MATCH THREAD ' CARDIFF CITY v HULL CITY ' MATCH THREAD

Now this is a test 1 nil down, COME ON CITY

I see we have conceded one already!

Crowd really behind City

We'll come back strong

Couldn't make it tonight, but according to City player the ref is having a shocker so far.

Cmon boys

Manga on for Connolly

At mom 63% Possesion to City

Put this one down to a sh*t ref and move on

How many fouls by Diamé before he gets booked

Very frustrating game for us.

Hull where given a gift of an early goal then parked their bus. 5 in defense is a joke and the ref did not help much. It was only fate that they would get another goal.

Cant blame the team for this one.

Very frustrating game for us.

Hull where given a gift of an early goal then parked their bus. 5 in defense is a joke and the ref did not help much. It was only fate that they would get another goal.

Cant blame the team for this one.

Agee move on to Rotherham.

Cardiff City 0-2 Hull City match report: Defeat does not disguise positive direction Bluebirds are taking
22:24, 15 SEPTEMBER 2015
BY CHRIS WATHAN

It was a year ago that the Bluebirds trudged off the Cardiff City Stadium, served a reality check having been unable to comeback from an early goal.

It is 12 months further down the line and you could be forgiven for thinking little has changed as the Bluebirds succumbed to Hull scoring inside the first ten minutes just as Middlesbrough did at the same stage last season.

But where as that loss led to the exit of a manager and much wondering about where exactly the team were going, defeat here did not disguise that there is at direction now at Cardiff City.

For many, many months it did not seem it would be possible under Russell Slade, the man who eventually replaced Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who packed his bags after that Boro game.

And it seems strange to start suggesting of progress on the back of a loss that spoiled hopes of holding onto those early promotion spots not to mention the unbeaten record they boasted going into the clash that threatened to equal as good as anything they had mustered in the last decade or so in this divisions.
But just as there was every right to hit out at the pitiful standard of performance when picking up draws that meant nothing last term, here it is worth accepting that there can often be positives when there are no points.

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True, it might be a case of Cardiff finally finding an opponent that are a better measure of what kind of team will be troubling the top spots this term.

While the aforementioned early goal from Mohamed Diame after eight minutes and an 80th minute sucker punch from Abel Hernandez provided only the second away win for Steve Bruce's side in a troubled calender year, the Tigers clearly have the talent, the power and the organisation to offer far more fight for an instant return to the Premier League Cardiff mustered last season.

And, compared to QPR, Forest and Wolves, those who have been faced and matched or more in the Bluebirds' six games without defeat before this game, they clearly are a more accurate measure of top-six or so standards.

Even with this in mind, it is worth noting that Cardiff were the better side in what could arguably be called one of the sharper home displays of Slade's reign.