' Russell Slade & Kevin Nugent '

Russell Slade & Kevin Nugent ?

Monday 30th Oct 2014

Russell Slade is expected to be at the Amex and owner Cardiff owner Vincent Tan says the Berkshire-born former schoolteacher is a club consultant, saying: “He is helping us a little bit on consultancy until he can sort out his contract. Then we can officially hire him.”

There is little doubt the former Leyton Orient manager is likely to take charge of the Bluebirds later this week, probably before the match at Blackpool on Friday.

Slade has resigned from his job at Orient, but the London club have not accepted that and the managerial saga drags on with Scott Young and Danny Gabbidon in caretaker charge of the team.




" Nugent linked to Cardiff "

The clash with Brighton is expected to be their last before they revert to other roles at the club.

Young is lined up to be assistant manager or first team coach, while Gabbidon will be player-coach.

Slade’s departure has left former Cardiff striker Kevin Nugent, who was assistant manager at Orient, running football matters at the club, although he, too, could yet be coming back to Wales.

Nugent has been linked with a job on Slade’s coaching staff at Cardiff, but the 45-year-old has said he would love to take on the O’s job full-time.

“It is something that would certainly excite me but we’ll have to wait and see,” said Nugent.

“I’ve worked here a long time and I’ve done the youth team, scouting and all sorts. They will probably change the role to head coach.”

This is Nugent’s third spell as caretaker manager at Orient and he also filled that role with Swansea City following the departure of Kenny Jackett.




" Kevin Nugent "

Young and Gabbidon took their squad to Sussex yesterday having added fit-again Matthew Connolly to the 18-man group who were on duty against Wednesday.

Connolly has recovered from a minor injury and is available, while Young and Gabbidon must decide whether to stick with 4-4-2 or add an extra body in midfield for an away match.

Tom Adeyemi is likely to be called up alongside Peter Whittingham and Aron Gunnarsson if they go for 4-5-1.

City have only one major injury problem going into matches at Brighton and Blackpool with Ben Turner still ruled out after an ankle operation. He is around a month away from being ready to play again.

Albion, who have former Finnish international Sami Hyypia in charge, failed to score in the last five hours of Championship football, while they have not conceded a goal during the last 182 minutes in all competitions.



'Defining month'

They fought out a goalless draw against Nottingham Forest in their last match and Wales international Andrew Crofts, who played in midfield, said: “Forest are a really good team and we showed we can match the best.

“Now we have to build on that against Cardiff. We know what we are capable of. That clean sheet is massive and we created chances as well.”

October will be a defining month for the Bluebirds, who start with two away matches in four days.

Young and Gabbidon take the team to Brighton, while Slade, surely, will have been appointed manager by the time they travel to Blackpool for Friday’s clash.

Then, after a two-week international break, the Bluebirds take on title-chasing Stuart Pearce and his Nottingham Forest team at Cardiff City Stadium.

Ipswich Town at home and Millwall away follow and City will surely have to be challenging for a place among the leaders as they go into November.

Slade is Tan’s choice and if, as expected, he is appointed the task will be to deliver promotion back to the Premier League.

You can almost guarantee Brighton will score tonight. We always end bad runs for other teams.

Well we haven't beaten them in two seasons we were in the same league, you have to go back to 2007 when we last beat them. Going to be an interesting game.

we was 4-5-1 on saturday tho not 4-4-2 ?

we was 4-5-1 on saturday tho not 4-4-2 ?

I would say more 4 - 4 - 1 - 1

we was 4-5-1 on saturday tho not 4-4-2 ?

I would say more 4 - 4 - 1 - 1

Who writes this bull shit journalism where is it from?

1. Like you pointed out lads for a start it wasn't 4-4-2 Saturday at all, not sure what system exactly but looked like a 4-2-3-1 system to me with Gunnar and whittingham playing relatively deep and daehli in the number 10 role..

2. Tom adeyemi to come in instead of ravel and leave ravel on the bench after Saturdays performance? Right o!