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[Forever Reading]

Another night we could have slaughtered them with crosses finding their men and shots being slightly more accurate.

Crosses finding their men - wingers are specialist crossers of the ball. Put them on the pitch to do their job. Shots from outside the area rarely go in and that is where we were shooting from.

The important thing is the performance was better, and that result will certainly have fired up the players. Gutting. We desperately need to stick with the same 11 and formation for two or three games though. This chopping and changing is stupid. Rodgers is acting like a clueless FM player making panic changes all the time. Continutity is often the key.

Looking forward to P'boro much more now. A win there and we're still easily on track for the season anyone with half a brain expected. A slow start and mid-table finish.

The performance was only better than Donny because Cardiff came here to attack and win so it was always going to be a game in which we appeared to attack more potently,so was it actually that much better a game than against Donny who came to sit back and defend? Unfortunately, despite calling for a stable team game in game out, this formation needs a change for reasons I have already stated.

In other words - I don't wholly agree with your post.

Only problem with that is we don't have a fit winger capable of consistently putting good crosses in the box. Kebe can't do it. HRK has looked to have promise but delivered nothing. McAnuff is not fit, Henry is on loan.

Not a great deal of point playing a system with wingers if you don't really have them.

The problem for me is the strikers, we had 25 shots on goal. I’m not going to berate Long, Cox and Hunt as that has been done to death before. However our solution was to buy Rasiak who was rubbish for such a tall guy he hardly won any headers.

[Wycombe Royal]

However our solution was to buy Rasiak who was rubbish for such a tall guy he hardly won any headers.

Rasiak is not a "target man" type of striker.

[ZacNaloen]

Don't underestimate how good their centre half was, he was practically man marking Rasiak and he was absolutely immense all night.

[Maguire]

One note of criticism though - why in the post match interview was BR not asked why he made the substitution and why he made it when he did? We were so on top at the time that any substitution then was going to slow down the impetus which we had. The fact that Cardiff scored their goal 2 minutes later just rubs salt in the wound

Just before the substitution I thought Noel was limping. If not then he looked pretty fooked.

The Cardiff central defenders were excellent (particularly number 5) and lost very few headers all night. If Rasiak did win one then generally they weren't clean headers - a lot were just going straight up in the air. It's certainly nto true to suggest he was providing endless knockdowns that Hutn failed to connect with.

[PEARCEY]

One note of criticism though - why in the post match interview was BR not asked why he made the substitution and why he made it when he did? We were so on top at the time that any substitution then was going to slow down the impetus which we had. The fact that Cardiff scored their goal 2 minutes later just rubs salt in the wound

Just before the substitution I thought Noel was limping. If not then he looked pretty fooked.

The Cardiff central defenders were excellent (particularly number 5) and lost very few headers all night. If Rasiak did win one then generally they weren't clean headers - a lot were just going straight up in the air. It's certainly nto true to suggest he was providing endless knockdowns that Hutn failed to connect with.

I haven't said he won endless kniock-downs and its true some of the headers he did win were not clean headers...but win some he did including flick-ons but they were not latched onto.

[PEARCEY]

Yes he did.

Stop digging your own grave, Rasiak won hardly anything in the air all night. Blind Man >>

I'm not thanks. I will stick by what I saw and had a great view of the game...he won more headers than he is being credited with.

[brendywendy]

Yes he did.

Stop digging your own grave, Rasiak won hardly anything in the air all night. Blind Man >>

then hes right, cos the bloke hes arguing with said he won"nothing"

it was around 50:50 for missed headers:flick ons/downs
which isnt that bad.

[PEARCEY]

Thankyou Brenders. Thats exactly how I saw it.

[Royal Rother]

Make of it what you will, but BBCRB actually used the expression "Rasiak is winning everything in the air".

[ZacNaloen]

I actually think he was in the first half, but he had Cardiffs number 5 all over him in the second half from what i recall as well.

[Vision]

Make of it what you will, but BBCRB actually used the expression "Rasiak is winning everything in the air".

Then to be fair they're talking even more nonsense than usual.

What was interesting watching him though was that whilst the ball was in the air he was looking around to see where he wanted to flick it onto if he did win it. It sounds like an obvious thing but plenty of players don't bother. Presumably this is because they are only worried about winning the header. Rasiak it appears is from a school that thinks if theres nothing he can do with it then theres no point in winning it.

He did climb on the defender a lot in the 2nd half but I don't really blame him considering the ref was allowing it to go un penalised for the whole of the first half.

[PEARCEY]

Make of it what you will, but BBCRB actually used the expression "Rasiak is winning everything in the air".

Thats about as accurate as the vast majority on here who swear he won absolutely nothing in the air...he won his fair share of the aerial battles no more no less...but some on here are blinkered to that.