Cardiff City vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[He wears a magic hat]

I certainly don't think he's done anywhere near enough to warrant an outburst of 'his' song but to his credit the effort was there today and he was certainly our best forward player on the pitch

[b23]

Jedinak was clearly missed today. He cannot be expected to play every game.

Get Sanchez back.

The pair of them covering the defence would be great. Or at least one of them.

First team players will be arriving soon.

63 points to be fought for.

[kippaxvilla2]

Nine touches between two so called Central Midfielders is tantamount to actually stealing money from the club. 
People questioning Bruce and these two put in that sort of battling performance.  He only could've picked Tshibola instead and he corrected that at Half Time.

[olaftab]

I think three good midfielders are a minimum this month.

And a goal keeper, a right back and a proper centr forward.

[brontebilly]

9 touches of the ball between both Westwood and Gardner. Truly abysmal if true.

Having being at the game today it's safe to say this can be filed under the fake news category. Both passed back to the centre halves on a number of occasions. Gardner in particular was horrible, any kind of pressure on him and he starts looking very leggy with the ball at his feet. Westwood too is safety first pass always. Both as soft as shite too so not a partnership you want in there against their hackers.

[Pete3206]

Get Sanchez back

Oi, put the glue down mate

[passitsideways]

9 touches of the ball between both Westwood and Gardner. Truly abysmal if true.

Having being at the game today it's safe to say this can be filed under the fake news category. Both passed back to the centre halves on a number of occasions. Gardner in particular was horrible, any kind of pressure on him and he starts looking very leggy with the ball at his feet. Westwood too is safety first pass always. Both as soft as shite too so not a partnership you want in there against their hackers.

Had a look at both Whoscored and Squawka, both of them confirmed that dismal total unfortunately.

[ciggiesnbeer]

9 touches of the ball between both Westwood and Gardner. Truly abysmal if true.

Having being at the game today it's safe to say this can be filed under the fake news category. Both passed back to the centre halves on a number of occasions. Gardner in particular was horrible, any kind of pressure on him and he starts looking very leggy with the ball at his feet. Westwood too is safety first pass always. Both as soft as shite too so not a partnership you want in there against their hackers.

Had a look at both Whoscored and Squawka, both of them confirmed that dismal total unfortunately.

They are just not very good players. Sadly.

[TB]

So, a H&V poster actually present at the game dismisses the 'no more than 9 touches' story as fake news, only to be told that a couple of football stat websites 'confirmed the dismal total'. Absolutely brilliant.

[ROBBO]

Sanchez should be bought back as should veretout both are far better than Westwood and Gardner

[Ads]

I think that 9 touch story is wrong too. They touched it more than 9 times in a spell where we passed it side ways for a few minutes, while they were also collecting it from the centre halves.

[brian green]

We are getting like the Americans and reducing sport to numbers.  Only the result is numbers.  How many times players do or don't touch the ball is not the problem.  The problem is that the elephant in the room when Bruce wrote out the team sheet was the fact that Warnock would tell his players to kick lumps out of us.  Neither Westwood nor Gardner has the physical strength or courage to deal with a Warnock managed Cardiff side.  Tshibola's off field antics have upset Bruce so the team sheet is used to discipline him.  Lyden is young and inexperienced so Bruce by nature and habit ignores him.  Lyden is hard and brave and is no way worse than Westwood or Gardner.  RHM is young and inexperienced so is forced behind multi, multi, multi under performing Gabby in pitch time to prove himself.  We put out unbalanced, misfiring teams time and again because we place too much faith in known failures than unproven potential winners getting their chance.
Like Mr Woodhall, my mood is sombre.  I can see what I have said above being the yardstick of transfer business and we will get Premiership bottom six thirty something year old bench warmers when we need young, athletic players with good engines trying to make names for themselves in the game.

[Ads]

I think Lyden is injured.

[brian green]

I stand corrected.

[Clampy]

We are getting like the Americans and reducing sport to numbers.  Only the result is numbers.  How many times players do or don't touch the ball is not the problem.  The problem is that the elephant in the room when Bruce wrote out the team sheet was the fact that Warnock would tell his players to kick lumps out of us.  Neither Westwood nor Gardner has the physical strength or courage to deal with a Warnock managed Cardiff side.  Tshibola's off field antics have upset Bruce so the team sheet is used to discipline him.  Lyden is young and inexperienced so Bruce by nature and habit ignores him.  Lyden is hard and brave and is no way worse than Westwood or Gardner.  RHM is young and inexperienced so is forced behind multi, multi, multi under performing Gabby in pitch time to prove himself.  We put out unbalanced, misfiring teams time and again because we place too much faith in known failures than unproven potential winners getting their chance.
Like Mr Woodhall, my mood is sombre.  I can see what I have said above being the yardstick of transfer business and we will get Premiership bottom six thirty something year old bench warmers when we need young, athletic players with good engines trying to make names for themselves in the game.

I suppose you could argue that we went with unproven winners under Lambert and it didn't get us anywhere. I don't think anyone really knows the calibre of player Bruce will bring in and while we can speculate that he'll bring in thirty year old bench warmers, there's a chance he might not. Given his track record of getting teams up, he'll obviously know the type of player that he wants.

I do agree about RHM though.