Cardiff City vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[papa lazarou]

No protection for the defense, no support for the attack. Just a big gaping whole of nothingness. We play most games with 9 men.

[devilla]

I too have just seen the goal for the first time. What a bunch of flaccid quimstakes!

Brilliant!

[Norm Crandles]

Anyone who still thinks we can be promoted this season is delusional.  This amalgam of poseurs, journeymen and dilettanti are much more likely to get us demoted again.

Norm.

[paul_e]

Anyone who still thinks we can be promoted this season is delusional.  This amalgam of poseurs, journeymen and dilettanti are much more likely to get us demoted again.

Norm.

What absolute guff.  Promotion this season will be tough but in truth we only need 1 decent run and we're right back in the mix for the playoffs, we have enough quality in the squad to do that if we can find a way to get the most out of it.

[paul richard]

Cardiff was a wake up call.  We have stumbled our way through the last month, winning three and drawing one, but losing three away without scoring.  We were found out by a mediocre meat-and-potatoes lower-half-of-the-table outfit on the day when elsewhere the likes of Reading and Brighton showed their mettle and showed us up by coming from behind to win away.  After Cardiff we should be under no illusion that we are anywhere near good enough for the play offs as we are currently configured.  We got out of jail late against the likes of Wigan and Burton, but the truth is that if we have any pretensions to be promotion material we should be winning games against these sorts of teams far more comfortably.  It couldn't carry on, and at Cardiff, we got what we deserved, leaving us now over the half way mark in the season and still sitting behind the likes of Preston and Barnsley in the table.  Having said all that, I believe that it wouldn't take too much to turn us into something far, far better.  As has been set out very clearly right through this thread, we are carrying passengers.  Gardner, Westwood, Bacuna, Gabby and Hutton ain't good enough.  Never have been, never will be.  They were some of the chief culprits last season, and they hang around us like a dead weight this season.  They need to be discarded urgently.  Get some strength and belief in the midfield by introducing a couple of decent box-to-box type midfielders that can win the ball, hold the ball, direct traffic and set an example, and we'd see more from the players around them.  The injection of new enthusiasm could turn things around and propel us up the table. 

[eamonn]

Well said, Paul.

[aj2k77]

I've just seen the Cardiff goal. Words fail me.

It was like a scene from a chuckle brothers sketch. Pathetic, someone just deal with it and put a fucking boot through it properly, the problem is half of our players kick like Westwood and seem to struggle to kick a ball properly in a direction of their choice.

[chocolate garde]

more sadly who was the idiots who decided to attack the family section at cardiff lock them all up and throw away the key

[The Edge]

I've just seen the Cardiff goal. Words fail me.

It was like a scene from a chuckle brothers sketch. Pathetic, someone just deal with it and put a fucking boot through it properly, the problem is half of our players kick like Westwood and seem to struggle to kick a ball properly in a direction of their choice.

Having mustered the courage to watch a re-run of that fuck fest of a goal im almost lost for words. It's as calamitous as anything we've seen in the last few seasons. For a start the delivery was Westwoodesque. Amavi had an easy clearance Bunn did a passable impression of Guzan at his most clown like then some ping pong erupted followed by a lucky deflected goal!!!! Fucking hell...... no way can SB turn things around that much for us to take on the Premier league next season.  We would be smashed back into the championship in embarrassing fashion. He needs to be given time to build a team capable of a Championship assault next season. Then we might be ready for the premier league. Just put this season down to experience.

[amfy]

I have seen that the post match stats have been adjusted

30 touches for Westwood and 41 for Gardner apparently. As they only had half a game that was a higher rate of involvement than most of the team for the time they were on.

Clearly they were hauled off at half time for generic ineffectiveness, but I think it's still relevant to put the '9 touches between them' stat to bed.

[Malandro]

I have seen that the post match stats have been adjusted

30 touches for Westwood and 41 for Gardner apparently. As they only had half a game that was a higher rate of involvement than most of the team for the time they were on.

Clearly they were hauled off at half time for generic ineffectiveness, but I think it's still relevant to put the '9 touches between them' stat to bed.

These people also want to ignore Westwood's impressive pointing statistics. Very unfair.

[aj2k77]

Let's just put them to bed full stop and sell the useless pair this January, Forest might buy Gardner for a few quid and maybe Crewe will take the other clown back.

[CT]

more sadly who was the idiots who decided to attack the family section at cardiff lock them all up and throw away the key

Tell us more. Obviously you were there.

[Pete3206]

Anyone who still thinks we can be promoted this season is delusional.  This amalgam of poseurs, journeymen and dilettanti are much more likely to get us demoted again.

Norm.

Delusional of Erdington here. We will make the top 6.

[SW9-VILLA]

We don't have a terrible squad we are just weak in key areas, i.e. central midfield and sticks.

This. We only half a decent spine.