TalkSport have turned to former Cardiff manager Malky for a few sound bites recently and they’ve done it again tomorrow in the wake of our latest defeat.
Premier League survival this season has always been the aim, under both Malky and now OGS, but it was also always going to be difficult and Malky has told TalkSport that he thinks this defeat to Hull will make it even harder.
‘It was a disappointing result at the weekend.
‘It was a bit of a shock.
‘It was always going to be tough (to stay up), to be honest with you, but it has been made slightly tougher.‘
You look at the table and think that three points from safety makes survival very much on but the problem is that when we’ve only won so few games in the games we’ve so far played having to then win at least five from what we’ve got left will be neigh on impossible won’t it, when we take into account who we face.
Some might get defensive to what Malky has said but I won’t as he’s just being honest and answered a question asked of him.
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Malky, more than anyone else is responsible for the current quagmire the club finds itself in, so he’s lost all moral grounds to comment on the club’s affairs! With the money at his disposal, he blew a sizeable chunk of it on a dud of a striker, the position that Cardiff needed strengthening the most! He could’ve bought RVP, for Christ’s sake with the budget handed to him! Then he had to pick a fight he couldn’t win, against the owner and using the media to fight his case. C’mon a manager who’s so unintelligent as to ban the owner from the dressing room, must be thick and self destructive beyond belief! He must be dumb as a drum as far as social skills and human relations go!
In truth, Solksjaer has been left to carry the can of the roiling cauldron that Malky left behind – due to Malky’s blind intransigence and proclivity for stirring the pot. I predict that no owner in his right mind would ever want to touch Malky with a barge pole.
Now, to beat the drop, Solksjaer has to pick his team based on one quality and one quality only – every single one of the players he pick MUST BE A BATTLER, A WARRIOR no less! The Bellamy’s, the Mutch’s, the Medel’s, the Caulker’s. Much like how you’d pick a cup team, a team capable of shocking even much more vaunted opponents. We appreciate what Solksjaer is trying to do but a relegation struggle is no time to be cute, to experiment or to play pretty football!
That is how teams who have beaten the drop in the past had done it. That’s how West Ham is doing it successfully this season! That’s how Norwich beat Tottenham Hotspurs! That’s how Hull City beat them, especially with a battling performance and ruthless counter attacks! They pick cup teams, for every match in a relegation fight is like a cup game! They battle so hard and press so much that the top 6 teams hate playing them, for they know that battlers can shock even them! That accounts for the frequent shocks in cup games where even a Lower division team can beat the big guns!
Luxury players, dribblers and highly skilled players like Zaha, Campbell and Noone should be unleashed only in the last half hour for them to replace 2 or 3 battlers who’ve worked themselves into the ground – they are far more effective when the opposing team is knackered…they give Cardiff the chance to get sensational results, just as you did OGS as a supersub! That’s why SAF unleashed you only in the last half hour of matches – it gave you an unfair advantage against the fast tiring opposing defenders!
In the last 2 games, once Plan A did not work out, Cardiff was left exposed as they had nothing left to offer !
Fabio is a battler but he has lost confidence as a right back so OGS should consider converting him to attacking midfielder. With Mutch injured, that’s an option as he put in a decent shift in that position in the Champions League for United when played there by SAF.
Malky does have to take some blame but who signed the cheques that allowed his players to be signed and who keeps making the club a laughing stock? It’s those off the field and so many of those actions are working against us.
Get the feeling you don’t like Malky Frank? lol