'Just wasn't good enough' - Cardiff City boss Steve Morison'

'Just wasn't good enough' - Cardiff City boss Steve Morison's blunt verdict on Max Watters substitution




Cardiff City manager Steve Morison admitted he substituted Max Watters in the first half because the striker simply "wasn't good enough" in the clash against Coventry City.

The striker, who was recalled from his loan at MK Dons last month, struggled at the start of the game and it forced the Bluebirds dugout to make an early call by replacing him with Jordan Hugill on 37 minutes.



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"I've just got to use my words correctly this time or I will get annihilated," Morison began, referencing the time he used the word "hindrance" to describe an Isaak Davies performance back in December.

"He just wasn't good enough.

"Is he upset? Yes. Do I want him to be upset? Yes. Does he need to realise what it takes to be a Championship striker? Yes. Will we go through it with him and talk about it again? Yes.


"You can't play up front in this team, any team in the Championship, and not have a physical edge to your game. The ball can't keep coming back.”






"Within all that, he could have had two goals. He could have scored a header in the first minute, I thought it was a goal as soon as it went to him. Then when he goes through, I'd already planned to take him off, but then I was like 'Oh what am I going to do now, he is going to score!' Because he is a goalscorer.

"But I wanted to rest players. I got away with resting Rallsy (Joe Ralls) for 90 minutes, Tommy (Doyle) for a good 60 minutes, who has never experienced this level of football on a continues path. I wanted to rest Jordan (Hugill) for as much of the game as I could.

"But I think you could see the difference as soon as Jordan come on."


Watters stayed on the bench at half time when the team went down the tunnel, clearly still reeling by the decision.

But Morison said now it is about the reaction of the player and how he bounces back from the early substitution.

"It's not a big deal, it is what it is," he added.


"You have two choices in life. You either suck it up, get on with it and get better and make me not do it again, or you don't. It's very simple."

While Morison said he didn't want Watters to be a target-man, of sorts, he said that at this level of football the forward must learn to add physicality to his game.

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A great write up on the situation last night and explains even to the naive Victor Meldrew a little of the workings of a football squad.

Not many managers make a change in the first half of games unless it’s for an injury which proves that Morison is a strong manager and makes his OWN decisions.

A great write up on the situation last night and explains even to the naive Victor Meldrew a little of the workings of a football squad.

Not many managers make a change in the first half of games unless it’s for an injury which proves that Morison is a strong manager and makes his OWN decisions.

Might have been more honest for him to admit he got his initial selection badly wrong.

A great write up on the situation last night and explains even to the naive Victor Meldrew a little of the workings of a football squad.

Not many managers make a change in the first half of games unless it’s for an injury which proves that Morison is a strong manager and makes his OWN decisions.

Might have been more honest for him to admit he got his initial selection badly wrong.

If he thought beforehand he had got his initial selection wrong, he wouldn't have put Watters on the team sheet. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, even though to be fair, most fans raised an eyebrow when the team was announced. Watters must have impressed Morison in training otherwise he would not have given him a chance.

He took action when he realised it wasn't working and as a fan that's what you want your manager to do.