' The positives from Cardiff City’s season so far '

' The positives from Cardiff City’s season so far '

Wednesday September 7th

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As a Cardiff City fan it’s very easy to write this season off already but there are positives to take from the uninspiring opening to the campaign.


After just five games the Bluebirds are eight points off the top and went into the international break off a loss to Reading. The Cardiff City Stadium is no longer the fortress it once was and there feels like a lack of ambition in the team.

I was once asked whether I was a pessimist or and optimist. I simply responded “I’m a Cardiff City fan” because sometimes as a Cardiff fan all you can do it try to find the positives when there are none, so that is what I’m going to attempt to do.

Before the season started, if you had told Cardiff fans that their team would be on the same number of points as Aston Villa, Derby and Sheffield Wednesday after five games, they would have been happy. It probably says more about their poor start than it does the Bluebirds’. Regardless, you can still see all of those clubs being at the top of the table come the end of the season.

Cardiff may be without the investment of the other teams around them but if they can manage to be somewhere near the playoffs towards Christmas then maybe there will be some significant investment in January.

We are still yet to see a few players who were additions late in the transfer window. The likes of Joe Bennet, Ben Amos and Rickie Lambert are yet to play for the Bluebirds. I’m not suggesting that they will turn the season completely around for Cardiff by themselves, however to is unfair to write them off like some fans are already.

We are also yet to see much from Emyr Huws and Frederic Gounongbe, who both played for their respective countries this week. Huws played 30 minutes for Wales in their 4-0 win over Moldova, replacing Joe Ledley. Although the game was already sewn up, he did fit really well into the three-man midfield as the advanced playmaker, just like Cardiff have.


Cardiff fans have seen all they wish to of Gounongbe following his opening day open-goal miss against Birmingham. But he must put that out of his mind, as should we, because the stick he has received since would have done his confidence no good. He scored for Benin in their World Cup qualifier against Mali, and it was a decent finish too.

The break out of Kadeem Harris also must be seen as a positive. When he has come on during games, he has changed the dynamic and focus of the Bluebirds’ play. All he needs to do is add a little defensive work to his game as well as work on his discipline, and he could be a contender for player of the season.

Whether this season is a write-off or not, we, as fans, must support Cardiff city to the end and sometimes that means finding the positives when there are very few. Besides, there’s plenty of time left for Cardiff to turn this campaign around.

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Good post. Good to see John and Harris get chances so far, and looking forward to seeing Huws and Lambert

Good OP, Carl and as positive as it gets at the moment!

We have to see the positives where we can and I believe there are many, as stated above

Hopefully, Fred and Lambert will quickly form a good understanding and others around the will have the confidence to put the ball into them more frequently. That will surely be the final piece of the jig-saw that Paul Trollope has been trying to piece together?

Overall, Cardiff City have looked pretty compact this season and work hard for each other; particularly at the back. The provision of a proven goal-scorer and the confidence a few goals will create throughout the team could just be the catalyst we need to go on and climb the table

Early days yet, but the signs (if not the results) are there!

so to sum up the positives

we are 8 points off the top after 5 games played
we are on the same number of points as aston villa, sheff wednesday and derby
we have signed Joe Bennet, Ben Amos and Rickie Lambert
Gounogbe scored for Benin against Mali
Kadeem harris has played well

how the hell are the first two positives? to be 8 points behind after 5 games is a huge gulf.
the third point says that we have signed 3 players, but haven't seen them play so cannot write them off. again how is that a positive? it is neutral, at best.
fourth point - he scored against Mali. well, i suppose that is a 'positive' of sorts.
fifth point - yes, kadeem harris has played well. probably the only player to have impressed so far, and he's been a substitute most games.

Summing up the positives so far in two words - Kadeem Harris.

I'm positive we will have a new manager in January

ive been thinking for 5 hours. ummmmmmmmm , give us a clue, cause i cant think of nothing

The only positives I can see are the introduction of Kadeem Harris and Declan John along with the signing of Rickie Lambert.

I don't consider being 8 points off the top with a similar points count as some of the 'top' teams to be a positive. Undoubtedly it is very likely that all of those teams will be above us come the end of the season. Realistically we are 1 point above the relegation zone which is slightly nearer than the top of the table.

Just hope that things change around otherwise it could be a long hard season.

The queue out of the car park isnt as bad