There is so much nonsense in what you say it’s difficult to respond to it all, but I’ll do my best.
-first of all, you genuinely believe that my comment re Rico on an Internet forum has any influence on the teams ability to unite? What a ridiculous thing to say.
-re Rico, I don’t know what player you’ve been watching but he has been very poor for a long time now. Positionally he is all over the place, attack after attack breaks down with him losing possession and when he swings in a cross it is an absolute lottery as to where it will end up. To often this season it has ended up hitting the first man or in the stand. He did put in one decent one yesterday though so I’ll give you that. He is terrible and I doubt you’ll get many people with a differing opinion.
-You talk about JW needing time to learn. Firstly what Rick have you been living under? He hasn’t got any time! He has 15 games and has been (I assume) tasked with winning promotion, by the time he has ‘learnt the ropes’ we will have finished bottom half and he will be unemployed. Secondly, he shouldn’t bloody we’ll need time to be able to work out that that line up last night was a complete and utter disaster! Virtually everybody’s remarks when first seeing it were that it was far too negative and an accident waiting to happen. Why should our highly paid coach need time to figure out what is glaringly obvious to every Tom Dick and Harry?
-Lastly, I only started writing match reports after JT had left. I try to stick to reporting the events of the game while leaving personal bias to one side, yesterday was the first time I was unable to do this and decided to vent instead. And btw we but in a very sub par display against Forest and lost vs QPR, so you’re claim that I only write balanced reports when we win is again total nonsense.
-And finally, you put the cherry on top of the cake by falsely quoting me. I never said that this was the worst football I’d seen, I said that this group of players is one of the most dislikable that I can remember watching. And it is their half arsed nature and lack of application I was referring to when comparing to the Quinn era, not the quality of football which is clearly on another level.
But you keep on spouting that nonsense buddy if it makes you feel better
Come on Waz there was only 3 short paragraphs, with only one simple question. It’s a stretch of the truth even by your standards to say it was difficult to respond to.
Your Rico comment typifies the kinds of things I have read directed across social media. Comments made by our own ‘fans’ that are completely over the top, directed at our own players, usually immediately after a defeat. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging when players have poor games, but giving him zero and suggesting he should leave? That’s just a strop mate. And yes, it does affect players and their families to read crap like that. I reserve my right to call you out on it.
It’s my firm opinion that Rico has been unfairly scapegoated for a while now (the latest in a long line of players and he won’t be the last). Last night he had a poor game, he'd be the first to admit that. To me he looked tired. But as usual he was one of the few players willing to put in an early cross (how long did it take the likes of Stanislas and Danjuma to put a cross in? By which time Cardiff had the entire team back). How poor were Billing, Kelly, Lerma last night and yet I don't see them getting anywhere near the same treatment.
Did you actually watch Rico against QPR? Because I did, and he was one of our better players. Go and rewatch the full match and actually pay attention to his workrate up and down the wing rather than just focusing on the misplaced passes (not the only one guilty of this in that game). So no, I won't go along with your agenda that he's been poor for a long time.
I haven’t been living under any ‘rick’. JW needs time to learn. Any manager coming in needs time to learn. Learn about the players, the best tactics, formations etc. We lost the option of a manager who didn’t need to learn all this when we sacked Tindall (who surprise surprise you said wasn’t good enough and needed to leave). I agree, the tactics last night were awful, and he needs to LEARN from this.
Regarding previous reports what I ACTUALLY said was “they have been far less reactionary than this one" so where did I say that you only write balanced reports when we win? My original comment was regarding your posts in general, not specifically match reports. I stand by it.
Ahh my cherry on top of the cake, my crowning glory, my piece de resistance was to misquote you again I’m so sorry. You didn’t say it was the worst football you’d seen, you said you’d never enjoyed watching football less. Which is kind of splitting hairs don’t you think?
I do find it strange that you carry on watching football during a period which has been so joyless for you, and hate yourself so much that you choose this period to write match reports for all the joyless matches.
You’re an odd character Waz.
