I have been honest:

My View:

Defence and football has improved under Steve Morison:

But the goals we score are the second worst in the Championship, 4 goals in 9 competitive games this season so far.
So these need to improve starting v Hull on Saturday who have the worst defence in the Championship.

Plus when we go a goal down, so far we can’t then comeback?


So if Morison does not turn these two things around, on current form we would be relegated as already after 8 games we are in the bottom 3 of the Championship and it has to change from this Saturday.


In my view despite what Morison keeps repeating, it’s results what matter at the end of the day.



Good Stats mean nothing if we don’t score or win games.





Hull, Boro and then Huddersfield are to come, perfect games to put all this right.

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Passing – A big difference to Cardiff's play this season is how they move the ball. Will Vaulks made the point last year that City's midfielders were just used to seeing the ball get smashed over their heads and it was a pretty dull system in which to play.

But thanks to ball-playing centre-backs and a midfield which is now very much central to how City attack, Cardiff are among the top teams for passing stats so far this term. They are ninth in terms of number of passes per game on average (423) and for pass completion rate (77.1 percent). Those metrics will be far more pleasing than in recent seasons, there's no doubt about that.

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Defending – And it's not all about the ball, Cardiff are actually one of the top-performing sides at the other end of the pitch.

Only Norwich City and Sheffield United have a better expected goals (xG) per game against average than Cardiff (0.90). That means they concede fewer clear-cut chances than 21 teams in the Championship. A pretty telling statistic of how impressive their defence has been, despite recent set-piece troubles, which you can read about here.

Only four teams concede fewer shots per game on goal than Cardiff (10.1) and just three concede fewer shots on target than the Bluebirds (2.8) per 90 minutes.

Cardiff only allow an average 10.8 passes against them per defensive action, too, a number which is bettered by just three teams, meaning they are extremely robust and difficult to break down.

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Patience is a virtue, of course, and a precious commodity in what is increasingly becoming a knee-jerk world of immediacy and intolerance. But there really is a confidence within the club, informed by the above, that they are very close to getting this all right.

Goals are the issue, make no mistake about that, but Cardiff are cultivating a system and a team which is trending in the right direction. The trouble is they are basically conceding their expected xG against (eight goals in eight games) and are not converting at the same right for their xG for. That's the crux of it.

But with possession, tricky flair players who are winning their 1v1s, good passing statistics and a new striker in Callum Robinson, there should be some positivity that the direction of travel will change and Cardiff will start pushing their way up that table sooner rather than later.

Fans will have to stick with it all and there is a general acceptance that this is a season of transition, but one which will hopefully set City on a route to eventual success. With Hull City home next up this weekend, Steve Morison and his staff will hope the aforementioned positive statistics finally start to manifest into three points more regularly than they have done in recent weeks.

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Sat Jul 30 Cardiff City 1 Norwich City 0 Crowd 19,969 Away Support 1,480 Jamilu Collins



Sat Aug 6 – Reading 2 Cardiff City 1 Crowd 13,866 Away Support 2,100 O'Downda


Tuesday Aug 9~ EFL Cup Rd1 Cardiff City 0 Portsmouth 3 Crowd 6,303. Away fans:Pompey fans 1,114



Sat Aug 13 – Cardiff City 1 Birmingham City 0 Crowd 18,893 Away Support 1,860 Brum fans


Wed Aug 17 8pm – West Bromwich Albion 0 Cardiff City 0 Crowd Away Support (1,742 )


Sunday Aug 21– Bristol City 2 Cardiff City 0 Crowd 21,645 Away Support ( 2,471 )



Sat Aug 27 –Cardiff City 0 Preston North End 0 Crowd 17,922 Away Support ( 609 )



Tue Aug 30 –Cardiff City 1 Luton Town 2 Crowd 17,202 Away Support ( 423 )


Sat Sep 3 – Millwall 2 Cardiff City 0 Crowd Away Support ( 1,460 )

Sat Sep 10 – Hull City v Cardiff City Crowd Away Support ( )

Tue Sep 13 – Middlesbrough (A)

Sat Sep 17 – Huddersfield Town (A)

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All about picking up points now

I remember Brighton's struggles to score under Graham Potter with two relegation battles in his first two years.

Now look at them, 5-2 vs Leicester, in top 4 and he is now off to Chelsea.

Give it time and I think we will rise up the league, no worries here...yet!