Well I bloody can't. We're no further forward solving our deficiencies on the pitch than we were at Christmas time. Slade just cannot manage a side on the hoof during the 90 minutes and he proved it yet again today. That was another exercise in how not to adjust a side and it's tactics at half time against poor but determined opposition. We should have been able to capitalise on what was a decent first half performance albeit against a poor side. The second half was as poor as I've seen us play. No direction, no leadership on the pitch or off it, and apart from Gunnar who tried so hard to get something going, a shambles of a midfield. Ralls was lost in the second half and it was a relief to see him go off. Pilks seemed the right choice to replace him at the time but he doesn't look anywhere near fit to me - Adeyemi through the centre would have been a better choice. I will say the refereeing was atrocious today - he'd lost the plot during the first half with some awful decisions and the second half he was as bad as us. Millwall deserved their point because we didn't deserve anything better. For the life of me, I can't understand why Slade is still here, but it looks as though we're stuck with him.
I talked tongue in cheek about green shoots. On that showing the earth has been irradiated. Nothing will ever grow from that shambles. I think I can join you in the who's got the emptiest glass contest. Mill wall are absolutely terrible. Obvious why they're going down. We were worse.
We can only hope that he was put in place as a stopgap plan: Write the season off, make sure we don't go down, rebuild in the summer. That may sound blindly optimistic, and I fear it probably is, but it is possible. As had been pointed out many times, VT is in so deep it would be odd to be asset stripping when the sums involved are but a drop in the ocean.
Noone was Walesonline's star man yesterday, but he did nothing to convince me that he was doing anything other than trying hard, which to be fair to him, he's always done. It's just that the end result is almost always a blind alley, a wild shot, or a feeble cross. To bring on Kennedy for five minutes was infuriating - what on earth is the man doing? He stands there for ninety minutes with his arms rested on his paunch, looking every inch the wannabe. It's frustrating.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-can-cardiff-citys-uninspiring-9075738 This says a lot for me. As my lad said to me on Saturday leaving the ground - "just what was the point of not giving squad players eg Adeyami, Kennedy, Harris a game and say to Gunarrson & Whittingham that enough is enough, I'm giving Ralls and Adeyami the rest of the season in central midfield." If we ended the season on a high with some high tempo football then fair enough, there would be some optimism for next season but quite frankly this sort of football from this bunch of players will not inspire any optimism at all, in fact to the contrary, City have bottom 6 written all over them at the moment. Depressing beyond belief.
Agree with you all , Slade hasn't got a clue . He loans people out has we have nothing to play for (in his words) . Yet he doesn't Change or freshen the side up. We should be planning for next season , unless he thinks there's no point has he won't be here ?
O keef and Adeyami must be sat there thinking what the **** is wrong with us? I really was trying to be upbeat (as Sparky says probably just in denial) but Saturday destroyed my faith. It was one of the lowest quality games I've ever watched at Championship level and we were very much 2nd best. How long can he rotate players around the middle 2 that is obviously the issue? Both decent players in their own right but as a combination they really don't offer a permanent solution as a central pair.
I'm convinced Adeyemi is being frozen out by Slade as "not one of his boys". I'm not sure about O'Keefe but he'd do for now as a change to what we're doing. You can't blame supporters for looking for chinks of sunlight through the gloom, but it's been wishful thinking driven by the removal of relegation fears in March. Other than the points tally that month that did the trick (10 points from a possible 15) there's no concrete evidence that Slade is getting things right on the pitch. We lurch from unconvincing wins to "valiant effort losses " whatever that is, to abject shameful performances from which all too often we manage to scrape an undeserved point - like Saturday. I still can't believe the players we have here are as bad as the overall performances to which we're being subjected. It has to be the way they're being deployed by a third rate management team led by a clueless journeyman manager. Collectively we have a squad that is capable of so much more on the pitch that it's actually embarrassing to see Slade standing there looking like a Buddah - all serene of brain, but **** all going on in there. There's nothing wrong with dinosaurs, but we've got a slow moving plant eating brontosaurus running the show when we really need a ****ing T Rex in charge to sort it out. At least they had a brain and used it, this bloke is a joke. You know what - I'd even take two old raptors like Holloway or Warnock right now to replace him for next season in the absence of a decent alternative, and I NEVER thought I'd say that. With Slade we will bomb.
Tucker did though err by stating that Gunnarsson & Whittingham were back to near their best as a pair. Did he really see the same game I saw?
