Cardiff City at home match thread

[Jerseybean]

The Robins take on the Bluebirds at 1230 on Saturday.

LMs presser ahead of his first Severnside derby: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/interviews/liam-mannings-severnside-derby-press-conference/

Here are some reminders: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/the-best-of-the-severnside-derby/ and https://youtu.be/AKTNLkCltjY and https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/the-best-of-the-severnside-derby-2/

Last season we won the corresponding fixture 2-0 https://youtu.be/7mbEFUkPeDE

Back at their place at the end of October we were down to the bare bones and this was our squad:

O'LEARY

SYKES

DICKIE

PRING

J.JAMES

GARDNER-HICKMAN

KNIGHT

WEMMANN

MEHMETI

CORNICK

BELL

Subs: BAJIC, THOMAS, KNIGHT-LEBEL NELSON, IDEHEN, BACKWELL, CONWAY, YEBOAH

It finished 2-0 and proved to be NPs last game in charge. This is what he said post-match: https://youtu.be/atLeDm7cQ-M

In January they signed Liverpool defender Nat Phillips (26) on loan for the rest of the season. On 31 January Famara Diédhiou signed on loan.

Naismith may be in the squad but James is a doubt and Twine unavailable.

Officials

Ref: Stuart Attwell
Assistants: Ian Hussin and James Mainwaring
Fourth Official : Lewis Smith

Head to head

Won 42

Lost 38

Drawn 21

We are 15th in the form guide they are 17th we have both lost 3, won 2 and drawn 1 of our last 6 games = 7 points.

Players in the recent past who’ve played for both teams include Diedhiou, Pack, Flint and O’Dowda. Going back Brian Clark and Peter Hooper (who also played for Bristol Rovers) represented both teams. When Hooper’s career ended in 1966 by a bout of peritonitis he moved to North Devon where he played non-league football for Barnstaple Town. After retiring from professional football, Hooper was landlord of The Three Pigeons in Bishops Tawton, where he lived, before spending 19 years as a probation assistant in Barnstaple.

Callum O'Dowda suffered a setback in his recovery from groin surgery in mid-January and has been out of the team due to this. This suggests he might be in their squad: https://www.bristolworld.com/sport/football/bristol-city/bristol-city-callum-odowda-callum-robinson-famara-diedhiou-cardiff-city-4533709 and https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/former-bristol-city-winger-set-9127663?utm_source=bristol_live_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Bristol+Live+-+BCFC+Newsletter_newsletter&utm_content=&utm_term=&ruid=eda3a0ce-34ec-4a85-96cd-ae68727a6b80

Their match preview: https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/match-preview-bristol-city-vs-cardiff-city-3

TC pre-match: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/interviews/conway-talks-severnside-derby/

 

 

 

 

[Randy Marsh II]

Prepare for it to be quite toxic. Can see a 2-0 loss incoming unfortunately.

[Jerseybean]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-cardiff-famara-diedhiou-9132699

[DaveInSA]

I’m excited for this. First game since the Norwich debacle. I want to see if the players have learned anything. And I want to see cut throat attacking intent. It’s Baxtermas eve, I’m 50 on Sunday so a city win against Cardiff would be a great gift to start things off.

I’m ready for deep disappointment.

[The Coach]

Have a feeling we will win tomorrow. A lot of emotion going on at the moment within the club. Which no doubt LM and team are aware of. It’s very much a must win game for the Head Coach to ease the pressure from the fanbase. 

[Rossi the Robin]

Actually looking forward to this

Train in, couple of ciders with breakfast and then stroll along for the main event to see no shots on target for us and a Famara brace.
Cant wait 

[ray savino]

We’ll win 2-1. I base this on I just can’t believe we won’t respond with some fight after the last 2 matches. And I also base this prediction on blind optimism.

 

[TedsHeadIs Red]

Before we go any further, nobody cares about you finding some obscure website to watch the game or any technical difficulties you've got in doing so.

So do us all a favour and stop boring us with the details.

[exAtyeoMax]

hope Cam is fully fit for tomorrow. I was worried that he might have got worse by playing last week.

Driving down tomorrow morning from London. Already thinking about what I can eat at the ground. 

[weepywall]

1 hour ago, exAtyeoMax said:

hope Cam is fully fit for tomorrow. I was worried that he might have got worse by playing last week.

Driving down tomorrow morning from London. Already thinking about what I can eat at the ground. 

Fair play to you for driving from London...I'm struggling to convince myself to bother with a 10 minute train journey from Bath

[exAtyeoMax]

9 minutes ago, weepywall said:

Fair play to you for driving from London...I'm struggling to convince myself to bother with a 10 minute train journey from Bath

I usually get the coach, I'm not overly excited about the prospect 

[Merrick's Marvels]

2 hours ago, ray savino said:

We’ll win 2-1. I base this on I just can’t believe we won’t respond with some fight after the last 2 matches.

 

Manning doesn't believe in fight. Or emotion of any kind.

It's all about processes and behaviours.

Trust the process and everything will be alright.

Yeah OK, coaching manual man - you think Guardiola doesn't use emotion? You think emotion can't be harnessed positively at all, Liam? OK, then we'll all stay at home and you can play in front of nobody. Sterile football played in a sterile atmosphere at a club fronted by a sterile personality.

Eff me.

We've all seen footballers do daft things "in the heat of the moment" and so a coach's desire for players to play with their heads more than their hearts is understandable but occasionally teams can do amazing things when riding an emotional wave.

Tomorrow is one of those occasions and at a time when Manning needs all the help he can get, he's denying himself, his team and all of us, a powerful tool.

So if tomorrow turns out to be a limp defeat, he deserves all he gets.

If we win handsomely in style, I'm sure he'll want to go mad and celebrate with a sparkling water. Or two.

PS. Pray God your peediction us right!

 

Edited March 1 by Merrick's Marvels

[redsquirrel]

1 hour ago, exAtyeoMax said:

I usually get the coach, I'm not overly excited about the prospect 

if you get the head coach ,hold him tight and give his head a wobble for me

[Spoons]

12.30KO=

[Out of his pie crust]

1 minute ago, Spoons said:

12.30KO=

I concur

[Barrs Court Red]

Train home doesn’t really work tomorrow, so park and peasant it is.  

[Offside]

Really hope we beat them tomorrow, but I’m dreading another insipid performance. 

[Son of Fred]

2 hours ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Manning doesn't believe in fight. Or emotion of any kind.

If this is what he really believes we have bought ourselves a lemon

[Merrick's Marvels]

2 minutes ago, Son of Fred said:

If this is what he really believes we have bought ourselves a lemon

Well it's what he preaches, mate!

[redsquirrel]

1 minute ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Well it's what he preaches, mate!

the manning street preachers   i hope the team gets the bit between their teeth tomorrow and have a severnside derby in the true manner

[Davefevs]

8 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

the manning street preachers   i hope the team gets the bit between their teeth tomorrow and have a severnside derby in the true manner

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next!

[Sleepy1968]

4 hours ago, exAtyeoMax said:

hope Cam is fully fit for tomorrow. I was worried that he might have got worse by playing last week.

Driving down tomorrow morning from London. Already thinking about what I can eat at the ground. 

When I used to go away on CATS (coach 1 ), I used to daydream at most games about scoffing the massive bag of sweets I'd saved for the journey home. It's the little things.

[Son of Fred]

6 minutes ago, Sleepy1968 said:

When I used to go away on CATS (coach 1 ), I used to daydream at most games about scoffing the massive bag of sweets I'd saved for the journey home. It's the little things.

[exAtyeoMax]

1 hour ago, Son of Fred said:

we didn't burn him!

Shame we're not playing Swansea tomorrow…

[Superjack]

7 hours ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Manning doesn't believe in fight. Or emotion of any kind.

It's all about processes and behaviours.

Trust the process and everything will be alright.

Yeah OK, coaching manual man - you think Guardiola doesn't use emotion? You think emotion can't be harnessed positively at all, Liam? OK, then we'll all stay at home and you can play in front of nobody. Sterile football played in a sterile atmosphere at a club fronted by a sterile personality.

Eff me.

We've all seen footballers do daft things "in the heat of the moment" and so a coach's desire for players to play with their heads more than their hearts is understandable but occasionally teams can do amazing things when riding an emotional wave.

Tomorrow is one of those occasions and at a time when Manning needs all the help he can get, he's denying himself, his team and all of us, a powerful tool.

So if tomorrow turns out to be a limp defeat, he deserves all he gets.

If we win handsomely in style, I'm sure he'll want to go mad and celebrate with a sparkling water. Or two.

PS. Pray God your peediction us right!

 

Fabulous post.

[Superjack]

5 hours ago, Son of Fred said:

If this is what he really believes we have bought ourselves a lemon

To be fair, a lemon has got a bit about it.

[Superjack]

5 hours ago, redsquirrel said:

the manning street preachers   i hope the team gets the bit between their teeth tomorrow and have a severnside derby in the true manner

Very good.

[Superjack]

5 hours ago, redsquirrel said:

the manning street preachers   i hope the team gets the bit between their teeth tomorrow and have a severnside derby in the true manner

 

5 hours ago, Davefevs said:

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next!

You two are on fire tonight.

[luke_bristol]

Yes the last two games were dreadful in every way, but I’m quite confident we can get at least a point today 

[MC RISK77]

Snow game, orange ball ….didn’t think this was predicted weather wise