FAIR PLAY MORRISON: “NO EXCUSES” Now that he got everything

FAIR PLAY MORRISON: “NO EXCUSES”

Now that he got everything he has wanted and backed, he is actually saying No excuses now. So hopefully onwards and upwards and things go great you get the full praise, if you fail , Only Morison to blame.




Steve Morison says there are "no excuses" after a total overhaul of his Cardiff City squad.

Callum Robinson's £1.5m deadline day capture from West Bromwich Albion was Morison's 17th signing of the summer window.

The 39-year-old manager says he is now more than happy to take responsibility for his remoulded Championship outfit.



"It's much better because I can to sleep at night, shut my eyes and know there are no excuses," said Morison.

"That's the best way to live your life. Control what you can control. Don't worry about the uncontrollable."

Morison praised owner Vincent Tan for backing him "100 per cent" during the transfer window and says he is now really content with the make up of the squad as he looks to improve their Championship prospects, while continuing to develop a new playing style.

Having stepped up to his first manager's job last October, Morison said: "I put a plan in place when we took over.

"First we had to get safe. We had to get Championship football secured and put a model together, our vision of what we saw and the board agreed. They backed it.

"We had a budget to stick to, which we've done.

"It looked a challenge initially, but once we started looking into it, we found it was better to have a budget to work to because then we knew everyone was here for the right reasons, rather than being here for a pound note, for example.

"That's brought a great unity and created an environment where we know everyone can look at each other in the place and know there is no-one sitting next to you and being asked to do the same job as you but on an astronomical amount of money compared to what you are getting paid. So it's a good place."

"I said I'd change things, change the outlook of the squad, the dynamics of it and I couldn't have done that without the support of people around me.

"But I think we have gone a long way to achieving that.

"Can we do better? Yes. Can we get better? Yes - and I'm sure we will over time - but we've got to start somewhere."

Much of Cardiff's recruitment happened early in the window and after exhausting the free transfer options in his quest for a striker, Morison revealed Robinson's availability was a late call.

"Callum was not available three days ago, then he became available and the board, the owner [Vincent Tan] and Ken Choo [the chief executive] jumped at the chance and supported it.

"I said it would go down to the last minute and it did. All we had to do was be ready and thankfully we were."

Morison takes his Cardiff side to Millwall on Saturday, a club where he spent much of his career as a player and remains their third highest goalscorer of all time.

Cardiff are looking to halt a run of four games without a victory but Morison is looking forward to the time ahead of the World Cup break in November and beyond.

"Between now and November it will be really good to see where we can get this squad to. Yes, it's more pressure because there's nothing to hide behind now.”

"Is there still evolvement to the squad? Yes. Are there still changes to be made over time? Yes.

"But ultimately, for me and my staff we're sitting in a much happier place. We know if it works it's great. If it doesn't at least it was done in a way we wanted it to be".

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Have to say so far this season wev'e played some good stuff and I was left with the feeling that if we'd had scored first against Luton we would have won comfortably. I just hope this new lad is not made of glass because as we all know there's not a lot in reserve at the moment.

Another feather in the cap for the Cardiff City board and for Morison.

A good read that.

I always said I preferred the way they had a strict budget as opposed to the scatter gun approach and the wasting of money on journeymen footballers as in the past.

He's got as much as he wants within the constraints he's working under. Obviously he would like to have been able to bring in better quality but to say no excuses is setting himself up for criticism or ultimately the sack if he fails.

Seems like Tan & the board have got him the targets he wanted this summer, guy needs to start picking up results

He's right.

This is his team now and if he doesn't do well, he has to take the blame.

As he says, no excuses.

I am looking forward to see what Ebou Adams brings to the team when he is fit.

He may need to start looking over his shoulders if results continue on the downward spiral

Something isnt right .Decent players been signed as well.

No excuses. Don’t like Morrison. Never have so not a problem for me to say he will be gone by end of October.

Looks out of his depth and the team look relegation candidates