Cardiff are back in the market for a saviour
Cardiff don’t need a new manager, they need a hero. They’re not like other clubs. They don’t operate the same way, unfortunately, and its just a different proposition, in every sense. You’re on your own out there. The mouthpiece for the whole operation. You have to mange upwards, outwards, inwards. Every word is poured over […]
A whiff of desperation and a sense of resignation
It feels like the writing is on the wall now, but maybe it was all along. The amount of time it took a seemingly reluctant Vincent Tan and an undecided Erol Bulut to find enough common ground to strike a new deal was alarming, but maybe it was also the beginning of the end. An […]
Cardiff learn a life lesson and earn a derby point
This time it will be different. With new players and a new approach, this time Cardiff would not only match Swansea, but better them. Lay down a marker and change the narrative. Then it starts and that old familiar feeling swiftly returns. The first 40 minutes on Sunday were depressing, in both their familiarity and […]
Roathboy x Gavin Rae
A key figure in the Scottish invasion under Dave Jones, Gavin Rae has spent the last decade in Australia before returning to the UK recently. I grabbed a quick chat with Uncle Gav to also get the lowdown on a new Cardiff recruit. You were born in Scotland, spent a chunk of your career in […]
A new season, but the same old Cardiff failings
A youthful Sunderland side against a toiling Cardiff. An early goal conceded, a 2-0 defeat and familiar frustrations, but enough about last March! A new season is not supposed to feel like the summer never happened, but Saturday felt like a game lifted directly from last year. There were two new players on show, but […]
Cardiff look in great shape, but the Championship remains an unforgiving division
This is the time of year when optimism is through the roof and bold claims are made. Every new signing at every club is greeted with supporters insisting that the play-offs are now nailed on, and why not? The nature of the Championship is that three quarters of the teams contained within have a decent […]
Cardiff enter the juggling act stage of the transfer window
Warning – The following contains plenty of speculation and hypothetical pondering! As Cardiff head into August, with the start of the season fast approaching, the transfer window is sure to ramp up and intensify. At the time of writing Cardiff have made a couple of signings and sold a player at a profit, which is […]
Robert Page and how we judge managers
Robert Page is a terrible manager, but still the most successful manager Wales has ever had. Can these two statements coexist? For some, seemingly so. They would argue that Wales’ achievements under his stewardship were in spite of him rather than because of him, but how can you quantify these things? The truth is that […]
The never-ending wait for an update to arrive
Erol Bulut is the sixth longest-serving manager in the Championship and the 3rd of June will mark the one-year anniversary of his appointment. Is he really though and will he actually reach that milestone? Who knows. We’re all way past joking about the situation and some are way past caring. Bulut remains Cardiff manger, largely […]
Is Erol Bulut gone for good, or coming back for more?
It’s that time of year again. Almost twelve months to the day, we were put out of our misery having waited beyond the conclusion of the season for confirmation of Sabri Lamouchi’s new deal, or departure. It was the latter, at a time when the general mood was that most were happy for him to […]