MATCH THREAD: " STOKE CITY v CARDIFF CITY " MATCH THREAD

Nelson and Paterson exchanging strong words
And getting worse

Tom Ince 25yrd shot

One nil Stoke

OG Callum Paterson

There was no urgency from Cardiff and so far back to playing a bad first-half

Stoke no better

Woeful defending now from Cardiff Morrison and Nelson

City finally get their act in order and a couple of attacks by Josh Murphy

H/T 1-0

Very poor half of football from us.
No creativity without Tomlin

It's up there with the top 3 worst halves of the season.

I feel like swearing out loud, it's so frustrating. Jazz crap, Ward wasteful, Murphy wasteful, Paterson lack of concentration for the goal.

But other than "key" moments, the all round tempo, work rate & quality of this cardiff side today has been bitterly disappointing. So much so that there is probably only 3 players I would say deserves to keep playing. Those three players are Adoma, Pack & Vaulks. Everyone else has no energy or motivation by the looks of it. Other than those 3 players, the rest of the outfield players have looked like bottlejobs since they scored. No willingness to get themselves back in the game. Like I said, I feel like swearing out loud haha. I'm a quarter scottish so that explains it.

Season over without Tomlins creativity but in fairness even with it I have never felt confident we are genuine play off material.

It's up there with the top 3 worst halves of the season.

I feel like swearing out loud, it's so frustrating. Jazz crap, Ward wasteful, Murphy wasteful, Paterson lack of concentration for the goal.

But other than "key" moments, the all round tempo, work rate & quality of this cardiff side today has been bitterly disappointing. So much so that there is probably only 3 players I would say deserves to keep playing. Those three players are Adoma, Pack & Vaulks. Everyone else has no energy or motivation by the looks of it. Other than those 3 players, the rest of the outfield players have looked like bottlejobs since they scored. No willingness to get themselves back in the game. Like I said, I feel like swearing out loud haha. I'm a quarter scottish so that explains it.

The annoying thing is that at present if we were winning we’d be outside top 6 on goal difference alone as quite a few top sides look to be dropping points.

It's up there with the top 3 worst halves of the season.

I feel like swearing out loud, it's so frustrating. Jazz crap, Ward wasteful, Murphy wasteful, Paterson lack of concentration for the goal.

But other than "key" moments, the all round tempo, work rate & quality of this cardiff side today has been bitterly disappointing. So much so that there is probably only 3 players I would say deserves to keep playing. Those three players are Adoma, Pack & Vaulks. Everyone else has no energy or motivation by the looks of it. Other than those 3 players, the rest of the outfield players have looked like bottlejobs since they scored. No willingness to get themselves back in the game. Like I said, I feel like swearing out loud haha. I'm a quarter scottish so that explains it.

I agree awful first-half by Cardiff once again.

Let’s hope Harris sorts it out

We've barely strung two halves together all season, so all is well. Get your money down, we can still do it.

Strange results since Harris took over, I’m not convinced by him but to be fair we hardly lose. Maybe Hoilett could play in the number 10 role. He has lost the pace he had but a clever and technical player this might be the right role for him

Double change glatzal and hoillet on
Paterson ward off

Come you mighty Bluebirds

Dry Watching like paint!

Patterson and Ward look a lethal combo upfront not!

Is it an unwritten rule that when Ward starts he plays poorly but when he comes on as a sub he's OK?

Is taking long throws almost anywhere on the pitch part of some sponsorship deal
Second half must be a bit better The

Totally uninspiring

City need to step up the pace in second half and show urgency

Stoke striker Campbell, son of ex Cardiff striker Kevin, has pace which is causing some concern for Nelson and Morrison

Game over ffs

Just awful


2-0’Allen

An awful performance , with no aggression or urgency.

Playoffs over for this year. I’d like to think next year would be better but I just don’t quite believe in Harris. Would love to be proved wrong, but I think he is an ok manager no better

Pathetic performance

Said it would happen, we always lose to struggling teams on a bad run fighting relegation.

The reality sets in where are the positive preachers

Sounds like they’re running down ya cheeks Baz..reach for the Kleenex

The reality sets in where are the positive preachers

While I have never believed we were good enough for anything other than a top ten finish at best, I would rather read posts by the positive preachers than the continual crap you spout on here every week. I expect you would have been gutted had we won today and threatened a top six finish.