Mix and match team for the first half, different mix and match side for the second half. 0-0 at HT. Worrying that Tsunoda went off injured. Crystal for legs.
Last minute concession again Salech missed a sitter & got red carded - hope any clubs watching him will move onto other targets!
I was at the Vale Hotel complex today and found that Port Vale have been training there for the past few days. Spoke to three of their players briefly and they said they have a game against Bath City on their way home. Told them I will be at their game, home to Cardiff. They just smiled and wished us good luck...............
Plenty of running around by the boys in blue yesterday. Nyakuhwa looks a prospect. Ashford seemed to be playing centrally. https://tv.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/videos/c4a2f596-a488-4257-b06d-ff9ecea91350
At least no one is to blame. Hard for the young keeper. One of those things. A bit harder and it would have run through to the keeper. A bit softer and a defender would have taken responsibility. Keeper did the right thing. It could have gone anywhere. It went to the one place that would cause a problem. It'll be interesting to see how pre-season develops and how the players respond. Can't be any more turgid than the last few seasons. Colwill Junior looking keen.
I'd take that all day long. He would need to have come a long way from being Championship flop of the season last year. OK, we could say it was all Riza's fault, but his lazy approach of last year needs BBM's boot up his arse as well as encouragement.
I think the point is that while there were many worse players, he had the potential to be much much better and therefore is a flop. The others are simply poorer players doing their best?
Colwill has never lived up to the hype - that's what I mean as a flop. He has the stature, all the skills in the book, and been given numerous opportunities to utilise them over the past 3 years in particular, but apart from the odd flash of form like against Villa last season in the Cup, he's failed to produce. In so much he's been a flop, particlarly last season when the chips were down. You can blame the "lesser" players around him all you like, but if some of them like Rinomohta who put the effort in possessed half Colwill's potential skills, we'd still be in the Championship.
