Steve Zodiak wrote:I'm sure Warnock made mistakes as do most managers in this game. However, he was one win away from keeping a low budget team in probably the hardest league in the world. He obviously identified a weakness up front, and tried to address it by spending a club record fee on a new striker. He can hardly shoulder the blame for an aeroplane crash.
cityone wrote:Steve Zodiak wrote:I'm sure Warnock made mistakes as do most managers in this game. However, he was one win away from keeping a low budget team in probably the hardest league in the world. He obviously identified a weakness up front, and tried to address it by spending a club record fee on a new striker. He can hardly shoulder the blame for an aeroplane crash.
He tried to address it in January, why not in the summer????
skiprat wrote:City one.in the main I agree with you.so many on here crave the championship but Cardiffs a big capital city should always have a top flight club and pushing for European football.you'll never build a fanbase paying in the championship or lower all the time.
montyblue wrote:Let's hope neil brings in 2 strikers, knowing our luck if we got only 1 he would break his leg 1st game
A bit like lang getting injured 1st 10 mins of tbe 1st game of the season
cityone wrote:Steve Zodiak wrote:I'm sure Warnock made mistakes as do most managers in this game. However, he was one win away from keeping a low budget team in probably the hardest league in the world. He obviously identified a weakness up front, and tried to address it by spending a club record fee on a new striker. He can hardly shoulder the blame for an aeroplane crash.
He tried to address it in January, why not in the summer????
cityone wrote:‘ ANOTHER MISSED OPPORTUNITY ‘
Ever since i first went down the city in 1972 i believed (and still do) that if we could establish ourselves in the first division, (premier league) we could comfortably average 40,000 crowds, unfortunately, it has taken the best part of 45 years to get there and then we only lasted one season. (twice) It's so frustrating because we are not giving ourselves a chance to build up the fan base by getting the "floating" fans to come on a regular basis, or even become season ticket holders. Our support this season has been fantastic, we've averaged 31,500 and if all the away teams had taken their full allocation it would have benn 32,000, considering the lack of quality on display from us it's a great effort.
This brings me on to my main topic, Neil Warnock, i would put the majority of city fans on this forum into two categories,
1. They think the sun shines out of Neil Warnocks arse and he can do no wrong.
2. Fans can see what a tremendous job he has done but point the finger of blame for many poor performances/results over the season. I think we all love the man and there are not many managers (if any) that could have got the squad he had promoted to the premier league two years ago, but for me his biggest acheivement was bringing a broken club back together, from tea lady, right through to the fans and board he is the one who has managed to do this, for that reason he should always be regarded as one of the best managers the club has ever had.
I have been very consistent on this forum over my views on Warnock this season, about four times (firstly in august) i have said that he is out of his depth in the premier league but hoped to be proved wrong.....unfortunately i wasn't. There are many valid reasons why we went down, poor team selections, poor or lack of substitutions, shocking decisions by officials, some that blatent it was on the verge of cheating.
But for me, where the season was defined was between August and christmas, we went five months without a striker, for me it was unforgivable that we started the season without a goalscorer and Warnock has to take full responcibility for not bringing one in, he didn't have a great amount of money to spend but a goalscorer should have been the utmost priority, in my opinion, if we had one from the first game of the season we would have comfortably stayed up this season. That said, would i start next season with Warnock?? of course i would, there is no one better in the championship.........the premier league is a different matter though.
cityone wrote:‘ ANOTHER MISSED OPPORTUNITY ‘
Ever since i first went down the city in 1972 i believed (and still do) that if we could establish ourselves in the first division, (premier league) we could comfortably average 40,000 crowds, unfortunately, it has taken the best part of 45 years to get there and then we only lasted one season. (twice) It's so frustrating because we are not giving ourselves a chance to build up the fan base by getting the "floating" fans to come on a regular basis, or even become season ticket holders. Our support this season has been fantastic, we've averaged 31,500 and if all the away teams had taken their full allocation it would have benn 32,000, considering the lack of quality on display from us it's a great effort.
This brings me on to my main topic, Neil Warnock, i would put the majority of city fans on this forum into two categories,
1. They think the sun shines out of Neil Warnocks arse and he can do no wrong.
2. Fans can see what a tremendous job he has done but point the finger of blame for many poor performances/results over the season. I think we all love the man and there are not many managers (if any) that could have got the squad he had promoted to the premier league two years ago, but for me his biggest acheivement was bringing a broken club back together, from tea lady, right through to the fans and board he is the one who has managed to do this, for that reason he should always be regarded as one of the best managers the club has ever had.
I have been very consistent on this forum over my views on Warnock this season, about four times (firstly in august) i have said that he is out of his depth in the premier league but hoped to be proved wrong.....unfortunately i wasn't. There are many valid reasons why we went down, poor team selections, poor or lack of substitutions, shocking decisions by officials, some that blatent it was on the verge of cheating.
But for me, where the season was defined was between August and christmas, we went five months without a striker, for me it was unforgivable that we started the season without a goalscorer and Warnock has to take full responcibility for not bringing one in, he didn't have a great amount of money to spend but a goalscorer should have been the utmost priority, in my opinion, if we had one from the first game of the season we would have comfortably stayed up this season. That said, would i start next season with Warnock?? of course i would, there is no one better in the championship.........the premier league is a different matter though.
cityone wrote:‘ ANOTHER MISSED OPPORTUNITY ‘
Ever since i first went down the city in 1972 i believed (and still do) that if we could establish ourselves in the first division, (premier league) we could comfortably average 40,000 crowds, unfortunately, it has taken the best part of 45 years to get there and then we only lasted one season. (twice) It's so frustrating because we are not giving ourselves a chance to build up the fan base by getting the "floating" fans to come on a regular basis, or even become season ticket holders. Our support this season has been fantastic, we've averaged 31,500 and if all the away teams had taken their full allocation it would have benn 32,000, considering the lack of quality on display from us it's a great effort.
This brings me on to my main topic, Neil Warnock, i would put the majority of city fans on this forum into two categories,
1. They think the sun shines out of Neil Warnocks arse and he can do no wrong.
2. Fans can see what a tremendous job he has done but point the finger of blame for many poor performances/results over the season. I think we all love the man and there are not many managers (if any) that could have got the squad he had promoted to the premier league two years ago, but for me his biggest acheivement was bringing a broken club back together, from tea lady, right through to the fans and board he is the one who has managed to do this, for that reason he should always be regarded as one of the best managers the club has ever had.
I have been very consistent on this forum over my views on Warnock this season, about four times (firstly in august) i have said that he is out of his depth in the premier league but hoped to be proved wrong.....unfortunately i wasn't. There are many valid reasons why we went down, poor team selections, poor or lack of substitutions, shocking decisions by officials, some that blatent it was on the verge of cheating.
But for me, where the season was defined was between August and christmas, we went five months without a striker, for me it was unforgivable that we started the season without a goalscorer and Warnock has to take full responcibility for not bringing one in, he didn't have a great amount of money to spend but a goalscorer should have been the utmost priority, in my opinion, if we had one from the first game of the season we would have comfortably stayed up this season. That said, would i start next season with Warnock?? of course i would, there is no one better in the championship.........the premier league is a different matter though.
Steve Zodiak wrote:skiprat wrote:City one.in the main I agree with you.so many on here crave the championship but Cardiffs a big capital city should always have a top flight club and pushing for European football.you'll never build a fanbase paying in the championship or lower all the time.
I expect most City fans knowing that Cardiff is a big city with a good fan base feel the same as you. I imagine fans of Bristol, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Birmingham, Sheffield Wednesday etc., probably feel the same way as they also have clubs representing large suburban areas with the potential for a good fan base. Unfortunately, there are only twenty places up for grabs, and therefore there are always going to be clubs with potential like ours who are going to miss out.
montyblue wrote:Let's hope neil brings in 2 strikers, knowing our luck if we got only 1 he would break his leg 1st game
A bit like lang getting injured 1st 10 mins of tbe 1st game of the season
cityone wrote:montyblue wrote:Let's hope neil brings in 2 strikers, knowing our luck if we got only 1 he would break his leg 1st game
A bit like lang getting injured 1st 10 mins of tbe 1st game of the season
I tottally agree with the two strikers comment, we also need three midfielders to replace the three that have left, for me zahore is a useless lump who has had numerous chances in both divisions and is not up to it. I would also get rid of healy but keep ward, also cover at right back and another centre half, that's seven players which sounds a lot but four have already gone.
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