Russell Slade: "Realistic view on play-offs"

Cardiff manager Russell Slade is not giving up on his side's play-off hopes but admits they face a tall order to get into the top six after crashing to a late 2-1 defeat at lowly Fulham.

Russell Slade: Realistic view on play-offs

Saturday 09/04/16

It left Fulham on the brink of safety and seventh-placed Cardiff now have it all to do to extend their season as they remain five points behind sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday with a significantly worse goal difference as well.

While Slade is not throwing the towel in, he concedes the result is a blow to their play-off ambitions.

He said: "We will keep going to the end. It's a setback and we would have taken a precious point.

"Every game at this stage is important. We've given ourselves a mountain to climb but there's still time to go.

"A draw would have been a fair result. We took a few risks to get the three points and when you do that you leave yourself open a little bit.

"But they've scored as a result of a corner where we've not defended well enough.

"It's very frustrating that we've not been able to bridge that gap today and of course we're disappointed with that.

"We've had some real high level performances recently but we didn't quite reach that level today.

"But where we want to be it's certainly not impossible. We'll keep going. We've got a home game next week and all we can control is what's in front of us."

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Doesn't fill me with confidence I'm afraid.

First half today we totally controlled the game. A moment of madness at the beginning of the second half. Seemed 1 or 2 were still in the dressing room.

Fulham were better second half but we still had lots of the ball, I felt we just lacked a bit of cutting edge and quality up top. We did miss okeefe in the middle slight lack of steel in my opinion. I thought gunnarson was poor. Gutted with conceding at the end. We always seen to be backs to the wall last 5 mins & into injury time. I thought Marshall had saved us again at one point. .

It's not over yet, sheff wed still have to go to derby and play us.

f**k off slade your shit, im sorry for not bein in the lick slades arse camp but we are failing on play offs at the moment and its not good enough with the crop of players weve had all season simple as that

what crop of players do we have that gives u the right to say that, I'm stunned when people say we have these players when we haven't .

Name players we have who prem teams would go after . Marshall Maybe Bruno no others

what crop of players do we have that gives u the right to say that, I'm stunned when people say we have these players when we haven't .

Name players we have who prem teams would go after . Marshall Maybe Bruno no others

I doubt there are many players in the current top 6 that prem clubs would go after.

Our inability to land and settle a decent striker has been our issue for the last two seasons.

what crop of players do we have that gives u the right to say that, I'm stunned when people say we have these players when we haven't .

Name players we have who prem teams would go after . Marshall Maybe Bruno no others

I doubt there are many players in the current top 6 that prem clubs would go after.

Our inability to land and settle a decent striker has been our issue for the last two seasons.

Slades the manager. Its his inability to land a decent striker. Just one of his many f**k ups