BBM: It's pretty obvious that we didn't play well enough

Brian Barry-Murphy:


"We wanted to progress as far as we could in the competition but today, we weren’t good enough to get that job done.

“Every competition has been treated with the utmost importance this season and we want to create a mentality in the dressing room where we try and give our supporters performance that they enjoy in every single game, but today we weren’t able to do that.

“We didn’t play well enough to have any gripes over anything that didn’t go our way. We’re trying to take our destiny into our own hands and control our own fate.

It was pretty obvious that we didn’t create the chances that we wanted to. We didn’t play at the intensity in the first half that we were looking for.

"We’re looking to be a team that is very aggressive and play with a high level of intensity throughout the course of all the games, like we did on Tuesday night. We didn’t reach those heights throughout the course of the game.

“The challenge for the players is to become more consistent in the way that we play. Peterborough got through today and deservedly so, congratulations to them, but we were looking to reach the standards that we’ve previously set, but today we didn’t do that.

“It’s a disappointing day for us, but there could be beneficial learnings in terms of what we need to do better to compete in every single game.

"That’s what we’ll be working on this week with all eyes on Blackpool next Saturday.”

I do like BBM’S Honesty, Very Honesty

Still 50/50 about if he’s good enough to take us up.

I can’t stand his Tinkering

I do like BBM’S Honesty, Very Honesty

Still 50/50 about if he’s good enough to take us up.

I can’t stand his Tinkering

He is 100% the right man, in my opinion anyway.

I don't call it that, I call it rotating the team and don't see a problem with it.

Not that bothered about today but he is the best person for this group of players and is getting us playing in the right way, we have to stick with it and no doubt we will be around the top in May.

I do like BBM’S Honesty, Very Honesty

Still 50/50 about if he’s good enough to take us up.

I can’t stand his Tinkering

He is 100% the right man, in my opinion anyway.

I don't call it that, I call it rotating the team and don't see a problem with it.

Not that bothered about today but he is the best person for this group of players and is getting us playing in the right way, we have to stick with it and no doubt we will be around the top in May.

I think that he’s not the man to take us forward , he’s a very good coach but not a manager, we need a experienced manager

I do like BBM’S Honesty, Very Honesty

Still 50/50 about if he’s good enough to take us up.

I can’t stand his Tinkering

He is 100% the right man, in my opinion anyway.

I don't call it that, I call it rotating the team and don't see a problem with it.

Not that bothered about today but he is the best person for this group of players and is getting us playing in the right way, we have to stick with it and no doubt we will be around the top in May.

I think that he’s not the man to take us forward , he’s a very good coach but not a manager, we need a experienced manager

Some people on here are obsessed with experienced managers.

We're in a great position in the league when so many on here predicted mid table at best before the season started, so he's actually exceeding their expectations.

And we're in a quarter final of a cup.

Hard fanbase to please sometimes.

For me he is 100% the right man for us, he is trying to change the entire philosophy of the club and give us an identity that we can build on for years to come but it won't happen over night

We need stability at this club we can't keep lurching from one manager to another every time we have a few bad results

Its time to show a bit of patience and believe in the project

I do like BBM’S Honesty, Very Honesty

Still 50/50 about if he’s good enough to take us up.

I can’t stand his Tinkering

He is 100% the right man, in my opinion anyway.

I don't call it that, I call it rotating the team and don't see a problem with it.

Not that bothered about today but he is the best person for this group of players and is getting us playing in the right way, we have to stick with it and no doubt we will be around the top in May.

I think that he’s not the man to take us forward , he’s a very good coach but not a manager, we need a experienced manager

We are inconsistent and that comes down to the manager. The last 6 games we are mid table and need to stop this. Don't be surprised if the pressure on BBM becomes a talking point.

For me he is 100% the right man for us, he is trying to change the entire philosophy of the club and give us an identity that we can build on for years to come but it won't happen over night

We need stability at this club we can't keep lurching from one manager to another every time we have a few bad results

Its time to show a bit of patience and believe in the project

Spot on.

Someone needs to tell BBM it was pretty obvious we wouldn't play well with his bizarre team selection which lacked balance. No holding midfielder on the pitch so we were wide open. Wintle, Chambers or Mafico could have easily played and given our midfield more balance, so we wouldn't be open to wave after wave of Peterborough attacks.

Their goal came from us giving them open space with nobody screening the area in front to protect the back four. Their player had all the time and space to pick up the ball and play the pass through for their goal.

Today's team selection smacked of arrogance. It's "only Peterborough", so there's no need to play a holding midfielder to balance our team. Today was 100% our managers fault for his stupid team selection. He needs to learn, and he needs to learn fast.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and that’s what makes football (and forums) enjoyable. Speaking to other fans and seeing and hearing what they think. However I am really surprised to see negativity this year I really am. When we went down the club was in a terrible state and I thought we’d be more likely to go down again than get back up I really did.


However we are up near the top of the league, in the quarter final of the league cup as the only efl team left, and doing it with mainly young players from the academy. For me this is the best season as a Cardiff fan since the warnock promotion.

Are we amazing in every game? No. Do I get frustrated at some of the performances? Yes!
However I really look forward to our games which has not been the case for the last few years.

I’m fully on board with Bbm and feel real pride again with the club. I love seeing so many young Welsh players in our team. I don’t know how the league will finish but I’m really enjoying the journey. I for one am loving it!

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and that’s what makes football (and forums) enjoyable. Speaking to other fans and seeing and hearing what they think. However I am really surprised to see negativity this year I really am. When we went down the club was in a terrible state and I thought we’d be more likely to go down again than get back up I really did.


However we are up near the top of the league, in the quarter final of the league cup as the only efl team left, and doing it with mainly young players from the academy. For me this is the best season as a Cardiff fan since the warnock promotion.

Are we amazing in every game? No. Do I get frustrated at some of the performances? Yes!
However I really look forward to our games which has not been the case for the last few years.

I’m fully on board with Bbm and feel real pride again with the club. I love seeing so many young Welsh players in our team. I don’t know how the league will finish but I’m really enjoying the journey. I for one am loving it!

Spot on. Absolutely amazing what BBM has managed to do. How easily we forget the dross we have had to put up with. Yes consistency is an issue and BBM acknowledges it and the players need to learn. We can argue about some selections but we aren’t always party to how fit players are etc . He’s doing a bloody good job and most of us can see why Man City took him from lowly Rochdale

I think he’s doing a fantastic job. Third in the league with a game in hand and 1/4 finals of the cup with all the rest Premiership clubs. Better football and much better atmosphere in the stadium. He has a small squad but they are quality and he is utilising them so they can be used throughout a long season. Other clubs won’t have the strength in depth. He gets our identity, is great with the fans and managing Tan. Give him a break everyone. Win at Blackpool and the moaners will be made to look daft. Plus we have had a lot of away games recently. Well done BBM.

BBM is doing a pretty sound job in fairness but I am puzzled how the team have lately been so jekyll and Hyde. Brilliant versus Wrexham and insipid, daisy picking, sluggish, indifference against Peterborough.

Are the players just taking the piss out of BBM and his good nature? I really hope not.

Perhaps we need a couple of battle hardened older professionals to kick some arse in the dressing room. I think the players need to show more commitment and respect to BBM.

Annis our priority now as was at the start of the season is to get PROMOTED starting next week at Blackpool BBM now has to fully focus on the job of achieving it!!!

Well, Turnbull and Robertson are slow and lacking in skill and game management. Think Gunnarsson and Whittingham. No comparison. Cry all night ya wimps. BBM is excellent but no magician.

Indoubtedly BBM is a great improver of players, and as an L1 club, that may be more important than being a tactical genius.

My only issue is I think he is trying to implement a purist philosophy that has failed everywhere bar its mad genius and heavily backed creator, Pep.

Pep Star's former pupils don't give the ball away; none are Warnock, but have a far more practical application than just dominating the ball. In an elite development setting, that tactic is great for improving players, but teams have worked out how to set up against and frustrate us.

If Tan gave him proper wingers, I guess he's do what Pep does and ruin them ( Grealish & Doku) in favour of 10 keeping the ball.

I wouldn't mind betting we have the most players on Premier and Championship watchlists. Trott, Lawlor, Fish, Kapakio, Robertson, Rubin & Joel, Salech, Kellymen and of course BBM. I can't see any of those names in L1 in a season or two, so we should be near the top.

I do think his day-to-day coaching has got us here, the players are vastly improving, whether his game management and core tactic is as good will always be a debate. At our level, i think having better players will win out over the season.

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BBM has been excellent the best manager since Warnock. The guys come in and been asked to work with what we had while cutting a lot of the higher paid pros, he's obviously changed the culture too. If Tan backs him in January we'll sail up. If not I'm 50/50