' Should Cardiff City Drop him? '

Should Cardiff City drop their out-of-form captain?


By Jamie Kemble

Wednesday 28th December 2016

Cardiff City conceded another late goal to drop points against Brentford on Boxing Day and once again their captain Sean Morrison disappointed but should he be dropped?


Cardiff City captain Sean Morrison has been a much-debated figure since his arrival in 2014 with his mixed performances always serving up a debate on whether he should be dropped.

To his credit, he’s capable of delivering some brilliant defensive performances, especially if he has the right man next to him, like Sol Bamba. However, all-too often he is caught sleeping when he should be marking and Cardiff City often pay the price, especially of late.

The most recent of his poor performances arrived against Brentford on Boxing Day when the Bluebirds conceded late-on to throw away two points.




Joe Bennett should be stopping the cross on the far side first and foremost, but when the full-back doesn’t stop the cross, the centre backs have to do their job properly.

Bruno Manga is marking the front post option as he should and for some reason, Sean Morrison goes with him to mark the same player.

Morrison is then caught marking thin air and Sullay Kaikai drifts in unmarked to head home, and at first glance, it looks as if Matthew Connolly is caught short. However, Connolly’s man is behind and he’s desperately trying to get across to cover for Morrison when unfortunately, it was just too late.


Here’s another example and this one was against Barnsley in the Bluebirds’ 4-3 home defeat earlier in December. This one is even worse and this was Barnsley’s opener, ironically cancelling out Sean Morrison’s earlier goal which put Cardiff in front.

This situation created with a routine long, lofted ball towards the back post and you would always expect Sean Morrison to beat Sam Winnall to the ball, given his aerial ability.

Winnall does superbly here in improvising to find the net, but he should never be given this sort of opportunity in-behind a central defender.

Morrison should have been stuck to Winnall like glue here and then it’s as simple as a big header out for a corner, or away to safety.

These instances are becoming all-too common and although it’s never nice to drop your captain, it seems it’s very necessary for Neil Warnock if he wants his teams to start keeping clean sheets.

In recent weeks, it’s been impossible to drop Morrison with a real lack of options thanks to Sol Bamba’s ridiculous outburst against Ipswich Town.

However, Neil Warnock has the perfect opportunity to make a change this Friday against Brighton and Hove Albion with Bamba returning and Bruno Manga currently playing relatively well.

Cardiff haven’t been helped by poor performances from out-of-position and out-of-sorts Matthew Connolly but you can often get away with slip-ups in wide positions, while you can’t afford for your centre backs to make soft errors like Sean Morrison has during the last few weeks.









The image above is a snapshot taken from Brentford’s stoppage time equaliser and you can see Sean Morrison (number 4) has a big part to play in this goal.

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Yes and put Bamba in his place.

For me Sean Morrison and Ben Amos have been our problem all season.

My Opinion Sean Morrison.

Take the armband of him and drop him.

Should never have been Captain in the first place.

Does not talk to the other players,shows no passion,not enthusiam and not good enough.


Ben Amos already dropped and replaced

Aron Gunnarsson a proven Captain,give him a chance

Morrison has always been an expensive waste of money in our team. Scores goals yes, but can't do basic defending at times. Reminds me of Anthony Gerrard, looks alright when he has another player carrying him but is poor otherwise.

Solskjaer paid a lot of money for him and I never knew why, especially when he replaced Hudson.

Another of Ole's flops, we need them out of the club.

Drop him by all means but make sure you have a better player to come in,that better player is Sol Bamba who committed a very very bad sending off for the club and I still don't know what punishment our club applied to him.
Don't get me wrong Morrison has his defensive frailties but I do think he had passion for the shirt.
Personally I'd ban Bamba for one game by our club and keep Morrison in as I think he's better than Connolly anyway.We are going to need him in January anyway.
As for the captaincy yes take it off him,it might make him better!

Morrison is good in the air in the oppositions box but rubbish in ours, he's slow and his positioning is rubbish for a CB. I think he'll be out with Manga & Bamba in. Also need Bennett at FB with Pelts the other FB, I think that's our best back 4.

Morrison is good in the air in the oppositions box but rubbish in ours, he's slow and his positioning is rubbish for a CB. I think he'll be out with Manga & Bamba in. Also need Bennett at FB with Pelts the other FB, I think that's our best back 4.

I was not confident about Pelts when he first joined and I'm still not. He is no McNaughton but does fit in ok in his favourite fb position. Next season I'm expecting to see him replaced.

Agree with all the other things though.

Yes he should be dropped for bamba. Really want to see bamba and manga together...well at least b4 manga goes to gabon

Morrison Bamba Conolly Manga Peltier Bennett. Our defence is poor really we need something. Manga is as good as gone. I don't think we would get relegated so I don't mind not throwing money at it now and surviving the year out but in reality we need a better back 5.P

You can't give Gunnar the armband coz it's conceivable he's gone in Jan, we'd get 5m+ for him, signed I believe on a free not bad business and wouldn't surprise me.

Bamba and Manga are our best center halves. But is it worth dropping Morrison is Manga is off in Jan? We should be trying to tie Manga down to another contract if he'll accept lower pay.

100%. Been saying it for a while. A captain should be 1st name on the team sheet. I wouldnt put him as my 1st choice centre back!!!
He scores a few but he should be a defender first

Not a fan

Poor decision making at the back and poor conversion record for all the chances he gets from set pieces.

Trouble is, Connelly has a mistake or two his locker too.

Not sure what the answer is tbh

Not a fan

Poor decision making at the back and poor conversion record for all the chances he gets from set pieces.

Trouble is, Connelly has a mistake or two his locker too.

Not sure what the answer is tbh

I think they all do that's why they play in the champ, not the prem!

Not a fan

Poor decision making at the back and poor conversion record for all the chances he gets from set pieces.

Trouble is, Connelly has a mistake or two his locker too.

Not sure what the answer is tbh

I think they all do that's why they play in the champ, not the prem!

Good point!