Cardiff Manager : “ I’ve got no complaints “

Cardiff Manager Brian Barry-Murphy told BBC Radio Wales:


"We'll definitely take the clean sheet and the point. There were parts of the performance we'd like to be better, especially in front of an incredible travelling support.


"We've got no complaints. I thought we were lucky to get a point based on how well Port Vale played and elements of our performance need to be better.


"Our positioning was wrong, we were rushed… and our composure in wide areas was not great. That's not just the wide players, that's the whole team. The final ball, the final shot wasn't at a high enough level."

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Let’s be totally honest here . The wing play from Cardiff has been pathetic for a few years , the crossing onto the box is coming in from the wrong angles - easy to defend and hard for our striker , same as last year and the year before . Not impressed one bit . These are professionals -

I’m glad he’s telling it as it is and not trying to sugar coat anything . We were lucky last night. We were lucky vales finishing was poor as they didn’t really test Trott. The goal was onside (although Trott seen the flag and did stop playing, so no guarantee they would have scored without the flag). Happily take the point though after a poor performance. Tanner I think that was worse game for us

I’m glad he’s telling it as it is and not trying to sugar coat anything . We were lucky last night. We were lucky vales finishing was poor as they didn’t really test Trott. The goal was onside (although Trott seen the flag and did stop playing, so no guarantee they would have scored without the flag). Happily take the point though after a poor performance. Tanner I think that was worse game for us

Darren I agree.
We’ve had enough of pathetic excuses from past managers but tbf to BBM he’s said it as it was.

I’m glad he’s telling it as it is and not trying to sugar coat anything . We were lucky last night. We were lucky vales finishing was poor as they didn’t really test Trott. The goal was onside (although Trott seen the flag and did stop playing, so no guarantee they would have scored without the flag). Happily take the point though after a poor performance. Tanner I think that was worse game for us

Darren I agree.
We’ve had enough of pathetic excuses from past managers but tbf to BBM he’s said it as it was.

riza would have said we done well against a good team and we had the most possession

We’re playing Tanner on the right (left footed) and Willock on the left (right footed). So the only crossing will be on a cut back and defenders know this. Tanner put in a few ‘wrong’ footed crosses against P’borough but they weren’t of the best quality, understandably.

We’re playing Tanner on the right (left footed) and Willock on the left (right footed). So the only crossing will be on a cut back and defenders know this. Tanner put in a few ‘wrong’ footed crosses against P’borough but they weren’t of the best quality, understandably.

it baffles me how none of our last few managers have thought to just switch them
if bbm wasn't going to sub either off at half time then switching would have been the obvious choice

We’re playing Tanner on the right (left footed) and Willock on the left (right footed). So the only crossing will be on a cut back and defenders know this. Tanner put in a few ‘wrong’ footed crosses against P’borough but they weren’t of the best quality, understandably.

But also a couple of peaches with his wrong foot. Wasn't the Salech header from a right-footed cross? Not sure what went wrong last night however.

Thing is the manager never changed the tactics at all the 2nd half so did he think the 1st half was acceptable? because I thought the 2nd half was worse,
I hated the whole 90 minutes there standing behind the goal, waiting for us to attempt to put it in the net, nothing shocking performance.

I’m glad he’s telling it as it is and not trying to sugar coat anything . We were lucky last night. We were lucky vales finishing was poor as they didn’t really test Trott. The goal was onside (although Trott seen the flag and did stop playing, so no guarantee they would have scored without the flag). Happily take the point though after a poor performance. Tanner I think that was worse game for us

Darren I agree.
We’ve had enough of pathetic excuses from past managers but tbf to BBM he’s said it as it was.

Now he needs to sort it out.

He's had two months to identify the teams glaring inadequacies and take steps to rectify them.

To date he's not done that.

One goalie signed and absolutely no sign of any other incoming players.

How many genuinely "quality" players become available this late in the transfer window?

It's usually just the dregs that nobody else wants - the usual shite that we normally sign towards the end of the window.

Does the manager accept his failure to change tactics 2nd half ?

Does the manager accept his failure to change tactics 2nd half ?

It’s not the tactics, it’s the players that were woeful and not being able to basic things right.

Give the manager a chance to fix this and get them back on track.

Remember, last year’s rubbish will still be in these players, under pressure they’ll revert back to it.

It’ll take a lot of repetition and time to get the old out of their system and maintain what BBM wants them to do.

Does the manager accept his failure to change tactics 2nd half ?

It’s not the tactics, it’s the players that were woeful and not being able to basic things right.

Give the manager a chance to fix this and get them back on track.

Remember, last year’s rubbish will still be in these players, under pressure they’ll revert back to it.

It’ll take a lot of repetition and time to get the old out of their system and maintain what BBM wants them to do.

My point was the manager never changed it up the first half was abbismable but his half time talk never worked ,and it is about tactics we never pressed in the 1st or 2nd half like we did at home against Peterborough
We played to defensively,
a completely unrecognisable game to the peterborough game, so I repeat it was the manager who says how he wants it played.

BBM's stated aim is promotion. We are the biggest club in League 1.
So with that being the case, I'd expect us to play with our high press both home and away - we are in a lower league, WTF are we afraid of?

I do not expect City to have a defensive set up in any away match this season, not if we are serious about promotion.

Let's see this in next few matches BBM, otherwise the doubts will creep in.

Using the same system 1st half when we should of been three or four nil down then coming out to play exactly the same shape and no changes to start the 2nd half totally baffled me in truth.

It tells me what's coming this season when teams get at us although I don't expect much this season anyway in truth with this squad currently as we got to many players who are built like 15 year old teenagers so for me this will be a season of being bullied by other teams in games unless we get some good experienced reinforcements in . Atleast the manager has been honest saying we was lucky but what did he do to change anything imo not alot. It took him 91 minutes to take willock off I was totally amazed, although the players are to blame also. Atleast we got a very very lucky point imo

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I like his honest approach, but I don’t get where he says we were rushed. If we played any slower the game would have stopped.

Maybe 2 games a week with a high intensity workload to get the ball back is too much and the system need to rotate rather than keep the same 11

I like his honest approach, but I don’t get where he says we were rushed. If we played any slower the game would have stopped.

Decision making, not so much speed of play. That’s what he means.

Players were quick to make the bad option or not see the field of play properly, or look to switch play.