Like all true football fans, my heart rules my head sometimes, and as I am a "glass half full" type of person I tend to see things in a positive light. 8 matches since my last post, featuring 3 wins, 3 losses and 2 draws - all good, solid mid-table stuff!
CARDIFF 0 WOLVES 1
ROTHERHAM 1 CARDIFF 3
CARDIFF 1 CHARLTON 2
BRENTFORD 1 CARDIFF 2
CARDIFF 1 BOURNEMOUTH 1
CARDIFF 2 BIRMINGHAM 0
READING 1 CARDIFF 1
CARDIFF 0 BOLTON 3
In general, things have been more stable, and the team is certainly harder to beat. Well, I thought that until the dreadful capitulation to Bolton last Saturday! To make things more interesting, the board have decided to lend our top striker Kenwynne Jones to Bournemouth, albeit for very good financial reasons, at the same time as 2 of our other strikers are injured !
Alex Revell celebrates his opportunist strike against Brentford
Another surprising feature is that we now seem to have developed some away form whilst having a string of defeats at home! And that just about sums up the season, where we look destined to finish mid-table.
Bruno Ecuele Manga scores the equaliser against promotion favourites Bournemouth
Results don't always tell the whole story. The home defeat against Charlton was definitely unfortunate and inexplicable, as well as thoroughly undeserved! But reports from the away game at Brentford suggest that we were the lucky ones! That is the nature of football, and you just have to hope that these coincidences even themselves out over the course of the season. Every team has an "off" day from time to time, and so let's hope that Saturday's dreadful defeat to Bolton was a one-off. The home draw with promotion favourites Bournemouth was particularly satisfying, especially as we had previously been comprehensively outplayed by them twice this season already.
And so there are 5 games left this season. We can't go up, and we can't go down. Now is the time for players to prove whether they are good enough and want to play for the club next season. This Saturday sees a trip to Leeds, who haven't beaten us for many years, dating back to our famous FA Cup victory against the then Premier League leaders. They have the same number of points as us, and are a club perpetually in turmoil, very much as we are.Perhaps this once they might win? (Let's hope not).
Final season review in about a month.
