Why Cardiff Fans Should Support Russell Slade This Season

Why Cardiff Fans Should Support Russell Slade This Season

By Daniel Bevan

Tues 23 Jun 2015



Like him or not, there’s no denying the good that Cardiff City manager has done for the club. Since replacing former manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in October last year, Slade has had to deal with his fair share of stick from the Cardiff City faithful and what’s wrong with that? Fans pay good money to watch football, why can't they voice their opinion?

The problem with people who have this attitude is that it is having a notable negative effect when the team step on the pitch. Attendances at the Cardiff City Stadium have been extremely poor.

Our home form has been abysmal this season and that has resulted in just 6,500 season ticket being renewed for the 15/16 season, a little over a third of the 15,000 season tickets that were sold in the summer of 2014. Many agree that Cardiff’s away form is what saved them from the relegation dogfight in the back end of the season.

Every fan expected the Bluebirds to return the top flight at the first time of asking. This only escalated when Cardiff were tipped to be champions by the bookies, however this season time around they are destined for mid-table mediocrity, so how can Slade be seen as a success?

Slade’s first job as Cardiff manager was to cut the wages bill, which peaked at £30million, by £12million. This was as a result of Solskjaer’s erratic spending which left us with 42 first team players. Slade achieved this goal in late January, releasing some high earners like Juan Cala, Kim Bo Kyung and Guido Burgstaller but also managed to bring in a few players that he felt would improve the performance of the squad.

Fans argue that the signings didn't have high enough profiles, many of them coming from Premier League academies, low level Championship teams and League One sides. This prompted to Russell Slade to comment “We aren't shopping at Harrods anymore”. Even the strongest supporters of the ‘Slade Out’ movement have to agree that the additions have had a very good influence on the squad.

Slade has let the likes of Kenwyne Jones, Matthew Connolly among others leave the leave the club on loan at various points of the season, claiming that many of them were business decisions. He was ridiculed by fans for this but football is a business and Cardiff City’s infamous debt was probably a huge factor in these decisions.

At the start of this summer the Cardiff City board were faced with an ultimatum, to back or sack Russell Slade, and as the latter seems very unlikely at this present moment then Cardiff fans should suck it up and support the team. Cardiff fans are famous for being some of the best fans in the world and now, when the team needs us the most, we are turning our back on them. I’m not prepared to let this be the demise of our club, are you?

How dare you be so positve! And they made it a sticky too!

For what it's worth, I think the majority of fans want to see Slade succeed, but not on this board! However, if we aren't challenging by the end of October then I think there may be another managerial change at the Cardiff City stadium.

How dare you be so positve! And they made it a sticky too!

For what it's worth, I think the majority of fans want to see Slade succeed, but not on this board! However, if we aren't challenging by the end of October then I think there may be another managerial change at the Cardiff City stadium.

We all want Slade to succeed,without a doubt

Just many of us,including myself dont belive in him or have much faith in him and fans should be allowed their opinions,good or bad

How dare you be so positve! And they made it a sticky too!

For what it's worth, I think the majority of fans want to see Slade succeed, but not on this board! However, if we aren't challenging by the end of October then I think there may be another managerial change at the Cardiff City stadium.

We all want Slade to succeed,without a doubt

Just many of us,including myself dont belive in him or have much faith in him and fans should be allowed their opinions,good or bad

I'm still underwhelmed by his appointment - I just don't think he deserves to have people calling for him to be sacked. Yet.

Don't like him, don't want him here and 100% do not support him.

Doesn't stop me 100% supporting the team and players though. I don't see why fans need to'support' the manager.

Give him a bit longer. I personally don't trust him but he's come into do a job which was trim the wage bill, which he has done. His next job will to be getting us challenging again, and hopefully that will happen. Anything can happen in the championship and we have enough good players in the squad to have a go.

I've spent thousands of pounds supporting this team since the late 60's, and feel I am entitled to my personal opinion. I wouldn't dream of telling Daniel Bevan what he should do, or whether he should or should not support Slade. I happen to think he was a bad choice of manager, but that is my personal opinion and I may be proven completely wrong. Just because I have these views doesn't mean for one minute that I would not support him or the team during a match. Daniel Bevan is entitled to his view but so is everyone else, even those who have a different view from him.

I've spent thousands of pounds supporting this team since the late 60's, and feel I am entitled to my personal opinion. I wouldn't dream of telling Daniel Bevan what he should do, or whether he should or should not support Slade. I happen to think he was a bad choice of manager, but that is my personal opinion and I may be proven completely wrong. Just because I have these views doesn't mean for one minute that I would not support him or the team during a match. Daniel Bevan is entitled to his view but so is everyone else, even those who have a different view from him.

For the record,
didn't like jones personality - but supported
didn't like Mackay's football- but supported
didn't like solskjaer's indecision - but supported

Slade may be one or all of the above or become a slow burn success, either way I will show unity
At every game I attend. It's hard though for any fan anywhere to enjoy a dour spectacle

I hate booing our own. I'm a supporter, not a pantomime attendee.
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He hasnt got a scooby

Do we need a scooby and what position does scooby play
How much would a scooby cost
Could slade get a scooby to sign for a championship club
Would tan loosen the purse strings to get us a good scooby

Sade wouldn't know a good scooby if it bit him on the arse

So a scooby is a bit(e) like a Suarez then
In that case go get us one Russell

Does Russell know where to look ?

Maybe he can ask Scott Young



Clowns

who the hell wrote this?

Slade is Tans puppet and I don't like his dour tactics but I will support the team as I always do this season.

He's the Cardiff manager and until otherwise I will support him, the players, and the team. I think we could have a dozen better managers and not completely blow the budget but there we go. We did show improvement under him and if we finish higher than 10th this season that improvement will have continued. Might be slower than we all want but if progress is continuing then we cannot argue really.

He's had his chance. He's been in charge for 35 of our 46 Championship games and hasn't improved the team at all

Yes good question, why on earth? I'm struggling to find a sensible answer