Cardiff City

[jaffka]

A very good win for his first game in charge, where he will be finding out himself first hand about the players he has control over.

Beating the top of the league, coming back from behind and really we could have won by more will all build confidence.

Bring on Leicester and keep it going super whites.

[BWFC_Insane]

For me part of our problem this season is we've looked a small team compared to our rivals at times. Cardiff has plenty of height.

Spearing and Davies and LCY and Eagles are quite a few players to be carrying without physical presence.

[Bruce Rioja]

For me part of our problem this season is we've looked a small team compared to our rivals at times. Cardiff has plenty of height.

Spearing and Davies and LCY and Eagles are quite a few players to be carrying without physical presence.

We only have one player that gets brushed off of the ball too easily and that's Ream. I'd say your lack of height hampering us claim is complete balls.

[jaffka]

What let us down was defensive organisation which was highlighted on Match of the Day and continued this season.

[Toni_DelijeSever]

highlights,goals,anyone?

[officer_dibble]

I player for highlights

pratley is taller than spearing but spearing is one of them short angry blojes...hardly one who gets brushed off imo.

[Tals-biggest-fan]

Game changed when we stop smashing it up field lookin for the flick on, Ngog believe it or not changed the game

[Dr.Karl]

I have no qualms with playing Pratley if he is used correctly. It was odd for him to be more forward than Mavies, surely it is more advantageous to the team and those two players themselves to switch positions. Pratley could harass, provide energy in the centre of the park and play it simple while Mavies would get the ball further up the pitch and create. If you're going to play that midfield thats they way to line it up surely?

[TANGODANCER]

Anybody heard any mention of this?

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footballna ... -32164762/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[wonka]

Good solid performance yesterday, 3 points against one of the top teams, proving that we have nothing to fear in this division if we maintain standards.

Still lots of flaws in the performance, one or two players still don't convince me.

So... we can only get better, can see us finishing in the play-offs IF we continue to improve.

We need to start beating teams away on a regular basis if we are to improve.

[IggyTheDawgster]

And there everyone was bashing N'gog......what do your words taste like?

[bobo the clown]

Anybody heard any mention of this?

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footballna ... -32164762/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Getting out of hand all this.


I wonder if someone was called a Welsh something or other.

[TANGODANCER]

For me part of our problem this season is we've looked a small team compared to our rivals at times. Cardiff has plenty of height.

Spearing and Davies and LCY and Eagles are quite a few players to be carrying without physical presence.

Well, now you've sorted the manager out let's work on some stretching excercises for the players to make them taller. Step up Zat, you're first. What's that, six-feet-seven? Have to improve on that then.

[Jakerbeef]

I have no qualms with playing Pratley if he is used correctly. It was odd for him to be more forward than Mavies, surely it is more advantageous to the team and those two players themselves to switch positions. Pratley could harass, provide energy in the centre of the park and play it simple while Mavies would get the ball further up the pitch and create. If you're going to play that midfield thats they way to line it up surely?

Looks like a good suggestion on paper but teams have great success squeezing us up the field and putting early pressure on the defense, forcing the long ball. If your first short pass out of defense is Pratley the attack is going nowhere and he will immediately pass it back to the defense without even trying to run.

Better to have Mavies deeper so he can take a pass from the defender, turn upfield and get the opposition going backward. He starts in the deeper roles but works his way up.

[Bruce Rioja]

Game changed when we stop smashing it up field lookin for the flick on, Ngog believe it or not changed the game

Just been chatting with one of my mates who reckons that N'Gog was man of the match for the way he changed the game (I'm sticking with Knight though).

[Dr.Karl]

I have no qualms with playing Pratley if he is used correctly. It was odd for him to be more forward than Mavies, surely it is more advantageous to the team and those two players themselves to switch positions. Pratley could harass, provide energy in the centre of the park and play it simple while Mavies would get the ball further up the pitch and create. If you're going to play that midfield thats they way to line it up surely?

Looks like a good suggestion on paper but teams have great success squeezing us up the field and putting early pressure on the defense, forcing the long ball. If your first short pass out of defense is Pratley the attack is going nowhere and he will immediately pass it back to the defense without even trying to run.

Better to have Mavies deeper so he can take a pass from the defender, turn upfield and get the opposition going backward. He starts in the deeper roles but works his way up.

Good point. Although Pratley did look fairly comfortable on the ball yesterday. I'm sure he could spray some simple passes to Mavies and our wingers. A fit and firing Holden in that role and we'd be in dreamland. We do miss Hierro's passing ability from that position .

[a1]

seemed like they had 48 corners.

[thebish]

seemed like they had 48 corners.

that's a dodecahedron and some!!!

[Armchair Wanderer]

There was about 2 seconds of Dougie on the FLS, I liked the sh1t-happens-but-we-won attitude as opposed to aren't-the-opposition-great-fine-margins.

[Bruce Rioja]

Don't know if anyone else has mentioned/questioned this (apologies if so) but where the fecking Dickens did they get five extra minutes from and how come the ref then stretched it out to seven?