SEASON’S ASSESSMENT : One always says , the first good

SEASON’S ASSESSMENT : One always says , the first good indicative assessment of a season is after 12 (odd) games .

We are just past this now .





My view is that I will be disappointed if we do not get automatic promotion . However , I also admit that this is not going to be all that easy and straightforward .

Not making the playoffs , I consider highly unlikely and in fact unthinkable . One point is that I believe that we will be strengthening in January with two - possibly three players .



The league table is taking shape and to me it seems that there are only seven teams at the top who are the real contenders . Cardiff , Stevenage, Bradford , Stockport , Wimbledon , Lincoln and Bolton . So six out of seven. Yes it is possible that one or maybe two clubs below - may pick up and join the leaders ….but it is more likely that two or three of the present leaders will drop further down .



Without being presumptuous ….how the hell are we in the same league as most of those teams ?




I now want to make an important point . In any season teams that do well are not only good …but they also tend to get “ the rub of the green”. We have to be honest ….we have been really lucky in quite a few games ….winning of drawing games that on the run of play we we should have lost or drawn . This is precisely my point :


THIS IS OUR YEAR …..and it will continue to be. Look at today ….five teams could have overtaken us at the top of the division …..but none did ….all of them either lost or drew.




Finally , on the negative side ….I wish that BBM would stop tinkering with our side . It is really upsetting me and is unjustified and shows lack of experience and cockiness . If will ever fail this season ….it will be because of this .






By the way ….without Trott ….we will be mid table ….but WE DO HAVE TROTT .

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Well we are top of the league. Fortunate to be for sure, but we are.

Today was very poor and there have been other recent games we haven't played well in but got away with it.

What gives me a lot of optimism is that I think after Christmas we will hit our stride and, up to now, we are in a good position without playing brilliant.

The name of the game this season is getting promoted, we have to or we will lose all our best players on the cheap.

We are on course to do that but definitely need to improve.

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Well we are top of the league. Fortunate to be for sure, but we are.

Today was very poor and there have been other recent games we haven't played well in but got away with it.

What gives me a lot of optimism is that I think after Christmas we will hit our stride and, up to now, we are in a good position without playing brilliant.

The name of the game this season is getting promoted, we have to or we will lose all our best players on the cheap.

We are on course to do that but definitely need to improve.

Yes a fair assessment Ned,

The league Table does not lie.

Football wise lately not good.

But there are some very very small clubs in this league and very few if any with as good as players that we have at our disposal for this League.

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Wow, fire him at xmas is a bit much.

Playing badly and still top of the league is brilliant, i think we will improve as the season goes on

I know people will say I am negative and wish Cardiff to lose ( wrong, I have supported the bluebirds before most of you were born) but when you look at the games you can see that we are not playing well or consistently. We should never have got relegated last year with the team we had . I backed Riza and was proved wrong- a proper manager would have kept us up. The players we lost at the start of the season were never a problem. Yes the youngsters have come on but we would have expected that. The difference between the premiership and the championship is vast but as we can see the difference between the championship and league 1 is vast as well. Teams look at our subs in league 1 and think we are a big club - in the championship we would be below average. So in summary delighted we are still top but like most fans have under current of unease of how we will continue.

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We're only 14pts behind you now and that could go to 11 if we beat you next time out.Still hope you go up thou.

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Xmas period will be key although roll on January if he's backed or not again because without trott right now we would be end of the lower mid table and 12 points or more worse off but that's football.

Athough as some say it don't matter because we are top but currently getting away with it playing awful at times. Things will change over the season we all know that but let's hope we start to play better next league game and move on to even better or the wheels will come off and tinkerman will get the blame no doubt even with a squad of younger ones and two loan players this season.

Hes worked miracles so far until injury's as we can already see start to happen. Changing the side every week with 4 or 5 don't help but we all knew this was coming injury wise and not the same quality or better to come in due to hardly being backed. He also needs to learn to play different system wise because its being sussed out 5 or 6 games ago

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I quite agree with lots on here and some of the replies. Apart from sack him at Xmas ffs
However as much as I am and have been a very much BBM in poster since he came.
The 2 points that are getting to me is the constant tinkering especially when tbf to Chambers last week outstanding then dropped. Turnball average at best yet picked again seems inconsistent decisions.
And secondly substitutions clearly rubin had a mare today but kept him on when surely robbo early with salech may of worked better

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I very much doubt that we will win this league. Even if we strengthen the squad in January by some miracle (Tan wakes up) it will be too late. Playoffs at best with this clunky team. Tan out! For the changes we need.