“This Friday Cardiff City will be hoping for 3 points when bloody incovenience of a team Watford come to visit to further pull them away from the relegation places” “Odd faced Europe hating Manager Colin W@&£*r will be sure to have something weird and ranty to say: here is a clip of it...” Right now we have gotten the press release out the way. It is very sad about Sala. You do feel for his family. I hope this loss of life and talent, of a universally liked and respected man forces the powers that be to do something about flight safety for playing staff. Lots of chat on their forum about suing for fees. I think we’d all hope they sit down and do something honourable in this money orientated world. Let’s have faith in humanity and say they will. They play us off the back of back to back wins and an impressive display to beat relegation hopefuls Southampton 2-1. The first time they have won back to back games in the top flight since the early 60s. The bbc website says we are playing them on the 22nd of January. A measure of the attention they give to clubs outside the top 6. Particularly for an article posted in February. Phone it in eh lads and then down the club for a nice boozy lunch A brief and very cursory metanalysis of articles about their style of play leads us to a paradoxical conclusion: Cardiff have moved from route one to possession play under Warnock. It’s what got them promotion. Once you are over that cognitive dissonance their next game is against Snake United so let’s hope we thrash them so that they are fired up for revenge against the big watched teat. Prediction: 0-0 Book recommendation: The clash of ashen faced old school Warnock with football culture reminds of the hinterland parallel reality world of the drug adled mind of Will Self. Try the Bildungsroman novel “My idea of fun” ignore the first chapter; it settles down and gets less visceral
A repeat of the first 80 minutes of the reverse fixture would be fantastic, but our performance will probably be more Pulis than Pep, grinding out a 1-1 draw or similar. I would love nothing more than for Javi to get another one over on Colin, as well as they've done so far. Polar opposites as men.
I predict this will be last on MOTD and one of the least talked about games of the season by the media. However I did say that about the reverse fixture and there were 5 goals....
Absolute zero chance of this being 0-0. None, zip, nada, zilch, nowt. Why? - cos we ALWAYS score against Warnock sides, it’s preordained and it’s in our DNA. And our misfiring won’t continue - with the team confidence it’s now our time to move to the next level. Oh, and because I’ll be there and don’t need a turgid goalless spectacle on a cold Friday night in a city full of pissed up rugby fans.
Yep, that's why the game was swapped to Friday. Yep, that's why the Cardiff Travelodge is so expensive, and why I am staying in Swansea and from where the return fare to Cardiff is much less than the difference. I hope Cardiff stay up, I would like to stay there next season when we play them. Let's just hope the Rugby is not on then. God I hate Rugby!
Watford are playing. Go to a pub to watch the football. No. Can’t watch it because some private school ***** are watching wugby. This must have happened to be about 15 times in my life
Rugby is a a thug’s game played by gentlemen Football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs ( meh? Gray, Deeney, yeah, maybe) Rugby is a stupid game watched by ****s
Where do you live.. Eton? Winchester? Rugby? Ive never known that to happen before. PS The rugby is on Saturday.
I liked this even though it's probably not correct because I resent the very existence of rugby. It has barely evolved from two groups of medieval peasants trying to get a pig's bladder from one village to another, and which is watched by morons who think it is somehow socially superior to real football
William Webb Ellis picks the ball up and runs with it. No one shouts ‘handball’. Whether the linesman flagged or not is lost in history.
I’d take the point now. Colin has got them believing & they’ll battle lol crazy. For them to survive would be an outstanding achievement.
I’d struggle to quantify how much better the England six nations game will be, than the hideous bastardisation of the beautiful game that both sides will serve up on Friday.
0-0 mark my words. A bore fest. Calls for Javi’s head The intelligentsia sees what he is doing however
Whilst watching the last Welsh rugby match I saw someone who makes John Hartson look positively handsome, namely Samson Lee, their no.18, with a small face and a neck like an upturned bucket. Reminded me of a Dr.Who monster of old, the Sontaran.
You live in Cambridge AND west London (Richmond, Twickenham?), the very heart of rugby land. And you don’t appreciate the beautiful other game where the referee tells you the reason for every decision, players don’t crowd around him like demented school kids because they respect his decision, and the players all line up and shake each other’s hand at the END of the game AFTER they've kicked the shyte out of each other. A game for real men.
Any low scoring result is possible here. The only certainties are that someone from the club will admit that the performance was disappointingly poor and/or sloppy, Sema will start and get subbed in the second half after offering absolutely nothing up front and Foster or a defender will be MOTM. Penaranda and Quina will be unused subs as it's absolutely vital that we don't play inexperienced youngsters, what with us hovering so precariously above the drop zone.
I live in Exeter , the whole city has given up on football and now only support rugby (pretty much), which is a shame it’s a tedious game, although still better than cricket
I wish I could remember who it was that pointed out that any game where kicking the ball out of play is a ‘good thing’ must be fundamentally flawed.
I felt rugby shrank the day Lomu bulldozed England in SA. The beauty & elegance of back play, especially the sidestep, became immediately outdated.
Jonny May brought it out of retirement last week vs France. Add your own Brexit related comment here.
That brings back memories RD I was at that game. Cape Town 1995 (World Cup semi-final) and Lomu ran through Mike Catt and the game was over in the first 20 minutes and Lomu (now sadly deceased) scored 4 tries. I was also at the final when Mandela walked out wearing the Springbok captains jersey and all the ‘dyed in the wool’ Afrikaners still waving the old republican flag chanted his name - “Nelson, Nelson” .. the day Mandela (in my view) averted a civil war. See Invictus the movie. But Lomu didn’t score in that World Cup final, (which SA beat the All Blacks with a drop kick in extra time). Why? A certain James Small, winger, tackled Lomu the way Catt should have tackled him. Everyone was expecting a Lomu repeat performance but the roar of the crowd when Small kept bringing him down was incredible. The skill of the tackler against the man mountain battering ram. Rugby has evolved and become more professional. So has football. They’re both different games to when I was a boy. What happened to the full blooded tackling a la Norman bites yer legs Hunter and chopper Harris and Welbourne? Football shrank for me with the advent of pansy foreign divers (no offence) and now the “he touched him so he had the right to go down” weasel attitude that’s made a mockery of football being a contact sport. I still love both games and appreciate the skill sets in every position. But they’re both different games now. Rant over. 2-0 to the Orns. Clean sheet again with some proper Holebas*, Hughes and Cleverley tackling and chanting “Deeney, Deeney” .. (Not that I want to compare our Troy with Nelson Mandela) *I know!
