Last time Cardiff did not lay a glove on the Jacks/THIS TIME
Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:18 am
Cardiff didn’t lay a glove on Swansea last time out at the Cardiff City stadium and couldn’t get anywhere near them under the management of Neil Harris, it was actually embarrassing.
It is a pattern that has developed in recent years and feels like it has become an inferiority complex of sorts. They need to shed that sharpish if they have any chance of avenging a run of bad results and performances against their fiercest rivals.
Swansea suffered a heavy defeat at Bournemouth on Tuesday, losing ground on second place in the process.
From what I’ve seen and heard in recent weeks, they’ve had it coming, as results have been better than performances for a while now. That tends to catch up with you eventually, especially in the Championship, where all your luck often vanishes in one fell swoop.
Swansea will be keen to avoid the lottery of the play-offs for a second consecutive season and are in the mix for automatic promotion with Brentford, their conquerors at the same stage last season. Watford now occupy second and look formidable, with arguably the best squad in the division, so Swansea face a tough task in merely keeping up.
With Swansea likely keen to avoid a bad result becoming a crisis and Cardiff in fear of losing twice to Swansea in the same season for the first time, it feels like a cautious draw may well be on the cards and that we should probably expect a safety first South Wales derby.
Swansea can certainly expect to meet a far more resilient, well-drilled Cardiff side than the one they faced towards the end of Neil Warnock’s tenure last season and the increasingly muddled outfit they somehow became under Neil Harris.
McCarthy has found a shape that fits Cardiff’s constituent parts. Defence aside, there is plenty of strength in depth and players can now slot in seamlessly without disrupting the whole. They play far further up the pitch, which is a necessity against Swansea, if you don’t want them to dictate the whole contest.
The difference under Mick McCarthy you will see a team giving 110% and fighting to win every ball and playing for their manager, team and club, Swansea will face a different match this time, I can promise you that
It is a pattern that has developed in recent years and feels like it has become an inferiority complex of sorts. They need to shed that sharpish if they have any chance of avenging a run of bad results and performances against their fiercest rivals.
Swansea suffered a heavy defeat at Bournemouth on Tuesday, losing ground on second place in the process.
From what I’ve seen and heard in recent weeks, they’ve had it coming, as results have been better than performances for a while now. That tends to catch up with you eventually, especially in the Championship, where all your luck often vanishes in one fell swoop.
Swansea will be keen to avoid the lottery of the play-offs for a second consecutive season and are in the mix for automatic promotion with Brentford, their conquerors at the same stage last season. Watford now occupy second and look formidable, with arguably the best squad in the division, so Swansea face a tough task in merely keeping up.
With Swansea likely keen to avoid a bad result becoming a crisis and Cardiff in fear of losing twice to Swansea in the same season for the first time, it feels like a cautious draw may well be on the cards and that we should probably expect a safety first South Wales derby.
Swansea can certainly expect to meet a far more resilient, well-drilled Cardiff side than the one they faced towards the end of Neil Warnock’s tenure last season and the increasingly muddled outfit they somehow became under Neil Harris.
McCarthy has found a shape that fits Cardiff’s constituent parts. Defence aside, there is plenty of strength in depth and players can now slot in seamlessly without disrupting the whole. They play far further up the pitch, which is a necessity against Swansea, if you don’t want them to dictate the whole contest.
The difference under Mick McCarthy you will see a team giving 110% and fighting to win every ball and playing for their manager, team and club, Swansea will face a different match this time, I can promise you that
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Re: Last time Cardiff did not lay a glove on the Jacks/THIS
Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:02 am
That last game against the Jacks was the start of the end for Harris.
Re: Last time Cardiff did not lay a glove on the Jacks/THIS
Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:57 am
The fact is we have been awful on our games against the Jacks for a while.
Even when Warnock was in charge, who we know brings passion, we didn't play well against them.
We haven't beat them since 2013 when we won 1-0 at home against them in the Premier League. We've lost three of the four since then, with the other being a 0-0 draw.
We haven't won at Swansea for ten years.
But I do think we'll offer more this time. I think the team will be up for it.
That said, I'm going for a 1-1 draw but a good performance.
Even when Warnock was in charge, who we know brings passion, we didn't play well against them.
We haven't beat them since 2013 when we won 1-0 at home against them in the Premier League. We've lost three of the four since then, with the other being a 0-0 draw.
We haven't won at Swansea for ten years.
But I do think we'll offer more this time. I think the team will be up for it.
That said, I'm going for a 1-1 draw but a good performance.
Re: Last time Cardiff did not lay a glove on the Jacks/THIS
Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:27 pm
According to Harris it was just another game. From that moment he fucked up!!
Re: Last time Cardiff did not lay a glove on the Jacks/THIS
Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:09 pm
Which is why we'll probably see a red card, probably from Valks continuously leaving a calling card on someone once too often. 
Hope I'm wrong.
Hope I'm wrong.
Re: Last time Cardiff did not lay a glove on the Jacks/THIS
Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:18 pm
I'd love to beat the peg sellers but would settle for a draw.
Not losing this game is critical.
We cannot let the jacks do the double over us.
I don't give a shite how we play either. Just don't lose.
Not losing this game is critical.
We cannot let the jacks do the double over us.
I don't give a shite how we play either. Just don't lose.
Re: Last time Cardiff did not lay a glove on the Jacks/THIS
Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:19 pm
Mike Strinati wrote:According to Harris it was just another game. From that moment he fucked up!!
Agreed Mike.
It was a disgrace.
At least when Jones used to say such things he could motivate the team to put in a performance.
Re: Last time Cardiff did not lay a glove on the Jacks/THIS
Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:28 pm
By the 5:30 KO tomorrow , Swansea could find themselves in 4th place , maybe 6 points behind Watford and also behind Brentford with a far inferior GD , to them both . We could be 9 points from the play off places .
So that would I think be a bridge to far, far us.
But Swansea I believe will have to win , otherwise they can say goodbye to automatic promotion. The pressure on us is only to avoid them doing the double. Which really is nonsense .
But the pressure on them will be immense !!!
So that would I think be a bridge to far, far us.
But Swansea I believe will have to win , otherwise they can say goodbye to automatic promotion. The pressure on us is only to avoid them doing the double. Which really is nonsense .
But the pressure on them will be immense !!!
Re: Last time Cardiff did not lay a glove on the Jacks/THIS
Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:01 am
nojac wrote:By the 5:30 KO tomorrow , Swansea could find themselves in 4th place , maybe 6 points behind Watford and also behind Brentford with a far inferior GD , to them both . We could be 9 points from the play off places .
So that would I think be a bridge to far, far us.
But Swansea I believe will have to win , otherwise they can say goodbye to automatic promotion. The pressure on us is only to avoid them doing the double. Which really is nonsense .
But the pressure on them will be immense !!!
Spot On
