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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: selby on February 22, 2026, 01:02:19 pm
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With Tuesdays game against Luton cancelled our next game is against top of the table Cardiff City who yesterday got like ourselves earlier in the season on the wrong end of a five goal tally against Plymouth Argyle and will be itching to get back on track next weekend against ourselves .
In that away fixture against them earlier in the season in the midst of our poor run of results we probably gave our best footballing display of the season as Cardiff unlike most sides chose to go head to head with us in an open game that for entertainment was one of the best of the season to watch. The way the game unfolded was an example of how quick their forwards looked in a game our defence struggled with their direct probing runs one on one , and not to be outdone our forwards gave their defence a hard time of it.
Taking that in, and looking at yesterdays result t looks like they are better going forward and scoring goals than defending, something we might be able to make the best of.
Yesterday we won despite not playing that well against a poor side and despite our come back and two goals in the second half we never reached or had to reach great heights to win the game, both keepers apart from the odd flurry very little to do., TLT only worried by a cross shot that was heading for or near the bottom left hand post he dealt well with. the Rotherham keeper cought out and mugged after a long what could be described as a rest period, with two attacks to deal with he failed at.
Cardiff will be a very different problem to deal with, potent up front with pace in wide areas , but can be got at at the back. Will that give us a selection problem? we certainly need to nullify their threat which revolves around pace, Does that mean sacrificing Bailey in mid field to central defence with Byrne? or do we risk him further forward? with the changes at half time yesterday making a positive contribution to the game keep that set up? which was a reaction selection to the original plan that was obviously failing in the first half, credit to the management team for recognising the problem, which to be fair was not that hard to recognise as most of us must have been thinking at half time that's about as bad as it get's right from the first minute, and the managers comment he could change 10 men spot on.
So we need a big step up in form, are there tactical changes we can make? and we have a week to recover and regroup.
What do you think? our form and picking up points has improved considerably, but every point is precious with us still looking over our shoulder at teams behind us.
A win would be a right boost to our confidence we can get away from the relegation places and also we can compete with the better sides in the division, and that's just what the club needs really.
Lot's about this game that could give a pointer to our future, losing would not be a disaster because they are a class side at this level and will themselves be looking to put yesterdays result behind them. both management teams will know each others weakness's and strengths, what do you think? lot's to discuss lots to mull over, please have your say.
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They've failed to score in only two away league games this season, and one of those was the first away game in August. Lost only once in their last five away league games, although interestingly that was last time out against Plymouth, where they got hammered 5-2. Not exactly a long journey down there for them either.
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With Tuesdays game against Luton cancelled our next game is against top of the table Cardiff City who yesterday got like ourselves earlier in the season on the wrong end of a five goal tally against Plymouth Argyle and will be itching to get back on track next weekend against ourselves .
In that away fixture against them earlier in the season in the midst of our poor run of results we probably gave our best footballing display of the season as Cardiff unlike most sides chose to go head to head with us in an open game that for entertainment was one of the best of the season to watch. The way the game unfolded was an example of how quick their forwards looked in a game our defence struggled with their direct probing runs one on one , and not to be outdone our forwards gave their defence a hard time of it.
Taking that in, and looking at yesterdays result t looks like they are better going forward and scoring goals than defending, something we might be able to make the best of.
Yesterday we won despite not playing that well against a poor side and despite our come back and two goals in the second half we never reached or had to reach great heights to win the game, both keepers apart from the odd flurry very little to do., TLT only worried by a cross shot that was heading for or near the bottom left hand post he dealt well with. the Rotherham keeper cought out and mugged after a long what could be described as a rest period, with two attacks to deal with he failed at.
Cardiff will be a very different problem to deal with, potent up front with pace in wide areas , but can be got at at the back. Will that give us a selection problem? we certainly need to nullify their threat which revolves around pace, Does that mean sacrificing Bailey in mid field to central defence with Byrne? or do we risk him further forward? with the changes at half time yesterday making a positive contribution to the game keep that set up? which was a reaction selection to the original plan that was obviously failing in the first half, credit to the management team for recognising the problem, which to be fair was not that hard to recognise as most of us must have been thinking at half time that's about as bad as it get's right from the first minute, and the managers comment he could change 10 men spot on.
So we need a big step up in form, are there tactical changes we can make? and we have a week to recover and regroup.
What do you think? our form and picking up points has improved considerably, but every point is precious with us still looking over our shoulder at teams behind us.
A win would be a right boost to our confidence we can get away from the relegation places and also we can compete with the better sides in the division, and that's just what the club needs really.
Lot's about this game that could give a pointer to our future, losing would not be a disaster because they are a class side at this level and will themselves be looking to put yesterdays result behind them. both management teams will know each others weakness's and strengths, what do you think? lot's to discuss lots to mull over, please have your say.
Why on earth does Bailey need to go back into centre back Selby, jesus christ
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It sounds like Salech won’t be ready for them still, which is good.
Best striker in the division in my opinion.
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With Tuesdays game against Luton cancelled our next game is against top of the table Cardiff City who yesterday got like ourselves earlier in the season on the wrong end of a five goal tally against Plymouth Argyle and will be itching to get back on track next weekend against ourselves .
In that away fixture against them earlier in the season in the midst of our poor run of results we probably gave our best footballing display of the season as Cardiff unlike most sides chose to go head to head with us in an open game that for entertainment was one of the best of the season to watch. The way the game unfolded was an example of how quick their forwards looked in a game our defence struggled with their direct probing runs one on one , and not to be outdone our forwards gave their defence a hard time of it.
Taking that in, and looking at yesterdays result t looks like they are better going forward and scoring goals than defending, something we might be able to make the best of.
Yesterday we won despite not playing that well against a poor side and despite our come back and two goals in the second half we never reached or had to reach great heights to win the game, both keepers apart from the odd flurry very little to do., TLT only worried by a cross shot that was heading for or near the bottom left hand post he dealt well with. the Rotherham keeper cought out and mugged after a long what could be described as a rest period, with two attacks to deal with he failed at.
Cardiff will be a very different problem to deal with, potent up front with pace in wide areas , but can be got at at the back. Will that give us a selection problem? we certainly need to nullify their threat which revolves around pace, Does that mean sacrificing Bailey in mid field to central defence with Byrne? or do we risk him further forward? with the changes at half time yesterday making a positive contribution to the game keep that set up? which was a reaction selection to the original plan that was obviously failing in the first half, credit to the management team for recognising the problem, which to be fair was not that hard to recognise as most of us must have been thinking at half time that's about as bad as it get's right from the first minute, and the managers comment he could change 10 men spot on.
So we need a big step up in form, are there tactical changes we can make? and we have a week to recover and regroup.
What do you think? our form and picking up points has improved considerably, but every point is precious with us still looking over our shoulder at teams behind us.
A win would be a right boost to our confidence we can get away from the relegation places and also we can compete with the better sides in the division, and that's just what the club needs really.
Lot's about this game that could give a pointer to our future, losing would not be a disaster because they are a class side at this level and will themselves be looking to put yesterdays result behind them. both management teams will know each others weakness's and strengths, what do you think? lot's to discuss lots to mull over, please have your say.
Why on earth does Bailey need to go back into centre back Selby, jesus christ
No centre back will ever be good enough for Selby as they stand in the way of saint Bobby
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Fal, LDR, I sked a question never made a statement at all certainly not involving Bobby who is not at the club.
However we have a lack of pace centrally and we can counteract their pace up front with Bailey for this game.
As a matter of fact I don't think McGrath is as good a defender technically as Pearson, but he would not solve the problem of pace.
Obviously I overestimated your grasp of the football matters I was highlighting.
Personally I would go that way as I think with the playing staff we have at the club the advantage of playing him in central defence out ways the risk of him missing in the midfield area where we are stronger and better covered IMHO. and i want us to have the best chance in my mind to get a result from this game which will be massive if we do.
Whoever plays will have my full support while on the playing field and in the time honoured tradition of all supporters criticism after the game if they are poor.
I praised McGrath for the way he played last week at Burton and deserved the start yesterday when
he and we were very lucky not to be playing with ten men for 87 minutes.
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Play like we did yesterday we'll get thrashed
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Cardiff are such a good all round team with most players a level up in quality, it's so hard to defend against them when they're equally comfortable carrying the ball as well as passing accurately and striking the ball at goal with venom.
As seen yesterday, and in our game against them, their defense can be got at but we will have to defend as a team better than we did by being more robust in the middle third where they were beating our midfielders too easily.
It has a bit of a feel of the Wrexham game at the Eco a couple of seasons back, when they were red hot favourites, while we had just started to show positive signs. Keeping Wrexham to nil then seems as far fetched as keeping Cardiff to nil now. Football is a funny old game though.
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We were unlucky to lose at Cardiff and with better finishing we could have had 5 ourselves that day ,They play a very high line and we should not fear them at all
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I’m not worried about this one. If we get beat by a club likely to go up, it’s no great shame. Plenty of games left.
Anything other than a defeat is a real bonus.
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We gave the game to Plymouth with stupid errors, they’ve gone on to have a good run of results, including beating Cardiff , scoring five goals in the process. If we are on our best game, we can beat them, other than that and we get turned over.
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This is the reduced price game too, so I hope that and on the back of our recent upturn, we get quite a few more bums on seats. Fingers crossed for the weather too.
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Just going on the away game, they will be aware of how we can hurt them, and are certainly not afraid of them. It should be good crowd (I get in for £9.50!!!) so the atmosphere should be good, I would give Rovers of squeaking a win against a side who will score against us. 2-1
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Just down a quick count up 1,135 left for the Cardiff game.
Hopefully we can get close to a sell out, could really do with the fans right behind the lads and pushing them on for the full 90
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Surprising how many people who come to the odd few games a season didn't even know it was £12 this Saturday
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Ed Duckworth is the ref :mad: :mad:
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The difficult thing about this game is we need the majority of our team to play somewhere near their ceiling to compete against players who have more natural class except in just a few of our players cases, a hard ask normally only reached in a few games every season, the Middlesborough game the greatest example I have probably ever seen.
That goes in most games this season and especially against teams like Cardiff. Also tactically the management have got to get it right first time as a performance like the first half at Rotherham will most likely leave us chasing rainbows by half time.
They will be smarting from the tonking they got at Plymouth Saturday and will be looking to get back on track at our expense in this game and pacify their fans who will have been disappointed by the Plymouth result.
So an equally big game really for both sides for different reasons at different ends of the table, and could be a quite open interesting game to watch.
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Ed Duckworth is the ref :mad: :mad:
FFS
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15.40 update 1,000 left
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15.40 update 1,000 left
There’s more of the East Stand to open and West Stand that are currently greyed out.
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Cardiff have been given 2,950 so if needed we could fill all 3 sides of the home end doubt it would happen but let's try and get these final 1,000 sold
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Just got 5 mins free at work a quick count up of available seats currently is 841
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Gonna be another 5 figure crowd. Thank f**k we have some breathing space after a couple of good wins because the difference in leagues is massive on our finances. Gonna lose Cardiff but gain Wednesday’s. Hopefully West Brom come down too.
On game… Think we’ll lose, just hope it’s not a real hammering if we do.
I’d start all 3 who came on V Rotherham and changed game. Well earnt.
TLT
Sterry
Sir Byrne
McGrath
Senior
Bailey
Gotts
Clifton
Molyneux
Hanlan
Middleton
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Gonna be another 5 figure crowd. Thank f**k we have some breathing space after a couple of good wins because the difference in leagues is massive on our finances. Gonna lose Cardiff but gain Wednesday’s. Hopefully West Brom come down too.
On game… Think we’ll lose, just hope it’s not a real hammering if we do.
I’d start all 3 who came on V Rotherham and changed game. Well earnt.
TLT
Sterry
Sir Byrne
McGrath
Senior
Bailey
Gotts
Clifton
Molyneux
Hanlan
Middleton
I think we are value at the current prices, not certain we win but certainly a bet.
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Is it card or cash for a programme taking my son for the first time on Saturday and want to get him one don’t tend to buy them when I go now
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Is it card or cash for a programme taking my son for the first time on Saturday and want to get him one don’t tend to buy them when I go now
Either
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Gonna be another 5 figure crowd. Thank f**k we have some breathing space after a couple of good wins because the difference in leagues is massive on our finances. Gonna lose Cardiff but gain Wednesday’s. Hopefully West Brom come down too.
Leicester are in danger of coming down too.
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Both of our next 2 opponents have taken a beating in the last few day's , are we going to take advantage of this , or are we going to do our usual Charity act of getting teams back on track . Ever the pessimist I'll go for the latter , but hope for the former.
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Hanlan should be playing every game anyway re above
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Both of our next 2 opponents have taken a beating in the last few day's , are we going to take advantage of this , or are we going to do our usual Charity act of getting teams back on track . Ever the pessimist I'll go for the latter , but hope for the former.
Cardiff are top of the table and have lost 1 game in 13,
Stockport are 5th and have lost 2 in the last 11 games.
Not really charity if we lose to them.
You make it sound like we are playing 2 piss poor teams on a dreadful run.
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2:55 update 694 left with 48 hours to go
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Cardiff have a couple of players out...
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/cardiff-city-star-flies-home-33493634
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Salech missing is a bonus. One of the best strikers outside the Premier League.
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Looks like we are going to have open the overflow blocks folks
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Looks like we are going to have open the overflow blocks folks
Curry last night?
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If we are to be a sell out, Grant must set the terms of what is not acceptable, like that first half against Rotherham. If we do that again against these it will be a cricket score by half time.
I always used to be a bit gutted previously when we got big crowds at home, as you could almost place a bet that we would underperform. Not so much since we moved to the Keepmoat and Eco Power, but to raise the profile again, we have to turn up and put a performance on.
If we play as good as we did at their place, but score the chances this time, we will win. We frightened the hell out of them in that game. Come on you Reds, typical I’m away :thumbdown:
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If we are to be a sell out, Grant must set the terms of what is not acceptable, like that first half against Rotherham. If we do that again against these it will be a cricket score by half time.
I always used to be a bit gutted previously when we got big crowds at home, as you could almost place a bet that we would underperform. Not so much since we moved to the Keepmoat and Eco Power, but to raise the profile again, we have to turn up and put a performance on.
If we play as good as we did at their place, but score the chances this time, we will win. We frightened the hell out of them in that game. Come on you Reds, typical I’m away :thumbdown:
Against Rotherham we got the tactics wrong first half. We misread the way the game would play out and "Plan A" was incorrect. Forget the personnel changes, the change in approach second half changed the game. We were extremely direct second half where as first half it was short goal kicks and attempting to interchange passes through the thirds. I've watched the game three times and the first half was calamitous from all angles. Waiting till half time to make tactical (and personnel) changes was a gamble that we got away with. Credit to the management team for rectifying the mistakes at half time and also to the lads that came on who did make a huge impact.
Against Cardiff its pretty difficult to get the approach wrong because its so obvious how Cardiff will try and play. The clarity that should create is certainly an advantage during the preparation.
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Looking forward to this one. Would take a point now if you offered it me.
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Looks like we are going to have open the overflow blocks folks
Curry last night?
384 tickets left without opening the extra bits
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Disappointing sales at this price
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Disappointing sales at this price
I reckon there will be 12500 there. Think that's a decent effort.
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Disappointing sales at this price
Always the negative. It’s really not, baring a handful of tickets we’ve sold out the available home areas of the stadium. It’s only a couple of blocks that will probably go on sale to walk ups and further online sales tomorrow left. How’s that disappointing for a team sat in 18th that’s likely to lose tomorrow?
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Disappointing sales at this price
Always the negative. It’s really not, baring a handful of tickets we’ve sold out the available home areas of the stadium. It’s only a couple of blocks that will probably go on sale to walk ups and further online sales tomorrow left. How’s that disappointing for a team sat in 18th that’s likely to lose tomorrow?
I'm guessing he was TTP.... if not, you are correct...
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Disappointing sales at this price
We can’t make this game, and it’s nowt to do with the pricing..
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Disappointing sales at this price
Always the negative. It’s really not, baring a handful of tickets we’ve sold out the available home areas of the stadium. It’s only a couple of blocks that will probably go on sale to walk ups and further online sales tomorrow left. How’s that disappointing for a team sat in 18th that’s likely to lose tomorrow?
A quarter of the east and west is sat unopened. £12 for an adult to watch league 1 football in 2026 is a bargain. It's not negative it's a kick in the teeth to the owners great gesture it's not full.
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Disappointing sales at this price
Always the negative. It’s really not, baring a handful of tickets we’ve sold out the available home areas of the stadium. It’s only a couple of blocks that will probably go on sale to walk ups and further online sales tomorrow left. How’s that disappointing for a team sat in 18th that’s likely to lose tomorrow?
A quarter of the east and west is sat unopened. £12 for an adult to watch league 1 football in 2026 is a bargain. It's not negative it's a kick in the teeth to the owners great gesture it's not full.
I forgot the game kicks off at 8pm tonight - there’s nearly another full day of sales left! It won’t be far off full. Cardiff have sold out give or take, so there’s going to be at least one block either side of the east and west left empty anyway!
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Disappointing sales at this price
Always the negative. It’s really not, baring a handful of tickets we’ve sold out the available home areas of the stadium. It’s only a couple of blocks that will probably go on sale to walk ups and further online sales tomorrow left. How’s that disappointing for a team sat in 18th that’s likely to lose tomorrow?
A quarter of the east and west is sat unopened. £12 for an adult to watch league 1 football in 2026 is a bargain. It's not negative it's a kick in the teeth to the owners great gesture it's not full.
I forgot the game kicks off at 8pm tonight - there’s nearly another full day of sales left! It won’t be far off full. Cardiff have sold out give or take, so there’s going to be at least one block either side of the east and west left empty anyway!
8pm tonight?
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They’ve opened abit more of the East Stand, another 252 tickets available.
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If we had scored 3 away goals against most teams in this league, only to be beaten by a goal in injury time, we would surely fancy our chances at home, yet opinion here is largely influenced by Cardiff’s record in general.
Looking at this, it is interesting that they scraped by Orient at home by the same 4-3 score earlier in the season and they lost 3-1 at Blackpool too.They also fell 1-0 to Burton at home. So why, we might wonder, do they falter against less fancied opposition?
I’m not saying that I can’t understand why some feel that a point will be a good outcome, but at the same time there seems to be a possible weakness in the team spirit that surfaces when there is an expectation that they will be comfortably better than the opposition. We cannot ignore the fact that they may not have been thrashed at Plymouth, but they conceded 5 which is a big number for a team which is top of their league.
If we can put together a really proficient performance with (for once) the majority of players playing at the top of their form, we are potentially stronger than we were in the 4-3 defeat, so surely we could even have a chance to win.
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Disappointing sales at this price
Always the negative. It’s really not, baring a handful of tickets we’ve sold out the available home areas of the stadium. It’s only a couple of blocks that will probably go on sale to walk ups and further online sales tomorrow left. How’s that disappointing for a team sat in 18th that’s likely to lose tomorrow?
A quarter of the east and west is sat unopened. £12 for an adult to watch league 1 football in 2026 is a bargain. It's not negative it's a kick in the teeth to the owners great gesture it's not full.
Give over. Its still a bloody good anount of tickets sold.
Great gesture by the owner? We are only doing the £12 deal due to Cardiff doing it first for us.
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Disappointing sales at this price
Always the negative. It’s really not, baring a handful of tickets we’ve sold out the available home areas of the stadium. It’s only a couple of blocks that will probably go on sale to walk ups and further online sales tomorrow left. How’s that disappointing for a team sat in 18th that’s likely to lose tomorrow?
A quarter of the east and west is sat unopened. £12 for an adult to watch league 1 football in 2026 is a bargain. It's not negative it's a kick in the teeth to the owners great gesture it's not full.
I forgot the game kicks off at 8pm tonight - there’s nearly another full day of sales left! It won’t be far off full. Cardiff have sold out give or take, so there’s going to be at least one block either side of the east and west left empty anyway!
I was so looking forward to this game.
Gutted to be lying here in bed only to read it’s already been played!
Best check on the score then…..least I can do.
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8pm ??? I think someone has got their wires crossed with the match on Tuesday
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8pm ??? I think someone has got their wires crossed with the match on Tuesday
I was being sarcastic lad
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Probably won’t be there today, woke up ill this morning
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Probably won’t be there today, woke up ill this morning
I've felt crap for two weeks now which isn't like me, but I'm feeling better today and looking forward to seeing my mates and watching the footy.
Hope you feel better soon mate.
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Anything less than us being at the top of our game and it could be a long afternoon and we will have to cut out the silly defensive mistakes.
If we are and do, we can compete with anyone in this division including the top sides.
If we are sloppy as against teams like Plymouth at home we can get over run.
Its basically up to us to have the confidence to take them on.
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No more sections need opening, plenty left in the west and east. Imagine floaters will likely not bother when it rains
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Anything less than us being at the top of our game and it could be a long afternoon and we will have to cut out the silly defensive mistakes.
If we are and do, we can compete with anyone in this division including the top sides.
If we are sloppy as against teams like Plymouth at home we can get over run.
Its basically up to us to have the confidence to take them on.
... and our only saviour is Faulkner of course!
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Barnby, he would help but you might not know he can't play here this season, no biggy to him our loss and the fascination with Doncaster Rovers when he was young has worn thin.
Its not only Bobby, I can think of a few others playing below our current standard would be defensive improvements, and possible financial benefits to a club on the ball, players you will not have set eyes on yet but are likely to do in the future on tv and wonder how other sides do it more regular than we have historically.
Hopefully the shake up in recruitment will be better in the future. They could do worse than ask Gaz to help, he is switched on.
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we will have 25% possession we want only 30% max.
Their uninjured forwards are very fast & dangerous - especially Willock - who is too good for this division -- not so their defence ... as in .... both us and Orient losing 4-3 at their place. I told you that ages ago Plymouth actually scored 6 not 5
their centre half scored a good goal from a corner.
their No.4 is cynical his name starts with an "O" - after Plymouth's Pepper had scored 2 goals inside half an hour - when the ball was miles away you could see in the top left corner of the tv how just outside the Cardiff penalty area (of course) _he blatantly barged into Pepper -laying him out -
Our own Charlie Williams used to say "he knew how to stop the buggers" - Charlie who we know scored his only goal for us against Barnsley would have been proud of the way their No.4 laid him out. HE IS THEIR WEAKEST LINK. I kept my eye on him all the match from then
Hope Hanlon eats him
Next week by the way they play Lincoln.
I see the green monster is in residence
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No Salech or Kellyman for Cardiff.
I don’t think they have a centre forward looking at their line up. This is good.
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Team tha kicked off the 2nd half against Rotherham starts. Adelakun doesn’t make the squad, no room for Okoronkwo as yet. TLT keeps his place despite Clark being fit again.
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Cardiff havnt named a keeper on the bench.
What would happen if he gets a knock during the 1st corner
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Cardiff havnt named a keeper on the bench.
What would happen if he gets a knock during the 1st corner
That would be a shame
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Cardiff havnt named a keeper on the bench.
What would happen if he gets a knock during the 1st corner
Got to get a corner first
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Both of our next 2 opponents have taken a beating in the last few day's , are we going to take advantage of this , or are we going to do our usual Charity act of getting teams back on track . Ever the pessimist I'll go for the latter , but hope for the former.
Cardiff are top of the table and have lost 1 game in 13,
Stockport are 5th and have lost 2 in the last 11 games.
Not really charity if we lose to them.
You make it sound like we are playing 2 piss poor teams on a dreadful run.
They don't come more Charitable than their 2nd & 4th goals
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The defending for the second was an abomination. Why do we concede so often soon after half time?
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You can pick apart specific moments, but there was a general gulf in quality today. They were just better than us. Our passes were going here, there and everywhere but their attacks had pinpoint precision.
We move on.
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Their wage bill was 39 million last season.
Won't be that this season, but we can't compete with anywhere near that.
Hoped for a draw today, but the gulf in quality was there for all to see.
I still reckon we will stay up.
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It was like playing a Championship team in the cup. You think you are near them and they wriggle away.
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:cool:I agree with you Copps but second and fourth goal was poor tackling. The rest of the game was a vast gulf in quality.
Our best player in Molyneux was not allowed to get in this game. Just shows a good League two side and a poor Championship side but still a gulf with pace power and technical ability
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Its frustrating because despite the gulf in quality which was obvious, we were extremely unlucky to not be ahead, never mind level at half time. To then give that goal away right after half time just killed it. As someone says above, how often have we conceded right after half time? Why doesn't someone just stop him, just take a yellow if it needs it.
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There's obviously a gap in ability, the table doesn't lie. We're not going to help ourselves though by donating goals like a Blue Peter bring and buy sale.
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No Salech or Kellyman for Cardiff.
I don’t think they have a centre forward looking at their line up. This is good.
Their striker was the best player on the pitch by a country mile
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I thought hanlan was the best player for us, by a considerable margin. I can’t muster anything decent to say about any other player.
The midfield was so so poor, I think it was due to a tactic we were playing, but it wasn’t working, we allowed there Better players so much time and space.
I never mind losing to better teams, and they were undoubtedly better, but that lack of midfield has killed us.
Let’s hope we pick ourselves up and get past this quickly.
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We just didn’t turn up today, worst game I’ve seen some our players have Sterry had a mare sorry the whole back four had mares, Bailey and Gotts never got into the game. Honestly don’t think Cardiff broke sweat today. Don’t think anyone expected anything out of today so only real damage done is to the floating fans (goal difference is already done)
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Put it this way if Cardiff could pick any of our players to play in their team they'd pick nobody.
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It’s games like today that show exactly why nobody will ever offer us 7 figures for Molyneux. Great for us as we get to keep him but yeah he isn’t a championship footballer.
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Def beaten by a good side. Best team been here.
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Perhaps in hindsight we should have packed our midfield to at least make it difficult for them. We looked totally outnumbered there today. I thought TLT was good today, Byrne, Hanlan & Senior were ok. Whats happened to Robinson?
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I was disappointed with the team selection. I mentioned yesterday on another thread that I thought Cardiff represented a totally different challenge and that our team should reflect this.
Specifically I think we needed more creative ball players on the field - eg Close, Broadbent, Lee. I think we looked better when these three came on but the game was gone by then anyway.
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I was disappointed with the team selection. I mentioned yesterday on another thread that I thought Cardiff represented a totally different challenge and that our team should reflect this.
Specifically I think we needed more creative ball players on the field - eg Close, Broadbent, Lee. I think we looked better when these three came on but the game was gone by then anyway.
I was surprised Lee didnt start.
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I love Molly, his attitude and work rate are spot on, as with Bailey, but Molly looks to be struggling for confidence and form going forward.
His shooting when coming inside which was a major strength, has all but gone, hes just not catching the ball right, or he is holding back on it.
I hope he learns from this year and we see the real Molly.
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We were never going to beat them on ability and they were always going to outplay us so I don’t understand why we weren’t snapping at their heels trying to force them into errors we can pounce on. We did for maybe 5 minutes but apart from that they had tons of space, especially in the middle.
Bailey and Moly 2 players we have (and needed to today) relied on were miles off it and that set the tone really. That and we gave them far too much respect. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear we’ve sent them all home with goodie bags.
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Oh and Rubin Colwill… Just a joke that he’s at this level isn’t it? He would’ve probably still found a way to bully us but our game plan for him was either non-existent or it failed big time.
They had a few like Alex Robertson who pulled us around wherever he wanted us but Colwill stood out like a sore thumb. Laughable he was sharing a pitch in a league game with some of our players.
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Everyone is criticising the team for the defending, which I agree was pathetic.
However we did start the game well and were dealing with what is a very good team.
During this time we had two fantastic chances, Hanlan and Clifton and both should have scored, get these and we’re 2-0 up, so different game!
We cannot keep not putting chances like that into the back of the net.
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Perhaps in hindsight we should have packed our midfield to at least make it difficult for them. We looked totally outnumbered there today. I thought TLT was good today, Byrne, Hanlan & Senior were ok. Whats happened to Robinson?
I would have given TLT man of the match today.
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Funny old game
Last Saturday
Plymouth 5 Cardiff 2
Rotherham 1 Doncaster 2
Today
Rotherham 1 Plymouth 0
Doncaster 0 Cardiff 4
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Everyone is criticising the team for the defending, which I agree was pathetic.
However we did start the game well and were dealing with what is a very good team.
During this time we had two fantastic chances, Hanlan and Clifton and both should have scored, get these and we’re 2-0 up, so different game!
We cannot keep not putting chances like that into the back of the net.
It was business as usual for us , not taking our chances and giving away winners with another performance from too many that was just L2 level . Another clear out required if we want to compete even at this level..
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Funny old game
Last Saturday
Plymouth 5 Cardiff 2
Rotherham 1 Doncaster 2
Today
Rotherham 1 Plymouth 0
Doncaster 0 Cardiff 4
A simple and brilliant point eastender
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That hurt.
But I’ve driven home, had a very nice dinner with a few glasses of wine and I’m putting it behind me now.
Yes, we were well beaten by an excellent team but we contributed to making them look good.
I wasn’t too worried at half time. We were in the game and certainly weren’t outclassed and if Clifton and Hanlan had done a bit better with their chances we could even have been in front.
Second half ….. I’m trying to forget it.
A bad day at the office but let’s go again on Tuesday and book a trip to Wembley.
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PS: Ben Close was brilliant when he came on.
A proper footballer.
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Everyone is criticising the team for the defending, which I agree was pathetic.
However we did start the game well and were dealing with what is a very good team.
During this time we had two fantastic chances, Hanlan and Clifton and both should have scored, get these and we’re 2-0 up, so different game!
We cannot keep not putting chances like that into the back of the net.
Clifton certainly should have hit the target at the very least but to criticise Hanlan for his goal attempt is harsh to say the least. He broke well with pace to get to the ball and just as he was about to pull the trigger was barged in the back by the chasing defender but still managed to hit a fierce shot on target but the keeper got lucky getting in the way. Can't ask for more than that.
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Cardiff City submit 2024/25 accounts, a season where they finished 24th in Championship:
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Whilst some of our weaknesses were laid bare, I couldn't help admiring the serious talent of Cardiffs Dylan Lawlor and the Colwill brothers.
I heard and seen the brothers on the TV but to see them up close made me appreciate alot about the art of football played in the right way.
To see a 20 year old centre half with that skill, desire and awareness was something else and puts into context any debates about McGrath and Faulkener, although Lawlor is an exceptional talent who is likely to grace the top levels of the game.
All three of them under 23 and products of the Cardiff academy.
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Everyone is criticising the team for the defending, which I agree was pathetic.
However we did start the game well and were dealing with what is a very good team.
During this time we had two fantastic chances, Hanlan and Clifton and both should have scored, get these and we’re 2-0 up, so different game!
We cannot keep not putting chances like that into the back of the net.
Clifton certainly should have hit the target at the very least but to criticise Hanlan for his goal attempt is harsh to say the least. He broke well with pace to get to the ball and just as he was about to pull the trigger was barged in the back by the chasing defender but still managed to hit a fierce shot on target but the keeper got lucky getting in the way. Can't ask for more than that.
The keeper didn’t touch the ball.
It deflected over the bar off a defender.