Steve Morison:”Performances come first, not results”

After 7 competitive matches this season incl the Cup, Cardiff have scored 3 goals , are 14th in the Championship, Morison does not think we need a new striker And:




Steve Morison:

“I will repeat performances come first, not the results.”




"It was an excellent performance," he said. "We just didn't cap it off with a goal. They defended their box really well and if we play like that, we'll win more than we lose.

“We actually played fantastic today.”

"At the end of the day, I've said it many times, performance comes first and the result will follow. The performance was excellent. To a man we were fantastic. We just didn't quite get that one to fall for us, or for someone to have a moment, although we did have that moment with one of their defenders diving saved it to stop it from going in."

Morison insists his side should have been handed a spot-kick just after the interval after Rubin Colwill's effort appeared to strike the arm of Preston's Liam Lindsay. However, he admits Ryan Lowe's men deserved credit for the way they defended in the capital.

"If you look at the chance Rubin has, he bends it and the guy puts his hand out and it hits his hand. Otherwise it's going in the bottom corner.”

"I think everyone in our team had a chance today. They [Preston] put their bodies on the line, they defended really well. They defended the crosses really, really well. It was just one of those days."

Cardiff welcome Luton Town to Cardiff City Stadium on Tuesday night (August 30), and Morison believes there were enough positives in Saturday's stalemate to suggest his side are capable of putting goals, and points, on the board.

"I thought the lads were brave. I thought they showed good intensity from the start. We mixed our game up. We went short, we went long, we went round, we went through. The ball just didn't hit the back of the net."

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Maybe a good performance but if come against a goalscorer we will lose games like today.... a striker is paramount if we are to make something of this season..... but simply dont believe he thinks we dont need one.

Cardiff manager Steve Morison said:


"It was an excellent performance, we just didn't cap it off with a goal.”

“We had 22 shots including 2 on target, that’s our best this season.”


"They defended their box really well and, if we keep playing like that, we'll win more than we lose.

"Performance first and the result will follow. To a man, we were fantastic but just didn't have that one [chance] fall to us.

"Everyone in our team had a chance today and they [Preston] put their bodies on the line and defended really well. It was just one of those days."

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Maybe a good performance but if come against a goalscorer we will lose games like today.... a striker is paramount if we are to make something of this season..... but simply dont believe he thinks we dont need one....

So a ratio of 1 on target in 11 shots he's happy with. I mean come on does that not tell him we need a few new strikers. I don't care if we had 50 shots we still drew 0-0. Morrison is starting to talk out of his arse weekly last week he was blaming the strikers and saying he can't keep defending them with not even half the shots on the stats. The week before he said he don't care how we win just win. The bloke talks riddles. Eitherway you get what you pay for in most cases and we are cheap up top right now so it is what it is

I would rather win ugly than look pretty and draw, I'm guessing most people would as well.

There's a reason Preston have let zero goals in so far this season & it's not Watters, their defence seemed well organized even though they rode their luck a couple of times.

So a ratio of 1 on target in 11 shots he's happy with. I mean come on does that not tell him we need a few new strikers. I don't care if we had 50 shots we still drew 0-0. Morrison is starting to talk out of his arse weekly last week he was blaming the strikers and saying he can't keep defending them with not even half the shots on the stats. The week before he said he don't care how we win just win. The bloke talks riddles. Eitherway you get what you pay for in most cases and we are cheap up top right now so it is what it is

Ian,

Morison’s inexperience is starting to show and his attitude is not shall we say good sometimes, my opinion.

Maybe a good performance but if come against a goalscorer we will lose games like today.... a striker is paramount if we are to make something of this season..... but simply dont believe he thinks we dont need one....

With you on this Allan.

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We know that is bullsh@t. Win is the most important.

So a ratio of 1 on target in 11 shots he's happy with. I mean come on does that not tell him we need a few new strikers. I don't care if we had 50 shots we still drew 0-0. Morrison is starting to talk out of his arse weekly last week he was blaming the strikers and saying he can't keep defending them with not even half the shots on the stats. The week before he said he don't care how we win just win. The bloke talks riddles. Eitherway you get what you pay for in most cases and we are cheap up top right now so it is what it is

Ian,

Morison’s inexperience is starting to show and his attitude is not shall we say good sometimes, my opinion.

I mean look at today's wording he used

"Performance comes first and the results will follow"

So we played well but didn't get the result we should have.

The blokes saying stuff weekly and forgetting it's contradicting what he said the Saturday before.

Oh well we go again vs Luton

Maybe a good performance but if come against a goalscorer we will lose games like today.... a striker is paramount if we are to make something of this season..... but simply dont believe he thinks we dont need one....

With you on this Allan.

Annis whilst I defend watters its because the setup is wrong and theses comments only reinforces what I said previously and on today's performance? We looked good until got to edge penalty area then we just stop going forward... only attacked with purpose
late in game when they tried to go forward and left spaces... I'm convinced hes got a dont lose/concede attitude and its affecting our ability to score why else does he play one upfront (watters) with no support.... no striker by next week and rest seasons games will be like today with more losses than wins plenty of draws....

Maybe a good performance but if come against a goalscorer we will lose games like today.... a striker is paramount if we are to make something of this season..... but simply dont believe he thinks we dont need one....

With you on this Allan.

Annis whilst I defend watters its because the setup is wrong and theses comments only reinforces what I said previously and on today's performance? We looked good until got to edge penalty area then we just stop going forward... only attacked with purpose
late in game when they tried to go forward and left spaces... I'm convinced hes got a dont lose/concede attitude and its affecting our ability to score why else does he play one upfront (watters) with no support.... no striker by next week and rest seasons games will be like today with more losses than wins plenty of draws....

I think you might have something here Allan.

He’s after a striker he just don’t want to say incase he do t manage to get 1 in . That’s what I think anyway

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Well it's his team now completely, if he doesn't get results he will be gone, that is how football works.
Everyone knows we need a couple of strikers it's blatantly obvious, if we don't get any Morison will be gone by Xmas.

Get the points on the board first and then look at the performance…..good sides win ugly sometimes.
We just don’t look like winning cos of the lack of goals ..
Playing great football with no end product can be as frustrating as watching long ball footy.

Bit of arse covering going on with SM incase we don’t sign a striker before the window closes imo

He has lost the plot, yes we all want to see nice football but points bring prizes !!!

He knows , we know , we need two strikers . But they are like gold dust , so its no good him admitting it , otherwise he will be priced out . Watters and Harris are lower league strikers , we need a Championship striker and a loanee from the EPL . Who can hit the ground running . I can see a frantic week ahead !

We know that is bullsh@t. Win is the most important.

100%

He knows , we know , we need two strikers . But they are like gold dust , so its no good him admitting it , otherwise he will be priced out . Watters and Harris are lower league strikers , we need a Championship striker and a loanee from the EPL . Who can hit the ground running . I can see a frantic week ahead !

I would rather Morison be honest and say there is NO money for quality strikers, I have to use who we have unless i can get one on loan.

The comments by Morrison amount to a huge red flag, when a manager starts talking compete rubbish it bodes very ill for his team. We all know the reason we didn’t score today isn’t because Preston have a very well organised defence, we have failed to score in our last 3 games and only 3 times in our last 7.

Does anyone really enjoy this pretty pretty passing football that is so totally ineffective we haven’t scored in our last 3 matches. I long for the days of Neil Warnocks hoofball when we had our promotion winning season, we were smashing teams to pieces with it. Hell it is so bad now I am looking back with some fondness at the early days of Mick McCarthy.

There seems to be a cult of Morrison and Watters fans who think Watters should be allowed an endless run of matches without scoring until he comes good. Morrison still seems to have a hell of a lot of fans considering how modest the teams performances have been this season, though I think the scales are beginning to fall form peoples eyes with regards to both.

Someone needs to remind him it’s a results business and not performance one.
Like him or not, Watters is paid to put the ball in the net. That’s his role in the team. He’s clearly not done it and has been given more than a fair opportunity to do so. You could complain and say he’s not had the service, well it doesn’t help when your clueless manager plays your teams most forward thinking player in defence. Completely negating any threat he might have on the opposition.

In my opinion Watters is weak with the ball at his feet, cannot hold it up to relieve pressure and for all his running, his positional play is dreadful. It’s almost as though when we are attacking he looks for places where he’s unlikely to receive the ball? The midfield cannot pass it to him and perhaps now, WON’T pass it to him.

It’s all very well firing 22 ‘shots’ into the stands. At least Morison is happy though.
He’ll be out on his arse soon.

Doesnt he realise if we had scored yesterday we would be around 6th in league nice performance but nice performances don't win games but can lead to relegation because points make prizes ... believe it or not it's a team game and that means others chipping in with goals but way we play doesnt encourage players to get into penalty area... how many times was there just one in box and no matter who it is in the team they got no chance against 3 defenders.. will more games and team gelling make difference I don't think so because he wont change system that doesnt promote goals.

The comments by Morrison amount to a huge red flag, when a manager starts talking compete rubbish it bodes very ill for his team. We all know the reason we didn’t score today isn’t because Preston have a very well organised defence, we have failed to score in our last 3 games and only 3 times in our last 7.

Does anyone really enjoy this pretty pretty passing football that is so totally ineffective we haven’t scored in our last 3 matches. I long for the days of Neil Warnocks hoofball when we had our promotion winning season, we were smashing teams to pieces with it. Hell it is so bad now I am looking back with some fondness at the early days of Mick McCarthy.

There seems to be a cult of Morrison and Watters fans who think Watters should be allowed an endless run of matches without scoring until he comes good. Morrison still seems to have a hell of a lot of fans considering how modest the teams performances have been this season, though I think the scales are beginning to fall form peoples eyes with regards to both.

We could go back to playing 5 CB's and 4 defensive midfielders and go on the worst run in our history? Even Warnocks hoofball had us heading towards the bottom of the table after relegation from the prem. That was the best part of £20mill well spent - not.

I was at the game yesterday and it was joy to see us pass it out from the back so comfortably. Yes it's frustrating to see us struggle in the final third but out of the 18 players in the squad yesterday, only 6 were playing for us last season. That's a massive turnover and it was always going to be unlikely we would hit the ground running. A decent Striker is always the hardest position to get right and despite what Morison says, I'm sure there's plenty going on behind the scenes. The new left back came out of nowhere and looked like another shrewd signing based off yesterday.

This 'cult' of Morison and Watters fans are just supporters who are getting behind their team rather than slag them off at every opportunity. Most of the fans I've spoken too are fully behind this long overdue period of transition.

The comments by Morrison amount to a huge red flag, when a manager starts talking compete rubbish it bodes very ill for his team. We all know the reason we didn’t score today isn’t because Preston have a very well organised defence, we have failed to score in our last 3 games and only 3 times in our last 7.

Does anyone really enjoy this pretty pretty passing football that is so totally ineffective we haven’t scored in our last 3 matches. I long for the days of Neil Warnocks hoofball when we had our promotion winning season, we were smashing teams to pieces with it. Hell it is so bad now I am looking back with some fondness at the early days of Mick McCarthy.

There seems to be a cult of Morrison and Watters fans who think Watters should be allowed an endless run of matches without scoring until he comes good. Morrison still seems to have a hell of a lot of fans considering how modest the teams performances have been this season, though I think the scales are beginning to fall form peoples eyes with regards to both.

We could go back to playing 5 CB's and 4 defensive midfielders and go on the worst run in our history? Even Warnocks hoofball had us heading towards the bottom of the table after relegation from the prem. That was the best part of £20mill well spent - not.

I was at the game yesterday and it was joy to see us pass it out from the back so comfortably. Yes it's frustrating to see us struggle in the final third but out of the 18 players in the squad yesterday, only 6 were playing for us last season. That's a massive turnover and it was always going to be unlikely we would hit the ground running. A decent Striker is always the hardest position to get right and despite what Morison says, I'm sure there's plenty going on behind the scenes. The new left back came out of nowhere and looked like another shrewd signing based off yesterday.

This 'cult' of Morison and Watters fans are just supporters who are getting behind their team rather than slag them off at every opportunity. Most of the fans I've spoken too are fully behind this long overdue period of transition.

A great post and lays to waste some of the nonsense being said on this thread and others.

Mick McCarthy ffs!!

I knew that if we weren’t in the top six by this time there would be the usual posters complaining and saying he should be sacked or whatever.

A huge turnaround and patience is needed but a few cannot see that and expect instant results.

I for one am enjoying our new brand of football although I’m away and didn’t see yesterday’s game.
Yes, a striker or preferably two would be ideal but if not let’s support our team.

The comments by Morrison amount to a huge red flag, when a manager starts talking compete rubbish it bodes very ill for his team. We all know the reason we didn’t score today isn’t because Preston have a very well organised defence, we have failed to score in our last 3 games and only 3 times in our last 7.

Does anyone really enjoy this pretty pretty passing football that is so totally ineffective we haven’t scored in our last 3 matches. I long for the days of Neil Warnocks hoofball when we had our promotion winning season, we were smashing teams to pieces with it. Hell it is so bad now I am looking back with some fondness at the early days of Mick McCarthy.

There seems to be a cult of Morrison and Watters fans who think Watters should be allowed an endless run of matches without scoring until he comes good. Morrison still seems to have a hell of a lot of fans considering how modest the teams performances have been this season, though I think the scales are beginning to fall form peoples eyes with regards to both.

We could go back to playing 5 CB's and 4 defensive midfielders and go on the worst run in our history? Even Warnocks hoofball had us heading towards the bottom of the table after relegation from the prem. That was the best part of £20mill well spent - not.

I was at the game yesterday and it was joy to see us pass it out from the back so comfortably. Yes it's frustrating to see us struggle in the final third but out of the 18 players in the squad yesterday, only 6 were playing for us last season. That's a massive turnover and it was always going to be unlikely we would hit the ground running. A decent Striker is always the hardest position to get right and despite what Morison says, I'm sure there's plenty going on behind the scenes. The new left back came out of nowhere and looked like another shrewd signing based off yesterday.

This 'cult' of Morison and Watters fans are just supporters who are getting behind their team rather than slag them off at every opportunity. Most of the fans I've spoken too are fully behind this long overdue period of transition.

A great post and lays to waste some of the nonsense being said on this thread and others.

Mick McCarthy ffs!!

I knew that if we weren’t in the top six by this time there would be the usual posters complaining and saying he should be sacked or whatever.

A huge turnaround and patience is needed but a few cannot see that and expect instant results.

I for one am enjoying our new brand of football although I’m away and didn’t see yesterday’s game.
Yes, a striker or preferably two would be ideal but if not let’s support our team.

At last some sensible posts! It takes time to change from hoofball to Football and I am enjoying our new style but it will take time! By the way we have signed a Striker but unfortunately he is now injured and I’m sure we’ll sign another one before the transfer deadline! Let’s face it our previous Managers in the last 10 years have spent a fortune on strikers but only Kieffer Moore was successful and in my opinion as he was under contract we should have kept him as he would be scoring for fun in our new system. Keep calm and hopefully Morison will bring in the right striker. By the way the other 10 players in our team are allowed to score goals even our goalkeeper!

The comments by Morrison amount to a huge red flag, when a manager starts talking compete rubbish it bodes very ill for his team. We all know the reason we didn’t score today isn’t because Preston have a very well organised defence, we have failed to score in our last 3 games and only 3 times in our last 7.

Does anyone really enjoy this pretty pretty passing football that is so totally ineffective we haven’t scored in our last 3 matches. I long for the days of Neil Warnocks hoofball when we had our promotion winning season, we were smashing teams to pieces with it. Hell it is so bad now I am looking back with some fondness at the early days of Mick McCarthy.

There seems to be a cult of Morrison and Watters fans who think Watters should be allowed an endless run of matches without scoring until he comes good. Morrison still seems to have a hell of a lot of fans considering how modest the teams performances have been this season, though I think the scales are beginning to fall form peoples eyes with regards to both.

One of the flaws in your argument is that we did actually hit the ground running, we beat league favourites Norwich in the first game of the season and then Birmingham and find ourselves in a play off position with 7 points. The point which you are deliberately missing is we are actually getting worse since then and have failed to score in our last 3 games. I have not called for Morrison to be sacked and I have no seen anyone call for it either, I am just pointing out he may not be the managerial genius some people may think he is. As for max Watters, how many games does he have to go without scoring before it is permissible to say he should be dropped.

To be honest I couldn’t give a toss how well we play the ball out of defence when it leads to absolutely nothing.
on behind the scenes. The new left back came out of nowhere and looked like another shrewd signing bas

I feel like you've deliberately mis-quoted him here

Results keep u in a job Morrison not performances