Slade has around 20 years experience of management in the English game (albeit in the lower leagues) so that has to be an improvement on OGS. If he can get the players "on-side" and get off to a decent start, he could surprise all the doubters. If he gets off to a poor start, then Dai could be correct in that he may not last the season!
The boringly inevitable appointment was given the full treatment on BBC (Cardiff) Wales sports news last night.Old footage of ex-League 1 and non-league manager Slade sitting in the stand,Slade watching them lose at Blackpool,Slade taking training,blah,blah,blah,what a joke.So big a news story was it, that there was no time to review any other Welsh sport or football teams in action over the weekend.They even repeated it at the start and end of the programme when giving the headline news!
But it was the historic moment in World Sport. The day Slade began his turning Cardiff in to Champions' league Winners 2017. The film is already being made - 'In The Red', the heat warming tale of the rise of a once great club with an unwanted owner and his £100,000,000 investment. And then they woke up and it was all a dream!
Slade has been appointed as just another tan puppet....no good manager with experience of top football would look twice and would give tan a wide birth and only managers of low caliber would chance their luck for the pay rise they would get. slade may have a short honeymoon period like most managers do but he will find it hard against established championship managers. He was failing fast further down the league and this is just a panic appointment by tan who never gets things right and it will be much of the same as ole with no change....
I wouldn't be surprised if he does a tidy job for them ,he may not be a Championship manager but he's been around long enough to steady the ship and that's what he's been brought in for . Another 30+ games to go for them and imo I think they'll be safe , the squad is big enough to cope with injuries and I can understand he's got a target to finish in the top 6 which is achievable and with money tan has spent no less than what he'd expect form the team .
I bet he does a half decent job there. I wouldn't be surprised if he manages to get them in the play offs.
Not on your Nellie will he get a top 6 finish, If he has been managing clubs for as long as him then he has not been that good has he. a manager that has managed lower/non league for all them years and nobody higher have thought him good enough to employ him has to be a worry. tan did not exactly have any top managers banging on his door so he was limited on who he could get.....
Reminds me of Kenny Jackett. Really great at League 1 and 2 could be decent in the Championship, but top 6????
Slade is the perfect manager for Cardiff at the present time, in the mold of Dave Jones . He should be able to instill confidence in whose in the squad .... if he gets a real chance .Smartest thing Tan has done in quite awhile. Cardiff will hit at least a playoff spot imo .
Probably not http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/cardiff-citys-squad-strongest-ever-7364089
The players might be the strongest side they have ever had but you have to have a good enough manager to get them to play. I said slade was not the guy for the job and he is proving me right....
Taxi? He's doing a great job. He should bring in Ole as his assistant, they'd be guaranteed to take the Redtits out of the Championship
