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town v cardiff - jjamez - 23-10-2023

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Tuesday sees Town looking for back to back victories as they welcome the Bluebirds of Wales to the John Smiths Arena. Despite looking good for the first 15 minutes, Town contrived to look bang average against one of the poorer teams in the league for the remainder of the game, and were probably lucky to get anything, let alone 3 points, with a heap of credit going to Michal Helik for some great last gasp defending to deny QPR a leveller when it looked for all money as if they would score. I have to give credit to Helik as last season I wasn't overly enamoured by him, purely down to him not being technically the greatest of defenders, and neither is Matty Pearson for that matter, but what they lack there, they make up with sheer determination to keep the ball out of the goal, proper old fashioned defenders. I suppose we have been blessed before with the likes of Christopher Schindler and Levi Colwill in the last few seasons. That being said, when Tom Lees is maybe your most technical of centre halves, you know that you ain't going to be much for playing pretty patterns out of defence. I know some would claim Yuta is our most technical centre half, and whilst I agree he is probably our most technical defender, I'm not 100% sure on him being a centre half. I think his role against Ipswich the other week as a left wing back is probably his most suited position, and that stops Koroma having to feature there and instead focus more on attacking and doing what he is good at. I don't think even a blind man and his dog would miss that we have a very unbalanced squad from top to bottom, something that really needs addressing in January.

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Looking at the squad, I would suggest that in goal we are comfortable, Pearson as a right sided centre half frees who ever is a right wing back, probably Thomas to focus on attacking more, Helik is the rock in the heart of the defence, whilst left side is somewhere i think we are lacking, as Lees is probably the one to play there but is primarily right footed, hence the need for a more defensive left wing back to help cover, be it Ruffles or Yuta, there was a reason Warnock used Headley further up the field last season! You could say that we are potentially light in midfield with Hogg walking a tightrope with yellow cards and also being more susceptible to injuries, Wiles is still off the pace, Kasumu is injury prone and Rudoni can't play everywhere. Up top we are heavily reliant on the same people each week as we all know that Danny Ward won't be fit again, what a waste of a wage he was, seems as if once he knew Warnocks time was up, his time on the physio table started. The lack of balance in the squad has meant that we have had to rely on youngsters that are probably not quite ready for an extended run in the first team, in fact you could say that for pretty much all the youngsters.

Anyway slight rant over, moving on to Tuesday. Cardiff have seen a bit of an upheaval, firstly a new manager came to the helm, with Turk Erol Bulut replacing Sabri Lamouchi in the summer. Bulut was actually born in Germany but represented Turkey at youth international level, never making it to the top international level. Club wise he had 4 years at Turkish giants Fenerbahce, making over 100 appearances for them, before returning to Germany for a short spell at Frankfurt. He then hoped back to Turkey for another spell, before eventually finishing his career in Greece. As a manager he has had short spells at the likes of Yeni Malatyaspor and Fenerbahce. His last job was at Gaziantep, where he left in January. His appointment at Cardiff was a rather left field choice by the Bluebirds, not quite as left field as Mark Fotheringham as Bulut actually has some sort of managerial pedigree behind him, but still.

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Transfers wise, they have seen the prodigal son return in Aaron Ramsey, but like normal, he's injured, whilst the loan market has been their friend with Karlan Grant joining from West Brom, Ike Ugbo from Troyes, Jonathon Panzo and Josh Bowler both from Forest and Alex Runarson from Arsenal. Elsewhere, Yakou Meite signed from Reading, whilst Greek players Manolis Siopis and Dimi Goutas both joined from Turkish clubs Trabzonspor and Sivasspor respectively.

In terms of leaving the club, Isaak Davies joined KV Kortijk on loan along with Seyi Ojo. Also joining them in Belgium was Joe Bagan as he joined Zulte Waregem. Goalkeepers Ryan Allsop and Dillon Phillips both departed on free transfers joining Hull and Rotherham respectively, whilst Mark Harris and Gavin Whyte were both allowed to join league one clubs in the form of Oxford and Portsmouth. The Blubirds also allowed Max Watters to depart as they recouped £300k from Barnsley for his services. Otherwise, nothing spectacular.

This season so far the Bluebirds have been relatively solid, winning 5, losing 5 and drawing 2. It was a bit of a slow start to the season with a 2-2 draw away at Leeds being followed by two defeats, one of those being QPR at home. They hit a patch of form in September, winning 4 of the 5 games, but October has seen them score just the once in a 1-1 draw with Watford, the other two games have seen them 2-0 and 1-0 on the road to Middlesborough and Blackburn.

In terms of head to heads, the record reads as follows, Games won:32 Games drawn:23 Games lost:28, with the first game coming on Snoots' date of birth back on the 17th December 1921... the two sides played out a 0-0 draw. Town would register an 8-2 in 1927, like we are ever going to see anything like that again and would later go a whole decade without defeat against the Bluebirds as Town dominated the Welsh side during the 60's and into the early 70's. Cardiff would get their own back with a spell from 2011 to 2021 where Town could barely muster a point let alone a win against them, a 2-1 win in February 2022 would break that streak, with two late goals from Josh Koroma and Jon Russell giving Carlos Corberans side the 3 points.

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For team news, i'm not sure, since they have started making Darren Moores press conferences youtube only i've not seen any, infact i dont think i've even seen his introductory interview. The one thing that can be certain is Danny Ward is out. For them Ramsay is out but i cant see there being many changes in either side.

Sorry it is short and sweet, i'm not feeling great and have also been a bit consumed by work, both reasons for my non attendance tomorrow unfortunately.

Played for both...

i'll give a clue of a player, whoever guesses it can give a clue for the next one, and we repeat until we give up.

I've scored for both teams, won promotion with both teams and have managed both teams during my time in football. Who am i?

RE: town v cardiff - Lord Snooty - 24-10-2023

Nice one, jjamez. Thumb up

First up, that is not my date of birth. I was already 13 by that time. Whistle

Secondly, and finall, that's got to be Mark Hudson.

RE: town v cardiff - jjamez - 24-10-2023

You are correct snoots, so the floor is yours

RE: town v cardiff - Lord Snooty - 24-10-2023

Who am I? I

I played for Huddersfield Town in the 60s before transferring to Cardiff where I scored probably the mostly famous goal in their history in a 1-0 win over Real Madrid.

RE: town v cardiff - jjamez - 24-10-2023

I've had to search for that one so I'll see if anyone can think of who it is first

RE: town v cardiff - theo_luddite - 24-10-2023

Well this is good. iFollow, whether on the Town website or the iFollow App is complete and utter bloody silence. Home and away commentaries. Good to see we are getting value for money again. It normally waits until half-way through the 2nd half before it goes for a complete ball of chalk.
Finally, someone is reading my posts again Whistle

RE: town v cardiff - Lord Snooty - 24-10-2023

Not gone tonight. Got that bug that's going around. Sad

RE: town v cardiff - theo_luddite - 24-10-2023

Finally got the tellybox working too after a reboot of everything and missing the Cardiff goal. Doh
The evening can only get better.
Hope it's not norovirus Snoots. Running to the loo and not knowing which way to turn is no fun, believe me.

oof, 0-2

RE: town v cardiff - jjamez - 24-10-2023

Glad I've not gone
Rhodes has scored again...

Not saying he's the answer to our problems but he's far closer than anything we have at the club.

What are we doing at corners? How amateurish do we look with this stupid zonal marking. I hate zonal marking, i can loosely accept some sort of hybrid but jeesh pick up your men and mark the bugger

RE: town v cardiff - Lord Snooty - 24-10-2023

0-3 Doh