" TWO OF OUR BIGGEST FAILURES THIS SEASON "

" TWO OF OUR BIGGEST FAILURES THIS SEASON "
other than No Plan B,No Tactics,Gutless,Arrogant etc etc

" RESERVE TEAM " Dave Jones Does Not Believe in them. He puts Gavin Rae,Parkin,Matthews and Fatty Chops on after they have not had Regular football, IF ONLY THEY HAD BEEN FIT.

" OUR FIRST TEAM " Were Never Fit in the first Place and by the 70th Minute were usually exhausted Just My Strong Opinion.

Annis, I was boring a lot of people in this part of the world about the fitness (lack of) of the players all season. I've concerns about the fitness coaching at the club. There was never any 2nd gear, the players were just stuck in first most of the time

Yes agreed and look how many points Norwich and QPR gained in the last 5 or 10 minutes of games this season. They went 90 minutes every game. That's the difference between promotion and also rans.

i like burkey but he was knackered against reading in the 2nd leg, thought he could of gone off instead of chopra

Annis, I was boring a lot of people in this part of the world about the fitness (lack of) of the players all season. I've concerns about the fitness coaching at the club. There was never any 2nd gear, the players were just stuck in first most of the time

Adam, We were Both Spot on in my opinion

Yes agreed and look how many points Norwich and QPR gained in the last 5 or 10 minutes of games this season. They went 90 minutes every game. That's the difference between promotion and also rans.

Don't Tell DJ that, He Said Norwich only kept going as they had 1 extra day to rest their players and DJ thought that was unfair, What about the other 17 games DJ ?

I think the players fitness coaching consisted of Jones telling them to 'dust themselves off and get back on their horses'. When he wasn't playing golf of course.

Joking aside, we conceded many, many late goals this season at crucial times. I think a lot can be put down to the lack of fitness.

To be fair Burkey ran his guts out against Reading so it was no surprise he was knackered. As already said, look at the late goals Norwich scored, their fitness won them matches and got them the extra points needed. In comparison, our lack of fitness allowed us to concede numerous late goals which cost us. I lost count of the number of times DJ said something along the lines of "a little bit of fatigue and then we lost concentration and conceded a late goal". Well if that's why we concede late goals, what was everyone doing about it to get the players fitter to prevent this happening again? Nothing!

i like burkey but he was knackered against reading in the 2nd leg, thought he could of gone off instead of chopra

Big fan of Burkey, But Yes he was Def Knackered.

I think the players fitness coaching consisted of Jones telling them to 'dust themselves off and get back on their horses'. When he wasn't playing golf of course.

Joking aside, we conceded many, many late goals this season at crucial times. I think a lot can be put down to the lack of fitness.

Def without a Doubt Adam.

Yes agreed and look how many points Norwich and QPR gained in the last 5 or 10 minutes of games this season. They went 90 minutes every game. That's the difference between promotion and also rans.

Don't Tell DJ that, He Said Norwich only kept going as they had 1 extra day to rest their players and DJ thought that was unfair, What about the other 17 games DJ ?

Norwich gained well over 20 points in the last 10 minutes of games this season - that's a fit side for you and they had loads of bottle which we lacked

jones's decion making.
drinkwater against swansea.. matthews against reading to name a few. we had players playing for us all season who were carrying knocks or hadnt had enough time to get back to match fitness..
whose idea was it not to have reserve games?

" TWO OF OUR BIGGEST FAILURES THIS SEASON "
other than No Plan B,No Tactics,Gutless,Arrogant etc etc

" RESERVE TEAM " Dave Jones Does Not Believe in them. He puts Gavin Rae,Parkin,Matthews and Fatty Chops on after they have not had Regular football, IF ONLY THEY HAD BEEN FIT.

" OUR FIRST TEAM " Were Never Fit in the first Place and by the 70th Minute were usually exhausted Just My Strong Opinion.

This fitness coach Alex Armstrong is clearly not providing the right fitness training that footballers need. Is he over training them which means they are physically drained and is the number of hamstring injuries we get down to the training?

" TWO OF OUR BIGGEST FAILURES THIS SEASON "
other than No Plan B,No Tactics,Gutless,Arrogant etc etc

" RESERVE TEAM " Dave Jones Does Not Believe in them. He puts Gavin Rae,Parkin,Matthews and Fatty Chops on after they have not had Regular football, IF ONLY THEY HAD BEEN FIT.

" OUR FIRST TEAM " Were Never Fit in the first Place and by the 70th Minute were usually exhausted Just My Strong Opinion.

This fitness coach Alex Armstrong is clearly not providing the right fitness training that footballers need. Is he over training them which means they are physically drained and is the number of hamstring injuries we get down to the training?

something went wrong with regards to fitness & the team, like you say the team always looked bolloxed after 70 mins, obviously they aint doing the right training, as the above psoter said qpr & norwich always looked so fit right until the final whistle even swansea looked fitter than us, our team would be on the last legs by 70 mins!!

Then you look at our tactics, it just looks as if we dont do any drills or passing in training to give us that plan b!! shocking really!!

Annis there is a 3rd failure,not knowing when going 1-0 down how to come back and win

When I went to watch the team train with some American friends, one of them who owns a chain of gyms in San Diego and us a fitness guru, did comment that he thought the warm up and warm downs we used were out of date compared to American methods as they could lead to muscle sprains and fatigue! Not sure if he is right or wrong but he was critical!

Annis there is a 3rd failure,not knowing when going 1-0 down how to come back and win

Tony, How could I Forget in 6 years, Only 10 wins from 120 games when going 1 nil down

A lot of the fitness problems comes down to tactical sustitutions, you need to replace key positions at time which are earlier than 80-90 minutes

Like the one that paid off when koumas came on and scored twice, no goo fetching players on with a couple of minutes to go

our fitness has looked suspect for many months now. even last season at wembley we were out on our feet.
too often players seem to just fade away during games.
many other failures for this season could be also added, namely the crocks of shit loan players:
jet
koumas
bywater
brown
drinkwater
keogh
best of luck to burke, i believe he always tried, our best performances came when he played well.

bothroyd? shower of 6ft 2 shit. always falling over,will be found out in the premier league within a few months.
but he will have made his money on this move which was apparent after xmas when he stopped playing.

like topcat just said and we all know when we 1 down we are bollocksed

The training facilities which Jones yearned for years are supposedly second to none outside of the Premiership, why is there a problem with player's fitness when they have these facilities at their disposal, is there a need for a new fitness team with new ideas?

The training facilities which Jones yearned for years are supposedly second to none outside of the Premiership, why is there a problem with player's fitness when they have these facilities at their disposal, is there a need for a new fitness team with new ideas?

There's a need for a new manager, new players, new coaches, new scouts as well as a new fitness team. Like I said in another post here...before you can get the best team ON the field you have to assemble the best team OFF the field AND THAT STARTS WITH A TOP RATE MANAGER WHO KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING

Not going to argue with you Annis, but I would like to add another "biggest failure".

Loan players.

I think this was a massive factor. We had too many, apart from Bellamy, they had no affinity, passion or commitment to City. We got away with it for a large part of the season, but when the chips were down at the end, you could just see that the majority of them knew that whatever happened they wouldn't be here next season so why bother? And in a way you can't blame them I suppose.

What do you think?

maybe and i do stress the word maybe, but maybe this season wasnt such a failure for us after all..... we have learned alot and we will take that forward now into next season and future seasons, i think we will be getting rid of alot of dead wood and the new in coming manager and his staff will know they are facing a big challenge and one that they will want to take on, players coming here now will no that the fans wont accept anything less than 100% commitment, its been a hard season no doubt but we have to look for small positives other wise it really was a total crap season....... we had some great away days last season, had some great moments at the CCS.... we got some great away days to look forward to next season, we got the best fans in the world, we got carls updates to look forward to, we got annis and his special offers to look forward to........ and one thing is for sure following cardiff city is NEVER dull

" OUR FIRST TEAM " Were Never Fit in the first Place and by the 70th Minute were usually exhausted Just My Strong Opinion.


Sorry Annis got to disagree on this one, its 60 minutes!

A lot of the fitness problems comes down to tactical sustitutions, you need to replace key positions at time which are earlier than 80-90 minutes

Like the one that paid off when koumas came on and scored twice, no good fetching players on with a couple of minutes to go

You may like to find out the time when koumas came on and the time of his two goals. Your comment may not work then.

The training facilities which Jones yearned for years are supposedly second to none outside of the Premiership, why is there a problem with player's fitness when they have these facilities at their disposal, is there a need for a new fitness team with new ideas?

Nobby,DJ would not even walk himself down to the training area, use to go in his Buggy, They say lead by example