" RUSSELL SLADE / CARDIFF CITY "

" RUSSELL SLADE / CARDIFF CITY "

By Sports Mole

6th Nov 2015

Cardiff's bland style of play is still proving to be a major turn off for supporters who have grown used to success of sorts in recent times


Cardiff City Russell Slade has had to contend with murmurs of discontent pretty much from the first day he walked into his office at the club's Vale Resort training complex.
The 55-year-old was deemed by many to be better suited to the lower tiers, where he had plied his trade for the first two decades of his managerial career. At the time, Cardiff simply needed someone to steady the ship following a real shaky spell under inexperienced boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, with Slade - a man capable of working within a limited budget - deemed the perfect candidate at the time.
While supporters grew more and more tired of results, as highlighted by the average attendance figures, Slade could justifiably point to the fact that the Welsh outfit were now far tougher to beat.
The flipside of those particular unbeaten stats, however, was that Cardiff were dropping an alarming number of points against sides they really should be beating if a playoff challenge is to be on the cards.

A 1-1 draw away at pacesetters Brighton & Hove Albion was certainly respectable, likewise a snatch-and-grab 1-0 home win over Middlesbrough, but draws against Preston North End and Bristol City in particular set alarm bells ringing, prior to the rarest of defeats against Leeds United in midweek. More so than the results themselves.

Cardiff's bland style of play is still proving to be a major turn off for supporters who have grown used to success of sorts in recent times. It has now been 274 minutes since the Bluebirds last found the net - a George Friend own goal - while you must go back six games to find the last time a Cardiff player made a breakthrough. This, coupled with just the single goal being shipped during that run, goes a long way to showing why frustrated fans are calling for a change.

Recent form in Championship: DDWDDL