Middle of the season and middle of the championship. Says it
all. A middle of the table side.
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| Adeyemi scores, Charlton go down to ten men and then it all goes backwards |
All the promise pre season has evaporated. We need something
special to be contenders and pretyy soon we will need a miracle.
How could we be under so much pressure in the second half
against ten man Charlton who are in the same space as us in the table?
Again but for Marshall, some good fortune, a ref who
favoured us and charitable finishing from the home team it would have been
worse. Much worse. We should have been buried.
What’s deflating is that this team had so much promise when
the season kicked off. Favourites for automatic promotion. I still feel we have
the players to be battling for automatic promotion and I won’t bore you again with
the problem of having three inexperienced managers in a row … oh ok I will. Malky,
Ole and now Russell are new boys on the block learning their trade. It is
hurting.
Bring back Big Dave Jones? Knock on Tony Pulis’s door?
Can someone explain to me why Vincent Tan has to say those
things? It is as if he is looking to rile even those of us who have tried to
support him. He seems to be desperate to kick up a fight he cannot win. The
only way forward is for city to unite. That means players, manager, owner and
fans all pointing in the same direction. Vincent Tan’s wording achieves the
opposite.
Christmas messages are supposed to be of good cheer with a
few glad tidings chucked in and maybe even a present, like a blue shirt. His interview
was ill conceived, miserable and bickering. If he is not going to change the
shirt colour than tough on us but why gloat about it? What’s this business about
us agreeing to the short colour change? We didn’t. The board may have done so.
Maybe it was wise for them to have agreed when facing the danger of the oblivion
that crushed Portsmouth and Wrexham. But the fans were not given a choice. Ok,
had we been allowed a vote then most would have agreed, I don’t know.
Why keep threatening to sell the club? If you do not want to
be a part of Cardiff City FC then push off. Owning football clubs is a tough
game and it is going to hurt at times, ask any football club owner. Personally I
think Tan is up to the job. His business background will have toughened him up.
But that means he should announce he is staying. Staying come what may. He will
tough it out and expect the same of the players and manager. The fans have to
tough it out, we don’t get a choice. Cardiff is our club and always will be, a
bit like a life sentence.
There is a match coming up against Watford which could give
us our first and maybe only double of the season but it is going to be an awful
atmosphere. I am dreading it if we fall behind early on. It will soon get to the point where even a 4
goal win won’t cheer us up.
Half way through the season with plenty of matches to go
should have us feeling optimistic. We could even still make automatic
promotion.
We ought to give Russell Slade a chance, especially with the
January transfer window coming up, but what is scaring us is that he may not
grow into the job. What then? If by Easter we are still middle of the table then
it will be too late even for Pulis or some other maestro to kick start the
season.
These are nervous times and the owner isn’t helping. Let us
hope it is the dark before the sunrise.
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