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Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat to

Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:48 am

Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat to a lower half Championship club, and I've always been able to take the regular defeats to Swansea 'on the chin', so-to-speak.

But on Saturday I felt a particularly humiliating afternoon - their players broke ranks before the customary handshakes, their manager walked over to their fans before the game started and got them going, and the whole club and officials ended on the pitch when they scored their 3rd. They also looked full of confidence straight from the KO whilst we seemed like frightened rabbits in the headlights.

The scenes at the final whistle were hard to take. Martin got it so right, from the start.

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:53 am

Four defeats in a row to the Jacks says it all, worst ever in 120 years of our history.

Does anyone at Our Club care?? :cry: :cry:

Are they hurting like us fans ?? Not at all.

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:54 am

I hope you're right but their confidence was low before the loss, next two games will tells us how the club reacts, especially the players... :ayatollah:

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:37 am

OliverTwistCymru wrote:I hope you're right but their confidence was low before the loss, next two games will tells us how the club reacts, especially the players... :ayatollah:

We’ll stuff Blackpool and I fancy us to beat Sunderland too. Here’s hoping :bluescarf:

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Tue Apr 04, 2023 9:08 am

A few weeks ago I felt the outcome of our two derby matches would determine our season. We've won one and lost one so not quite season defining. I dont subscribe to the theory the players and club dont care about the derby. We are simply a struggling, poor team. They've had a slice of fortune this season as well. A sending off and a 99th minute winner in the two games. What worries me though is this game will be season defining on our morale. We cannot lose our fight which has been there recently. We can not feel sorry for ourselves. As fans we need to forget the derby too. The bigger picture is staying up and Friday is way bigger a game than the derby for the club and possibly even its existence. We will not smash Blackpool. We haven't smashed anyone all season. But we can win if we still have fight and belief left in us including on the terraces.

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Tue Apr 04, 2023 9:28 am

EastleighBlue wrote:A few weeks ago I felt the outcome of our two derby matches would determine our season. We've won one and lost one so not quite season defining. I dont subscribe to the theory the players and club dont care about the derby. We are simply a struggling, poor team. They've had a slice of fortune this season as well. A sending off and a 99th minute winner in the two games. What worries me though is this game will be season defining on our morale. We cannot lose our fight which has been there recently. We can not feel sorry for ourselves. As fans we need to forget the derby too. The bigger picture is staying up and Friday is way bigger a game than the derby for the club and possibly even its existence. We will not smash Blackpool. We haven't smashed anyone all season. But we can win if we still have fight and belief left in us including on the terraces.

I have a sneaky suspicion we’ll do Blackpool 3-0, Followed by a tense 2-1 or 1-0 on Monday. I’ve always been a glass half full bloke though. :bluescarf:

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Tue Apr 04, 2023 9:39 am

to lose a derby, 99th minute will have hit confidence massively. no doubt we'll see photos of the team training sometime this week with big grins and smiles, but the true test will be blackpool friday, 4 points from our next two games for me is the least we should be getting.

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Tue Apr 04, 2023 10:26 am

Deal with it by ascertaining how important the game was for our season.

Forgetting the rivalry (yes, I know, very hard). The Blackpool game is immensely more important and stressful than last Saturday should ever be.

Lose to Blackpool and I will be climbing the walls.

You can never instill a fans passion into the players, they will never have the links but I'd expect more of a passion from them when it comes to affecting THEIR place within football.

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:20 am

The misery will continue until Tan leaves or accepts he has to invest more money to compete at this level. A squad of freebies and loans will simply not do. There is not one player in our current squad that I would describe as being above average or worth keeping if we wanted to push for promotion.

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:30 am

When we beat them with the Bellamy winner and also the Chopra game we failed to get promoted and Dave Jones was criticised as a bottler and failure.

These games don’t define our season. I was absolutely gutted and still can’t bring myself to watch the highlights but if we stay up then my pain will be eased.

If I was a Jack I would celebrate the win but be similarly worried about the bigger picture and certainly whether the manager is good enough.

The Jacks were better than us but stilll as poor a Swansea team as I’ve seen for ages.

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:55 am

piledriver64 wrote:When we beat them with the Bellamy winner and also the Chopra game we failed to get promoted and Dave Jones was criticised as a bottler and failure.

These games don’t define our season. I was absolutely gutted and still can’t bring myself to watch the highlights but if we stay up then my pain will be eased.

If I was a Jack I would celebrate the win but be similarly worried about the bigger picture and certainly whether the manager is good enough.

The Jacks were better than us but stilll as poor a Swansea team as I’ve seen for ages.


I agree, out of two poor teams the best poor team won, we let them do what they wanted basically. Onwards and upwards now and a win tommorow is far more important than the result our six fingered neighbours. :bluebird:

Re: Cardiff City's season won't be defined by a home defeat

Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:55 am

piledriver64 wrote:When we beat them with the Bellamy winner and also the Chopra game we failed to get promoted and Dave Jones was criticised as a bottler and failure.

These games don’t define our season. I was absolutely gutted and still can’t bring myself to watch the highlights but if we stay up then my pain will be eased.

If I was a Jack I would celebrate the win but be similarly worried about the bigger picture and certainly whether the manager is good enough.

The Jacks were better than us but stilll as poor a Swansea team as I’ve seen for ages.


i posted on here a few weeks before the game, one of my mates is a jack, and he said the big worry amongst them lot is, Martin isn't good enough, but they know should they beat us, it will buy him even more time and alot of fans will forget the other issues for a while. and it seems like hes right, its made fans forget the fact that performances had been poor being playing us.