Steve Morison's reaction to derby misery. Says Cardiff "let

Steve Morison's reaction to derby misery. Says Cardiff "let everyone down", the players didn't deal with the occasion and that the silence in the dressing room speaks a thousand words



STEVE MORISON:

"It's the losing that hurts," Morison said. "I would say it's a tough one to take but it's not because they were better than us all over the football pitch. We have been on an incredible run and we have let everyone down today, myself, my staff, the players, we haven't done enough for this football club.



"We have let ourselves down. Unfortunately we can't go again Tuesday. We can't dwell on it. Hopefully we don't dwell on it too long, because the remit when I took the job was to keep this club in the Championship next year - not to win certain games. Obviously, we all want to win this game for the magnitude of it and how big it was. And I'm in charge when we've had the first double done against us. It's a worse defeat than we had earlier in the season, but the goal was to stay in the Championship so that's what I'm going to focus on."

When asked why he thought the team were so easily blown away, Morison candidly said that he thought the players did not handle the occasion, in front of more than 27,000 fans - the biggest crowd of the season, well enough.

"I just don't think we dealt with it very well, the occasion," Morison added. "I mentioned it to them yesterday, to hopefully mention it and get it out of their system - 'You're allowed to be nervous, you're allowed to be scared and worried about what's coming up'. It was the biggest crowd of the season for us and a lot of people for us didn't deal with the occasion well enough.

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Ok we won't bother going so they don't get spooked. I definitely thought they were like a bunch of frightened rabbits.

Looked like they rigidly stayed in formation and the jacks ripped us a new one by having the audacity to move into the weakness of the 532 outside Ralls and Doyle. The wing backs stayed at home so the midfield was like the alamo

We don't need three centre halves against one small mobile striker.

Doyle and Ralls didn't know whether to come or go, when they went to the player the cheating Jacks dropped a player into their space and wintle was over matched. The jacks love playing between the line and did SM give them lines.

PS- Never his fault

Lost a lot of respect for SM for his comments after the game, seems to me that he isn’t bothered by the Derby Games either where as RM showing his players how much the game means to the Swansea fans says a lot, I understand that his remit was to keep Cardiff up, which he had already achieved, so why is he not coming out and speaking the truth, and not just trying to brush the game under the carpet, I really don’t understand why Cardiff as a club are not bothered about this game, when is fans really care, yet Swansea always seem bothered about it, what is wrong seriously, maybe it’s time to get the fans in the Cardiff dressing room and explain to them how much we want to win this game

Looked like they rigidly stayed in formation and the jacks ripped us a new one by having the audacity to move into the weakness of the 532 outside Ralls and Doyle. The wing backs stayed at home so the midfield was like the alamo

We don't need three centre halves against one small mobile striker.

Doyle and Ralls didn't know whether to come or go, when they went to the player the cheating Jacks dropped a player into their space and wintle was over matched. The jacks love playing between the line and did SM give them lines.

PS- Never his fault

Exactly.
Grimes and Downes were taking the piss with the amount of time they were allowed on the ball. We didn't close anyone down and before we knew it, they were 2/3 up the field. We made it far too easy.

We were playing a team 1 place above us in the league.

A Derby game in front of 27k


And all our players were on the beach.

Hopefully good will come out of this and its the last we see of Smithies, Flint and even Ralls.

Time to move on and VT to free up monies for some quality

In my opinion the reason we lost today is that we were outclassed both off and on the field. Both ourselves and Swansea have hardly set the Championship alight this season and neither team are what you call free scoring so it's the nature of the defeat that is so disappointing.

SM is right when he says his remit was to keep the club in the Championship and fair play to him he has done that BUT today we lost not because of the players failing to handle the occasion but MORE because of the way we set up. From the very first minute the writing was on the wall and it's his job to change things if the set up isn't working. Today in my opinion SM showed his inexperience and more worrying a lack of tactical nous and as a result nothing changed in our approach, even with the substitutions,

I think our players did their best to follow his instructions and some Ralls and Doyle in particular were frustrated from a very early stage. In my opinion SM needs time to develop his own skills as a manager and start by saying when HE gets things wrong and today HE was more at fault than the players.

But he HAS done a decent job and I hope our owner supports him this summer where has faces a massive job sorting our squad out.

In my opinion the reason we lost today is that we were outclassed both off and on the field. Both ourselves and Swansea have hardly set the Championship alight this season and neither team are what you call free scoring so it's the nature of the defeat that is so disappointing.

SM is right when he says his remit was to keep the club in the Championship and fair play to him he has done that BUT today we lost not because of the players failing to handle the occasion but MORE because of the way we set up. From the very first minute the writing was on the wall and it's his job to change things if the set up isn't working. Today in my opinion SM showed his inexperience and more worrying a lack of tactical nous and as a result nothing changed in our approach, even with the substitutions,

I think our players did their best to follow his instructions and some Ralls and Doyle in particular were frustrated from a very early stage. In my opinion SM needs time to develop his own skills as a manager and start by saying when HE gets things wrong and today HE was more at fault than the players.

But he HAS done a decent job and I hope our owner supports him this summer where has faces a massive job sorting our squad out.

Well perhaps our board should go public on him and say he screwed it up. A bit like when he went public on Davies. Perhaps them he will know what its like.

Personally, I think this game was a massive test of Morisons managerial credentials……. And it was a Massive E- (E-Minus) for me.
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In my opinion the reason we lost today is that we were outclassed both off and on the field. Both ourselves and Swansea have hardly set the Championship alight this season and neither team are what you call free scoring so it's the nature of the defeat that is so disappointing.

SM is right when he says his remit was to keep the club in the Championship and fair play to him he has done that BUT today we lost not because of the players failing to handle the occasion but MORE because of the way we set up. From the very first minute the writing was on the wall and it's his job to change things if the set up isn't working. Today in my opinion SM showed his inexperience and more worrying a lack of tactical nous and as a result nothing changed in our approach, even with the substitutions,

I think our players did their best to follow his instructions and some Ralls and Doyle in particular were frustrated from a very early stage. In my opinion SM needs time to develop his own skills as a manager and start by saying when HE gets things wrong and today HE was more at fault than the players.

But he HAS done a decent job and I hope our owner supports him this summer where has faces a massive job sorting our squad out.

Well perhaps our board should go public on him and say he screwed it up. A bit like when he went public on Davies. Perhaps them he will know what its like.

Fair point sauce for the goose and all that. They won't of course but he needs a sit down from someone because when things are not working out it's his job to change things and today he didn't.

Can you imagine a NW team allowing Grimes and Downes the time and freedom they were allowed today? I don't think so.

I'm a big fan of Morison but he got it completely wrong today in our biggest game of the season.

Martin out-thought him on everything.

It doesn't undo all the good progress we've made, but people will remind Morison of this game for a long time - and rightly so.

At least we’ll get another crack at them next season.

Personally, I think this game was a massive test of Morisons managerial credentials……. And it was a Massive E- (E-Minus) for me.
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100% agree. We've had 17 days to prepare for a team that always plays the same way and we end up looking clueless.
I know for some fans it's only about staying up and the end of season league positions etc but for me the derby results are massively important. Morison was out coached today tactically and has a long way to go to gain the respect that he is the right man to take us forward.
Derby defeats particularly gutless performances don't sit well with fans. The 27k+ that turned up today deserve better than the shit we saw today.

In my opinion the reason we lost today is that we were outclassed both off and on the field. Both ourselves and Swansea have hardly set the Championship alight this season and neither team are what you call free scoring so it's the nature of the defeat that is so disappointing.

SM is right when he says his remit was to keep the club in the Championship and fair play to him he has done that BUT today we lost not because of the players failing to handle the occasion but MORE because of the way we set up. From the very first minute the writing was on the wall and it's his job to change things if the set up isn't working. Today in my opinion SM showed his inexperience and more worrying a lack of tactical nous and as a result nothing changed in our approach, even with the substitutions,

I think our players did their best to follow his instructions and some Ralls and Doyle in particular were frustrated from a very early stage. In my opinion SM needs time to develop his own skills as a manager and start by saying when HE gets things wrong and today HE was more at fault than the players.

But he HAS done a decent job and I hope our owner supports him this summer where has faces a massive job sorting our squad out.

Well perhaps our board should go public on him and say he screwed it up. A bit like when he went public on Davies. Perhaps them he will know what its like.

Fair point sauce for the goose and all that. They won't of course but he needs a sit down from someone because when things are not working out it's his job to change things and today he didn't.

Can you imagine a NW team allowing Grimes and Downes the time and freedom they were allowed today? I don't think so.

Agree with you apart from the Warnock comparison, he didn’t get our lot going for the either.

In fact, the only recent manager who did was McCarthy last season at their place.

Just goes to prove winning a derby doesn’t make you a great manager !!