Feel free to deposit here folks! TEAM NEWS Cardiff have no fresh injury worries ahead of the visit of Hull as they look to maintain their fantastic home form. The attacking duo of Craig Bellamy (knee) and Tommy Smith (hamstring) are still sidelined and Jordon Mutch (foot) continues to struggle. Hull's new loan signing Sunderland midfielder David Meyler is expected to go straight into the squad. Alex Bruce is a doubt with a knee problem while Matty Fryatt (Achilles) and Joe Dudgeon (knee) are sidelined. MATCH FACTS Head-to-head ⢠Hull hold a 20 wins to 18 lead over Cardiff after 56 league clashes since 1921. ⢠The East Yorkshire club did the double over Cardiff in the Championship last season, avenging the previous season when the Bluebirds gained home and away league victories over the Tigers. ⢠Should three goals feature in this game, it will take the total generated in competitive matches between the pair to 150. Cardiff City ⢠Successive away defeats have seen Cardiff slip from top to third, but they still have the only remaining 100% home record in English league football after seven outings. Another victory would leave them one shy of the club record of nine. ⢠They go into the weekend with the strongest attack in the division, having scored 31 goals in 15 games, and need three more to take their total of Championship goals under Malky Mackay to 100. ⢠Should Mackay select Mark Hudson, the 30 year old defender will be making his 300th career league appearance. Hull City ⢠The Tigers are bidding for a fourth straight league win, and their best sequence since 17 December last year. ⢠This is the 600th match in the managerial career of Steve Bruce (eight appointments), who has guided Hull to their best start in eight seasons. ⢠Sone Aluko is looking to score Hull's opening goal for the fourth match running, while Stephen Quinn could make his 250th career league appearance. Previous Results Fri 9 Nov 2012 - Championship Middlesbrough 3 - 1 Sheff Wed FT Tue 6 Nov 2012 - Championship Birmingham 2 - 0 Bristol City FT Brighton 1 - 0 Peterborough FT Burnley 1 - 0 Leeds United FT Charlton 5 - 4 Cardiff FT Derby 2 - 0 Barnsley FT Huddersfield 2 - 2 Blackburn FT Hull 2 - 1 Wolves FT Nottm Forest 0 - 0 Middlesbrough FT Sheff Wed 0 - 2 Blackpool FT Watford 0 - 0 Millwall FT Bolton 0 - 0 Leicester FT More results View all results Today (10) Leicester v Nottm Forest 12:45 Barnsley v Huddersfield 15:00 Blackburn v Birmingham 15:00 Blackpool v Bolton 15:00 Cardiff v Hull 15:00 Ipswich v Burnley 15:00 Leeds United v Watford 15:00 Millwall v Derby 15:00 Peterborough v Crystal Palace 15:00 Wolves v Brighton 15:00 View Live Scores All times UK Upcoming Fixtures Sun 11 Nov 2012 - Championship Bristol City v Charlton 15:00 Sat 17 Nov 2012 - Championship Birmingham v Hull 15:00 Bolton v Barnsley 15:00 Bristol City v Blackpool 15:00 Burnley v Charlton 15:00 Cardiff v Middlesbrough 15:00 Crystal Palace v Derby 15:00 Huddersfield v Brighton 15:00 Leicester v Ipswich 15:00 Nottm Forest v Sheff Wed 15:00 Watford v Wolves 15:00 Peterborough v Blackburn 17:20 View all fixtures All times UK . As It Stands Table No Movement 1 Middlesbrough 16 8 32 No Movement 2 Crystal Palace 15 9 30 No Movement 3 Cardiff 15 9 28 No Movement 4 Hull 15 4 28 No Movement 5 Leicester 15 7 26 No Movement 6 Blackburn 15 3 24 No Movement 7 Huddersfield 15 0 24 No Movement 8 Brighton 15 8 23 No Movement 9 Derby 15 5 23 No Movement 10 Burnley 15 0 23 No Movement 11 Nottm Forest 15 3 22 No Movement 12 Blackpool 15 3 21 No Movement 13 Wolves 15 1 21 No Movement 14 Millwall 15 2 20 No Movement 15 Leeds United 15 0 20 No Movement 16 Watford 15 -3 20 No Movement 17 Bolton 15 -2 19 No Movement 18 Birmingham 15 -5 19 No Movement 19 Charlton 15 -3 17 No Movement 20 Sheff Wed 16 -8 15 No Movement 21 Barnsley 15 -8 15 No Movement 22 Peterborough 15 -6 12 No Movement 23 Bristol City 15 -7 11 No Movement 24 Ipswich 15 -20 10
Not totally convinced about this one, Hull will be strong under Bruce, but let's face it, he gets it wrong on occasions, and a win, draw or loss will not surprise us these days. Good game hopefully!
Cardiff City 01 Marshall 02 McNaughton 03 Taylor 05 Hudson 06 Turner 07 Whittingham 13 Kim Bo-Kyung 16 Noone 17 Gunnarsson 20 Mason 22 Helguson Substitutes 32 Lewis 31 Nugent 04 Kiss 11 Conway 21 Ralls 25 Frei 15 Gestede Hull City 22 Amos 02 Rosenior 05 Chester 15 McShane 23 Faye 27 Elmohamady 08 Evans 10 Koren 29 Quinn 11 Simpson 24 Aluko Substitutes 01 Jakupovic 04 McKenna 16 Olofinjana 31 Meyler 09 Mclean 30 Brady 33 Proschwitz Ref: Williamson
Lots of chances missed by us, five corners without reply...got disaster written all over it Taff! 1-0 will do though.
Looks like you've been worth your lead. Our keeper seems to have fluffed it and smacked your goal scorer- you should have seen his balls up in the week v Wolves. Since then you've been battering us, but we've eventually woken up and had one ruled off for offside or handball. Looks like the right decision whatever it was.
What a mixed up lead..that old cliche about everyone can beat everyone else is sometimes irksome, but it seems true...sometimes.
Okay, Weeds we're down to 9 men, 10 minutes of extra time, and Watford scored 3 in the last 10 minutes. But it couldn't have happened to a nicer team.
Why are our results soooooo different home and away? Ralls seemed to have a good game today. As MM said some time ago, all of the squad will see game time (except Eti apparently). Home our lack of cover at the back doesn't become an issue. No Connelly today and Kev off injured.
we were on the front foot from minute one today, kim was outstanding and it appears connelly took the hit for the shambolic last 2 performances away from home. hull did well up to a point, but when it got to playing that final eye through the needle ball, they had no way through our wall of a defence, until they got the injury time consolation. putting football to one side, the atmosphere today was one of the worst i've experienced at the CCS,
I think the atmosphere is usually crap to be honest. We only sing when we score. Lack of away fans and switching the family stand has killed CCS. Lucky today their strike force are crap. Hell must be like us, better on home soil.
City's website says both Connolly and Cowie were injured? Press reports yesterday morning said no new injuries. I agree they would have been on the bench if fit rather than 2 youngsters although Ralls did a superb job once he settled down and got stronger as the game went on. However, Gunnar did a superb job as emergency right back - what a great signing he was. As for their goal - a great strike by Koren. Of all the players on the pitch I think only he or Whitts could have done that.
I spent the game saying to my wife that koren is 'their whits'. I too thought that ralls settled into the game well. I was massively disappointed with kiss though. I thought he was the main reason hull controlled the end of the first half. Does anyone know if he was injured or did mm take him off because he was so ridiculously off the pace?
