" Can Cardiff City Sort it? because if they do "
Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:43 pm
Can Cardiff City Sort their away day Blues?
Because if they do they are on track for promotion?
Media Wales
By Steve Tucket
Five wins on the bounce at home is promotion chasing form, but the Bluebirds relatively lowly position in the league is down to just one factor, their abject away form.
' A WIN IS A WIN '
All Cardiff seem to do at home of late is win football matches. It is, of course, the most ridiculous complaint ever. Away form aside, those who watch the Bluebirds solely in the Welsh capital will be imagining promotion is a real possibility judging by recent results. Full credit must go to new boss Russell Slade, a 100% record in his first four home games in charge is hugely impressive which ever way you look at it. At home at least Slade has exorcised the flimsiness and vulnerability which marked the side under former manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The Bluebirds are no longer a soft touch in front of their own fans. It might not be that great to watch, but at home the Bluebirds are proving very hard to beat indeed, you know what you are going to get from them at the Cardiff City Stadium now, a regimented and disciplined showing from a side in which everyone knows his role. Slade still has his critics and there are plenty of questions still hanging over the way he operates, but one thing that cannot be criticised is the amount of points being picked up at home by his side.
' AWAY DAYS '
Five wins on the bounce at home is promotion chasing form, but the Bluebirds relatively lowly position in the league is down to just one factor, their abject away form. As we all know, they’ve not won the road since back on April 12 when they emerged victorious at Southampton in the Premier League. As you look at it now, apart from bottom-place Blackpool, the Bluebirds are the only other side in the Championship not to have won away so far this season. It’s a deeply frustrating and disappointing state of affairs and one which everyone at the club, from Slade downwards, seems at a loss to explain. It can’t be a Slade thing, last season at Orient he only lost three times away all season a record only equalled by eventual League One champions Wolves. Last time out on the road the Bluebirds earned their first away point under their new boss and only their second clean-sheet of the season at Birmingham. With Watford away up next we can only hope that result in the Midlands was a sign that outside of the Welsh capital the Bluebirds are set to turn a corner.
Because if they do they are on track for promotion?
Media Wales
By Steve Tucket
Five wins on the bounce at home is promotion chasing form, but the Bluebirds relatively lowly position in the league is down to just one factor, their abject away form.
' A WIN IS A WIN '
All Cardiff seem to do at home of late is win football matches. It is, of course, the most ridiculous complaint ever. Away form aside, those who watch the Bluebirds solely in the Welsh capital will be imagining promotion is a real possibility judging by recent results. Full credit must go to new boss Russell Slade, a 100% record in his first four home games in charge is hugely impressive which ever way you look at it. At home at least Slade has exorcised the flimsiness and vulnerability which marked the side under former manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The Bluebirds are no longer a soft touch in front of their own fans. It might not be that great to watch, but at home the Bluebirds are proving very hard to beat indeed, you know what you are going to get from them at the Cardiff City Stadium now, a regimented and disciplined showing from a side in which everyone knows his role. Slade still has his critics and there are plenty of questions still hanging over the way he operates, but one thing that cannot be criticised is the amount of points being picked up at home by his side.
' AWAY DAYS '
Five wins on the bounce at home is promotion chasing form, but the Bluebirds relatively lowly position in the league is down to just one factor, their abject away form. As we all know, they’ve not won the road since back on April 12 when they emerged victorious at Southampton in the Premier League. As you look at it now, apart from bottom-place Blackpool, the Bluebirds are the only other side in the Championship not to have won away so far this season. It’s a deeply frustrating and disappointing state of affairs and one which everyone at the club, from Slade downwards, seems at a loss to explain. It can’t be a Slade thing, last season at Orient he only lost three times away all season a record only equalled by eventual League One champions Wolves. Last time out on the road the Bluebirds earned their first away point under their new boss and only their second clean-sheet of the season at Birmingham. With Watford away up next we can only hope that result in the Midlands was a sign that outside of the Welsh capital the Bluebirds are set to turn a corner.