MY VIEW/OPINION " TODAY CONVINCING/BEST AND DOMINATED "

Annis, when Peltier is fit do you think Slade will drop fabio? Or will he move fabio to lb and drop Malone?

City want to sell Fabio, so I believe yes he will drop him, which is madness.

Fabio should not be dropped after that performance, we know he can get forward but today defensively superb and composed. Maybe he's been working on that side of his game

I agree, but Tan dictates.

To be honest I thought the first half was probably on a par with the worst we have played this season .
We were lethargic and had no idea how to break down a very poor brum team .
I was as nearly tempted to leave half time in all fairness I was so bored .
Second half was better but any decent team would have put us to the sword today .

We won because birmingham were so poor not because we were good or even improving !

We shouldn't paper over the cracks we were a poor championship team today , kenwyn Jones was woeful apart from his link up play , I'm a fan of noone but he needs to be dropped , Malone and Morrison were awful and if it wasn't for fabio and manga we may well have drawn or even lost this game .

Not blaming anybody it's just the way it is this season . We are lucky there are so many poor teams this year otherwise we would be in trouble .

Why is it there are so many better teams that would have put us to the sword? Brentford bmouth didn't nor any other side recently and according to people like you we have been shiiiite all season! We are improving if you cant see that well !!! o

Annis, when Peltier is fit do you think Slade will drop fabio? Or will he move fabio to lb and drop Malone?

City want to sell Fabio, so I believe yes he will drop him, which is madness.

Fabio should not be dropped after that performance, we know he can get forward but today defensively superb and composed. Maybe he's been working on that side of his game

I agree, but Tan dictates.

Annis why do you treat ccfc as if its only club that the owners who say who comes who goes? When there are quite a few! ! Its called owning football club.

Birmingham seemed poor and offered little but let's give city the benefit of the doubt and say we stopped them playing. Let's remember how poor we have been as well.

Starting 11 wrong but mixture of forced sub and good sub saved us.

To be honest I thought the first half was probably on a par with the worst we have played this season .
We were lethargic and had no idea how to break down a very poor brum team .
I was as nearly tempted to leave half time in all fairness I was so bored .
Second half was better but any decent team would have put us to the sword today .

We won because birmingham were so poor not because we were good or even improving !

We shouldn't paper over the cracks we were a poor championship team today , kenwyn Jones was woeful apart from his link up play , I'm a fan of noone but he needs to be dropped , Malone and Morrison were awful and if it wasn't for fabio and manga we may well have drawn or even lost this game .

Not blaming anybody it's just the way it is this season . We are lucky there are so many poor teams this year otherwise we would be in trouble .

Thomas, We were poor the first-half.
Yes Brum were poor also.
But I felt the second-half we could of won 4 nil and thankfully we won 2 nil

I'm not getting carried away by this result, plenty of games to still judge

Annis, when Peltier is fit do you think Slade will drop fabio? Or will he move fabio to lb and drop Malone?

City want to sell Fabio, so I believe yes he will drop him, which is madness.

Fabio should not be dropped after that performance, we know he can get forward but today defensively superb and composed. Maybe he's been working on that side of his game

I agree, but Tan dictates.

Annis why do you treat ccfc as if its only club that the owners who say who comes who goes? When there are quite a few! ! Its called owning football club.

Allan, Tan does use Slade like a puppet and yes he is a yes man.

Birmingham seemed poor and offered little but let's give city the benefit of the doubt and say we stopped them playing. Let's remember how poor we have been as well.

Starting 11 wrong but mixture of forced sub and good sub saved us.

I have not changed my mind on Slade Luke,just happy we won so easily today

To be honest I thought the first half was probably on a par with the worst we have played this season .
We were lethargic and had no idea how to break down a very poor brum team .
I was as nearly tempted to leave half time in all fairness I was so bored .
Second half was better but any decent team would have put us to the sword today .

We won because birmingham were so poor not because we were good or even improving !

We shouldn't paper over the cracks we were a poor championship team today , kenwyn Jones was woeful apart from his link up play , I'm a fan of noone but he needs to be dropped , Malone and Morrison were awful and if it wasn't for fabio and manga we may well have drawn or even lost this game .

Not blaming anybody it's just the way it is this season . We are lucky there are so many poor teams this year otherwise we would be in trouble .

Why is it there are so many better teams that would have put us to the sword? Brentford bmouth didn't nor any other side recently and according to people like you we have been shiiiite all season! We are improving if you cant see that well !!! o

When did I say we have been Shiite all season ?
Against Bournemouth we defended fantastically
Against brentford we did just enough and rode our luck towards the end
Today we were awful for a lot of the game and if we had played like we did today against either of the other two we would have been comfortably beaten by both . The reason we won was that birmingham were so poor not that we were good that is a clear fact .

If you can't see that then ?

To be honest I thought the first half was probably on a par with the worst we have played this season .
We were lethargic and had no idea how to break down a very poor brum team .
I was as nearly tempted to leave half time in all fairness I was so bored .
Second half was better but any decent team would have put us to the sword today .

We won because birmingham were so poor not because we were good or even improving !

We shouldn't paper over the cracks we were a poor championship team today , kenwyn Jones was woeful apart from his link up play , I'm a fan of noone but he needs to be dropped , Malone and Morrison were awful and if it wasn't for fabio and manga we may well have drawn or even lost this game .

Not blaming anybody it's just the way it is this season . We are lucky there are so many poor teams this year otherwise we would be in trouble .

Thomas, We were poor the first-half.
Yes Brum were poor also.
But I felt the second-half we could of won 4 nil and thankfully we won 2 nil

I'm not getting carried away by this result, plenty of games to still judge

I think we have the nucleus of a very good team , we just need the right manager and coaches to put the pieces together from here . We need to get rid of a little bit more dead wood then we can move forward . The problem is the dead wood at the moment are the managements favourites .

To be honest I thought the first half was probably on a par with the worst we have played this season .
We were lethargic and had no idea how to break down a very poor brum team .
I was as nearly tempted to leave half time in all fairness I was so bored .
Second half was better but any decent team would have put us to the sword today .

We won because birmingham were so poor not because we were good or even improving !

We shouldn't paper over the cracks we were a poor championship team today , kenwyn Jones was woeful apart from his link up play , I'm a fan of noone but he needs to be dropped , Malone and Morrison were awful and if it wasn't for fabio and manga we may well have drawn or even lost this game .

Not blaming anybody it's just the way it is this season . We are lucky there are so many poor teams this year otherwise we would be in trouble .

Thomas, We were poor the first-half.
Yes Brum were poor also.
But I felt the second-half we could of won 4 nil and thankfully we won 2 nil

I'm not getting carried away by this result, plenty of games to still judge

I think we have the nucleus of a very good team , we just need the right manager and coaches to put the pieces together from here . We need to get rid of a little bit more dead wood then we can move forward . The problem is the dead wood at the moment are the managements favourites .

Thomas, Ive always said we have the team/squad,just need the right manager

That was a poor effort by Birmingham. Never threatened Marshall at all with no efforts on goal.

Fabio was my man of the match just ahead of Manga. I thought Malone looked comfortable against Birmingham best player Cotterill. A solid defensive performance.

I enjoyed our wing play as well where we managed to get a few crosses in at last.

That was a poor effort by Birmingham. Never threatened Marshall at all with no efforts on goal.

Fabio was my man of the match just ahead of Manga. I thought Malone looked comfortable against Birmingham best player Cotterill. A solid defensive performance.

I enjoyed our wing play as well where we managed to get a few crosses in at last.

Enjoyed our chats today Ian

My View/Opinion

" TODAY CONVINCING/BEST AND DOMINATED "

I have to say that was the best City have played under Russell Slade

Fabio and Manga outstanding

Mediocre Birmingham team.

Clean sheet for City

Cardiff City 2 Birmingham City 0

Crowd 20,602 incl nearly 1,500 Brum fans.

Cardiff City : Marshall, Fabio, Malone, Ecuele Manga, Morrison, Ralls, Whittingham, Gunnarsson, Noone, Revell, Jones.

Subs: Moore, Gabbidon, Adeyemi, Kennedy, O’Keefe, Doyle,

City went in to this game knowing that anything less than a win would give us our worst record at home for 25 years, whilst Birmingham had virtually secured any relegation doubts.

From the start City played attacking football and for the first 20 mins, both teams attacked each others end.
Not pretty football the first-half, but City players running for it and closing Birmingham down

Alex Revell limped off in the 44th minute to be replaced by Doyle.
Did not look good for Revell.

The rest of the first-half was quite stale and the score-line suited the 0-0 scoreline after 45 minutes.

In the 50th minute Manga stopped a Birmingham attack and with in seconds, City had then taken a 1 nil lead thanks to Doyles first ever goal for City


In the 68th minute Kenwyne Jones missed a sitter by kicking the ball over the bar,to be honest Jones missed a couple of good chances today

City dominated the second-half, with Doyle being brought down in the Brum penalty are, for then Whittingham to slot home the penalty with ease, 2-0 City

This today was by far City's best home display under Russell Slade and we fully deserved the victory, in fact we could of won 4 nil

We must not sell Manga and Fabio,they are City's main players and were once again the difference

My Man of the Match Fabio or Manga


International break, so City's next game is away to Reading Saturday April 4th

Annis how do you feel about the 19;27 as it seems to gone.
I know its job done a bit as we have our blue kit/bluebird back,but I feel its sad as it was a great show from our fans.
LETS GET IT GOING AGAIN

My View/Opinion

" TODAY CONVINCING/BEST AND DOMINATED "

I have to say that was the best City have played under Russell Slade

Fabio and Manga outstanding

Mediocre Birmingham team.

Clean sheet for City

Cardiff City 2 Birmingham City 0

Crowd 20,602 incl nearly 1,500 Brum fans.

Cardiff City : Marshall, Fabio, Malone, Ecuele Manga, Morrison, Ralls, Whittingham, Gunnarsson, Noone, Revell, Jones.

Subs: Moore, Gabbidon, Adeyemi, Kennedy, O’Keefe, Doyle,

City went in to this game knowing that anything less than a win would give us our worst record at home for 25 years, whilst Birmingham had virtually secured any relegation doubts.

From the start City played attacking football and for the first 20 mins, both teams attacked each others end.
Not pretty football the first-half, but City players running for it and closing Birmingham down

Alex Revell limped off in the 44th minute to be replaced by Doyle.
Did not look good for Revell.

The rest of the first-half was quite stale and the score-line suited the 0-0 scoreline after 45 minutes.

In the 50th minute Manga stopped a Birmingham attack and with in seconds, City had then taken a 1 nil lead thanks to Doyles first ever goal for City


In the 68th minute Kenwyne Jones missed a sitter by kicking the ball over the bar,to be honest Jones missed a couple of good chances today

City dominated the second-half, with Doyle being brought down in the Brum penalty are, for then Whittingham to slot home the penalty with ease, 2-0 City

This today was by far City's best home display under Russell Slade and we fully deserved the victory, in fact we could of won 4 nil

We must not sell Manga and Fabio,they are City's main players and were once again the difference

My Man of the Match Fabio or Manga


International break, so City's next game is away to Reading Saturday April 4th

Annis how do you feel about the 19;27 as it seems to gone.
I know its job done a bit as we have our blue kit/bluebird back,but I feel its sad as it was a great show from our fans.
LETS GET IT GOING AGAIN

I miss it,my favourite song, but I understand it was a protest song. It still can be used to support the team though

I sang it at the Brum fans today,so some how I still manage to sing it at every game

My View/Opinion

" TODAY CONVINCING/BEST AND DOMINATED "

I have to say that was the best City have played under Russell Slade

Fabio and Manga outstanding

Mediocre Birmingham team.

Clean sheet for City

Cardiff City 2 Birmingham City 0

Crowd 20,602 incl nearly 1,500 Brum fans.

Cardiff City : Marshall, Fabio, Malone, Ecuele Manga, Morrison, Ralls, Whittingham, Gunnarsson, Noone, Revell, Jones.

Subs: Moore, Gabbidon, Adeyemi, Kennedy, O’Keefe, Doyle,

City went in to this game knowing that anything less than a win would give us our worst record at home for 25 years, whilst Birmingham had virtually secured any relegation doubts.

From the start City played attacking football and for the first 20 mins, both teams attacked each others end.
Not pretty football the first-half, but City players running for it and closing Birmingham down

Alex Revell limped off in the 44th minute to be replaced by Doyle.
Did not look good for Revell.

The rest of the first-half was quite stale and the score-line suited the 0-0 scoreline after 45 minutes.

In the 50th minute Manga stopped a Birmingham attack and with in seconds, City had then taken a 1 nil lead thanks to Doyles first ever goal for City


In the 68th minute Kenwyne Jones missed a sitter by kicking the ball over the bar,to be honest Jones missed a couple of good chances today

City dominated the second-half, with Doyle being brought down in the Brum penalty are, for then Whittingham to slot home the penalty with ease, 2-0 City

This today was by far City's best home display under Russell Slade and we fully deserved the victory, in fact we could of won 4 nil

We must not sell Manga and Fabio,they are City's main players and were once again the difference

My Man of the Match Fabio or Manga


International break, so City's next game is away to Reading Saturday April 4th

Annis how do you feel about the 19;27 as it seems to gone.
I know its job done a bit as we have our blue kit/bluebird back,but I feel its sad as it was a great show from our fans.
LETS GET IT GOING AGAIN

I miss it,my favourite song, but I understand it was a protest song. It still can be used to support the team though

I sang it at the Brum fans today,so some how I still manage to sing it at every game

Agree a celebration of our greatest cup win
Come on City fans lets keep it going

city must keep manga,marshall, fabio build the team from there and we may suprise a few next season

city must keep manga,marshall, fabio build the team from there and we may suprise a few next season

Without a doubt but Sadly I hear they wont if offers come in for them.

Some ppl will never be happy will they,Birmingham have improved massively and we made them look banging average,I don't get why our own fans constantly want to put the team down even when we've dominated a match start to finish and won convincingly and could have been more. Some ppl just don't know how to be happy,I thought we was outstanding second half we pressed high up the pitch we defended very well which limited them and when we went forward we looked like we had goals in us,performances are improving but ppl don't want to see it cos they don't like admitting slade is turning us around,feel sorry for u lot having to come on here and try and pick holes in wat was the third gd performance in a week,you must really hate watching football cos so many of u just fukin moan all the time,Kennedy Doyle ralls Fabio whitts manga Malone noone was all excellent today yet we rather say they was poor,aye ok!

My View/Opinion

" TODAY CONVINCING/BEST AND DOMINATED "

I have to say that was the best City have played under Russell Slade

Fabio and Manga outstanding

Mediocre Birmingham team.

Clean sheet for City

Cardiff City 2 Birmingham City 0

Crowd 20,602 incl nearly 1,500 Brum fans.

Cardiff City : Marshall, Fabio, Malone, Ecuele Manga, Morrison, Ralls, Whittingham, Gunnarsson, Noone, Revell, Jones.

Subs: Moore, Gabbidon, Adeyemi, Kennedy, O’Keefe, Doyle,

City went in to this game knowing that anything less than a win would give us our worst record at home for 25 years, whilst Birmingham had virtually secured any relegation doubts.

From the start City played attacking football and for the first 20 mins, both teams attacked each others end.
Not pretty football the first-half, but City players running for it and closing Birmingham down

Alex Revell limped off in the 44th minute to be replaced by Doyle.
Did not look good for Revell.

The rest of the first-half was quite stale and the score-line suited the 0-0 scoreline after 45 minutes.

In the 50th minute Manga stopped a Birmingham attack and with in seconds, City had then taken a 1 nil lead thanks to Doyles first ever goal for City


In the 68th minute Kenwyne Jones missed a sitter by kicking the ball over the bar,to be honest Jones missed a couple of good chances today

City dominated the second-half, with Doyle being brought down in the Brum penalty are, for then Whittingham to slot home the penalty with ease, 2-0 City

This today was by far City's best home display under Russell Slade and we fully deserved the victory, in fact we could of won 4 nil

We must not sell Manga and Fabio,they are City's main players and were once again the difference

My Man of the Match Fabio or Manga


International break, so City's next game is away to Reading Saturday April 4th

Annis how do you feel about the 19;27 as it seems to gone.
I know its job done a bit as we have our blue kit/bluebird back,but I feel its sad as it was a great show from our fans.
LETS GET IT GOING AGAIN

I miss it,my favourite song, but I understand it was a protest song. It still can be used to support the team though

I sang it at the Brum fans today,so some how I still manage to sing it at every game

Agree a celebration of our greatest cup win
Come on City fans lets keep it going

Personally I would love to keep it going

Some ppl will never be happy will they,Birmingham have improved massively and we made them look banging average,I don't get why our own fans constantly want to put the team down even when we've dominated a match start to finish and won convincingly and could have been more. Some ppl just don't know how to be happy,I thought we was outstanding second half we pressed high up the pitch we defended very well which limited them and when we went forward we looked like we had goals in us,performances are improving but ppl don't want to see it cos they don't like admitting slade is turning us around,feel sorry for u lot having to come on here and try and pick holes in wat was the third gd performance in a week,you must really hate watching football cos so many of u just fukin moan all the time,Kennedy Doyle ralls Fabio whitts manga Malone noone was all excellent today yet we rather say they was poor,aye ok!

Reza, I thought I was honest and fair in my view of the game?

Yeah but some of the quotes on this forum are madness,ppl saying they was falling asleep and that we only won cos it's a poor Birmingham some ppl just don't want to give credit where it's due,we was gd yesterday but some ppl rather moan and try and pick holes in things I just think these ppl must live sad lives that they can't admit we're going through a gd patch and performances are getting far better. I thought we was the better team second half Tuesday night and Bournemouth thumped boro yesterday,just shows how far we have come but again some ppl don't want to see it, opinions are allowed to change,especially when results and performance are improving

Yeah but some of the quotes on this forum are madness,ppl saying they was falling asleep and that we only won cos it's a poor Birmingham some ppl just don't want to give credit where it's due,we was gd yesterday but some ppl rather moan and try and pick holes in things I just think these ppl must live sad lives that they can't admit we're going through a gd patch and performances are getting far better. I thought we was the better team second half Tuesday night and Bournemouth thumped boro yesterday,just shows how far we have come but again some ppl don't want to see it, opinions are allowed to change,especially when results and performance are improving

Reza, We have had to watch a lot of dire football for months.
But yesterday I enjoyed and I said it was in my opinion Slades best game at home so far, a vast improvement

Yeah but some of the quotes on this forum are madness,ppl saying they was falling asleep and that we only won cos it's a poor Birmingham some ppl just don't want to give credit where it's due,we was gd yesterday but some ppl rather moan and try and pick holes in things I just think these ppl must live sad lives that they can't admit we're going through a gd patch and performances are getting far better. I thought we was the better team second half Tuesday night and Bournemouth thumped boro yesterday,just shows how far we have come but again some ppl don't want to see it, opinions are allowed to change,especially when results and performance are improving

Reza, We have had to watch a lot of dire football for months.
But yesterday I enjoyed and I said it was in my opinion Slades best game at home so far, a vast improvement

Yeah I accept what u said annis and agree under slade we've not been the most fluent of footballing sides but we are turning the corner and think we need to acknowledge that rather than ppl,not yourself,trying to make up reasons why we looked gd,think u said it in one thread u can only beat what's in front of u,and that's what we did,convincingly too

Yeah but some of the quotes on this forum are madness,ppl saying they was falling asleep and that we only won cos it's a poor Birmingham some ppl just don't want to give credit where it's due,we was gd yesterday but some ppl rather moan and try and pick holes in things I just think these ppl must live sad lives that they can't admit we're going through a gd patch and performances are getting far better. I thought we was the better team second half Tuesday night and Bournemouth thumped boro yesterday,just shows how far we have come but again some ppl don't want to see it, opinions are allowed to change,especially when results and performance are improving

Reza, We have had to watch a lot of dire football for months.
But yesterday I enjoyed and I said it was in my opinion Slades best game at home so far, a vast improvement

Yeah I accept what u said annis and agree under slade we've not been the most fluent of footballing sides but we are turning the corner and think we need to acknowledge that rather than ppl,not yourself,trying to make up reasons why we looked gd,think u said it in one thread u can only beat what's in front of u,and that's what we did,convincingly too

Reza,Correct You can only beat whats in front of you and yes Slades results and football has improved

Nice to come away from the ground HAPPY, looked like they wanted it more, the running and each player encouraging each other. The 1st half was so so, then 2nd half game got going a bit.
Also fans were singing so the atmosphere was better, bring on the Reading game

It seemed that for the 1st time, Slade actually had some influence over the player's performance, even though the changes to some degree were forced by circumstances. The 1st half felt like a pre season friendly, utterly tedious. 2nd half, the attitude was noticeably more positive, and whilst there was precious little craft, the graft level increased. Decent win but Birmingham like some of their fans, were very poor.

Nice to come away from the ground HAPPY, looked like they wanted it more, the running and each player encouraging each other. The 1st half was so so, then 2nd half game got going a bit.
Also fans were singing so the atmosphere was better, bring on the Reading game

Totally agree, Came away happy for the first time for months


Our players were def up for it

It seemed that for the 1st time, Slade actually had some influence over the player's performance, even though the changes to some degree were forced by circumstances. The 1st half felt like a pre season friendly, utterly tedious. 2nd half, the attitude was noticeably more positive, and whilst there was precious little craft, the graft level increased. Decent win but Birmingham like some of their fans, were very poor.

I said that during the first-half it was like a pre-season friendly,but to be fair second-half we went in to 2nd gear

I am still not convinced on Slade,will need more than just a couple of games and 90 minutes of football

In my opinion Fabio was very lucky and his defending is poor. He's constantly front on, and if he was playing against a good winger he would've been destroyed.

It's your opinion and I respect that but I think you are way off the mark about Fabio, he has been immense since he has come back into the fold and he is by far our best fullback without a shadow of a doubt. He is a 100% and gives everything to the cause, of course he makes mistakes, tell me what player don't but I think you are way too critical of Fabio

In my opinion Fabio was very lucky and his defending is poor. He's constantly front on, and if he was playing against a good winger he would've been destroyed.

It's your opinion and I respect that but I think you are way off the mark about Fabio, he has been immense since he has come back into the fold and he is by far our best fullback without a shadow of a doubt. He is a 100% and gives everything to the cause, of course he makes mistakes, tell me what player don't but I think you are way too critical of Fabio

Spot on Steve, bringing back Fabio has made a hell of a difference