Is this for my benifit? If so, they're just as bad IMO. Really sad. Shouldn't rise to it, especially suppertit!!
looking forward to sunday- on tv and 2 good sides who gave nothing away in this game. Heres to a good game!! (and the breaking of whittinghams left foot... i get very nervous whenever he is near a dead ball!)
Ditto - DangerFox, don't feed the trolls as you are reacting exactly how they want to to and making the club look bad. Don't think that we will be out of reach of the promotion places by Xmas - especially since we have seemed to gel and would not let Gelson take any more penalties I hope you do well too - went out with a girl from Cardiff and always thought positively about you since - starting from next week mind
A good open game last night, very enjoyable. Sunday we will see vastly different teams on both sides. I think there will be plenty of goals and either team could win, so I'm hoping for a 3-2 win for Cardiff but it could go the other way.
"Realisticaly were never going to bother much in the Carling Cup"......................agreed Swamp - it was inevitable. Only a couple of things for sure to say to the Leicester guys - we won this one and there's another one on Sunday at the same venue that will feature two virtually different starting lineups. Oh, and one other thing - we're still in the Carling and you're out. Now going upon what we are led to believe, Sven has the greater options for change come Sunday, but whoever Malky decides to put out, there will be eleven guys in blue shirts to face them who'll play as a team. Lesser "names" they may be, but I don't think they'll give two ****s about names on the other team sheet when they trot out for the game. The Cup drama now behind us (well the Carling at least), I'm really looking forward to a pulsating Championship game at the CCS with Leicester - I can't see any prisoners being taken in this one.
Reason you didn't hear it sooner was that it was so obvious to everyone else - both of us put out their second string teams. It will be a whole new ball game on Sunday - may the best team win.
Oldsparkey / Rhondda Nice to see some common sense and measured comments - so much playground nonesense on here last night it was embarrassing. I'm glad to see your boys doing so well - you must have feared the worse with the exits in the summer but I watched your first game at West Ham on the box whilst in a Cardiff pub - Victoria Park Hotel in Canton (they do a cracking Sunday lunch by the way - you need to book in advance - sister-in-law lives on Cowbridge Road). Thought you looked, to coin a Welsh phrase, a 'tidy' team and itmay be that a lack of egos has melded you, collectively, into a better unit. You also seem to have pushed on from that performance with admirable consistency. Wish you good luck for the rest of the season - excluding Sunday of course - when I hope we can extend our current unbeaten run (ignoring the penalty lottery) and build on what was our best performance of the season so far against Brighton last weekend.
Good effort by the lads last night, sadly we yet again lost the penalty shoot-out lottery, but we gave a strong Cardiff side a stiff test and a few of the players (namely Johnson, Howard, Dyer) have given themselves a shot at being in with a chance of a bench place in the league. Here's hoping we can finally break our CCS hoodoo on Sunday
i hate to say this to a good fan, but still. penalties are most certainly a not a lottery, only when you lose them. its about mental strength, holding you're nerve and good technique. only a small percentage of it is down to pure luck (the rooney one on the weekend for example). if you've ever missed a penalty playing for a team, you'll know that if you miss a penalty its not due to luck. and trust me when i've missed one its always down to losing your nerve or a poor strike.
Well to be fair, 13 of the penalties were class by the sounds of it, so you do have a point. I do still think there is a huge element of luck involved, though - only needs a slip, or for the keeper to accidently go the right way (or the wrong way, but save hit with his feet), or the ball to go 3 inches higher than it should and you're out.
Swamp You are largely correct - but it is still a lottery in terms of which individual loses their nerve on the night or which keeper has an inspired moment. Whilst I am now long retired I once went the best part of two seasons not missing a penalty (at a pretty good level) but as the succes rate got higher so did the pressure - and eventually the inevitable happened - at least the keeper saved it. My philosophy was always that if you miss the target then there was no need for a keper in the first place - Gelsen sadly (for us) did not have that thought in his mind.
At least we didnt try to chip one this time lol first team on sunday I hope we play howard he always has a blinder at cardiff
you could say the same about any aspect of football though. miss the ball by 1/10th of a second and you get the man and not the ball and you get a red. hit the ball by 3 inches too close to a keeper when one on one and you miss instead of scoring. ever heard the phrase 'a well timed tackle'? its not down to chance its down to skill. when bobby moore made that tackle on jairzinho it was his reading of the game and skill which enabled him to get the ball, not chance there are good penalty takers and bad penalty takers, and thats what decides the shootout. i remember seeing champions league weekly, and they did a feature on genk, who won a penalty shootout with their hungarian keeper saving a few penalties in CL qualifying. its not luck that when he dives to the right and saves it by the ball hitting his leg when the taker puts it down the middle
FosseFilberto, Thanks for your kind words, luckily I missed all the nonsense last night. Instead I was enjoying a good game with two well matched teams last night, 2 hours football plus the nail biting penalty shoot out and all for £10. I can't wait for the 2nd instalment on Sunday, I expect a well fought duel again, and may the best team win (as long as it's Cardiff)
11 players in Cardiff shirts beat 11 players in Leicester shirts albeit in a penalty shoot out Cardiff will be in the hat for the draw for the next round. Those are the facts, and no amount of excuses will change them, the Leicester players tried hard and wanted to win that game, they didn't. On Sunday 11 players in Cardiff shirts will take on 11 Leicester players again,both sides will want to win it, and will go hard at it again. Will it be the same result, who knows.............but any Leicester fan who says "well it doesn't really matter it was ONLY the Carling Cup" obviously wasn't watching the same game as everyone else, the Leicester players wanted that game last night, and gave 100%.
You'd be saying it if you had lost These are games where 10 men haveto impress in order to get a shot at our first team, i'd try damn hard if i was in their position.
