MY VIEW: STEVE MORISONS CITY PLAYED WELL, BUT WERE

MY VIEW / OPINION:


Steve Morisons City played well, but were beaten by a a side with more quality and a team use to playing good fotball.


For me City gave their all, played some good football, but need some more quality to be added to this squad.

Steve Morison needs more time.

It will not matter who City bring in, this squad needs better players.

City fought to the end.

CARDIFF CITY COMMITTEE NEED TO INVEST IN SOME QUALITY PLAYERS OR ELSE WE WILL GO DOWN / MORISON IS THE THE RIGHT MANAGER IN MY OPINION




Steve Morison’s Bluebirds had stopped the McCarthy record breaking losing run with a fantastic comeback 3-3 at Stoke, tonight with City full of confidence the Bluebirds were at home to QPR.



FIRST-HALF: Cardiff City had had a good half and against the run of play QPR scored.





SECOND-HALF Cardiff gave their all right to the end, but were just not good enough.

QPR defence rock solid.

Cardiff threw everything they had, but not good enough.


CARDIFF CITY NOW 1 WIN IN LAST 13 GAMES

122 YEARS WORST EVER RUN


CARDIFF CITY 0 QPR 1
H-T 0-1
Crowd 16,882. Away Support (703 )



Totally against the run of play.


GOAL! Cardiff City 0-1 QPR (Grey 37)


Completely against the run of play, QPR score.

Defence is completely split open by Dozzell and Grey slots home.

Morrison and Vaulks caught out by that ball by the looks.






H-T 0-1




63rd min: Kieron Evans off, Mark Harris on.


79th min: Ralls on for Vaulks.



Cardiff gave their all right to the end, but were just not good enough.

QPR defence rock solid.

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That creative spark, turn of pace and special moment was missing .... But that's not Morrisons fault...that is due to the previous manager/board stripping the club of creative players.

Thought we played well tonight overall but without that goalscoring / assist creativity, it was all futile.

Passed better and defended better... But QPR were solid and professional. Ref was awful.

What a player McGuiness is.. tremendous signing.

You can change the manager or starting eleven as much you like but a bit like rearranging deckchairs on the titanic we are going down. Yes we were a bit unlucky tonight and the ref was awful but we are a dreadful side and deserve to be relegated. Morison's audition has also now failed which is a shame as now glimmer of hope has now gone. At least he is trying to doing the right thing. Start preparing for league one now.

I'm encouraged despite the defeat.

There were hardly any long balls from us and we played some good football.

Bottom line is we just don't have the quality, even though we showed a lot of spirit again today in the second half.

I would be happy if Morison is given until the end of the season because the early signs are promising - despite the defeat.



Not going to criticise the players or Morison because I believe they gave everything they had, especially in the second half, and that's all we can ask for.

I voted McGuinness for MOTM.

we are not a dreadful side, however , we need 3 quality players,
why , with 5 minutes left he didn’t take NG off and put on Zimba, we needed a goal, he had nothing to lose....

Much better in terms of what we tried to do.

Only thing I don’t understand is why we did had 3 CBs on in the last 15/20 minutes and why he didn’t use all of the subs we had.

Given how hot his form is for the U23s, giving Zimba 15 minutes at the end when chasing the game should have been done.

It was an improved performance in some respects. We looked more organised and limited QPR to two chances all game. However, we had very little attacking threat. Vaulks had his best game in ages. MCGuniess is going to be a great player for us. Good to see Ralls back.

I though Giles was poor. Morrison looks like he’s running in treacle. Great header to stop a certain goal late on.

That game reminded me of games under Harris at the beginning of the season when he tried changing our style to be more possession based. It was ineffective, especially when the opposition press and you can’t beat it. None of our centre backs, apart form mcguiness, are good enough on the ball or have enough pace to step out which is what you have to do in games like tonight.

I’m all for playing a more possession based game but I thought we massively over played in the last 20 mins. Just passing it around the back to zero effect. As soon as we went a bit more direct we put QPR under more pressure.

Play like that. But drop the 3rd CB. Bring Bagan back in and Giles further up.

I'd go for... 4-2-3-1

Smithies
Ng McGuinness Moz Bagan
Ralls Pack
Evans/Harris Colwill Giles
Moore

Good performance in parts but Morrison in particular looks a shadow of his former self.Defensively, we looked very vunerable and hope we push McGuiness into centre half ....Kerion Evans again made a difference but we just lack quality in several positions and need reinforcements asap...great to Joe ralls back, made a big difference and got us going forward

we are not a dreadful side, however , we need 3 quality players,
why , with 5 minutes left he didn’t take NG off and put on Zimba, we needed a goal, he had nothing to lose....

Exactly. Thought we were way too negative in the second half. Yes we passed the ball around more but it soon broke down when QPR pressed us. For some reason we didn't press them to the same extent. QPR just had to be competent to beat us. Didn't see any point replacing Vaulks with Ralls. Feel sorry for any manager who has to manage this group of players.

Was fairly positive about Morison before this but not impressed by tonight. Too negative trying to pass the ball in stupid areas when we are being pressed negative subsistution etc. If he doesn't win against Huddersfield I would be inclined to bin him.

It might have been an improved performance but lets not kid ourselves the squad is just not strong enough to survive this season.

Thought overall we played well but like others have said the same problem exists in the final third. Thought Vaulks played better but still a liability, I thought Evans looked bright especially before the QPR goal which for me was offside, but hey ho we can't do anything about that we have just had a rough season with referee decisions as well as everything else.
My biggest surprise is the lack of form with Ng, whatever has gone wrong there needs sorting as he was great last season but now makes so many poor errors with basic passes. Shame as a goal would have done him the world of good but ultimately it's a poor miss that would have changed the entire game and given us the confidence.
Once their goal went in our heads dropped, I dont think we will go down as we have 30 games to save the season but we won't be far off it, we need investment or a manager with good contacts for loans.

We are paying the price for our summer transfer business or lack of.
Unless there is an influx of quality in January we are certainties to go down unfortunately.
Dalman missing again tonight , normal service has resumed

Warburton said Cardiff are good at what they do going with the long ball. Did he see us b4 morisson cos don't think we went long too often tonight. Sounds like hex made his after match speak h up b4 the game.

I thought we played ok, especially the first half, played the ball on the grass much more than normal, but as a lot of people have said we just haven’t got a quality squad, it wouldn’t matter if we had klopp, tuchel or guardiola in charge, we ain’t got the players, I would give it to Morison, maybe with time it will happen, just concerns me that dalman has already said no money in January so where do we go?

we are not a dreadful side, however , we need 3 quality players,
why , with 5 minutes left he didn’t take NG off and put on Zimba, we needed a goal, he had nothing to lose....

Exactly. Thought we were way too negative in the second half. Yes we passed the ball around more but it soon broke down when QPR pressed us. For some reason we didn't press them to the same extent. QPR just had to be competent to beat us. Didn't see any point replacing Vaulks with Ralls. Feel sorry for any manager who has to manage this group of players.

Was fairly positive about Morison before this but not impressed by tonight. Too negative trying to pass the ball in stupid areas when we are being pressed negative subsistution etc. If he doesn't win against Huddersfield I would be inclined to bin him.

Really !!?? I thought the change in how we played after Morison has had just 10/12 days was like chalk and cheese !!

We will play worse than that and win.

You might be right that Morison won’t get the job but he’s sticking to the way he has the U23s playing and that is exactly what you have to do if you want to create a culture throughout the club.

Colwill, McGuinness and Giles look like different players and will only get better.

I don’t think Morison will get the job now but after watching that tonight I’m even more convinced that a young, forward thinking manager is the way to go.

Getting a bit fed up of all this "in my view we played well" No we didn't QPR just had to turn up to win. We barely created any chances all game. It was back to many of the old problems, Moore isolated up front check, the ineffective Vaulks long throw check, ( memo to Morison you need Flint in the team to make it work) True there was some added passes thrown in but we weren't much good at it. Just wondering if we are playing so well why we have the worst home record in th football league?

We are not playing well we are a pushover.

Unfortunately you are 100,% correct

we are not a dreadful side, however , we need 3 quality players,
why , with 5 minutes left he didn’t take NG off and put on Zimba, we needed a goal, he had nothing to lose....

Exactly. Thought we were way too negative in the second half. Yes we passed the ball around more but it soon broke down when QPR pressed us. For some reason we didn't press them to the same extent. QPR just had to be competent to beat us. Didn't see any point replacing Vaulks with Ralls. Feel sorry for any manager who has to manage this group of players.

Was fairly positive about Morison before this but not impressed by tonight. Too negative trying to pass the ball in stupid areas when we are being pressed negative subsistution etc. If he doesn't win against Huddersfield I would be inclined to bin him.

Really !!?? I thought the change in how we played after Morison has had just 10/12 days was like chalk and cheese !!

We will play worse than that and win.

You might be right that Morison won’t get the job but he’s sticking to the way he has the U23s playing and that is exactly what you have to do if you want to create a culture throughout the club.

Colwill, McGuinness and Giles look like different players and will only get better.

I don’t think Morison will get the job now but after watching that tonight I’m even more convinced that a young, forward thinking manager is the way to go.

I thought it was Giles worst game for us. Awful tonight

Getting a bit fed up of all this "in my view we played well" No we didn't QPR just had to turn up to win. We barely created any chances all game. It was back to many of the old problems, Moore isolated up front check, the ineffective Vaulks long throw check, ( memo to Morison you need Flint in the team to make it work) True there was some added passes thrown in but we weren't much good at it. Just wondering if we are playing so well why we have the worst home record in th football league?

We are not playing well we are a pushover.

Agree with you we could have Klopp or Pep as our new manager and they’d struggle. A large number of players need to be shipped out. We’ve changed managers a few times and the same old players are still here. It can’t be managers it has to be players that are not performing.

Just got to hope that a few new players come in next window and a few are shipped out. Regards the match we were useless more players defending than attacking. No end in sight to this mess.

And a long ball did us tonight.. quality move that, and very simple.

Have to disagree with a lot of posts here

First half we were the better side one long ball and poor defensive positions and they scored, for me that was there only real chance and first half we defended well other than that and our shape in defence was excellent and a vast improvement on how we looked shape wise under McCarthy.

We also created a few half chances first half with NG’s really should have scored

Second half people saying we have it a go can’t agree we were flat, out of shape a lot and pretty poor for 35 mins, last 10 yes we gave it a go again but that’s expected of a side trailing 1-0 and QPR wasting time to try and see out an away win, overall I don’t think we deserved to lose but second half for sure we didn’t do enough, for me QPR found us out after 40 mins Ish of the first half matched us up man for man and used their experience to practically snuff us out after they scored and managed the game very well, if I’m the manager on 60 mins I’m changing shape to make them think and open the game up a bit already losing so need to try get back in it and I think that’s all that let morison down tonight as generally it was far better than anything I’ve seen this season although not hard to beat the dross McCarthy was serving up

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Play like that. But drop the 3rd CB. Bring Bagan back in and Giles further up.

I'd go for... 4-2-3-1

Smithies
Ng McGuinness Moz Bagan
Ralls Pack
Evans/Harris Colwill Giles
Moore

Agree with you but Flint surely has to play ahead of morrison

MY VIEW / OPINION:


Steve Morisons City played well, but were beaten by a a side with more quality and a team use to playing good fotball.


For me City gave their all, played some good football, but need some more quality to be added to this squad.

Steve Morison needs more time.

It will not matter who City bring in, this squad needs better players.

City fought to the end.

CARDIFF CITY COMMITTEE NEED TO INVEST IN SOME QUALITY PLAYERS OR ELSE WE WILL GO DOWN / MORISON IS THE THE RIGHT MANAGER IN MY OPINION




Steve Morison’s Bluebirds had stopped the McCarthy record breaking losing run with a fantastic comeback 3-3 at Stoke, tonight with City full of confidence the Bluebirds were at home to QPR.



FIRST-HALF: Cardiff City had had a good half and against the run of play QPR scored.





SECOND-HALF Cardiff gave their all right to the end, but were just not good enough.

QPR defence rock solid.

Cardiff threw everything they had, but not good enough.


CARDIFF CITY NOW 1 WIN IN LAST 13 GAMES

122 YEARS WORST EVER RUN


CARDIFF CITY 0 QPR 1
H-T 0-1





Totally against the run of play.


GOAL! Cardiff City 0-1 QPR (Grey 37)


Completely against the run of play, QPR score.

Defence is completely split open by Dozzell and Grey slots home.

Morrison and Vaulks caught out by that ball by the looks.






H-T 0-1




63rd min: Kieron Evans off, Mark Harris on.


79th min: Ralls on for Vaulks.



Cardiff gave their all right to the end, but were just not good enough.

QPR defence rock solid.

QPR are a tight unit, especially in defence. It’s no wonder that a breakthrough was hard to come by. Many sides will struggle against them this year in my opinion.

Green shoots are showing (or is it my imagination or wishful thinking). The passing game was improved tonight and as a couple have mentioned, it was a change from route 1, up and over tactics, which Morrison got right. There was little chance of getting behind this side, so playing the ball more on the floor was sensible.

Maybe, despite slagging the jaxx off, their approach would suit sometimes. After all, having possession increases the chances of scoring, while depriving the opposition of oxygen.

What do you think, Annis?

Getting a bit fed up of all this "in my view we played well" No we didn't QPR just had to turn up to win. We barely created any chances all game. It was back to many of the old problems, Moore isolated up front check, the ineffective Vaulks long throw check, ( memo to Morison you need Flint in the team to make it work) True there was some added passes thrown in but we weren't much good at it. Just wondering if we are playing so well why we have the worst home record in th football league?

We are not playing well we are a pushover.

I agree, let’s not sugar coat things. Very disappointing, I could see flashes of what is trying to be achieved, but you have too have the quality in the players to play that way, and we all know that we haven’t.
Brace yourselves, because the way I see it, as the whole setup stands, things are going to get a lot worse, before they even start to slightly resemble getting better.

by EastleighBlue » Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:49 pm

You can change the manager or starting eleven as much you like but a bit like rearranging deckchairs on the titanic we are going down. Yes we were a bit unlucky tonight and the ref was awful but we are a dreadful side and deserve to be relegated. Morison's audition has also now failed which is a shame as now glimmer of hope has now gone. At least he is trying to doing the right thing. Start preparing for league one now.

Really? He's inherited a team that was very poor and he has had just 2 games against teams chasing a playoff spot.
I thought everyone could see that we really have deficiencies in the squad, particularly with creativity, so to write him off so quickly seems a bit harsh.

If we judge everyone after just 2 games with the limitations of our current squad I don't think any candidate is going to make them look great.

I just can’t believe how the board has raped the playing staff

It was marginally better but we have no flair or quality - we don’t look like scoring in my opinion

Whoever comes in we are going down with this squad

QPR play a very open game. Score lots but also concede lots with only Reading, Peterborough, Bristol City and us concededing more than them before last night. Good opposition to play against with our changing style. Much more serious tests to come. Where are our goals going to come from? And our clean sheets? We really need a 1 nil win soon.

by EastleighBlue » Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:49 pm

You can change the manager or starting eleven as much you like but a bit like rearranging deckchairs on the titanic we are going down. Yes we were a bit unlucky tonight and the ref was awful but we are a dreadful side and deserve to be relegated. Morison's audition has also now failed which is a shame as now glimmer of hope has now gone. At least he is trying to doing the right thing. Start preparing for league one now.

Really? He's inherited a team that was very poor and he has had just 2 games against teams chasing a playoff spot.
I thought everyone could see that we really have deficiencies in the squad, particularly with creativity, so to write him off so quickly seems a bit harsh.

If we judge everyone after just 2 games with the limitations of our current squad I don't think any candidate is going to make them look great.

Correct, Morison has inherited a very weak squad, 100% not his fault.

The crowd 16,882 announced, but actual attendance nearer 12,000-13,000