Championship 2022/23

[Yobo Ahoy]

Bit of a mad couple of weeks at Watford, injuries piling up to a ridiculous degree so we are just chucking academy players into the mix left right and centre and one scored on his home debut today. It's honestly been so long since anyone half decent came through (or, we gave a proper chance to), it's such a brilliant feeling to have some local lads in the team again.

 

Fuck promotion, I'll take this any day over Mogi Bayat's tombola of shite and random potential South American wonderkids who are just stopping off for us to make a profit from.

[Plissken]

Going to put this here because I don't know where else to get it off my chest.

 

Is there any way to bar football fans from social media?

 

We tried to buy Callum O'Hare in the summer. It didn't happen.  And since then, there has been this very weird plastic rivalry on Twitter which has - to be frank - gone too far.  Yesterday there were a number of unsavoury incidents between dickheads who can't handle their first pint and think it's a good idea to accuse the other of throwing Molotov cocktails across the dividing fence.  I mean, seriously.  A Molotov cocktail.  Seriously, if that had happened, you'd think that the world would know about it by now.

 

None of it would have happened without Twitter.  I quite like Coventry.  Worked there for two years, living there during the week.  Enjoyed it.  Never had a problem with the city or the football club. But now it's almost as big a police operation as the Blackburn game, and - I'm definitely sounding like an old man here - it's all fuelled by young dickheads who have utterly no concept of, I dunno, moderation, or even cleverness. It's all "INSANE CARNAGE" and calling each other "vile scum" and seeking reasons to find offence and it's depressing as fuck.

[wullie]

9 hours ago, Plissken said:

Going to put this here because I don't know where else to get it off my chest.

 

Is there any way to bar football fans from social media?

 

We tried to buy Callum O'Hare in the summer. It didn't happen.  And since then, there has been this very weird plastic rivalry on Twitter which has - to be frank - gone too far.  Yesterday there were a number of unsavoury incidents between dickheads who can't handle their first pint and think it's a good idea to accuse the other of throwing Molotov cocktails across the dividing fence.  I mean, seriously.  A Molotov cocktail.  Seriously, if that had happened, you'd think that the world would know about it by now.

 

None of it would have happened without Twitter.  I quite like Coventry.  Worked there for two years, living there during the week.  Enjoyed it.  Never had a problem with the city or the football club. But now it's almost as big a police operation as the Blackburn game, and - I'm definitely sounding like an old man here - it's all fuelled by young dickheads who have utterly no concept of, I dunno, moderation, or even cleverness. It's all "INSANE CARNAGE" and calling each other "vile scum" and seeking reasons to find offence and it's depressing as fuck.

 

 

Couldn't agree with this more, feels like kids desperate to manufacture a rivalry. Burnley trying to sign a player? Hope they go out of business. Ian Maatsen saying something nice about his new temporary home in an interview with the club website? How dare he disrespect the memory of his time with us, hope his pets are killed. We have it with Sunderland now too, there was a historic thing there based on Sunderland being relegated in the 70s due to our game coincidentally kicking off late and both teams getting the exact result, but the aggro at the games are between people born at least 30 years after any of that.

 

It's the main reason I just don't bother with away games at all and largely mute all but the safest follows on Twitter who don't feel the urge to reply to rival team feeds with nonsense. Even then I see the element at home games more than I did before, people clearly under some kind of influence absolutely raging about everything.

 

If it's just that I'm of the age where I'm now completely out of touch with the youth, I couldn't be more content.

[AfromB]

I was going to reply with pretty much exactly the same response. The Sunderland stuff is really odd. No one cared about it for thirty years and then all of a sudden people are trying to smash up memorial gardens. 

[wullie]

At various points it feels like they've tried to get something going with Walsall and Notts County fans briefly too, ideally they'd all just fuck off and fight each other instead.

 

There's a bit of the Leicester one but the one true Cov rivalry for me is the one with Villa where we sing about shitting on them and revel in their misery while they occasionally remember we exist and then go back to having no opinion of us. That's how it's done

[AfromB]

To be fair to the Villa, everyone in the West Midlands hates them so it’s understandable that they don’t notice us. 
There was trouble against Birmingham for a couple of years as well. I seem to recall a bit of bother with Portsmouth which was carried over from a Boxing match back in the Highfield Road days. 

[wullie]

There was also the home game last year with Derby where all the kids tried to run across the taped off block to get to each other with one actually making it across. With the climbing over chairs and sprinting across the block I'd have pulled a muscle long before I was even thinking of aiming a kick at someone. It's a young idiot's game these days

[Plissken]

Blackpool have sacked Michael Appleton after a 10 game winless streak.  (Punctuated by a 4-1 win over Forest in the FA Cup.)

[Ork1927]

@PlisskenI think it was happening anyway, but can’t see how Burnley won’t be back in the Prem next season   after that late turnaround against a form team putting even more daylight between you and 3rd.

[Plissken]

Just got in. What a team. Just unbelievable. They don’t care how many they concede, they’re going to score more. 25 consecutive games since the opposition kept a clean sheet.

[Ork1927]

I've got a £1 on us to win 3-1 against Milwall today as my son played down the club's indoor facilities near to the stadium (which were colder than outside) this morning and scored a brace in a 3-1 win so it has to be nailed on..........or not.

 

 

[Ork1927]

7 hours ago, Ork1927 said:

I've got a £1 on us to win 3-1 against Milwall today as my son played down the club's indoor facilities near to the stadium (which were colder than outside) this morning and scored a brace in a 3-1 win so it has to be nailed on..........or not.

 

 

I got Milwall’s goal right ☹️

[Ork1927]

We missed a penalty, but in the 9 league games since the World Cup - we’ve scored 4 goals and 3 of them were in the first two games so since Christmas we’ve scored once in 7 games and that was a late goal against Wigan who then equaliser in the 96th minute.

 

Relegation beckons and bottom 3 coming soon as everyone around us has games in hand and 4 of the bottom 6 play each other next week so at least two teams are picking up points.

 

Cant even enjoy Swansea losing 4-3 at home as it moves Brum clear.

[Yobo Ahoy]

 

 

Rob Edwards must be pissing himself. Fucking hell. 

 

 

[Ork1927]

Somehow, we are still not in the bottom 3 (but only on goal difference) and everyone below has a game in hand.

 

Our new manager bounce has yielded 0 points and 1 goal in 3 games.

 

Lose to Birmingham on Tuesday and Sabri Lamouchi gains the record of being the only Cardiff manager to ever lose their first 4 games and would take his losing streak in the Championship to 10 (6 with Forest on the trot before he was sacked) and 4 with us.

 

Not that he is really to blame for not stopping the rot.

 

Fail to win on Tuesday and we equal the club's all-time winless run record in all competitions of 15 games.

 

Edit: And our winless run at home of 9 games is a record in a single season and equals a cross season record.

 

I think we will pick up a couple of wins at some point, but will one of the bottom 3 pick up a couple more  Wigan have had a good week where as Huddersfield and Blackpool have failed to capitalise on playing other teams down the bottom. Rotherham and Stoke could still be dragged into trouble, but its 3 teams from 6 at best.

 

League One is calling.

 

[OneDvBmbr]

2 hours ago, Ork1927 said:

Somehow, we are still not in the bottom 3 (but only on goal difference) and everyone below has a game in hand.

 

Our new manager bounce has yielded 0 points and 1 goal in 3 games.

 

Lose to Birmingham on Tuesday and Sabri Lamouchi gains the record of being the only Cardiff manager to ever lose their first 4 games and would take his losing streak in the Championship to 10 (6 with Forest on the trot before he was sacked) and 4 with us.

 

Not that he is really to blame for not stopping the rot.

 

Fail to win on Tuesday and we equal the club's all-time winless run record in all competitions of 15 games.

 

Edit: And our winless run at home of 9 games is a record in a single season and equals a cross season record.

 

I think we will pick up a couple of wins at some point, but will one of the bottom 3 pick up a couple more  Wigan have had a good week where as Huddersfield and Blackpool have failed to capitalise on playing other teams down the bottom. Rotherham and Stoke could still be dragged into trouble, but its 3 teams from 6 at best.

 

League One is calling.

 

I think you can count us out. If anything we’ve gone backwards under McCarthy. The guy won’t even try to attack when we’ve got the other shit teams at home. 
 

We are properly doomed. 

[Plissken]

Er... I was going to do a quick comment on Burnley vs Preston but I would be rightly accused of not reading the room.

[Ork1927]

29 minutes ago, OneDvBmbr said:

I think you can count us out. If anything we’ve gone backwards under McCarthy. The guy won’t even try to attack when we’ve got the other shit teams at home. 
 

We are properly doomed. 

Quite why Blackpool looked at McCarthy’s disastrous reign with us which finished with a recording breaking 8 games losing streak where we scored 1 goal and conceded 19 and thought - that’s the guy for us.

 

The highlight, bar a 3-0 hammering by the Jacks was West Brom at home where he started all 5 (FIVE) of our centre halves (not the only time he did it) and we lost 4-0.

[Ork1927]

4 minutes ago, Plissken said:

Er... I was going to do a quick comment on Burnley vs Preston but I would be rightly accused of not reading the room.

Comment away - we are at Turf Moor last game of the season - if we aren’t down already then we need you to be on the beach big time.

[Plissken]

Burnley 3 Preston 0

I'm running out of things to say. This week's ridiculousness.

Despite a terrible home record, Preston had the best away record in the division. They finished the first half with 28% of the possession and the game with 31%.

 

The Clarets tied a Championship record (Reading, 2005-06) and a club record (1920-21) with their tenth win in a row, along with scoring for a club record tying 27th League game in a row. That run has been GF24 GA 2.

 

If you want an idea of just how ridiculous the football we play is, consider one players stats from yesterday.

 

Arijanet Muric completed 53 of his 60 passes yesterday for a 70% completion rate, which were more and better than Prestons two central midfielders combined. He fired a thirty yard pass from the side of his own penalty box between three Preston players that Kevin De Bruyne would have consider a neat bit of work.   His average position throughout the match was outside his own 18 yard area. At several points in the game he was further forward than either of the Burnley centre halves. At one point in the first half he was, technically the furthest player back, which doesn't sound impressive until you realise he was in the Preston half at the time.

 

Arijanet Muric is the Burnley goalkeeper.

 

Edit: Seriously.  Look at this.  He's in the Preston centre circle.

 

[Ork1927]

Shit - Warnock’s taken the Huddersfield job.

 

Unlike McCarthy, that’s a dinosaur who will keep a team up.

And he gets to come back to South Wales for our last home game.

[Rsdio]

I think a club can be broken enough that even Warnock won't manage it but I'll take your optimism

 

Fond memories of his first spell but how the fuck did we get here months after being gifted such a lifeline freak season in the midst of 5+ years of (mis)managed decline, constant cost-cutting and behind the scenes nonsense? At the point where Warnock's being appointed and you're like 'Well, that's probably the best news we'll get in this current situation.' Oh man.

[Mike1812]

Isn't this something like his eighth 'one last job'? 😂

[Rsdio]

Yeah, he's basically the Terry Funk of English football.

[Junker]

If any of you are fans of relegation fight doomed teams then I’m here to offer a glimmer of hope. 
 I watched Stoke vs Hull on Saturday and it was one of the most depressingly terrible games of football in the 37 years I’ve been supporting Stoke. 
 We are categorically terrible. Hull were awful as well but they were away from home, so a point and a clean sheet is decent.

  Some legend gave our keeper man of the match. He literally had 2 shots to save all match, but that in turn is a savage indictment of our outfield players that none of them deserved it over him.

[Ork1927]

Brum vs Cardiff is grim - awful game and with Rotherham beating Reading away it makes our game against Reading Friday even more crucial.

 

Awaiting our new star free agent signing, Connor Wickham to come on and tear both hamstrings.

[Ork1927]

Wickham has come on and immediately had a shot on target so he is already on the shortlist for our player of the season.

 

Fucking hell - our centre half has just scored a rather lovely free kick.

[Plissken]

Bugger!

 

Just about everything went wrong tonight, because of course it did.

[Shimmyhill]

Just back from watching Norwich win a game at home, stunned - Josh was the star but the big take away is that Hull are shite! Still, nice to see a win and my pie was spectacular tonight!

[Ork1927]

Good results last night for us last night although Wigan have had a good last 3 games with two unlikely away draws and a win at home.

 

Not sure about Friday - pressure is now off in terms of breaking winless run record and, on paper, Reading at home is our 'easiest' remaining home game and we've managed to score 2 goals in a game, but equally I can see Hoilett scoring inside 5 minutes and then Andy Carroll being temporarily fully fit and deadly.