FORMER CITY CAPTAIN CHALLENGES CITY FANS OVER TROLLOPE

Paul Trollope: Ex-captain Jason Perry challenges Cardiff fans calling for change.

BBC

Sunday September 18th 2016

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Former Cardiff City captain Jason Perry has challenged fans of the club who are calling for head coach Paul Trollope to be sacked.

The Bluebirds are bottom of the Championship after four consecutive defeats - their latest 2-0 by Leeds.

Perry says Trollope inherited many of the team's problems.

"Do you trust those people at board level to make a decision yet again to bring somebody else in?" Perry asked on BBC Radio Wales.

"That problem is still there. There's nobody with a footballing background on the board."

After losing to Leeds, Trollope claimed he had the backing of club owner Vincent Tan.

Perry added: "He understands his problems at Cardiff City.

"And my one worry is those problems haven't started this season - they've been there last season.

"There's a lack of pace in that squad. They've been struggling for forward players to stretch defenders.

"They've been struggling for legs in midfield - is that because the board won't back him?

"Cardiff City are bottom of the league and that's not by accident because the performances reflect that."

Another former Bluebird, Danny Gabbidon suggested Trollope should be treated the same way as his predecessor Russell Slade.

Slade was regularly the subject of fans' disapproval during his tenure from October 2014 to May 2016, before becoming the Welsh club's head of football ahead of leaving to take over at Charlton Athletic.

Gabbidon said: "He should probably get the same amount of time that Russell Slade had.

"But the more games you lose, the more the pressure mounts.

"It certainly isn't right at the minute.

"Two defeats in a week, three goals conceded against Preston, two more against a team [Leeds] struggling in the Championship themselves.

"They're lacking creativity, they're conceding goals. They don't really look like scoring any and it is worrying times for Cardiff City."

Former Cardiff striker Nathan Blake is pessimistic about their hopes for a season in which they have scored six goals and conceded 14 while winning only once in eight games.

"It's only going to get tougher," said Blake. "There's something missing throughout the club.

"There's a spark missing. What you see there on the pitch on a Saturday is just the evidence of the overall feeling at the club."

Trollope takes his team to Rotherham, a club three places above them in the table, in their next game on Saturday, 24 September.

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Nonsense the manager puts the tactics in place the manager picked a young kid in goals who wasn't ready the manager keeps changing players and systems every game

Nonsense the manager puts the tactics in place the manager picked a young kid in goals who wasn't ready the manager keeps changing players and systems every game

And chose to gamble a not insubstantial sum of money on a slow 34 year old who has scored 2 goals in the last two seasons.

I understand the sentiment if giving as much time as Salde but the squad hasn't changed much from PTs time with Slade and I would have thougt that he and they would know what needs to be done that wasn't under RS. I will say though that the loss of two of our best players, especially Marshall is also biting us on the arse.

I give 12 games to any new manager and I would never have predicted we would be bottom of the league after 8 games.

Windbag Perry is the biggest reason I can't listen to him commentating on BBC Radio Wales any more. If he was as much a tactical genius as he makes out on air he would be a Prem manager. Yes he was gutsy player who gave 100% but football pundit? No way.

if ex players like perry haven't earned the right to state his view then how can we on here as most on here no everything