S-Clarke

The squad is awful. There's no beating around the bush on that, it's awful. And weaker than it was in December.

Have only just read this, it's a perfect read. It's exactly what our problems are. Basically, without beating around the bush here, we need Cardiff to absolutely collapse as we have nothing. We were already poor enough before January, but we thought it was clever to make ourselves even poorer. You can’t even say that was a shrewd financial move, as they’ll all be back on the summer on their huge contracts anyway.

Give me a ****ing break.

How Cardiff are acting is making me sick. This has nothing to do with them. They should have just done a tweet, shown their condolances, but all this 'Play for Sala' 'Win for Sala' is just disgusting by them.

But who else could have provided the attacking width in all honestly? We are so short of wide players or any general pace in attack, it's criminal really.

We can talk about tactics all we want, but at the end of the day we conceded a goal in the 93rd min due to a lack of concentration and general dumbness. That's nothing to do with tactics. It's just dumb players.

I'd say it needs to be an 80% overhaul at least. Only guys I'd keep around from the starting 11 yesterday are Jan, Hojberjg, JWP, Vesterguard and a few of the young lads (Valery/Slattery etc). The rest can just do one as far as I'm concenered. As you've said, the majority of these guys have been losers for far too long under 4 different managers and coaching setups.

To be fair the lack of options in midfield isn't down to a slimmed down squad. We've got injuries to Lemina and Armstrong who'd both be in there, so with Romeu, Hojberjg and JWP I think that's one area we have options. The less said about up front and attack the better though.

So that goes back to the same question - who was this extra midfielder we could have deployed in there? Slattery? I don't think he'd have had the desired effect if I'm honest. We needed an Armstrong type out there, then we could have reverted to the extra midfielder. We didn't have the players to play that way yesterday.

On par, but getting worse. Seemingly because he has no interest in us, none at all. If he was a passionate owner as our Ralph claims him to be...then he'd have bothered to learn English and given us some concrete proposals on his plans going forward. At the end of the day his actions speak louder than words, and all his actions have been is to sell and get rid, whilst not investing a penny. This entire charade seems to have been simply an ego boost for himself and his franchises in China, a quick and easy sale for Kat as she needed money urgently, whilst helping him jump on the football bandwagon they’re trying to promote over there. None of this is being done in the interests of us guys who spend our money to line his pockets. This entire takeover screamed alarm bells from the moment he initially failed any test.

The problem is, if this was cost cutting (which it seemingly is), it's only temporary cost cutting. So therefore it doesn't really make a great deal of sense. The return of Cedric, Hoedt, Bouful, Carillo, Clasie in the NPC is going to kill us financially. We won't be able to do anything until those are gone.

He was pretty clear in that he wanted players in the door, who were more suited to his way of playing. Yeah, he's got a smaller pool to work with, but it's ****.

I don't think the issue is with us shipping them out, as I agree they were pretty crap and not suited to this league. They weren’t going to do anything for us, so didn’t want them stinking the place out. The problem was that we didn't replace them with better/more suited players. Absolutely shocking really.

I wouldn't direct anger at the media team to be fair, they only push out what they are told to push out. I think they can/do make some good content.

It's embarrassing when you see we have fans who'd do something like that. There really are some pointless human beings on this planet. But am I alone in thinking all the sympathy towards Cardiff on this is a bit, well, OTT? He'd never set foot in their changing room, he'd never been named as a player in their squad, 99% of their fans would have never watched him play. The tragedy is for his family and friends, it's nothing to do with Cardiff and I don't like to see them jumping on board. I'd say Nantes should be the club and fans who should have any sympathy directed towards them, not Cardiff. They need to let it go and let the people who were really part of Sala's life mourn him

We have Huddersfield as our last game which is a huge bonus for us I think. Not saying Huddersifled will be involved as they'll be gone by then, but having an already relegated team at home on the last day is pretty perfect.... Cardiff meanwhile are at Old Trafford.

I think Slatery is decent to be honest. Valery isn't too bad. The fact the likes of Sims are being called upon is scary though. He couldn't even get into Readings team. It's those sort of guys (Targett, Sims, Hesketh, Gallagher) who just aren't good enough.

Valery was decent, but that's about all. He did step up I felt, but I wouldn't have called out anyone for a MOTM.

I felt we'd turned a corner but we were still light on quality and a few injuries from bad times, I naively thought we'd use that optimism we’d built to improve/build on the squad in January, as I did feel we'd have a little dip and we'd need some new faces to freshen it up. That didn't happen and now we're staring into the abyss. At least Gao didn’t have to spend any money though. Bonus.

The last two results have been killers for us, without question. We could have pulled ourselves away, but now we're in the thick of it until the final weekend I'd have thought. Really lazy first half, lack of intent, lack of confidence to move the ball quicker. We had a few passengers out there which didn't help the situation. Hoj returned to the bad Hoj, game seemed to pass Romeu and Prowse by. Bertrand looked like he'd forgotten how to play. Stephens was edgy most of the game and then did the inevitable (he's not good enough). Long was horrific, like beyond bad. Really, really painful to watch someone like him try to play football. Redmond ran around a lot but didn't contribute, seems to be going back into blind allies again - but he was our most threatening outlet, unfortunately that doesn't say much. Valery was decent though, which is good as he needs to step up. Now all we need to hear is that he's injured for a few weeks so our replacement RB can come in. Oh, wait. If this Tenerife trip is to sift out the crap then we will struggle to field a team when we return.

To be fair, it was his first game back. But I didn't expect him to be that bad.

Worst owner in the league. Worst owner we've ever had. Get the **** out.

He was absolute tosh, really struggled with the pace. Didn't get forward enough, poor on the ball. One of our weak links.

At the end of the day - Austin or Long, what was the difference? Both are crap and not of the right standard. Long runs around a bit and has some pace, so that gave him the nod I'd expect. That's about all he has though.

Maybe we can return and claim damaged goods or something? He is so not suited to this league, in fact he's seemingly not suited to playing football of any standard.