[theo_luddite]

Why Wednesday 12th Feb 2020?
WTF was wrong with Tuesday 11th?
Old McGalphmiths Farm
By the cows arse that we can now hit regularly with a banjo
HD1 - under the Prima Donna League Floodlights
They'll be switched on so no excuse for getting lost in the dark.

Pre-match Pre-mumble
Town welcome the lads from the capital of The Principality to the green green grass of West Yorkshire on Wednesday night for a game that could solidify Welsh Wales's finest place in mid-table mediocrity or further Town's charge up the table into er, mid-table mediocrity.

Why Wednesday???? Come on, who made this one up? We both played on Saturday, L666ds are away on Tuesday, even the feckwits at West Yorkshires dullest can't have asked for this one to be moved surely? On top of that, at best we're on Murdoch's Red Button so we aren't even being broadcast live on anything that you can get on NowTV either.  

Wales meet again, or who's coat is that jacket?
The numbers are a dwindling. What was once Town South West are now down to (at my way of counting) 4 players. Even Colin has hung up his jock strap - well for now anyway.

Alex Smithies particularly, Danny Ward (for his efforts for Lee Sinnott especially ), Jazz Richards (maybe) and Sean Morrison (hmmm, very maybe) will likely get a warm welcome back to West Yorkshire on Tuesday night up at the Cedar Court Hotel. What it will be like on Wednesday at McGalphmiths Farm is anyone's guess.

If they leave their coats on the peg, we can drop the jacket off on the way to Swansea, isn't it, a week on Friday, look you.

Latest news
As Snoots mentioned elsewhere, David Webb has been offered his P45 at the end of the season. Given hes's not been here that long we can't blame him for every donkey we've bought/loaned but it seems he doesn't see eye to eye with PH, and PH isn't leaving unless he's keeping the chair warm for someone ...... watch whatever space you like.

Grant and Bacuna are still getting treatment, Grant for picking up an injury from a hug from Schindler in training and Bacuna got a dead-leg against QPR.

Last time out
After conceding 3 early doors at Fulham, Town have now scored 4 without reply.  


If that's a glass half full way of looking at it, it means there's still room to fill the glass up with even more real ale and what's so wrong with that then?



Cardiff on t'other hand, isn't it, were winning at Luton.


Their winning goal was scored by a young up and coming chap called Lee Tomlin.

A year ago he went back to Posh on loan. He was a pain the arse to Town while he was still wearing nappies and playing for Posh at Old Trafford a few "weeks" back. Some of you may remember the t-shirt tossing competition that followed that game.

Table
After coming down with us, they are embracing mid-table mediocrity a bit more than we are, but following the January transfer window, things may even up a bit. That said. there's only them, Both Ends and Fulham without a pretty little red square against them in this table.



Form
They've only lost once in the last 8 games. They got stuffed 6-1. By QPR? How the hell did that happen?





Innies and Outies
While Town's supporters, managers and hell, even PH himself think we did some good business in January, The Bluebirds Fans are far from over, the disaster they think they can't quite get over. Good job there aren't many cliffs by Cardiff docks.

Extra, Extra, Read all abaht it, look you.



It's been said elsewhere but it can't be missed. We've brought in a slack-handful of better players than we had, not to mention recylcled some that we'd placed in wheelie bins well before Christmas. However, head and shoulders so far above anyone we've brought in and anyone we already had is this kid.


I don't think I'm sticking my neck out too much by saying Smith Rowe is the best kid we've brought in on loan since Ben Chilwell. I said he'd go on to play for England and this kid can't be anywhere but on Southgate's radar for a Three Lions Shirt at some point in the next few years. One run down the left channel on Saturday had him riding tackles and beating 3 players before he ran it a bit too far. Now how many of those challenges would a certain VLP have rode before he threw himself to the turf? I give you a clue, he wouldn't have made it to the 2nd and 3rd one's.

Who's banging 'em in?


Well, I've already mentioned Tomlin once, so onto erm, right Danny Ward. He was sat on the bench at Luton. Can't see him tearing us a new one on Wednesday, can you?

Thank you for the music
So I looked on this webshite
https://www.ranker.com/list/cardiff-band.../reference
and I couldn't help thinking they'd missed someone. Someone that's really, really difficult to miss.

Yes, the Tiger from Tiger Bay.


83 year old(ish) at the last count I can find and probably only Tina Turner giving her a run for her money.
The Burley Chassis at Glasto in £3,000 wellies, you can't knock it can you?

Charlotte Church - the angelic voice that thank f**k I missed while I was on missionary duties in Canada. Since she became a er, pop diva shes sung feck hall that's worth giving air play to on here. Meanwhile she seems to have sh@gged her way round the Welsh Coast and beyond with everyone in trousers except Tom Jones.

Budgie? Now I always thought that was Adam Faith, but who can forget the the legendary track, "In the Grip Of a TyreFitters Hands"? That went down great at Kwikfit every Saturday morning in my youth.

Whispering Bob Harris introduced them on OGWT, it takes a few minutes to warm up. A bit like putting a budgie on a bbq tbh.


OGWT? - Ask yer mam.

Dave Edmunds - Welsh? Really? Well I suppose Girls Talk.


There's also people like Cerys Matthews and some band called Los Campesinos! who apparently didn't have a Welshman amongst them, so how tf does that work?

Anyroad, let's hope Cardiff leave singing this one by Duffy.



As that would leave us singing this one by Amen Corner


I bet I've bust the limit for videos again.

They can't all win


But some of them will so another 3 points would be very nice please DC.

We've beat 'em before
But not recently so we're due one.



Pressers
There will be some

DC on Radio Local
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0830hwj

Neil Harris on the Bluebirds website




His record to date - what made them go for him after Colin?
Getting the lads from Cold Blow Lane promoted?

Enjoy the game peeps, wear your thermals if your going.

[Lord Snooty]

Nice one theo.

Old Grey Whistle Test. The name apparently comes from the saying that if the old grey haired janitor at the theatre is whistling the big tune from the musical at the end of the night, it would be a hit. Hence the old, grey, whistle test.
Never heard Budgie before. Sounds pretty good actually.
Apart from Adam Faith, the only other Budgie I'd have known was with Siouxsie and the Banshees. Or Joey the budgie from Carry On At Your Convenience.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Whatever happened to Duffy? Sure I read somewhere that she was suffering from depression.

[Lord Snooty]

Whatever happened to Duffy? Sure I read somewhere that she was suffering from depression.

2019–present: New music
In December 2019, Duffy posted in what looked like a brand new photo with the caption '#2020', with many fans sharing their excitement at the possibility of new music. The singer hasn't confirmed anything yet.

[jjamez]

Kinda expecting it to be a damp and dreary show tonight. Will be a scrappy draw for me

[theo_luddite]

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Well one benefit to us being at home tonight instead of last night is that Radio Local on t'interweb features Oggy and his hairdresser friend from our place rather than the lot from The Skip continuing to debate how they are falling apart again. If we'd both played last night it would have been all about them.

[theo_luddite]

Toffolo asleep there playing Murphy onside, 0-1, bollox, now 2 down

[Amelia Chaffinch]

You couldn't make it up.

[Lord Snooty]

Well that was uninspiring.

I think Toffolo was great again. Bacuna as well. Everyone else had an off day. Especially the ref. First goal looked well offside and how he's not given us a penalty for handball? That's unbelievable.

Cardiff got all the lucky breaks tonight, but to be honest, we didn't deserve owt.

[theo_luddite]

DC & Lossl post match on Radio Local

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0834wrt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0834x98