City winning by 2 goals, what really drives the fans away and the next manager

Is this really the first home win for Cardiff in the championship since January 10^th 2015? It seems longer. It has been an age since I left the ground with a smile.

 

So thanks to the players and, it has to be said, the fans, who have remembered they also have a team to support. Today was a good day all round.

It is interesting to see that the ground appears emptier than at any time throughout the season. So what actually drives away fans is not the colour of the shirt, the thoughtless notions of an owner but poor, dull, unsuccessful play on the pitch.

So the sun shone for us and finally we look solid at the back and just clueless up front.

 

Birmingham lie below us in the league and deserve their position as they were clueless just all over the park.

Why fans demand the head of Saint Peter Whittingham is beyond me. The ball travels via Whitts for everything City do, be it moving out of defence or attacking. Without him we would be dreadful.

But after a season of self inflicted misery let us remind us ourselves of the positives, well the positive: we are not as bad as we have been.

You can also say that whoever replaces Russell Slade has a talented group of players to choose from.

Ralls, Bruno and Fabio are young men capable of true class. Whitts, Gunnarson and Noone can make things happen. Doyle has done enough to show he has potential. Marshall is the real thing in goals.

The rest of the players conform to Russell Slade’s ‘workman’ like toilers and probably out match Solskjaer’s preference for flair. But if we are to do well in the championship we need flair to match the industry. We need pace and ideas up front to match the newly well organised defence.

Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe has shown how it can be done. Their ability to hold the ball and drag the opposition out of formation before playing telling balls through has rocketed them to favourites for promotion. This is how we could have played with the talent available back at the start of the season.

Even a pie and chips championship manager like Ian Holloway could have kicked arses and driven this squad to the promotion door.

This has been a miserable season but there is sufficient promise for next season for Vincent Tan to reserve his seat for the likes of Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal of the footballing elite. Just that he needs to book his red seat for the 2016 season not the season starting in 2015.

Nigel Adkins and Paul Lambert are out there. Both men are experienced in this league, know what it takes, know their style of play and have been successful. Qualities we needed in a new manager back in the Autumn when replacing Solskjaer. Unless of course Vincent Tan has cast an eye over the promising mangers of Colchester, Crawley or Yeovil of course. Aaargh!