This is Cross Channel Stuff, Cardiff & Connected Banter Thread.

Morning vicar - after you with the whip.........

Thanks for the synopsis of some of my posts off the Leeds board - it's obvious you have no sense sense of humour whatsoever.

Continue "cutting and pasting" your articles because you have little or even less to offer on a football chat forum when it doesn't suit you personally.

 

Just read your opening sentence again.........."vitriol".......what are you like eh?..........

Only you could see it that way on a football forum. Have you read any of the thousands of other posts on the Leed's board - they'd laugh you off the place.

 

Just a response to the top man having a go at me who sees this board as his diocese.

 

Starting to wonder if OS is just an intentional Internet troll

 

I'm perfectly calm wiz and would love to talk about football, but it looks like you've replaced banksy..........

 

Been out for an hour only to come back and read this pretentious load of twaddle on the thread - utter self-justifying sanctimonious claptrap.

No you're not - that's putting your dog-collar stance on again. The need to trawl and copy my posts off another forum and post them on here is a clear indication that this is personal - nothing to do with inter-club banter.

You don't like being taken to task on "your forum" and use the pretext of protecting it and its' members to justify your interventions. You have only ever deleted my posts on other threads when a reference to you was involved - that says it all.

Have a good day vicar - I'm certainly having a ball...........

 

I quite like football - both playing and watching - although I’ve found recent games a bit stressful to be honest.
As to the little matter of Cardiff next weekend; I think it’ll be an overhyped crap game with Warnocks thugs out to break legs - possibly Baker allowing himself to get wound up and sent off.
Based on current form and the fact we are away from home with a restricted following you have to fancy a home win - but it’s a local derby, England vs Wales, Warnock vs Johnson - and NW has not had a great time playing against us and will want to avenge his Palarse games - including the ‘ghost’ goal and the reverse fixture, where arguably Pack might have been sent off.
0-0 with a load of cards - possibly a sending off.

 

Personally don’t see anything against Fulham or Cardiff.
We have been spoilt up to December then it seems our boys think the seasons over
I keep hearing our cup run has drained the players.
What a load of bollox,don’t here other club using this excuse.

 

R&W - Nice to see some football chat even though the "Warnock's thugs out to break legs" is a bit strong pal - but I won't bite.

A game apiece each for us midweek before the "clash" and those respective results could well impact on our meeting. We're away at Ipswich which we always find tough and you've got probably my favourite team outside my own in the division - Fulham. A bad result for us and a good performance for you could shape the outcome next Sunday. Whatever, I'm really looking forward to it and without any bullshit, it's one of the highlights of the season fixtures for me.

What ever happens midweek, I reckon our game will be more crucial to you than us. If we slip up midweek and again against you, we can go again given the points cushion we've managed to build up. A bad result for you at home against Fulham and the "derby" could be make or break. Still lots of twists and turns to come I'm sure and that's what makes the Championship so interesting..

 

Whatever happens against Fulham I can't see anything other than a Cardiff win on Sunday.
Cardiff are on an 'up' and we are in probably our worst run of form this season.

 

RR & Redprintt - I don't think your excellent Cup run is being used as an excuse, just as a possible reason for the drop in form.

It's very difficult to maintain a consistent level of play across 46 Championship games - there'll be periods of frustration when things just don't click. We had ours over Christmas it looks like you've got yours right now. With 14 games to go there's still time for others around us to have theirs.

It's how quick you can turn it around and what needs to be done to achieve it that matters. Personally and for obvious reasons I hope you don't find out until after next weekend, but after that I hope you do.

 

Aye - nothing wrong with party tricks. Neil is doing a grand job whipping up the interest in our game and hopefully on this board as well.

However, first things first - we both have a important games tonight. Villa's failure to win at home last night keeps us in second spot, so a point at Ipswich will be enough to retain it. I think we just have to hope Leeds do a job on Derby for both our sakes. You could put some space between you and the chasing pack with a home win over Fulham and overtake them into 5th in the bargain.

That "chasing pack" of 4 had some good results last night. Preston with their point at Villa along with good wins for Sheffield Utd, Boro and a very dangerous looking Brentford side. 3 points at home must tbe the shout for the rest of the season and picking points on the road a bonus.

 

Should be quite an intense game. I note Jokanovic is suggesting you played with a more "agricultural" style than he expected - is this a change of approach you've also detected or is he just being defensive about dropping points? Your top 6 position at the half-season point was achieved on the back of the passing game you promoted and since your Carabao games against Man City, that seems to have changed somewhat.

Do you think that's a concious decision by Johnson trying to counter the "passing" teams like Fulham and to some extent Leeds as well, whereas it didn't work against strugglers Bolton and Sunderland?

It's only an opinion, but I would have thought you had a far better chance of taking the points off us next Sunday by reverting to your early season quick-passing style than trying to go toe to toe with a very strong Cardiff side. I'm in no way saying you don't have considerable physical strength running through your side, but your best game seems to be ball on the floor stuff and that could be the way through us.