The Erol Bulut Hokey Cokey
You put your left arm in, left arm out. With sights already firmly fixed on next season, we’re all doing the Erol Bulut Hokey Cokey at the moment. Season tickets have just gone on sale and as per usual, we have no idea who will oversee the campaign we’re being asked to invest in. Bulut’s […]
Normal service resumed as Cardiff shrink in Swansea
Now we know. That win earlier in the season was not the turning of a page, it was simply the confluence of exceptional factors in Cardiff’s favour. A fit and firing Aaron Ramsey, a bear pit atmosphere, a rare Swansea manager that didn’t quite get it. It all conspired to create a glorious and all […]
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 […]