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Tuesday 2nd November 2021





STEVE MORISON:




“I can’t wait to stand in front of the Cardiff fans at home. It will be an honour, a privilege to stand there on the touchline and hopefully there are 20,000 people there like there was at Stoke.”





No home win since August?



We are here to change stats and change fortunes.

The stat on Saturday would have been nine from nine, which would have been the second time that ever happened, I think.

It’s time to change that.

Steve Morison





3-0 down to 3-3 on Saturday, did it feel like a win?



It felt like a draw!

It was an eventful afternoon. We worked all week on how we wanted to play and we did implement that. Change of style, bit more possession, we just got hit by two shots which were two goals. We should have been 1-0 up.

Minute after half-time, my team talk did wonders!

I put Mark Harris on for Kieron and our shape went, but we scored three really good goals. We could have nicked the win, we could have lost it.

That’s why we all pay the money, we love football because things like that happen.

My first game in charge with Tom and it was a really enjoyable afternoon in the end.

Steve Morison




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Important to stop the run?




It’s huge. That’s the most positive thing to come out of it. Get the cohesion of the group together, score goals, do better than what we were doing, which will help us in our development on and off the pitch.

Hopefully now, getting that monkey off your back, scoring goals when you’re not scoring goals, your three front players, three Welsh lads, stepping up and scoring the goals.

People questioned the players, but that right there, the pictures and the celebrations that came out afterwards, it was there for them to see.

Anyone who questioned their fight, that showed that they are.

Steve Morison

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Caretaker Manager Steve Morison




Sat Oct 30 Stoke City 3 Cardiff City 3 Crowd 21,413. Away Support ( 920 )


Wed Nov 3 Queens Park Rangers H

Sat Nov 6 Huddersfield Town H






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Sat Nov 20 Preston North End A

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STEVE MORISON:



No home win since August?



We are here to change stats and change fortunes.

The stat on Saturday would have been nine from nine, which would have been the second time that ever happened, I think.

It’s time to change that.

Steve Morison

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Do you keep an eye on bookies’ odds?




No, we’re not allowed to bet!

Unless someone tells me something… I stay out of it.

I don’t do social media either, it’s not my bag, I don’t see what positive can come out of it.

Until someone phones me and tells me to get back to the u23s I’ll continue.

Steve Morison

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Your Under 23 team?


It’s much easier picking players from the u23s if that team is winning than if they are losing.

I spoke to them after the game yesterday. Winning eight out of eight games, conceding four and scoring 20 is some achievement.

If you keep at that level, the opportunities will come - but at the right time.

It will be a round peg in a round hole.

I wouldn’t push a player up to a manager for the sake of it, it would be when they are right to go to the next level.

They have to keep performing and playing well.

Watching them turn over Swansea, and being comfortable, was really pleasing.

Steve Morison

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Any conversations with the board?






I’ve not spoken to anyone. We played the game Saturday, I had a few messages off the board just to say well done and that’s literally it.

Mehmet ‘Well done’, Ken ‘Well done’, Vincent ‘Well done’.

I haven’t spoken to anybody.

We had Sunday off, came in and tried and now I’m doing this press conference. There’s not a lot more to say!

Steve Morison

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Looking forward to seeing the home fans tomorrow night?





I can’t wait. It will be an honour, a privilege to stand there on the touchline and hopefully there are 20,000 people there like there was at Stoke.

To have everyone there, positive atmosphere, no negative, it will be fantastic.

Hopefully it will be less stressful than Saturday.

Steve Morison

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Found out a bit more about yourself as a first-team manager?







We were just talking about it in the office, when you’re 3-0 down you want the ground to swallow you up.

Then you score the first, you’re quite reserved, the second a bit more excited and then the third goes in and you’re cuddling people you’ve never cuddled before!

It was just disappointing we didn’t get the fourth.

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Injury update:


No new news. We haven’t lost anyone. James Collins is still out, nothing new. Marlon comes back into contention.

Steve Morison

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Ryan Giles, left wing-back Saturday, something you thought would benefit the team?






Yeah, that’s why I put him there!

He gives you a real attacking outlet. Every game is different. He was a lot better second half than he was first half - we didn’t see enough of him in the first half.

I have got this gig for three games, I made that decision on Saturday and I will make decisions tomorrow night for what suits the game best.

Steve Morison

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Joe Ralls, how long will he be out?

He’s on a ‘let’s take each day as it comes’. It’s about his pain threshold, what he can tolerate.

He has a problem with his shoulder. There’s no long-term damage but it’s such an important part of what he does. We’ll have to manage him.

As soon as he is remotely near he’ll be letting us know. He has done bits of training but not fully at it yesterday.

Steve Morison

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Joe Ralls, Vassell and Sang still out.

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Chanka Zimba, how close is he to getting the call?




He was in the squad on Saturday and left him out. He will be part of the squad tomorrow.

Every time he does well and puts the ball in the back of the net for the under-23s… at the minute he gives me a decision to make tomorrow.

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Kieffer Moore, say anything to him?




I don’t need to tell Kieffer Moore how to score goals. It was just a case of him being between the posts.

I thought he was excellent on Saturday. Early doors he didn’t secure the ball well enough and missed that chance at the end of the first half, but became the hero at the end. Hopefully he will get a bit of form back.

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How pleasing to see Mark Harris to make that impact off the bench?






You make a sub to try and make an impact and what an impact.

I couldn’t ask for much more… well I could, I could have asked him to stay onside at the end!

Everyone has to impact the game, from the start or the bench. I thought he did that excellently.

Aden Flint also did everything I asked of him, too.

It’s going to take all of us.

Steve Morison

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Steve Morison has had to be selective in which players have been kept and which players had to leave. He has had a big say in building this under-23s squad over the last year and now, in such a short space of time, the first team are bearing that fruit.



Morison and his assistant Tom Ramasut have done a sterling job in making the under-23s the winning machine they are today.

Results are important, of course, but the way this young Cardiff side play is truly brilliant to watch. They are all confident on the ball, the midfield plays a huge role in driving attacks forward and their use of exciting wingers makes for a real spectacle.

There is no doubt the success this season, coupled with this aesthetically-pleasing style of play, is the reason behind a growing group of fans wanting to see Morison have the first-team job on a permanent basis.

"We don’t normally get mentioned," Morison said of him and Ramasut when asked about the under-23s' success last week.

"It’s normally everyone else around it for some reason and me and Tom and the staff get bypassed, yet we are the ones, along with Kev (Beadell) with the recruitment, who demand and get players ready for the first team.

"It’s really nice that, from everyone’s point of view, that getting this opportunity for the next couple of weeks is testament to our work.

"It’s about getting players into the first team, we've done that, winning, done that, change the environment, changed the culture of the u23s, done that, so it’s been a really successful period.

"We had a lot to change. Now the football club is bearing the fruits of that."

Well, now Morison has a lot to change at first-team level. Whether he and Ramasut are afforded long enough to do that remains up in the air.

They will no doubt try and bring some of that style and swagger into the first team over the coming weeks, with it understood that they will have the QPR and Huddersfield games ahead of the international break before a decision on a permanent appointment is made.

City's shaky defending against Stoke City will alarm some, but supporters have been crying out for some purposeful and exciting attacking football all season and at least they saw that on Saturday.

They went three goals down, but, by the end of the match, they could easily have claimed all three points.


The exciting youngsters will no doubt get their chance for the first team, too. Not all will make it, that's never how it works, but a few will and that will only grow the excitement and, importantly, a better connection with the fans.

Isaak Davies will get more opportunities, so, too, will Kieron Evans, who made his first senior start up in the Potteries last weekend, while it seems a matter of time before Chanka Zimba features for the first time.

Because Cardiff's youngsters are not just winning games at the minute, they are battering their opposition. They are bulldozing teams they come up against week after week.

They are, in fact, the complete antithesis of what Cardiff's first team have been all season. Exciting, ruthless and attacking.

They have scored 20 goals in eight games and conceded only four.


It's Matt Bloxham's job to carry on that good work for the time being, and he has made an excellent start with the two triumphs over Swansea and Ipswich, to ensure that feelgood factor surrounding the youngsters is maintained. Because the club really need it at the moment.

It's difficult to talk about how well the youngsters are doing when the backdrop of the first team has been so bleak over the last few months.


But after a South Wales derby win which has seen City leap six points ahead of second place in the PDL2 table, the players and the coaching staff deserve all the praise coming their way.

And with it, Cardiff fans can hold on to the hope that perhaps Morison and Ramasut can implement some, if not all, of what has been good with the under-23s at senior level over the course of the next two games. And, who knows, perhaps beyond that.

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Three games, how much can you actually change and is it difficult?





It’s not difficult, because ultimately, if it is three games then it needs to be three games my way, otherwise, what’s the point?

I said in the first press conference. I presume I’m sitting here because of the job Tom and I have done with the under-23s.

This is mine and Tom’s reward for what we’ve done, so why not come and get this opportunity and try and do it my way?

If it fails, then at least at the end of the three games, Saturday night I drive home and I get a phone call Sunday to say they have found a replacement for Mick, I can walk back in with the under-23s on Monday and say I did it my way.

And I can be happy with that. We can try and do as much as we can on the training ground and I’ve had a buy-in from the players.

All the stats were up, possession, shots on goal, xG was up, it’s a step in the right direction.

From my point of view, it’s to try and change as much as we can within reason. We’ve only got the players we’ve got, we are outside of a transfer window.

The biggest changes are belief, confidence, being brave.

Ultimately, we were failing anyway, we just needed to try something. Hopefully that last 40 minutes did us wonders.

Steve Morison

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How refreshing was that, speaks really well, very impressive, and with the Swansea jibes and the I want to stand on the touch line at a home game comment is sure to win a few more fans over.

Good read that, comes over as someone who knows exactly what he expects from his players.
Onward and upward

Steve Morison speaks so well and if that transfers into improved results and/or performances, I think he has a fighting chance of further games in charge

He could well be the catalyst in finally linking up the U23/Academy philosophy of play into the first team - the answer in plain sight on our doorstep & also mixes it up as opposed to being dependant on one style. Knows the club, knows the systems, knows the players and has proven himself at the U23 level.

I'm hoping the last 40 mins at Stoke was a turning point and confidence & belief will be present tomorrow night. As important, the Stoke game saw a return of another key attribute that has been absent - the squad never know when their beaten, heads are not dropped and they battle till the end.

He also acknowledges the fans too.

WHat a difference reading that was to mick, a bit of charisma wit goes a long way I genuinely hope he succeeds the next two games and we give him a go until the end of the season with a view to the board then sitting down with him and seeing if he’s up for it on a year to year deal

Come on City armchair fans, your club needs you. Turn up tonight and help the boys turn it around.