The Much Awaited Return of Promotion Maths

[The Edge]

Bruce is a streaky manager. He's proved that time and again with us. Now is the perfect time to cement that definition of him by going on a win streak to the end of the season.

But can he streak when the tulips come up and the tickly bit starts?

Well we're there or thereabouts which is where a club this side should be. Lets just enjoy it.

Is that you Steve?

[mr underhill]

yes

[QuintonVilla]

Bunch of bottling wankers. We'll shit our pants in the play offs.

[curiousorange]

Lock the thread.

[Ads]

Come on Fulham. Go up automatically so we don't embarrass ourselves against such a Mickey Mouse no mark side in the play offs.

[jwarry]

Fulham deserve to go up the way they have kept this run going. And I’d rather play Cardiff than them in the play offs, not that I have any confidence with anyone at the moment!

[SoccerHQ]

We have to be mentally prepared for the play offs.

Cardiff won't be given where they've been for last two months.

[ChicagoLion]

We have to be mentally prepared for the play offs.

Cardiff won't be given where they've been for last two months.

We look tired and out of ideas.

[Toronto Villa]

We have to be mentally prepared for the play offs.

Cardiff won't be given where they've been for last two months.

Eh? That won’t make a difference. It’s the manager who has the best plan for the opponents and who has been able to convey that to his players who then execute that will decide it. Cardiff have been solid all season long. Warnock has a good pedigree getting the best out of his players and getting promoted. Right now if you asked me to choose between him and Bruce I’d say he’d have the edge.

[Pete3206]

If we can't compete with a ropey Norwich side, fresh from a 1 win in 10 record, it doesn't fucking matter who we play in the promotion lottery.

[QuintonVilla]

We won't win the play offs. We look slow, sluggish, tired and lacking creativity and ideas. We have no plan B when we go a goal down or we're chasing a game.

[SoccerHQ]

If we can't compete with a ropey Norwich side, fresh from a 1 win in 10 record, it doesn't fucking matter who we play in the promotion lottery.

I understand that but have you seen the form of most of the other teams? Derby have won two games in two months, Boro didn't beat Burton the other day. Those two are the ones we're most likely to play.

We have to be realistic and accept it's the play offs now rather than this forlon hope of second.

If we go in with the right mentality we have as good a chance as the other three (as long as Fulham aren't in with us).

[PeterWithesShin]

The good runs kept giving us hope but ultimately you can't keep having bad runs, and under Bruce we have 3 a season, and finish in the top 2. It's what I felt would always fuck us up as despite his claims "it's the Championship" it's because he's not good enough. The top 2 each season seem to manage to avoid multiple "well it's the Championship" bad runs. Cardiff as a team are greater than the sum of their parts, we far too often still look like a bunch of individuals that were signed the day before and have never even trained together.

Play-offs it is and we've shown on our day we can batter anybody, Wolves and Bristol C at home for example, we've also shown anyone can batter us, comfortable 3-1 defeats to dross like Norwich and QPR. We'll just have to hope our players click for 3 games because I have no confidence that that manager can do it so we'll be relying, as we have far too often under Bruce, on our superior individuals doing some magic.

[ChicagoLion]

Agree PWS, the fear I have is that Bruce will fuck up any chance we have.

[ez]

For me it was only that 8 game winning run when we actually looked like genuine contenders for the top 2.