' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '

' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '


Since Vincent Tan has been running Cardiff City I believe he has made three major mistakes that have been problematic for him personally or for the good of the club.

The three mistakes :

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay


Regarding the first point, the Rebrand, I don't think any words can be said that have already not been done to death before, it was never a situation that the vast majority of City fans were ever comfortable with and coupled with the failure to turn debt to equity then Vincent Tan, maybe through ignorance or naivety, was never going to have fans onside and started a divide between the club and the fans and even between fans themselves that will, if ever, take years to repair.

I have always believed that since Peter Ridsdale left the club, and no I am not saying Ridsdale should have stayed on, there has been a hole left that has failed to be filled. I really believe that our club needed someone who could question the previous manager on the spending, certain signings and give a more independent view to the owner rather than trusting the manager and his policies wholeheartedly.

I have no doubt, due to the breakdown in trust between the two men that Vincent Tan had to sack Malky Mackay. With that said I still believe in my mind that Malky Mackay was the manager who had the best possible chance of keeping us in the Premier League, Tan should have bit his lip, held on to any information he had, put his personal feelings to one side for a limited time and played happy families to do the right thing for the club in its bid to avoid relegation and carried out the sacking at the end of that season or if we were safe before the end.

They are my opinions and there have been other mistakes but these three are the ones that have been the most damaging to the success of the club.

' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '


Since Vincent Tan has been running Cardiff City I believe he has made three major mistakes that have been problematic for him personally or for the good of the club.

The three mistakes :

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay


Regarding the first point, the Rebrand, I don't think any words can be said that have already not been done to death before, it was never a situation that the vast majority of City fans were ever comfortable with and coupled with the failure to turn debt to equity then Vincent Tan, maybe through ignorance or naivety, was never going to have fans onside and started a divide between the club and the fans and even between fans themselves that will, if ever, take years to repair.

I have always believed that since Peter Ridsdale left the club, and no I am not saying Ridsdale should have stayed on, there has been a hole left that has failed to be filled. I really believe that our club needed someone who could question the previous manager on the spending, certain signings and give a more independent view to the owner rather than trusting the manager and his policies wholeheartedly.

I have no doubt, due to the breakdown in trust between the two men that Vincent Tan had to sack Malky Mackay. With that said I still believe in my mind that Malky Mackay was the manager who had the best possible chance of keeping us in the Premier League, Tan should have bit his lip, held on to any information he had, put his personal feelings to one side for a limited time and played happy families to do the right thing for the club in its bid to avoid relegation and carried out the sacking at the end of that season or if we were safe before the end.

They are my opinions and there have been other mistakes but these three are the ones that have been the most damaging to the success of the club.

malky should of been sacked earlier when Tony pulis was available but most fans got behind malky dur to Their hatred of the rebrand a d we then missed the boat

' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '


Since Vincent Tan has been running Cardiff City I believe he has made three major mistakes that have been problematic for him personally or for the good of the club.

The three mistakes :

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay


Regarding the first point, the Rebrand, I don't think any words can be said that have already not been done to death before, it was never a situation that the vast majority of City fans were ever comfortable with and coupled with the failure to turn debt to equity then Vincent Tan, maybe through ignorance or naivety, was never going to have fans onside and started a divide between the club and the fans and even between fans themselves that will, if ever, take years to repair.

I have always believed that since Peter Ridsdale left the club, and no I am not saying Ridsdale should have stayed on, there has been a hole left that has failed to be filled. I really believe that our club needed someone who could question the previous manager on the spending, certain signings and give a more independent view to the owner rather than trusting the manager and his policies wholeheartedly.

I have no doubt, due to the breakdown in trust between the two men that Vincent Tan had to sack Malky Mackay. With that said I still believe in my mind that Malky Mackay was the manager who had the best possible chance of keeping us in the Premier League, Tan should have bit his lip, held on to any information he had, put his personal feelings to one side for a limited time and played happy families to do the right thing for the club in its bid to avoid relegation and carried out the sacking at the end of that season or if we were safe before the end.

They are my opinions and there have been other mistakes but these three are the ones that have been the most damaging to the success of the club.

malky should of been sacked earlier when Tony pulis was available but most fans got behind malky dur to Their hatred of the rebrand a d we then missed the boat

So you agree Wez that the timing was wrong but you would have wanted the decision made earlier.

What about the other two points, do you agree with them ?

Agree with ALL 3 Carl - also the appointment, contract and contracts given to OLE.

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Daniel Picton
And the ridiculous prices which had gone up 200 pound within over 3 seasons

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay

2,3,1 in the order.

Personally I feel if we had kept the calibre of Ridsdale we would have most likely had a better manager than Malky who would have taken us up.

For me Malkys sacking was the wrong thing to do at the time. Malkys only real mistake was never finding that goal scorer for us. Miller cost us, Maynard was unlucky and Acorn perhaps summed up MM luck in that department. An average striker compared to what we had under Mackey and we would have been ok.

The rebrand to me was was going to be a failure only when we started to struggle. A couple of seasons in the premier and we would have been a red club. It would have been too much for me.

TG - Was a sad loss to the club.

' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '


Since Vincent Tan has been running Cardiff City I believe he has made three major mistakes that have been problematic for him personally or for the good of the club.

The three mistakes :

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay


Regarding the first point, the Rebrand, I don't think any words can be said that have already not been done to death before, it was never a situation that the vast majority of City fans were ever comfortable with and coupled with the failure to turn debt to equity then Vincent Tan, maybe through ignorance or naivety, was never going to have fans onside and started a divide between the club and the fans and even between fans themselves that will, if ever, take years to repair.

I have always believed that since Peter Ridsdale left the club, and no I am not saying Ridsdale should have stayed on, there has been a hole left that has failed to be filled. I really believe that our club needed someone who could question the previous manager on the spending, certain signings and give a more independent view to the owner rather than trusting the manager and his policies wholeheartedly.

I have no doubt, due to the breakdown in trust between the two men that Vincent Tan had to sack Malky Mackay. With that said I still believe in my mind that Malky Mackay was the manager who had the best possible chance of keeping us in the Premier League, Tan should have bit his lip, held on to any information he had, put his personal feelings to one side for a limited time and played happy families to do the right thing for the club in its bid to avoid relegation and carried out the sacking at the end of that season or if we were safe before the end.

They are my opinions and there have been other mistakes but these three are the ones that have been the most damaging to the success of the club.

malky should of been sacked earlier when Tony pulis was available but most fans got behind malky dur to Their hatred of the rebrand a d we then missed the boat

So you agree Wez that the timing was wrong but you would have wanted the decision made earlier.

What about the other two points, do you agree with them ?

Yes the rebrand shouldn't of happened but I understand why it did and why people including myself went along with it ,,I dont agree with the football man point as we did have success we got promoted

TG - Was a sad loss to the club.

Totally agree Tony, Thats where it all went wrong and TG was a man of his word that was his downfall

' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '


Since Vincent Tan has been running Cardiff City I believe he has made three major mistakes that have been problematic for him personally or for the good of the club.

The three mistakes :

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay


Regarding the first point, the Rebrand, I don't think any words can be said that have already not been done to death before, it was never a situation that the vast majority of City fans were ever comfortable with and coupled with the failure to turn debt to equity then Vincent Tan, maybe through ignorance or naivety, was never going to have fans onside and started a divide between the club and the fans and even between fans themselves that will, if ever, take years to repair.

I have always believed that since Peter Ridsdale left the club, and no I am not saying Ridsdale should have stayed on, there has been a hole left that has failed to be filled. I really believe that our club needed someone who could question the previous manager on the spending, certain signings and give a more independent view to the owner rather than trusting the manager and his policies wholeheartedly.

I have no doubt, due to the breakdown in trust between the two men that Vincent Tan had to sack Malky Mackay. With that said I still believe in my mind that Malky Mackay was the manager who had the best possible chance of keeping us in the Premier League, Tan should have bit his lip, held on to any information he had, put his personal feelings to one side for a limited time and played happy families to do the right thing for the club in its bid to avoid relegation and carried out the sacking at the end of that season or if we were safe before the end.

They are my opinions and there have been other mistakes but these three are the ones that have been the most damaging to the success of the club.

malky should of been sacked earlier when Tony pulis was available but most fans got behind malky dur to Their hatred of the rebrand a d we then missed the boat

So you agree Wez that the timing was wrong but you would have wanted the decision made earlier.

What about the other two points, do you agree with them ?

Yes the rebrand shouldn't of happened but I understand why it did and why people including myself went along with it ,,I dont agree with the football man point as we did have success we got promoted

Wez, so your agreeing Malky was the right manager
Had we had a football man in, he would of over seen manager Malky and his transfers,we would prob not of ended up with useless managers like Ole and Slade.

' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '


Since Vincent Tan has been running Cardiff City I believe he has made three major mistakes that have been problematic for him personally or for the good of the club.

The three mistakes :

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay


Regarding the first point, the Rebrand, I don't think any words can be said that have already not been done to death before, it was never a situation that the vast majority of City fans were ever comfortable with and coupled with the failure to turn debt to equity then Vincent Tan, maybe through ignorance or naivety, was never going to have fans onside and started a divide between the club and the fans and even between fans themselves that will, if ever, take years to repair.

I have always believed that since Peter Ridsdale left the club, and no I am not saying Ridsdale should have stayed on, there has been a hole left that has failed to be filled. I really believe that our club needed someone who could question the previous manager on the spending, certain signings and give a more independent view to the owner rather than trusting the manager and his policies wholeheartedly.

I have no doubt, due to the breakdown in trust between the two men that Vincent Tan had to sack Malky Mackay. With that said I still believe in my mind that Malky Mackay was the manager who had the best possible chance of keeping us in the Premier League, Tan should have bit his lip, held on to any information he had, put his personal feelings to one side for a limited time and played happy families to do the right thing for the club in its bid to avoid relegation and carried out the sacking at the end of that season or if we were safe before the end.

They are my opinions and there have been other mistakes but these three are the ones that have been the most damaging to the success of the club.

malky should of been sacked earlier when Tony pulis was available but most fans got behind malky dur to Their hatred of the rebrand a d we then missed the boat

So you agree Wez that the timing was wrong but you would have wanted the decision made earlier.

What about the other two points, do you agree with them ?

Yes the rebrand shouldn't of happened but I understand why it did and why people including myself went along with it ,,I dont agree with the football man point as we did have success we got promoted

Wez, so your agreeing Malky was the right manager
Had we had a football man in, he would of over seen manager Malky and his transfers,we would prob not of ended up with useless managers like Ole and Slade.

Malky was right for the championship but totally blew it with his transfer policy for the premiership ,ole was highly rated but didn't cut the mustard trying to turn us in to man utd and slade could come good ouraway form was much better under slade can't help thinking that the negativity has effected our home form hopefully next season will be different in blue and the real fans there

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David Bradley

Playing Marshall in goal when he's known for his goal scoring ability was a big mistake.

' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '


Since Vincent Tan has been running Cardiff City I believe he has made three major mistakes that have been problematic for him personally or for the good of the club.

The three mistakes :

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay


Regarding the first point, the Rebrand, I don't think any words can be said that have already not been done to death before, it was never a situation that the vast majority of City fans were ever comfortable with and coupled with the failure to turn debt to equity then Vincent Tan, maybe through ignorance or naivety, was never going to have fans onside and started a divide between the club and the fans and even between fans themselves that will, if ever, take years to repair.

I have always believed that since Peter Ridsdale left the club, and no I am not saying Ridsdale should have stayed on, there has been a hole left that has failed to be filled. I really believe that our club needed someone who could question the previous manager on the spending, certain signings and give a more independent view to the owner rather than trusting the manager and his policies wholeheartedly.

I have no doubt, due to the breakdown in trust between the two men that Vincent Tan had to sack Malky Mackay. With that said I still believe in my mind that Malky Mackay was the manager who had the best possible chance of keeping us in the Premier League, Tan should have bit his lip, held on to any information he had, put his personal feelings to one side for a limited time and played happy families to do the right thing for the club in its bid to avoid relegation and carried out the sacking at the end of that season or if we were safe before the end.

They are my opinions and there have been other mistakes but these three are the ones that have been the most damaging to the success of the club.

malky should of been sacked earlier when Tony pulis was available but most fans got behind malky dur to Their hatred of the rebrand a d we then missed the boat

So you agree Wez that the timing was wrong but you would have wanted the decision made earlier.

What about the other two points, do you agree with them ?

Yes the rebrand shouldn't of happened but I understand why it did and why people including myself went along with it ,,I dont agree with the football man point as we did have success we got promoted

Wez, so your agreeing Malky was the right manager
Had we had a football man in, he would of over seen manager Malky and his transfers,we would prob not of ended up with useless managers like Ole and Slade.

Malky was right for the championship but totally blew it with his transfer policy for the premiership ,ole was highly rated but didn't cut the mustard trying to turn us in to man utd and slade could come good ouraway form was much better under slade can't help thinking that the negativity has effected our home form hopefully next season will be different in blue and the real fans there

Wez, I gathered you would say that.

Malky was young/naive,never managed in Prem before and still learning, thats why Tan needed a football man in the club to over see

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David Bradley

Agree with all 3 points. So many smaller problems like Hudson going at wrong time, appointing ogs/slade, work experience bloke, stewarding issues......

It wasn't a mistake sacking Malky. The mistake was employing Ole, but this is with hindsight. At the time I had high hopes for Ole but he proved to be clueless.

' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '


Since Vincent Tan has been running Cardiff City I believe he has made three major mistakes that have been problematic for him personally or for the good of the club.

The three mistakes :

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay


Regarding the first point, the Rebrand, I don't think any words can be said that have already not been done to death before, it was never a situation that the vast majority of City fans were ever comfortable with and coupled with the failure to turn debt to equity then Vincent Tan, maybe through ignorance or naivety, was never going to have fans onside and started a divide between the club and the fans and even between fans themselves that will, if ever, take years to repair.

I have always believed that since Peter Ridsdale left the club, and no I am not saying Ridsdale should have stayed on, there has been a hole left that has failed to be filled. I really believe that our club needed someone who could question the previous manager on the spending, certain signings and give a more independent view to the owner rather than trusting the manager and his policies wholeheartedly.

I have no doubt, due to the breakdown in trust between the two men that Vincent Tan had to sack Malky Mackay. With that said I still believe in my mind that Malky Mackay was the manager who had the best possible chance of keeping us in the Premier League, Tan should have bit his lip, held on to any information he had, put his personal feelings to one side for a limited time and played happy families to do the right thing for the club in its bid to avoid relegation and carried out the sacking at the end of that season or if we were safe before the end.

They are my opinions and there have been other mistakes but these three are the ones that have been the most damaging to the success of the club.

malky should of been sacked earlier when Tony pulis was available but most fans got behind malky dur to Their hatred of the rebrand a d we then missed the boat

The fans didn't know what was going on with Malky though, me being behind Malky was nothing to do with the rebrand.

It wasn't a mistake sacking Malky. The mistake was employing Ole, but this is with hindsight. At the time I had high hopes for Ole but he proved to be clueless.

Agree with this, I thought we would kick on once Ole was appointed, especially the way we performed at the Emirates with OGS there (he wasn't in charge but it seemed like the players wanted to impress)

It wasn't a mistake sacking Malky. The mistake was employing Ole, but this is with hindsight. At the time I had high hopes for Ole but he proved to be clueless.

with hindsight yes but ole was one of the hottest mangers in Europe at the time just didn't happen for him here

Advocating a racist stay in his job?

Madness, Malky should have been sacked, earlier and Pulis, who was stalling Palace, should have been brought in.

Agree with all three, Carl...

However, I'm with 'wez' on the sacking of Malky, as it should have been done a lot earlier once Tan knew what had occurred and the 'breakdown of trust' was irretrievable

Both to blame...

Tan for not 'pulling the trigger' once he decided Malky wasn't his man anymore

Malky for prolonging the agony and stringing the fans along when he knew what he'd done

Loved Malky the CCFC manager and appreciate what he did on the football side, but no respect for what he did 'of the field' whatsoever

Agree with one without a doubt.
Two it's hard to disagree with as well.
Three also agree but also agree with Wez it should have been earlier.

It wasn't a mistake sacking Malky. The mistake was employing Ole, but this is with hindsight. At the time I had high hopes for Ole but he proved to be clueless.

I agree.

It wasn't a mistake sacking Malky. The mistake was employing Ole, but this is with hindsight. At the time I had high hopes for Ole but he proved to be clueless.

Exactly.

Its all about the image and getting Malaysia on the map world wide to make his dealings with his on government easier

there is no passion for our club or any other club he as purchased - just stamping free publicity and earning brownie points

no other billionaire would treat fans as customers .....

It wasn't a mistake sacking Malky. The mistake was employing Ole, but this is with hindsight. At the time I had high hopes for Ole but he proved to be clueless.

with hindsight yes but ole was one of the hottest mangers in Europe at the time just didn't happen for him here

I think your in the minority with your suggestion that Ole was one of Europes hottest managers the vast majority of City supporters recognised at the time that it was a silly appointment, most wanted Pullis, no need for hindsight.

Problem is Carl, had we not got relegated, we would still be Red. So relegation was 100% worth it to get our true identity back

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Daniel Picton
And the ridiculous prices which had gone up 200 pound within over 3 seasons

The prices are fair atm, the price freeze came to an end and they had to even the prices out

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay

2,3,1 in the order.

Personally I feel if we had kept the calibre of Ridsdale we would have most likely had a better manager than Malky who would have taken us up.

For me Malkys sacking was the wrong thing to do at the time. Malkys only real mistake was never finding that goal scorer for us. Miller cost us, Maynard was unlucky and Acorn perhaps summed up MM luck in that department. An average striker compared to what we had under Mackey and we would have been ok.

The rebrand to me was was going to be a failure only when we started to struggle. A couple of seasons in the premier and we would have been a red club. It would have been too much for me.

rebrand top,it tore the club apart...

' THREE MAJOR MISTAKES '


Since Vincent Tan has been running Cardiff City I believe he has made three major mistakes that have been problematic for him personally or for the good of the club.

The three mistakes :

1. Rebrand
2. Failure to appoint a football man positioned between himself and the manager
3. The timing of the sacking of Malky Mackay


Regarding the first point, the Rebrand, I don't think any words can be said that have already not been done to death before, it was




well annis young inexperienced and managing at a higher level for the first time and you give him allyour support
other than the young bityou could be talking about slade here , but we all, know yourboppinions of him hmmmmmm


never a situation that the vast majority of City fans were ever comfortable with and coupled with the failure to turn debt to equity
then Vincent Tan, maybe through ignorance or naivety, was never going to have fans onside and started a divide between the club

























































and the fans and even between fans themselves that will, if ever, take years to repair.































I have always believed that since Peter Ridsdale left the club, and no I am not saying Ridsdale should have stayed on, there has been a hole left that has failed to be filled. I really believe that our club needed someone who could question the previous manager on the spending, certain signings and give a more independent view to the owner rather than trusting the manager and his policies wholeheartedly.

I have no doubt, due to the breakdown in trust between the two men that Vincent Tan had to sack Malky Mackay. With that said I still believe in my mind that Malky Mackay was the manager who had the best possible chance of keeping us in the Premier League, Tan should have bit his lip, held on to any information he had, put his personal feelings to one side for a limited time and played happy families to do the right thing for the club in its bid to avoid relegation and carried out the sacking at the end of that season or if we were safe before the end.

They are my opinions and there have been other mistakes but these three are the ones that have been the most damaging to the success of the club.

malky should of been sacked earlier when Tony pulis was available but most fans got behind malky dur to Their hatred of the rebrand a d we then missed the boat

So you agree Wez that the timing was wrong but you would have wanted the decision made earlier.

What about the other two points, do you agree with them ?

Yes the rebrand shouldn't of happened but I understand why it did and why people including myself went along with it ,,I dont agree with the football man point as we did have success we got promoted

Wez, so your agreeing Malky was the right manager
Had we had a football man in, he would of over seen manager Malky and his transfers,we would prob not of ended up with useless managers like Ole and Slade.

Malky was right for the championship but totally blew it with his transfer policy for the premiership ,ole was highly rated but didn't cut the mustard trying to turn us in to man utd and slade could come good ouraway form was much better under slade can't help thinking that the negativity has effected our home form hopefully next season will be different in blue and the real fans there

Wez, I gathered you would say that.

Malky was young/naive,never managed in Prem before and still learning, thats why Tan needed a football man in the club to over see

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Andrew Mapley The city to me was about togetherness stand as one to combat all the others ,sadly that has gone but following the city has always been like a soap opera ,got our season tickets can't wait
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Claire Pell It's so embarrassing , Annis when will the circus end !
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Neil MacDonald 1. Been reversed
2. He trusted his manager (Malky) who persuaded him to employ someone to deal with contracts (moody). That was his mistake.
3. Yep should have sacked Malky sooner and given someone more time to sort the playing squad they inherited
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Mallo Cardiff what about the builder who stayed true Blue !!!!
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Annis Abrahamii Neil Tans had 6 CEO'S they cant all be in the wrong.
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Annis Abrahamii Claire,while Tan is there,sadly the circus remains.