UPDATED ' RUSSELL SLADE AND GARY ROWETT COMMENT '
Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:29 pm
' Birmingham 0 Cardiff City 0 '
Sat 8th Nov 2014
" Birmingham manager Gary Rowett: "
I'm disappointed with the sending off. I haven't seen the incident again so I'll have to watch it before I make any judgement.
Wes's reaction suggested he was a bit disappointed to have let one or two people down with what happened.
There was no real need for him to raise his hand and it meant four or five minutes of hanging on rather than trying to get the winner."
' Cardiff manager Russell Slade: '
"I think we should have drawn first blood in the match.
We had two one-on-ones in the first half and should have taken one. In the second half it was a bit end-to-end with two offside goals which were actually offside.
It's a clean sheet away from home though and that's important. It shows definite progress."
At the end of the match Slade celebrated his first clean-sheet as manager, thanks to a rearguard effort that saw Ben Turner get stuck into his comeback alongside Morrison and John Brayford fill in at left back.
He said: “We were resolute at the back and that gets you results.
“It’s definitely progress, the players now realise how hard you have to work to get a point away from home and more importantly to get a clean-sheet.
“I think that’s the first one in I don’t know how many games.
“We need more performances like that away from home and to continue with out home form which has been nice and solid to date. We’ve got time to regroup and again work harder.”
But the two key moments of the first half were both missed chances by the Cardiff strike pairing of Federico Macheda and Adam Le Fondre and Slade admitted: “We had two one-on-ones in the first period and we should have drawn blood first.
Sat 8th Nov 2014
" Birmingham manager Gary Rowett: "
I'm disappointed with the sending off. I haven't seen the incident again so I'll have to watch it before I make any judgement.
Wes's reaction suggested he was a bit disappointed to have let one or two people down with what happened.
There was no real need for him to raise his hand and it meant four or five minutes of hanging on rather than trying to get the winner."
' Cardiff manager Russell Slade: '
"I think we should have drawn first blood in the match.
We had two one-on-ones in the first half and should have taken one. In the second half it was a bit end-to-end with two offside goals which were actually offside.
It's a clean sheet away from home though and that's important. It shows definite progress."
At the end of the match Slade celebrated his first clean-sheet as manager, thanks to a rearguard effort that saw Ben Turner get stuck into his comeback alongside Morrison and John Brayford fill in at left back.
He said: “We were resolute at the back and that gets you results.
“It’s definitely progress, the players now realise how hard you have to work to get a point away from home and more importantly to get a clean-sheet.
“I think that’s the first one in I don’t know how many games.
“We need more performances like that away from home and to continue with out home form which has been nice and solid to date. We’ve got time to regroup and again work harder.”
But the two key moments of the first half were both missed chances by the Cardiff strike pairing of Federico Macheda and Adam Le Fondre and Slade admitted: “We had two one-on-ones in the first period and we should have drawn blood first.
Re: RUSSELL SLADE AND GARY ROWETT
Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:56 pm
I fail to see how this is progress. We only kept a clean sheet as brum we fecking woeful...
Re: RUSSELL SLADE AND GARY ROWETT
Sat Nov 08, 2014 8:38 pm
Blackwood_Bluebird wrote:I fail to see how this is progress. We only kept a clean sheet as brum we fecking woeful...
So woeful that they beat Watford earlier this week.
Re: RUSSELL SLADE AND GARY ROWETT
Sat Nov 08, 2014 8:44 pm
Tonteg Bluebird wrote:Blackwood_Bluebird wrote:I fail to see how this is progress. We only kept a clean sheet as brum we fecking woeful...
So woeful that they beat Watford earlier this week.
Today brum were woeful... We beat man city last yr didnt make any difference, we were still shit...
Re: RUSSELL SLADE AND GARY ROWETT
Sat Nov 08, 2014 8:51 pm
Blackwood_Bluebird wrote:Tonteg Bluebird wrote:Blackwood_Bluebird wrote:I fail to see how this is progress. We only kept a clean sheet as brum we fecking woeful...
So woeful that they beat Watford earlier this week.
Today brum were woeful... We beat man city last yr didnt make any difference, we were still shit...
No, today we made Brum look poor because Slade set us up well. We were organised, disciplined and kept a clean sheet. If Ole was still manager or if some of you lot bemoaning our lack of creativity got your wish in starting Ravel Morrison and Daehli, we would have been left wide open and Birmingham would have put a few goals past us and looked world beaters.
Re: RUSSELL SLADE AND GARY ROWETT
Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:01 pm
Tonteg Bluebird wrote:Blackwood_Bluebird wrote:Tonteg Bluebird wrote:Blackwood_Bluebird wrote:I fail to see how this is progress. We only kept a clean sheet as brum we fecking woeful...
So woeful that they beat Watford earlier this week.
Today brum were woeful... We beat man city last yr didnt make any difference, we were still shit...
No, today we made Brum look poor because Slade set us up well. We were organised, disciplined and kept a clean sheet. If Ole was still manager or if some of you lot bemoaning our lack of creativity got your wish in starting Ravel Morrison and Daehli, we would have been left wide open and Birmingham would have put a few goals past us and looked world beaters.
Your entitled to your opinion...... I don't think we were set up well. We created very little in the first half, we had to work hard at the back and the proves that we were not that great in the middle or in control. We lack quality. Playing ravel wouldn't have left us wide open. He could av played behind 1 striker. Le fondre is struggling with his form and should av been dropped to the bench today. Daehli was certainly deserved of a place on the bench as we had no game changing options.
Re: UPDATED ' RUSSELL SLADE AND GARY ROWETT COMMENT '
Mon Nov 10, 2014 12:17 am
Manager Russell Slade has said he could see plenty of progress and plenty of positives from our scoreless draw against Birmingham, but he was disappointed not to see us be more ruthless with the chances that fell our way.
Speaking to the BBC after the game, Slade pointed to the two chances that fell the way of Adam Le Fondre and Federico Macheda as he believes both of them should've nestled in the back of the net.
'You'd back those two to score in one on one situations and it's about being ruthless in both boxes. We shut them out which was great, but then when we get the opportunities we need to finish. And also in the second period some really good balls were going into the box and maybe a couple of good blocks from Birmingham, but we need to convert one of those chances.'
With Cardiff still looking for our first away win of the season now, defensively though it was a good way to draw the line under the three nil loss to Bolton Wanderers in our previous game, so Slade will have definitely taken the positives from that, but especially with the strikers we have at the club we should be doing more to test opposition goalkeepers and putting ourselves out of sight in games like this.
'We couldn't have put that shift in three weeks ago, we couldn't have played like that in a third game in a week, there's no way. But we're fitter now and mentally a little bit stronger and tougher and I think you say that out there.'
A start, maybe, but clearly plenty of improvements left to make and hopefully many of those will come with some decent confidence when we aren't so Jekyll and Hyde when it comes to home and away form.
'It's definitely progress, the players now realise how hard you have to work to get a point away from home and more importantly to get a clean sheet. I think that's the first one in I don't know how many games. We need more performances like that away from home and to continue with our home form. We've got time to regroup and again work harder.'
As for the sending off, Slade said we had to take Sean Morrison off because he had a cut on his eye from the challenge that led to the red card and was suffering blurred vision after the game, so he totally dismissed suggestions that Morrison had made the most of the situation.
Read more: http://www.cardiff.vitalfootball.co.uk/ ... z3IcW9eQHH
Speaking to the BBC after the game, Slade pointed to the two chances that fell the way of Adam Le Fondre and Federico Macheda as he believes both of them should've nestled in the back of the net.
'You'd back those two to score in one on one situations and it's about being ruthless in both boxes. We shut them out which was great, but then when we get the opportunities we need to finish. And also in the second period some really good balls were going into the box and maybe a couple of good blocks from Birmingham, but we need to convert one of those chances.'
With Cardiff still looking for our first away win of the season now, defensively though it was a good way to draw the line under the three nil loss to Bolton Wanderers in our previous game, so Slade will have definitely taken the positives from that, but especially with the strikers we have at the club we should be doing more to test opposition goalkeepers and putting ourselves out of sight in games like this.
'We couldn't have put that shift in three weeks ago, we couldn't have played like that in a third game in a week, there's no way. But we're fitter now and mentally a little bit stronger and tougher and I think you say that out there.'
A start, maybe, but clearly plenty of improvements left to make and hopefully many of those will come with some decent confidence when we aren't so Jekyll and Hyde when it comes to home and away form.
'It's definitely progress, the players now realise how hard you have to work to get a point away from home and more importantly to get a clean sheet. I think that's the first one in I don't know how many games. We need more performances like that away from home and to continue with our home form. We've got time to regroup and again work harder.'
As for the sending off, Slade said we had to take Sean Morrison off because he had a cut on his eye from the challenge that led to the red card and was suffering blurred vision after the game, so he totally dismissed suggestions that Morrison had made the most of the situation.
Read more: http://www.cardiff.vitalfootball.co.uk/ ... z3IcW9eQHH