It’s time for stability. It’s time to build with Bulut
What would constitute progress this season? It’s up to the individual, I guess. Anything higher than 21st is literal progress, but expectations, especially under the current circumstances, should be trained a little higher than that. Cardiff were bedded into 14th place for a while and most seemed relatively satisfied with that, but they‘ve since crept […]
Roathboy x Dave Jones
The last few years have been a bit of a slog, with a high turnover of managers and a team troubling the wrong end of the table. The fact that Dave Jones was keeping Cardiff competitive in the Championship, while tasked with turning a healthy profit and losing his best players every year feels rather […]
Erol Bulut once again needs the lift that only a derby can provide
Cardiff had a good week last week, and it’s been a while since the last one. The goalless draw with Blackburn will not win any awards, but there were clear signs of progress. Coming off the back of a thrashing at Norwich, a clean sheet was a big step in the right direction, but there […]
Roathboy x Mehmet Dalman
With the January transfer window firmly closed and targets secured, there remains speculation and uncertainty with regards to why nothing happened for so long and why certain targets were missed. So, I asked chairman Mehmet Dalman and this is what he said. This was a very strange window in that Profitability and Sustainability fears saw […]
We don’t know what we’re doing
After a pair of identikit 2-0 defeats, Cardiff have now recorded a return of 17 points in 17 games, failing to find the net in 10 of the last 18. It’s not pretty and neither are recent performances. Suffice to say, it’s a chore at the moment and Erol Bulut’s comments after the game didn’t […]
Rubin Colwill is becoming the player we all hoped he would be
It’s taken Rubin Colwill a long time to become an overnight sensation, but maybe he has finally arrived. Having made his senior debut almost exactly three years ago, there has been a lot of stopping and starting between then and now. Much has been made of his growth, both literally and figuratively, but growing pains […]
They got there in the end. Cardiff somehow nail another transfer window
I don’t think I’ve ever known another transfer window quite like this one, for so many different reasons. Firstly and most importantly, spending was way down. Way, way down and that probably caught most people, in and out of the game, off guard. When you bear in mind that Premier League clubs spent in excess […]
Expectations have been badly managed during a constipated transfer window
The January window has only been open for about three weeks, but it feels like we’ve all been talking about it since June. As soon as Cardiff’s partial transfer embargo was lifted, attention became fixated on January, when Cardiff can once again spend freely. The reality is though, evidently, that they can’t even if they […]
A few domestic transfer possibilities that may appeal to Cardiff in January
It’s that time of year again, the window where everyone gets all excited and not much of note ever actually happens. This year it may be different, or that at least appears to be the expectation. Coming out the other end of an embargo, Cardiff can spend again, but whether they will is another matter. […]
Cardiff silence a few doubters after impressive festive displays
The signs were not good as Cardiff headed into the congested Christmas period. With a daunting four games in nine days, it looked like they were running on empty and risked tumbling down the table. Questions were being asked about several players and there were widespread doubts. I, dear reader, was one of those many […]