedy Doyle Noone

Ralls Whitts Gunnar

Fabs Managa Morrision Peltier

Runners up front, composure and a bit of tenacity in the middle and solidity at the back

Blueminati, you cause a lot more division on the forum than most.

What a meaningless thread.

Slade has been criticised because we have been TOTAL SHIT at times.

You seem to struggle with comprehending why forums exist in the first place. They exist for people to discuss and debate things. This one exists to discuss and debate Cardiff City. The clue is in the name. Slade has been criticised because he has had to make do whilst the club is undergoing a harsh cost cutting exercise to balance the books. People whinge at Slade all the time expecting an instant fix to this ongoing problem.

Fair play,you're right on the money.