Cardiff Match Thread

[Marc]

[nomar]

This team really is so painful to watch

Just relegate us already, it's all we deserve.

This lot aren't keeping us up.

[hitmanrangers]

42 mins and no shot yet! Pathetic

[harr]

It’s a shocking team, the whole team is splinless really.
Deserved relegation last year and deserve it again.
Without Cook, Chair Willock we look like mid table League One already.

Where’s Colback these days.

[Lonegunmen]

Dozzy got another start and Dykes is on fire scoring at will. In my dreams.

[nomar]

It's reached the point where you just don't want to put yourself through this every game day anymore.

It's like watching someone you love dying in front of your eyes and there's nothing you can do about it and nothing they are willing to do to try and help themselves either despite a cure being available to them.

[Lonegunmen]

They shoot horses don't they?? Put us out of our misery. I'm even rating Ned Zelic as a better player than Dozzell, perhaps even Richard Ord.

[hitmanrangers]

We have been dire since the last relegation from Premier League bar a couple of good half seasons under Warburton. It now feels inevitable we go down, if not this year, then the next. Only hope to get out of this rut is Eze money from his next move as we have nothing in squad of any decent value and academy not coming through yet.

We need a huge 2nd half now to salvage season. January is massive month to stay up if we have the fight in us.

[nomar]

Begovic adding to the stupidity now.

Gifted them their 2nd goal.

Cardiff won't score two easier goals all season.

This team just cannot get out of its own way.

[harr]

Dire and pathetic.
Can someone put Dykes in a wheelbarrow and wheel him away to any club for a packet of crisps.

[nomar]

It's equally depressing watching us gift really bad teams 3 points by actually doing the work for them.

They don't even have to play well, just turn up and win a few set pieces and it's an easy W.

Today has done it for me. We're down unless somehow we can get 4 or 5 sensible players in the window without breaking FFP regs.

[blatantfowl]

The thing is I can see the fight and endeavour but we lack quality in so many players that everything we do breaks down in the final third. It’s all hopeful balls resulting in 50/50 challenges which we lose every time.

Depressing.

[hitmanrangers]

That’s 37 losses in last 72 games!

I don’t think we can spend anything this month unless we sell, to avoid FFP breach - a points deduction is also possible still as we are struggling to keep within limits already. We have to prove that are budget for next year does also not show a breach.

All we can hope for is Board gamble with some expensive loan players in hope we stay up and sell someone before 31 May.

[londonranger]

Well at least we score a goal

[nomar]

Set pieces for the opposition are as good as a penalty.

So embarrassing and depressing.

[spanishal]

Owls win Rs now second from bottom

[rickyqpr]

This morning I had high hopes - especially if a few came through fitness tests.
Then at 2pm I saw the team and my heart sunk.
When the players came out, it was as if they felt the same as I did.
15 minutes of dross, played in front of where I sit. Dunne to Begovic to Field to Dunne - and on it went.
I don't think Field tried a forward pass in the first half...
Cardiff were one of the poorest, if not the poorest that I have seen at the Bush this season.
No ambition, happy to sit on the gift of a goal we had given them.
I had some sympathy for Dykes in this game, he kept making runs, only for the ball to be played backwards and across.
We looked devoid of inspiration. We limped to half time, and it was clear that Kolli would be coming on after the break.
I think he will be some player if he can stay free of injuries. He made a big difference. He was winning the ball, twisting and turning. It also meant that in the first half, Cardiff only had to snuff out Smyth, and frankly he had a poor first half. But with Kolli on, Smyth was freed up and it worked with a great cross from Kolli and scramble home by Smyth. Then for 20 minutes it was all QPR and Cardiff were hanging on. Then we started to tire and Cardiff sent on Bowler, and we were under a high press again. Paal was about to be substituted for Armstrong, but with Kolli down injured, a quick change of number was made, and Kolli was off, and with him went our energy again.
A draw would have been about right, but then a huge error by Begovic, and we were behind again.
Cardiff relied on set pieces, and we obliged from two corners. How many goals is that? We let in the same goals every week.
It is very frustrating. I heard an interview with Marti on the way home, it does not sound as if there are any funds for him in the window. He said he knew that when he joined. He has got to get more out of what he has...

[rangersman]

We need a manager with a pair big enough to say to those players, you are crap and you will be sacked. I wish someone could say the same to the owners.

[londonranger]

Ray Wilkins RIP and I had the of seeing so many times was known as the Crab..He always passed the ball sideways

[nomar]

Jan 2, 2024 14:04:48 GMT rangersman said:

We need a manager with a pair big enough to say to those players, you are crap and you will be sacked. I wish someone could say the same to the owners.

Critchley wanted to say that to this lot, but if we'd have sacked them we'd have had about 3 players left and FFP rules wouldn't have allowed us to get enough replacements

It's clear the players are the main problem. We seem to have collected every professional footballer in this country who doesn't give a damn about the game and put them all in the same team.