OGS - Q & A

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The Cardiff City manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is taking questions from members of the Cardiff City Supporters Trust tonight. Follow all the action with us

As Cardiff City begin their attempt at a 'miracle' escape from Premier League relegation, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has agree to take questions from the fans tonight.

The Norwegian, as ever, will give frank an honest responses to the questions, you, the fans, want answered.

Join us here from 7.30pm to find out what is said.


12.30pm
Our man Terry Phillips will be there as Solskjaer answers the fans' comments. Join him from 7.30pm.


Should be an interesting Q&A

Just got back very good questions asked and ole answered them well, he's confident we can win Saturday

Just got back very good questions asked and ole answered them well, he's confident we can win Saturday

Hardly gonna say another defeat is on the cards is he

Noone out for rest of season apparently

Noone out for rest of season apparently

how ?

Noone out for rest of season apparently

Jones is out for Southampton and ole said whitts is starting last 5 games

Noone out for rest of season apparently

Jones is out for Southampton and ole said whitts is starting last 5 games

Jones has been out the whole season hasn't he

@CardiffCityFC: Ole has just completed his Q&A session with @CCST1927, telling them, amongst others that @craignoone will struggle to be back this season

Is Terry Phillips sending them by morse code or what? Move on fella

I thought OGS would have been watching Utd tonight....

Ole spoke openly, honestly and said a few things he asked us not to post online.
Me and a mate spoke to him at the end and he told us he has 2 plans. One for relegation and one for staying up.
In my opinion, I think we'll go down and he said about the budget difference so expect a long list of departures in the Summer...

There's two youngsters he has said great things about so more youth to come into first team.

I was very impressed with him as a Man and how honest and realistic he was

I thought OGS would have been watching Utd tonight....

He also said he turned down the offer to be a pundit on the game to attend this meeting

I thought OGS would have been watching Utd tonight....

He also said he turned down the offer to be a pundit on the game to attend this meeting

Solskjaer confirmed: “Craig took a bad knock against Crystal Palace and is going to the USA to see a specialist.

“We have to find out exactly how bad it is and I doubt we will see him back this season.

“He is a player who makes things happen for us and he has been terrific, but we will have to do without him over these next few weeks.”

Solskjaer turned down the chance to do TV work at the Bayern Munich versus Manchester United UEFA Champions League clash last night to attend a Cardiff City Supporters Trust meeting attended by more than 70 members.

He addressed a range of issues put to him by fans still disappointed by their team’s horror show against Palace.

Solskjaer revealed he was asked to meet with owner Vincent Tan on Monday morning, two days after the crushing 3-0 home defeat.

But he says Tan offered him his full support with a pick-me-up type message.

“I am realistic and a defeat like that can hurt everybody, but he was great,” said Solskjaer.

“He called Mark Dempsey and I to a meeting because he wanted to encourage us.

“He trusts me to deal with this. I never doubted that was the case.

“It was a bad day against Crystal Palace, a tough day. Sometimes people can make knee-jerk reactions, but he believes we can keep our place in the Premier League.

“My job is to lift the players after the defeat against Palace. Vincent Tan believed it was his job to lift Mark and myself.

“I, too, am confident we can pull this off. Everybody has been hurt and I am not immune to that but we have a job to do and the team I send out against Southampton, the whole group, will believe we can win that match and, over the last five fixtures, earn the points we need.

“We accept we weren’t good enough against Crystal Palace, but we look forward and must stick together.

“Everybody still believes we are in with a chance and we will not give up.”

Explaining his views immediately post-Palace, Solskjaer continued: “For the first time I have lost a bit of sleep. I’ve been up at 4am working out how to galvanise everybody, players and staff.

“Sir Alex Ferguson rang me a couple of weeks ago and asked how things were going. I said I had not lost a minute’s sleep, but I have to admit there have been a couple of bad nights this week.

“We were poor against Palace, but I believe we can avoid relegation.

“We need a win at Southampton and we believe we can achieve that.”