So all over now. Maybe there are some theoretical mathematicians
who can use a high powered Cray computer to demonstrate that just a single win
over Newcastle or Chelsea could keep us up. But to the rest of us, the fat lady
has sung and returned home to her reinforced bed.
Miserable.
Cardiff lacked guile and passion. You need both to win
matches but either quality would be good. And I am not talking about just this
match. We were poor in these last games against the bottom clubs. Poor and
second best. Sunderland, Stoke, Palace and West Brom are not top tier stuff and
we were always second best.
Ok I was wrong. Solskjaer wasn’t the right man for the job
at that time. It couldn’t have been worse with Malky’s two banks of four could
it?
But Solskjaer will be good long term. Won’t he? Eh? Surely?
When he gets his players in to play his way? All right I don’t know and I am
fearful about the championship next year.
Over the season the lack of a goal scorer cost us. Maybe we
needed more quality and Tan has a point when he says £30 odd million should
have brought us more.
A season that began at home in extraordinary style with a
victory over Manchester City is fizzling out like a late night fart. We just
want it to go away.
It took us a couple of decades to get here and a single season
to be forced out.
It has been a painful lesson. Survival in the premiership
requires everything to function well and I am not quite sure what did function well
this season. Marshall, Caulker and Medal.
But I bet I wake up on Monday morning saying; ‘well is we
were to get 4 points from the next two games
what if …’
Let’s join the theoretical physicists and not the realists.
The dream is still on.
Tan brought in a novice manager for a relegation dog fight. The funny thing is (along with the fact that Pulis was available at the time) that Malky would have very likely kept you up because at least Cardiff under him could defend. Ole has certainly changed the team, not only do you struggle to score goals but you leak them at the back without mercy. With an already wobbly defense you are now also deprived of your first choice CB, the team has become more undisciplined under Ole so he carries the can here as well. Furthermore if Ole stays on he will need to totally change that team as the Championship will just eat you up and spit you out.
ReplyDeletejared, Sadly we know all about the Championship. It is a two match a week dog fight that has seen off better resourced teams than us. Not convinced that Malky would have kept us up, teams got used to his two banks of four and there wasnt any room for variability. Are you a Cardiff fan (as you said the 'Championship would eat YOU ...?
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