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BBM: : "The focus for us is always on the next game. We are

Sat Feb 21, 2026 3:59 pm

BBM:

: "The focus for us is always on the next game. We are consistent in the way we work and play.

"We'll aim to bounce back with a really good training week and look forward to next Saturday."

"We have a brilliant dressing room full of excellent players. I think we've lost two in 19 in the league. The players have been amazing for the Club this season.

"The end of the game was quite hard for us but our lads stuck together and continued to attack. That's what we want to see from our team."
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Re: BBM: : "The focus for us is always on the next game. We

Sat Feb 21, 2026 4:05 pm

Poor use of substitutions. Actually made us worse ????

Re: BBM: : "The focus for us is always on the next game. We

Sat Feb 21, 2026 5:30 pm

Lincoln made their game plan known in the run up to the match having apparently noted a weakness in our ability to defend set pieces. Why oh why then did we not play Fish from the start as Lincoln were right - our set piece aerial defending was awful!? Was Fish injured because if he was on the bench and BBM failed to use him either from the start or as soon as he saw how badly we were being annihilated in our box with headers, that was poor judgement in the extreme!! In any event, I sincerely hope Fish is in the team next game because having seen that game, if I was the Doncaster manager, I'd know what tactics I will be employing against Cardiff!!
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Re: BBM: : "The focus for us is always on the next game. We

Sat Feb 21, 2026 6:26 pm

blemmy wrote:Lincoln made their game plan known in the run up to the match having apparently noted a weakness in our ability to defend set pieces. Why oh why then did we not play Fish from the start as Lincoln were right - our set piece aerial defending was awful!? Was Fish injured because if he was on the bench and BBM failed to use him either from the start or as soon as he saw how badly we were being annihilated in our box with headers, that was poor judgement in the extreme!! In any event, I sincerely hope Fish is in the team next game because having seen that game, if I was the Doncaster manager, I'd know what tactics I will be employing against Cardiff!!
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It's all well and good Doncaster deciding they are going to have their way with us at set pieces, do they have the personnel? Tolaj and Pebble would walk into almost every team at this level. BBM got it wrong today, he's got it right 99% of the time

Re: BBM: : "The focus for us is always on the next game. We

Sat Feb 21, 2026 9:29 pm

The point I'm trying to make is that unless Fish was injured, he should have started this game - for goodness sake Lincoln were shouting off days ago the game they were going to play. To be honest, the only person challenging their people in our box was Ruben Colwell ffs!! My missus would have been as effective - the Lincoln players who scored weren't even being challenged - free headers!! I can assure you based on that aerial defensive performance by us, Doncaster won't need Thierry Henri upfront - just one or two big lumps and someone to lump high balls in the box and they will score. We are too light weight in there without Will Fish and if he isn't in there against Doncaster, (injury excepted) I will eat my hat because BBM will have also seen what I and thousands of other Cardiff fans saw today.

Re: BBM: : "The focus for us is always on the next game. We

Sun Feb 22, 2026 12:11 pm

blemmy wrote:The point I'm trying to make is that unless Fish was injured, he should have started this game - for goodness sake Lincoln were shouting off days ago the game they were going to play. To be honest, the only person challenging their people in our box was Ruben Colwell ffs!! My missus would have been as effective - the Lincoln players who scored weren't even being challenged - free headers!! I can assure you based on that aerial defensive performance by us, Doncaster won't need Thierry Henri upfront - just one or two big lumps and someone to lump high balls in the box and they will score. We are too light weight in there without Will Fish and if he isn't in there against Doncaster, (injury excepted) I will eat my hat because BBM will have also seen what I and thousands of other Cardiff fans saw today.


We aren't all at sea every time Fish doesn't start. It's also not a revelation that the way to beat us is play physical and exploit set pieces. Lots of teams talk up what they are going to do, doing it is something else. Jack Wiltshire gave it the big one how did that work out. Doncaster don't have players of that quality up front. If I was picking the team yesterday, especially in hindsight of course Fish would be in (along with Wintle) it was plain to see we were bullied all day. It doesn't mean we'll get bullied by Doncaster, it's been everyone's tactic most of the time we are just too good